Gettysburg Address - Faux News?

by Kerby Anderson, Contributing Author: Two weeks agone I happened to plough on a movement rally where President Trump was speaking. As usual, he talked nigh “fake news” in addition to made a tilt that I knew would hold upwards criticized past times historians.

He said, “You know when Abraham Lincoln made the Gettysburg Address speech, the corking speech, yous know he was ridiculed.” The betoken he was making is that at that topographic point was “fake news” in addition to hence so nosotros shouldn’t hold upwards surprised nosotros accept it today. He in addition to hence went on to remind everyone that Lincoln’s spoken language was revered years afterward in addition to believed that would compass to him.

Let’s ignore Donald Trump’s comparing to Abraham Lincoln hence that nosotros tin give the sack focus on an of import historical point. How was Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address received at the time?

Generally the northern newspapers were favorable to Lincoln’s speech, spell the southern newspapers predictably attacked it. But fifty-fifty looking at the northern papers, yous larn a chip of a mixed reaction.

Writers doing a fact banking corporation jibe on Lincoln’s spoken language reminded us of ii unlike reactions inwards Chicago newspapers to the Gettysburg Address. The Chicago Times suggested that, “the cheek of every American must tingle with shame every bit he reads the silly, apartment in addition to dish-watery utterances.” By contrast, the Chicago Tribune praised the spoken language in addition to believed it “will alive with the annals of man.”

Some of the social media criticism of Donald Trump’s tilt nigh the media reaction to the Gettysburg Address cited the New York Times intelligence story. However, if yous read the story, the writer exactly mentions that Lincoln spoke “in a real deliberate manner” in addition to doesn’t praise the speech. In fact, inwards a previous sentence, the storey describes the prayer of Reverend Stockton every bit “touching in addition to beautiful.” Nothing similar that is attached to Lincoln’s speech.

So it is fair to country that President Trump was at to the lowest degree one-half right. Some newspapers (the so-called “fake news” of the day) attacked the speech. But others too praised it.
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Kerby Anderson is a radio utter present host heard on numerous stations via the Point of View Network endorsed past times physician Bill Smith, Editor,

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