Earlier this month, we watched as David Barton appeared on Glenn Beck’s radio program and lied to Beck’s face when he falsely claimed that he had earned a Ph.D. in education:
As we noted, Barton does not have a Ph.D., as he himself admitted on several occasions in the last two years, and his own bio states that “David holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oral Roberts University and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Pensacola Christian College.”
Yet, when Barton spoke at a Tea Party conference in Arkansas over the weekend, he falsely told the audience that he does have his Ph.D.
Barton, a relentlessly dishonest right-wing pseudo-historian who is reportedly a favorite of House Speaker Paul Ryan, was criticizing the book “The Godless Constitution” for not including footnotes and using it as an example of why people should not listen to “experts” who try to undermine God’s role in the founding of this nation and the formation of our government.
“We defer to experts today who have no brains,” Barton said. “I’m at the point where I often—I’ve got a Ph.D., but I often ask now how many Ph.D.s does it take to make you stupid? Because we’re at the point where we have lost common sense on so many aspects of things.”
