David Barton Can Kiss My Ten Dollar Butt
David Barton is a Texan who fancies himself the intellectual lead of the religious right. I suppose he does have a triple digit IQ. But, it’s not much higher than the temperature of an average Texas August. In the shade. Before noon.
Yesterday on his radio show, Barton announced that putting a woman on the ten dollar bill would ‘denigrate’ the Treasury Department.
And the reason it would denigrate the Treasury Department is … not near enough white males on our money. Okay, so I made that up, but that is real close to what he’s saying.
Now he makes some other argument about our founding fathers. Hell, Hamilton wasn’t put on the ten dollar bill until 1923. He’s staying on the ten dollar bill but there will be a hooter toter on the other damn side.
All hat and no … brains.
Thanks to everybody for heads up.
What it will denigrate is patriarchy, which is the reason he’s against it. Just like gay marriage.
1I understand that David Barton and other angry white t-hadist nut jobs think the selection of a portrait for currency is some sort of definitive statement by a POTUS’ administration. I spose I am not so quick on the uptake as David and his bros. But so long as it spends where I shop, far as I am concerned Madonna and Lady Gaga can be portrayed Frenching in the portrait space of any of the bills.
2Yet another white boy upset by the idea that white boys can no longer be every damn thing on Earth, or at least within their eyesight, which they think is all that matters. I prefer white boys who grew up to be men.
3Serious question, is Barton gay or does he always look like that?
4@Fred Farklestone, some of us think he is another one of those self-hating gay men. .
50.01 is a triple- digit number. Just saying.
6Barton’s just bitter because they couldn’t get RayGun on our USA cash money.
7He’s just jealous, he hasn’t accomplished a damn thing so he knows the only way his face will be put on paper is if it’s the kind you wipe your butt with. Come to think of it, that would be great gag gift to give him – a roll of toilet paper with his face on it.
8Our founding fathers have all been dead for a very long time and our society has moved on without them.
Moreover, not everyone on our currency was a founding father. Lincoln came long after the founding. According to Barton’s logic, Lincoln should not be on the $5 or, presumably, on the penny. (Or does coinage follow a different set of founding father rules?)
Isn’t Barton that guy who really likes to make up U.S. history to suit his own prejudices?
9I’m just guessing, but I suspect that Barton is a huge supporter of the Confederate flag ’cause, hey, that doesn’t denigrate our founding fathers at all.
10Poor baby. I hope he never goes to Great Britain. Their money will really tick him off.
11Oh hell spit and damn. I spent a chunk of my childhood north of the border. Guess whose picture was on the paper money? Did this practice denigrate anybody in the slightest? Nope. The cash spent just like anybody else’s money some place on the planet. Poor, poor little boy! Still thinking like junior high school!
12Are you sure his IQ isn’t a NEGATIVE 3 digits?
13I just don’t get it. Other countries have and do have female presidents. Other countries have and do have females on their currency (ex:$500 MX peso bill has Diego one side, Frida on the other). Responses to the later were not negative but embracing individuals in the countries history.
14What is the DEAL with the US and it’s attitude? Is it due to its ‘babyhood’? Compared to other countries? Or rufusal to simply grow up?
Also, Nina Simone documentary coming out (What happened, Miss Simone?)– shocking to know in 1-9-6-4 she spoke out via song (Mississippi Goddamn) about civil rights and in 2-0-1-5 we ain’t much further along.
There are a wide variety of significant women down through the years who would honor currency by their portrait. For example, Representative Jeannette Rankin, Representative Barbara Jordan, Betsy Ross, Elizabeth Burgin, Abigail Adams, etc etc
15I certainly hope the self anointed historian was scrupulous about the syllable breaks in a big word like “denigrate”.
16I want Jackson off the $20, and he’s no founder. Replace him. We wouldn’t have a Treasury if not for Hamilton; the bastard from the Caribbean thought it up.
17Don’t know about you all, but I have spent my life honoring the Treasury Department. Not a day goes by that I don’t get down on my knees and thank god for them and it would be tragic to allow the face of a (gasp) woman on our currency. Women have no mind for money, oh wait…Janet Yellen, Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton,Rosie Rios, Lael Brainard, Mary Miller, Nanie Coloretti, Janice Eberly, Leslie Ireland, Marisa Lago, Natalie Wyeth Earnest, for a start.
18What a Pignoramus!
You’d think a man whose books were replete with errors would be embarrassed. Maybe he doesn’t have that capacity.
19What? Who would give that lying fool a radio program?
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