Liberal Scholar Claims a Period was Added to the

Posted: Jul 7, 2014

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, the assault on the founding of this country continues by leftists and Democrats everywhere. There is a New York Times piece that I ran into over the weekend, and you talk about historical revisionism? The New York Times ArtsBeat reporter is named Jennifer Schuessler. (She might pronounce it Schuessler, S-c-h-u-e-s-s-l-e-r.) She's the ArtsBeat reporter, so she reports on the beat of the arts. She "claims that the removal of a long assumed to be present period at a critical point in the Declaration of Independence [would] radically change the document's meaning from its common understanding. Naturally, the period's removal supposedly provides government with powers at least on par with those of the people." In other words, her point is that the Declaration of Independence (and the Constitution, by the way, in association) was never meant to limit government to the extent that we all thought. She's also been "aided by a left-leaning professor's failure to comprehend the English language." I found this at NewsBusters and then I looked it up on my own, and the New York Times story is this: "If Only Thomas Jefferson Could Settle the Issue -- A Period Is Questioned in the Declaration of Independence. ... A scholar is now saying that the official transcript of the document produced by the National Archives and Records Administration contains a significant error -- smack in the middle of the sentence beginning 'We hold these truths to be self-evident,' no less. ;