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Congressman Randy Forbes -- David Barton's "Hero"
On January 28, the day before the Randy Forbes interview was to air on WallBuildersLIVE!, David Barton sent out a "Call to Action" e-mail to his minions. The e-mail urged its recipients to support H. Res. 888, "Affirming the rich spiritual and religious history of our Nation's founding and subsequent history and expressing support for designation of the first week in May as 'American Religious History Week' for the appreciation of and education on America's history of religious faith," by calling their representatives and asking them to co-sponsor the resolution, calling Randy Forbes's office to "thank him for standing up for our religious heritage," and forwarding the resolution to others to "remind Americans what God has done for them and instruct the next generation about God's hand in America's history."
According to Barton's e-mail: "...Congressman Randy Forbes of Virginia introduced a Congressional Resolution affirming America's Godly heritage through dozens of documented historic examples." Now, those who have read my two previous posts on "The God Resolution" have already seen that many of these "documented historic examples" listed in H. Res. 888 are distortions, misrepresentations, and outright lies. Obviously, revealing the numerous instances of historical revisionism in the resolution was the main point of my previous posts, and virtually every blog, message board, and organization that picked up the story made this historical revisionism either the main reason, or at least one of the reasons, that the resolution should be opposed. But, as you will see from the transcripts that follow later in this post, nobody listening on January 29 to Randy Forbes, David Barton, and his WallbuildersLIVE! co-host Rick Green, would have any idea that anybody had even brought up these history lies in their objections, let alone that someone had written detailed rebuttals. According to Mr. Forbes, people are objecting to the resolution because "they think that God is a myth, that he doesn't exist, that people are gullible to believe in him" and that "what they're really upset about is that they have been successful in being a very, very small minority of people in the country, but they have been very extreme in trying to enforce their belief that God doesn't exist on the rest of the American people."
There are two other things I want to mention before getting to the transcription of the whole show.
The first is Mr. Forbes's implication that the ACLU is somehow at the forefront of the fight against his resolution:
The ACLU? As far as I know, the ACLU has had nothing to do with the fight against this resolution. I've checked the ACLU website and looked around a bit, and all I can find is a single post about it on the blog of one of the ACLU's state chapters, a post like those on numerous other blogs, quoting and linking to what I wrote. But, the lack of involvement by the ACLU in this particular issue is apparently no reason for Mr. Forbes not to invent a connection on Barton's radio show. He's pushing a resolution full of lies, so why not mislead the listeners about who's fighting the resolution, too? Barton's audience has alr | |||||||||||
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