So some history folk find errors in Bill O’s book. What does he do? He plays the “They’re conspiring to get me!” card.
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Bill O’Reilly strongly defended his best-selling “Killing Lincoln” book on Monday after a Ford’s Theatre bookstore refused to sell it because of alleged historical inaccuracies.
The Fox News host told POLITICO that the attack on his book about President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination is “a concerted effort by people who don’t like me to diminish the book.”
In a historical review of “Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever,” Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site deputy superintendent Rae Emerson on Saturday slammed the book’s “lack of documentation and the factual errors within the publication.”
As a result, she recommended the National Park Service not stock “Killing Lincoln” on the shop’s shelves at Ford’s Theatre.
O’Reilly said he was speaking out about the controversy because “you ignore most of it but we were getting a little bit tired.”
He also shot back at Emerson’s claims about the book’s mistakes, saying there are just four errors in his 325-page work— and two of those are typos.
The alleged mistakes by O’Reilly and his co-author Martin Dugard start in the prologue and are found in other places in the book, according to Emerson’s analysis published in The Washington Post on Nov. 12. O’Reilly claims Ford’s Theatre burned to the ground in 1863 — but it actually happened on Dec. 30, 1862. He writes several times over that Lincoln held meetings or sat in the Oval Office — a nice image. It turns out, however, that the West Wing’s Oval Office wasn’t built until 1909 during President William Howard Taft’s administration, Emerson wrote.
Good grief, just admit you made a few mistakes and move on. What a two-year-old. 
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