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George Washington was an 'illiterate LIAR who cheated his way to the top, wore dentures made from hippo ivory, and beat his slaves', new biography claims
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 16, 2020 | Frances Mulraney

Posted on 02/16/2020 4:37:25 AM PST by C19fan

George Washington was a 'liar' who the other Founding Fathers couldn't wait to see the back of, claims a new biography on The Father of his Country. Buying teeth from his slaves at a third of the market price, refusing to free them, and causing conflict that eventually led the the start of 'humanity's first world war' are among the many ethical and moral missteps the country's first president made, claims new book 'You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington' by historian Alexis Coe. The book was released this Presidents' Day weekend, coinciding with the broadcast of the History Channel's new three-part series 'Washington', on which Coe was also a consulting producer.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: alexiscoe; georgewashington; godsgravesglyphs; historychannel; revisionist; thegeneral; therevolution
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To: C19fan

Can only imagine he sounds like one of those whiny-sounding, snarky bastards that have channels supposedly teaching “history” on YouTube.

The type of people that think the minor nobodies Google celebrates the birthdays of, just because they have a vag or slightly tan skin, and think are actually more pivotal to world history.


41 posted on 02/16/2020 5:34:51 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: C19fan

The book will be in the fiction area of the local book stores. Teeth made of Ivory? Oh no the environmentalist kooks should have protested. (Oh wait, kooks were busy trying to stay alive). This moron was part of research on Washington for a History series? Not watching it...


42 posted on 02/16/2020 5:35:25 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: C19fan

Cuck Alexis Foe!


43 posted on 02/16/2020 5:36:08 AM PST by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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To: setter
Why are Jews so batsh*t liberal and want to tear down American tradition?

Watch the first five minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODXgGS50AVY&feature=emb_logo

44 posted on 02/16/2020 5:42:57 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (NuRulz)
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To: setter

Not all Jews are batshit liberal. I would say that the Jewish Conservative percentage is growing more rapidly than the general population, just like the percentage of Black Conservatives is growing. Perhaps Jews should be encouraged with the facts that liberalism doesn’t work.


45 posted on 02/16/2020 5:43:18 AM PST by richardtavor
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To: C19fan

I’ll wager she omitted this anecdote from the book:

Ethan Allen went to London to help our new country conduct its business with the king. The English sneered at how rough we are and rude and simple-minded and on like that, everywhere he went. ‘Til one day he was invited to the townhouse of a great English lord. Dinner was served, beverages imbibed, time passed as happens and Mr. Allen found he needed the privy. Mr. Allen discovered on entering the water closet that the only decoration therein was a portrait of George Washington. His host and the others were disappointed when he didn’t mention Washington’s portrait. And finally his lordship couldn’t resist and asked Mr. Allen had he noticed it. He said he had. Well, what did he think of its placement? Did it seem appropriately located to Mr. Allen? And Mr. Allen said it did. The host was astounded.

“Yes,” said Mr. Allen, “where it will do good service. The world knows nothing will make an Englishman shit quicker than the sight of George Washington.”


46 posted on 02/16/2020 5:47:43 AM PST by PBRCat
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To: C19fan

LIBERALS RUIN EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY!


47 posted on 02/16/2020 5:47:54 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: C19fan

“....causing conflict that eventually led the the (sic) start of ‘humanity’s first world war’...”

Based on what is written clearly shows the author’s total ignorance of world history — add that to the author’s combining her personal assumptions mixed in with facts makes the whole article reek with obvious bigotry of her part.

A BLATENT EXAMPLE OF FAKE NEWS!!


48 posted on 02/16/2020 5:49:02 AM PST by RichyTea (To those offended - take off your blinders)
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To: Jane Long

This is more fraud by a leftist seeking to deconstruct actual history as being too patriarchal.

Washington freed a substantial number of his slaves upon his death under the terms of his will.


49 posted on 02/16/2020 5:50:58 AM PST by PBRCat
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To: Jane Long

You know that Amos invented the coffee table? He got tired of being in the high chair when he was invited to dinner...


50 posted on 02/16/2020 5:59:11 AM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: C19fan

So? I don’t care if he was a pimp and banged every black slave girl. He beat the limeys and without him there would be no America.


51 posted on 02/16/2020 5:59:44 AM PST by max americana (Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy them crying)
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To: PBRCat

I have never heard of that story LOL Ethan Allen is one if the most underrated characters of the revolutionary war.


52 posted on 02/16/2020 6:02:30 AM PST by max americana (Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy them crying)
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To: C19fan

There will never be an en tot he malicious unraveling of the founding forefathers’ reputation. Things don’t need to be true to them and can be written by others as pure conjecture, based on the deprave morals of current society. we must learn to ignore these “woke” idiots who assume that if it is true in today’s society it is doubly true then. We know that many of the forefathers were NOT true believers, but even though they were not, they consented to the fact that there was a common agree even among unbelievers that God had universal laws that held true and that they conceited to there worthiness enough to hold them sacred as stated in the Bible, and worthy as examples for American lifestyle to be based upon for a better society. They concurred 100%, even.


53 posted on 02/16/2020 6:05:28 AM PST by Shery (Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: C19fan

Gee, another liberal revisionist history. Just what America needs.


54 posted on 02/16/2020 6:08:21 AM PST by IronJack
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To: C19fan

This woke lying bitch needs to be call out for this. Of course the idiots at the “History” channel are fine with this.


55 posted on 02/16/2020 6:10:56 AM PST by ohioman
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To: C19fan
Dang, I'm going to have to burn all my singles and toss all my .25 cent pieces...as a protest...

Is there anything the woke crowd doesn't know ?

56 posted on 02/16/2020 6:12:55 AM PST by Popman
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To: C19fan

Absolute Nonsense.

Pure BS!

Still More ComDem (leftist) Insanity!


57 posted on 02/16/2020 6:17:54 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Popman

I just want to make sure the following comes up when someone does a Google Search on “Alexis Coe.

Author Alexis Coe is a woke lying bitch whose goal is to deconstruct the history of all the Founding Fathers.


58 posted on 02/16/2020 6:19:57 AM PST by ohioman
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To: piasa

Well... he was not illiterate.

They found a misspelled word in one of his thousands of papers.


59 posted on 02/16/2020 6:34:03 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: jospehm20

Eff the Brits. Cant believe people think the UK and US are actually allies.


60 posted on 02/16/2020 6:35:18 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative.)
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