Barton Is Not A Historian, But He Plays One On TV

As Brian noted, David Barton has been the guest on Kenneth Copeland’s television show all week where he has been peddling his patented brand of Christian-based pseudo-history.

During the episodes, ads were being run promoting Barton’s latest DVD project called “Building on the American Heritage Series” and we noticed something odd; namely that Barton is being billed as an “expert historian” and an “American historian” in the ad campaign even though Barton claims that he doesn’t consider himself to be a historian and doesn’t call himself one: