SOURCE: WKRG
11/4/2020
tags: Senate, Alabama, World War 2, historical ignorance
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11/4/2020
New Senator Tuberville Seems to Lack Basic Knowledge of World War II
Breaking Newstags: Senate, Alabama, World War 2, historical ignorance
Tommy Tuberville may have gotten an “A” from Alabama voters Tuesday night, but likely earned an “F” from history teachers.
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Tuberville described how his father was a part of “liberating Paris from socialism and communism.”
Americans liberated France from German Nazis – facists, not socialists, nor communists.
It wasn’t his first “historic” gaffe. During the campaign, Jones criticized Tuberville for not knowing what the Voting Rights Act was.
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