Fake quotations in support of historical revisionism [WAS: Possibly spurious Samuel Adams quotation [RBBernstein]]

[Joel Berson]

Not unlikely -- interior quotation marks often go missing


Joel



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 From: Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM>
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Subject: [ADS-L] Fake quotations in support of historical revisionism [WAS:              Possibly spurious Samuel Adams quotation [RBBernstein]]


I'll venture to guess that Barton simply copied the text from a
period source, failing to delineate the separation between Madison's
words and additional text.

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