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    <title>Barton Stumping With Brownback</title>
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    <published>2007-05-23T12:42:38-05:00</published>
    <updated>2008-08-07T15:58:36-05:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Kyle</name>
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    <category term="David Barton" />
    <category term="Politics" />
    <category term="Religious Right" />
    <category term="Sam Brownback" />
    <category term="Wallbuilders" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>It appears as if right-wing <A title="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=22479" href="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=22479">pseudo-historian</a> David Barton has made his choice in the GOP presidential primary:&nbsp; Sam   Brownback. </p>
<p>This comes as no surprise really,   considering that Brownback and Barton have a long history together, with   Brownback not too long ago appearing on Barton&rsquo;s radio show where he called him   &ldquo;<A title="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2006/10/brownbacks_hero.html" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2006/10/brownbacks_hero.html">one of my   heroes</a>.&rdquo;</p>
<p>So now the duo is out <A title="http://qconline.com/archives/qco/display.php?id=339408" href="http://qconline.com/archives/qco/display.php?id=339408">stumping around   Iowa together</a>: </p>
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<p>Presidential   hopeful U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Christian leader David Barton will   speak in Davenport Thursday. </p>
<p>Sen.   Brownback and Mr. Barton are to appear from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Thunder Bay   Restaurant, 6511 N. Brady   St. </p>
<p>The event is   invitation only, campaign spokesman Ben Leifker said Tuesday. However, he said,   if people want to attend, they can call the Des Moines headquarters at (515) 221-1001. </p>
<p>The senator   is seeking the Republican presidential nomination. </p>
<p>Sen.   Brownback and Mr. Barton will also appear in Council   Bluffs, Sioux City, Ames and Cedar   Rapids on Thursday and Friday. All events are closed to   the media.</p>
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<p>Why would these events be closed to   the media? &nbsp;Is Brownback afraid that the media might find out that Barton&rsquo;s <A title="http://www.wallbuilders.com/aboutus/bio/index.htm" href="http://www.wallbuilders.com/aboutus/bio/index.htm">academic   credentials</a> are limited to a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oral Roberts   University and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Pensacola Christian College   and that his work have been <A title="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=22481" href="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=22481">dismissed</a> by   academics as &ldquo;convincing to an uninitiated audience&rdquo; because it relies on   &ldquo;distortion[s] of the truth&rdquo;? </p>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>It appears as if right-wing <A title="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=22479" href="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=22479">pseudo-historian</a> David Barton has made his choice in the GOP presidential primary:&nbsp; Sam   Brownback. </p>
<p>This comes as no surprise really,   considering that Brownback and Barton have a long history together, with   Brownback not too long ago appearing on Barton&rsquo;s radio show where he called him   &ldquo;<A title="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2006/10/brownbacks_hero.html" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2006/10/brownbacks_hero.html">one of my   heroes</a>.&rdquo;</p>
<p>So now the duo is out <A title="http://qconline.com/archives/qco/display.php?id=339408" href="http://qconline.com/archives/qco/display.php?id=339408">stumping around   Iowa together</a>: </p>
<blockquote>
<p>Presidential   hopeful U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Christian leader David Barton will   speak in Davenport Thursday. </p>
<p>Sen.   Brownback and Mr. Barton are to appear from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Thunder Bay   Restaurant, 6511 N. Brady   St. </p>
<p>The event is   invitation only, campaign spokesman Ben Leifker said Tuesday. However, he said,   if people want to attend, they can call the Des Moines headquarters at (515) 221-1001. </p>
<p>The senator   is seeking the Republican presidential nomination. </p>
<p>Sen.   Brownback and Mr. Barton will also appear in Council   Bluffs, Sioux City, Ames and Cedar   Rapids on Thursday and Friday. All events are closed to   the media.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Why would these events be closed to   the media? &nbsp;Is Brownback afraid that the media might find out that Barton&rsquo;s <A title="http://www.wallbuilders.com/aboutus/bio/index.htm" href="http://www.wallbuilders.com/aboutus/bio/index.htm">academic   credentials</a> are limited to a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oral Roberts   University and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Pensacola Christian College   and that his work have been <A title="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=22481" href="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=22481">dismissed</a> by   academics as &ldquo;convincing to an uninitiated audience&rdquo; because it relies on   &ldquo;distortion[s] of the truth&rdquo;? </p>
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