David Grove
Clip Created Nov 13, 2012

Plagiarist, Court Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin

Clipped from:Q&A with Thomas DiLorenzo
Apr 14, 2008

"Doris Kearns Goodwin is a museum-quality specimen of a "court historian" — an intellectual or pseudo-intellectual who is devoted to pulling the wool over the public's eyes by portraying even the most immoral, corrupt, and sleazy politicians as great, wise, and altruistic men."

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00:00:13 WHAT IS BEHIND THIS?
00:00:18 >> I WENT THROUGH MY ARTICLE, TALKING ABOUT HOW GOODWIN WAS TAKEN OFF OF THE AIR, SHE WAS A NETWORK COMMENTATOR WHO WAS TAKEN OFF OF THE PULITZER PRIZE COMMITTEE FOR PLAGIARISM.
00:00:41 NOW SHE IS TELLING US WHO WE SHOULD BE VOTING FOR FOR THE PRESIDENCY.
00:00:47 THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I THINK THIS IS STRANGE.
00:00:52 SHE HAS JUST WRITTEN ABOUT ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
00:00:56 THIS IS A 960 PAGE BOOK.
00:01:02 WHEN LINCOLN WAS INAUGURATED, DURING THE FIRST ADDRESS HE SAID HE WOULD SUPPORT A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT THAT HAD ALREADY PASSED THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE, THAT WOULD HAVE FORBIDDEN THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT FROM INTERFERING IN SLAVERY.
00:01:23 HE ORCHESTRATED ALL THIS AFTER HE WAS ELECTED.
00:01:27 HIS SECRETARY OF STATE -- SHE WRITES ABOUT THIS AS WELL AS I DO, THE FACT THAT LINCOLN WAS WILLING TO LET SLAVERY EXIST IN THE CONSTITUTION -- THIS WAS LONG AFTER HIS OWN LIFETIME.
00:01:49 THIS WAS A VERY IMMORAL.
00:01:52 THIS IS ONE THING -- THIS WAS A VERY IMMORAL THING.
00:01:59 THIS IS ONE THING -- PEOPLE WILL OFTEN CHALLENGED ME ABOUT THIS AMENDMENT.
00:02:05 DORIS KERNS GOODWIN WILL WRITE ABOUT THIS, SHE SAYS THAT HE KEPT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TOGETHER BY DOING THIS.
00:02:15 SHE TALKS ABOUT WHAT A CLEVER MANIPULATOR THAT HE WAS.
00:02:21 I BELIEVE -- THAT A MANIPULATOR CAN BE A VERY DANGEROUS THING.
00:02:28 HOW ARE YOU ABLE TO BECOME A CLEVER MANIPULATOR?
00:02:34 PEOPLE WHO ARE WRITING ABOUT THESE CONNIVE FIRSTHAND POLITICIANS PRAISING THEM -- I AM THE LITTLE BIT DUBIOUS OF THEIR REPUTATION.
00:02:48 I DID NOT BELIEVE WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT.
00:02:51 >> YOU ALSO SAY THAT THEY HAVE APPLIED THIS ELSEWHERE?
00:02:57 >> SHE HAS SPOKEN ABOUT LYNDON JOHNSON, PEOPLE SAY A LOT OF GOOD THINGS ABOUT LYNDON JOHNSON AND HE HAS ALSO HAD HIS SHARE OF CRITICISM.
00:03:07 BUT SHE WAS TRYING TO PULL PUNCHES, THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME KIND OF WORSHIP INSTEAD OF ANALYSIS.
00:03:17 SHE SAYS THAT SHE HAS FOCUSED -- ON SOMETHING THAT I BEGAN TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT.
00:03:26 THIS IS THE SUNKEN HISTORY.
00:03:31 IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE STUDIED HISTORY, GAINING ENOUGH KNOWLEDGE IN THE GRADUATE TRAINING -- THEY FOUND OUT MORE ABOUT PSYCHOLOGY.
00:03:41 THEY WANT TO BE AMATEUR PSYCHOLOGISTS.
00:03:46 THEY WANT TO TALK ABOUT ABRAHAM LINCOLN OR THE KENNEDY FAMILY, AND I HAVE SEEN A LOT OF THIS HISTORY.
00:03:54 IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THEY TAKE ACTIONS BY MANY OF THESE POLITICIANS, AND THINK ABOUT EXCUSES -- WITH THIS PSYCHOLOGY THAT THEY USE.
00:04:05 I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE THINGS THAT THEY HAVE DONE.
00:04:13 THIS IS WHAT SHE SAID SHE HAD THE PH.
00:04:16 D. IN IN HARVARD.
00:04:20 SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT LYNDON JOHNSON, -- >> I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE FIRST SENTENCE, WHAT IS OFA MUSEUM QUALITY SPECIMEN OF A COURT HISTORIAN?
00:04:38 >> THIS IS SOMEBODY WHO IS PAID BY THE KING, AND THEY WILL SUPPORT THE INTELLECTUALS -- FOR WHAT THE KING IS WANTING TO DO.
00:04:50 THIS IS WHAT THE HISTORIAN IS DOING, SOMEBODY WHO WRITES PROPAGANDA TO MAKE THE STATE LOOK BETTER THAN IT REALLY IS.
00:05:02 >> WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
00:05:03 >> WHEN I TALK ABOUT THE CHURCH OF LINCOLN, MUCH OF WHAT WILL MOTIVATE PEOPLE -- THEY
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