I notice the AmeriKan media never focuses on him taking away the printing of currency from the private banking cartel -- actions that another president would also attempt 100 years later. Isn't it odd that both were shot in the head?
"Mary Todd Lincoln portrait, and legend behind it, are frauds; Story behind portrait was part of scam" by Patricia Cohen | New York Times, February 12, 2012
NEW YORK - It turns out that both the portrait and the touching tale accompanying it are false....
The Lincolns were not the only ones fooled. Ever since The New York Times announced the portrait’s discovery in 1929, on Feb. 12, Lincoln’s birthday, historians and the public have assumed it depicted Mary Todd Lincoln. It was reproduced in The Chicago Tribune and National Geographic, and versions of it still illustrate at least two biographies....
In reality, the painting depicts an unknown woman and was created by an anonymous 19th-century artist, said Barry Bauman, the independent conservator who uncovered the fraud. The con, however, dates to the late 1920s, when the portrait was recast as that of Mary Todd Lincoln, he said.
Bauman identifies the culprit behind the scam as Ludwig Pflum, who rechristened himself Lew Bloom and was given to the kind of self-invention that America became famous for during the industrial era. He worked as a jockey, circus clown, boxer, and vaudevillian before settling on art collecting.
When he died less than a year after the painting’s public unveiling, an obituary in a Reading, Pa., newspaper noted that he “dabbled in oil paintings.’’ Apparently he dabbled more than anyone at the time realized....
But, as the story went....
Not anymore.
--more--"
I have a saying myself after the Iraq war lies were blared by the AmeriKan media: fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice.... we can't get fooled again!
Won't be when it comes to Iran.
