{"id":18103,"date":"2012-12-08T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18103"},"modified":"2014-02-04T09:09:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T14:09:36","slug":"jefferson-lincoln-churchill-and-yogi-berra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/12\/08\/jefferson-lincoln-churchill-and-yogi-berra\/","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson, Lincoln, Churchill, and Yogi Berra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do these four men have in common? They&#8217;re &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323717004578155302814623978.html\" target=\"_blank\">flypaper figures<\/a>&#8220;: people who frequently are quoted as saying things they never said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;People will see a quote and it appeals to an opinion that they have and if it has Jefferson&#8217;s name attached to it that gives it more weight,&#8221; she says. &#8220;He&#8217;s constantly being invoked by people when they are making arguments about politics and actually all sorts of topics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for the <em>Guide<\/em>&#8216;s publisher said it was looking into the quote. Mr. Norris&#8217;s publicist didn&#8217;t respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>To counter what she calls rampant misattribution, Ms. Berkes is fighting the Internet with the Internet. She has set up a &#8220;Spurious Quotations&#8221; page on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monticello.org\/site\/jefferson\/quotations\" target=\"_blank\">Monticello website<\/a> listing bogus quotes attributed to the founding father, a prolific writer and rhetorician who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson is a &#8220;flypaper figure,&#8221; like Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill and baseball player and manager Yogi Berra \u2014 larger-than-life figures who have fake or misattributed quotes stick to them all the time, says Ralph Keyes, an author of books about quotes wrongly credited to famous or historical figures. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do these four men have in common? They&#8217;re &#8220;flypaper figures&#8220;: people who frequently are quoted as saying things they never said: &#8220;People will see a quote and it appeals to an opinion that they have and if it has Jefferson&#8217;s name attached to it that gives it more weight,&#8221; she says. &#8220;He&#8217;s constantly being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,7,28,53,41],"tags":[933,949,38,864],"class_list":["post-18103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-abrahamlincoln","tag-marktwain","tag-thomasjefferson","tag-winstonchurchill"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4HZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18108,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18103\/revisions\/18108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}