Right Wing Watch has spent years exposing and debunking the false history promoted by Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton of WallBuilders.
While a lot of our focus has been on correcting Barton’s lies about the founding era and the creation of this nation, Barton also has a tendency to lie about contemporary issues that can easily be debunked with a basic Google search.
This latter tendency was on full display during last Friday’s episode of his “WallBuilders Live” radio program, where he praised the North Carolina supreme court for supposedly preventing state Democrats from enacting “a really bad gerrymandered map.”
This latter tendency was on full display during last Friday’s episode of his “WallBuilders Live” radio program, where he praised the North Carolina supreme court for supposedly preventing state Democrats from enacting “a really bad gerrymandered map.”
The Supreme Court of North Carolina has done some really interesting stuff,” Barton said. “They upheld a really bad gerrymandered map that gave Democrats so much charge and just really cooked the books. But that was before last November. Last November, they flipped the court in North Carolina. It was four Democrats, three Republicans. Now it’s five Republicans and two Democrats. And guess what? [That map] got reversed in the last couple of weeks.
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