Friday, July 7, 2023

Missouri newspaper condemns Josh Hawley for posting fake quote

Earlier this week, Hawley reframed Independence Day on Twitter as a great Christian event, quoting the founding father Patrick "Give me liberty, or give me death!" Henry as saying that America was founded "not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." 

Nice quote. But as the editorial board wearily pointed out in its second Hawley column, "the quote is false. Made up." 

It actually came from a piece about Henry published in 1956 by a white nationalist magazine, the Virginian…

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