David Barton and Rick Green continued their crusade to salvage Barton’s tattered reputation by quickly putting together a two-part program on “WallBuilders Live” dedicated mostly to once again attacking Warren Throckmorton has unchristian and untrustworthy – which they know because, among other things, he uses information from Right Wing Watch.
But mostly they just wanted everyone to know that the mounting criticism of Barton’s shoddy scholarship is really an effort to “disenfranchise Christians”:
Barton: So this really is an attack, not at us per se; this is an attack on religious involvement in general from religious conservatives who have gotten into the process in the last twenty-five years.
Green: They recognize that you are kind of the voice of that for so long. I mean, you’ve been tireless over the last twenty-five years speaking across the nation and educating us on these things and putting those original documents on-line, putting out there in front of us. So, like you said, they know if they can go after you and somehow taint your image and create this image of you that isn’t true that it helps to bring down the whole movement, it helps to kind of disenfranchise Christians, really, from being involved.
Once again, let us state unequivocally that people are not criticizing Barton’s scholarship because he is a Christian; they are criticizing it because it is full of falsehoods; falsehoods that Barton’s knowingly propagates in order to promote his political agenda.
When we point out that it is not true that “many of the clauses we find in the Constitution are literal, direct quotations out of the Bible,” as Barton so regularly claims, it is not just a difference of opinion or a matter of interpretation, but rather undeniable proof that Barton has a documented history of intentionally making false claims.
So why wouldn’t Throckmorton cite Right Wing Watch in making the case that Barton’s history cannot be trusted? Especially when one considers that we have dozens and dozens of documented examples of Barton saying false and absurd things?
