What Would Lincoln Say?

Unfortunately, not always what you think.  Last night I came across a post from the Occupy Democrats Facebook page:

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Hear what, exactly?  Something Lincoln never said?

I was immediately skeptical.  Not because I'm a scholar on Lincoln - more so because I know leftists have been trying to hijack Lincoln's legacy for a long time.  So, I googled the quote.  Of course, a site: ratical.org has the same quote attributed to Lincoln, but who the hell are they?  I was shocked the Daily KO's came up - so I checked the link to Lincoln's Take on Capitalist Slavery.  Was this a good quote?  No - considering it never appeared in the Daily KO's article whatsoever.  

I must've glanced over it, because there was a Snopes article that came up as the first result.  Their verdict?  Big fat red false, with a very detailed analysis why.  I suggest going through that article.

Of course, the comments section was filled with praise for Lincoln and his prophetic statement hailing the Democrats of 150 years later as saviors of the world as Lincoln saw it.  One person, did however, point out that: while he liked the quote, Lincoln never said it.  He was met with fact-checking praise:

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Wait - is he saying one of the fundamental differences between progressives and conservatives is the progressives fact check, but the conservatives do not?  Is he implying that the conservatives over at Occupy Democrats (I know, right?) posted the fugazy quote and it took a progressive to fact check it?  Maybe it's time to write about the $.77 wage gap.

Let's be real - fact checking is a thing of the past for most people.  The people who simply assume --because of ideology one is more prone to fact check than another -- are victims of propaganda.