MAJOR FAIL=> Pelosi Reads False Accounts About the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

thegatewaypundit ^ | Cristina Laila

[davikkm]

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) attempted to sound patriotic by giving a ‘history lesson’ on the men who signed the Declaration of Independence on Tuesday.

As usual, Pelosi was a major fail because she read an article proven to be full of inaccuracies.

Via Washington Free Beacon:

Pelosi read the article during an event held by Democratic lawmakers to discuss the “Democrats for Democracy Reform Legislative Package” and #wethepeople campaign. The legislative package and campaign is a so-called “task force” aimed at “[reforming] government to ensure it works for all Americans.”

The discredited piece, titled “The Price They Paid,” was a popular essay circulating around the internet on Independence Day. The article outlines the fates of those who signed of the Declaration of Independence, but according to the fact checkers at Snopes, “many of its details are inaccurate.”

[davikkm]

Crazy Grandma go home to California. Leave us alone.

[Vaquero]

Botox....meet brain.

[circlecity]

"but according to the fact checkers at Snopes,"

I don't consider Snopes to be authority for anything.

[Ray76]

Snopes??? Ha! Yeah right.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Rush has read the same essay on the air. I’d be interested to know which specific details are inaccurate. Can we really regard Snopes as universally credible?

[bigbob]

well she probably got it off the internet so it’s got to be true

[petro45acp]

'...but according to the fact checkers snopes checkers at Snopes...'

There, fixed it.....

KYPD

[C210N]

She is forced to rely on Snopes for the content.

Since Pelosi never voted for the Declaration, she would not know what is inside it.

[colorado tanker]

I find Snopes generally credible - except when there is any political angle to the question.

[hinckley buzzard]

This sounds like the piece read by Rush and other conservatives on July Fourth's in years past.

[Hugin]

“and #wethepeople campaign”

Who are the “wet he people”?

[x]

That thing has been going around for a long time. Some of its true. Some isn't. I think Rush Limbaugh or Paul Harvey read some of it on the air and got in trouble for the inaccuracies. More here.

[Hugin]

Snopes debunking mainly consists of saying that while most (but not all) of those things actually happened, they weren’t singled out specifically because they were signers, but just stuff that happens in the course of war. But the essay doesn’t claim that they were singled out. The point is by issuing what was essentially a declaration of war, what happened to them in that war was a result of their action in signing. Snopes is knocking down a straw man.