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January 04, 2019 12:12 PM UTC

Getting History Wrong With Minority Leader Chris Holbert

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  • by: Colorado Pols

A short while ago, the new GOP minority leader of the Colorado Senate Chris Holbert delivered his opening day remarks, but anybody who paid attention in American History class stopped listening and started giggling just moments into the speech:

There is great history here at our state Capitol, much of which points to a time fifteen years before statehood, to 1861. Colorado became a United States Territory on February 28 of that year. Four days later, Abraham Lincoln, known as a “Man of the West,” was inaugurated as the fourteenth President of the United States… [Pols emphasis]

You see, Abraham Lincoln, the first U.S. President from the Republican Party and a man who we’d say everyone in a leadership position in the Republican Party should know the biography of by heart, wasn’t the 14th President. He also didn’t kill vampires, but that’s for another blog post.

Now folks, since every encyclopedic reference to Abe Lincoln we can find anywhere, including Wikipedia itself, lists Lincoln unequivocally as the nation’s 16th President and not the 14th President, how does the Colorado Republican Senate Minority Leader get this wrong–and how does such an error survive the editing process that surely an opening-day address by the Senate Minority Leader is subjected to? It’s mostly likely a sloppy press secretary who wrote this, and worse let it out of his shop–but at the end of the day it’s the guy giving the speech who looks bad.

If Chris Holbert was Sarah Palin, there might be some emergency Wikipedia editing going on.

But sadly, Chris Holbert hasn’t got Sarah Palin-level juice.

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20 thoughts on “Getting History Wrong With Minority Leader Chris Holbert

  1. Oh man, I'd forgotten all about grift artist Sarah Palin and Paul Revere's midnight ride to save the Second Amendment. Ripping good stuff.

    My favorite Palin history lesson came during her campaign for governor of Alaska, when she told voters that the founding fathers were right to include the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.

  2. Who cares? By May you'll be fighting off recalls. Once Colorado Dems are done destroying the energy industry, legalizing heroin and letting the Chuck E Cheese killer off the voters will realize their mistake. Enjoy the limelight while you can.

    1. All the while Repubs will be dealing with 2019 being the worst year of Donald Trump's life in part because voters have buyers remorse over electing fascists to the Federal Government, including Cory Gardner.  In part because they continue to overreach. 

      Also legalizing heroin?  Do you object because you enjoy getting your heroin illegally?  You'd have to be high on your supply to write such an inane post.

    2. Yeah, you're about as good at predicting the future as you are at remembering history. 

      Hey how 'bout them deficits Republicans complained would destroy our economy after sending us into the Great Recession, and didn't want Obama to spend any money to fix? Guess deficits don't matter now that Cheetolini and his billionaire Kleptocrats have been running the government for the last two years, right?

    3. A new user name appears …. at least, I don't recall seeing a trollish comment with that source before.

      Is it a new mind? Or simply a recycled mind of one of the missing?

      1. It’s clearly the recycled sewage of the one missing a mind. (i.e., It’s Governor Coffman’s biggest sniveling coward fanboy, all dressed up in his best new yellow frock, with nowhere to go . . .)

        Hey, Moddy is that a new sock puppet in your pocket, or are you just happy to be back in grammy’s basement??!!

  3. Just for the record; if that’s not officially Moddy, then I am not responsible for watering, fertilizing or airing our newest (old?) Polster.

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