David Barton, author of The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson (Thomas Nelson, 978-1595554598), will be on The Daily Show.
Carne Ross will be on The Colbert Report for his book The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century (Blue Rider Press, 978-0399158728).
Due to the nature of live programming, scheduling is subject to change.
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Martin Marty:
His favorite founder seems to be Jefferson, of all people. How does he work his way around to the prime builder of "a wall of separation between church and state," in the metaphor that would not be my favorite. Sample: Thomas Jefferson, razor in hand snipped all supernatural references out of his copies of the Gospels (in the four languages he read in White House evenings), to keep Jesus as a pure ethical humanist. This spring Barton is publishing The Jefferson Lies, which most historians would title Barton's Lies about Jefferson. Astonishingly, he twists a slight reference to Jefferson's book on Jesus and turns it into a tract which, Barton says, Jefferson would use in order to convert the Indians to Christianity. Reviewer Craig Ferhman in the Los Angeles Times found all that Barton found to be "outrageous fabrication." On TV, Barton even said, with no evidence, that Jefferson gave a copy of his Jesus book to a missionary, to use "as you evangelize the Indians." Had the Indians been converted with that text, their heirs would have had no place to go but to what became the humanist wing of the Unitarian-Universalist church.
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