16 February 2007

Lincoln Fabrication

Washington Times conservative columnist Frank Gaffney, Jr., attributing a quote to President Lincoln in his column this past Tuesday:
"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged." — President Abraham Lincoln.
Turns out...Mr. Lincoln never said it and that Gaffney wasn't the first one to use the quote nor the first to attribute it to Lincoln.

Republican House candidates used it last fall against Democratic opponents.

Lincoln would NOT recognize his party today.