Fox & Friends co-host Clayton Morris, a self-professed history buff, displayed a wanton disregard for historical facts. As to Andrew Jackson, in each of the “Bad Hair Club for Men” segments, he accused “Old Hickory” of caning someone in the Senate. However, the only caning incident in the Senate was that of Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner by South Carolina’s irate Representative Preston Brooks for some injudicious comments concerning Brook’s ill kinsman South Carolina’s Senator Butler. The author had hoped that a producer fact check would rectify Clayton’s historical mistake: unfortunately, no one, including colleagues, Alisyn Camerota, Dave Briggs, or Rick Reichmuth called him on it.
Furthermore, ironically, in a “48 Liberal Lies…” segment, Clayton committed a more egregious error with his assertion that both Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev ended the war: no, Ronald Reagan, Maggie Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II won that war.
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Carpe Diem 
December 13, 2008 at 11:53 am
Fortunately, there is ample documented historical evidence to counter the attempt to water-down the Cold War-ending achievements of Reagan, Thatcher, and Pope Jean-Paul II. Gorbachev’s role was little more than that of a rag doll being swept along by the tsunami they created.
We could use a good old-fashioned Senate caning right about now.
December 13, 2008 at 1:18 pm
More proof this b***h*** has no business in a professional news organization. Stupid and left-wing.
March 5, 2015 at 5:53 pm
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