No, Mr. Beck, Jefferson Did Not Date His Documents “In the Year of Our Lord Christ”
If Jefferson signed “thousands” of treaties with the Netherlands, then it must have been a really contentious time.
In all seriousness, the only document they found like that (as pointed out by Nougat above) is a pre-printed form the Netherlands used, and Jefferson signed. Jefferson didn’t originate it, write it, promote it – it was a treaty, he probably looked at it and figured “Ah, fuck it – nobody 300 years from now is going to use this to try and make me look like a god botherer.”
He never counted on the stupidity of Beck and the outright lying of Barton.
No, Mr. Beck, Jefferson Did Not Date His Documents “In the Year of Our Lord Christ” from Chris Rodda on Vimeo.
A debunking of the lie told by David Barton on Glenn Beck that Thomas Jefferson dated his presidential documents “In the Year of Our Lord Christ.”
August 10th, 2010 at 9:12 am
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