www.whatwouldthefoundersthink.com

[Jonathan Lighter]

Sounds like that Lepore is pretty sharp after all.

JL

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 3/26/2011 04:09 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >I don't care want party they represent.
>
> But I do -- I'd like to know what color a book review on their site is
> tinted.
>
> >Like they know what the Founders would think.
> >
> >And like they'd all think the same thing. They sure didn't then.
> >
> >And like what they might think time-warped here directly from 1789 would
> be
> >the same as what they might think if they'd lived through the intervening
> >200+ years.
>
> No doubt.  (Points made by Jill Lepore, by the way.)  Which is why I
> wondered whether the site is a Tea Party fellow-traveler.  (There
> must be some who Know What the Founding Fathers Believed who are the
> real fellow-travelers.)
>
> Wilson wrote:
> >Well, I don't know that I can co-sign that assertion, Jon. After all,
> >far more people appear to know what Jesus would do and, considering
> >that whether He [thank you, Jesuit Fathers!] even existed is only a
> >matter of faith ...
>
> Lepore calls those who assert a known, fixed, divinely-inspired,
> sacred-text belief by and about the Founding Fathers "historical
> fundamentalists", and compares them to (surprise) religious
> fundamentalists.
>
> >There's no deficit of full-time idiots in this country, of that you may be
> >sure.
> >
> >I'm only part-time myself.
>
> As am I.
> JB (I've switched from Superman's father to Archibald Macleish's
> title character)
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