Facebook exchange about this picture:
Other guy: Yep. He had it right.
Me: The really amusingly ironic thing is that not only is the photo fake, but so is the quote. Sinclair Lewis never said or wrote any such thing. I did some searching and what he actually said was "When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism" (York, Pennsylvania, Gazette and Daily; Feb. 1948). In 1971, Harrison Evans Salisbury rendered it as: "Sinclair Lewis aptly predicted in It Can't Happen Here that if fascism came to America it would come wrapped in the flag and whistling 'The Star Spangled Banner.'"
Me: And the date is wrong, too. Lewis was born in 1885. Fake picture, fake quote, fake date. Three strikes and it's out.
Other guy: I'm not doubting that the photo is inauthentic. I am a little dismayed to hear that the quote is possibly slightly misquoted (I've yet to do the research to support or refute your statement.) Even if the quote that you provided is correct, Ms. Palin certainly meets those requirements. She wraps herself up in the notion that she is 100% American who bleeds red, white, and blue. I think that Sinclair Lewis was trying to state that fascism will be wrapped up in nationalism. It is my honest opinion that those who fall into the "America is the best country and the only country that God the Father Almighty loves" are nationalist. Ms. Palin has shown herself to be in that camp--at least for me.
Whether or not Sinclair Lewis said that Fascism will be wrapped in an American flag and carrying a cross, I think it is true. So there...I said the quote. Let it be known that on March 25, 2010, Cody E. Maynus stated, "Fascism, when it comes, will come wrapped in an American flag and carrying a cross."
Me: Doesn't Obama meet those requirements, too?
Me: You might want to check his logo, too, to see who is bleeding red, white and blue.
Me: So, wait. Are you saying that the quote is "fake, but accurate?"
Other guy: After researching a bit (not much), I am willing to concede that the quote is not necessarily authentic. I am, however, saying that it is accurate.
