![]() ![]() Limbaugh also embraces the debunked mythology that Paul Revere shouted "The British are coming!" Think about it. If they believed all people should be free, they certainly didn't act on it. Limbaugh declares that they "believed all people were born to be free as individuals." The founding fathers were great in many ways, but the fact is, four of the first five presidents owned slaves. ![]() Limbaugh is also wrong in the same way that much of American history is wrong - in deifying the founding fathers. Limbaugh and his editors may have been racing to publish before this Thanksgiving his acknowledgments say the idea for the book was suggested by his wife earlier this year. He's inconsistent on whether the first Indian to visit Plymouth was named Samoset or Somoset, and he misstates by a year when the visit occurred (it was 1621, not 1620). In general, Limbaugh lets the facts tell their own apolitical story of the Pilgrims, and he's correct almost all of the time.
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