John Kasich Cites Fake Lincoln Quote on Fox

Ohio Governor John Kasich is generating a small but steady amount of 2016 buzz. But before he runs for Future President he should make sure he learns correctly from the past ones.

PunditFact caught Kasich faux-quoting Abraham Lincoln on Fox News Sunday yesterday as part of a critique of President Barack Obama’s proposal to raise of the capital gains tax rate to offset a middle class tax cut.

“You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down,” Kasich said. “Abraham Lincoln said it then, and he’s right.”

But Abe didn’t say it. The quote actually comes from Rev. William J. H. Boetcker, who published a pamphlet on Lincoln in 1916 that contained the quote, alongside real quotes from Lincoln. It was immediately mistaken for one of Lincoln’s aphorisms, and it’s been ever thus.

To add insult to injury, PunditFact pointed out that Lincoln instituted the federal income tax, and a fairly progressive one at that.

Watch the video below, via Fox News:

[h/t PunditFact]
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