It's not like I expected Allen West's book to be rigorously fact checked. But if I were West, I would have at least googled my famous quotes to be sure they were accurate. (A quick google would have gotten West here, for example. The National Review! That's a source that even Allen might believe)
I thought everyone knew by now that quite a lot of famous quotes were not actually said by the person they are attributed to. There have been so many debunking of these things, I have come to expect that any saying by a famous person to be inaccurate unless proven otherwise. From what I know about Allen West, I don't think he cares much about accuracy. But I would at least think he would want to avoid the embarrassment that comes when people point out easily correctable inaccuracies in his book.
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I thought everyone knew by now that quite a lot of famous quotes were not actually said by the person they are attributed to. There have been so many debunking of these things, I have come to expect that any saying by a famous person to be inaccurate unless proven otherwise. From what I know about Allen West, I don't think he cares much about accuracy. But I would at least think he would want to avoid the embarrassment that comes when people point out easily correctable inaccuracies in his book.
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