Reply #80: The reality about the lincoln quote is that he heard it from Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck

[TheEuclideanOne]

That is my guess at least. Let me reenact the series of events.

a) The guy being interviewed listens to Rush/Beck continuously to know exactly how he should think.

b) He shows up to this "Tax Day" event. He has no original thought on an actual reason as to why he is there, but he has heard a zillion great quotes from Rush/Beck/Hannity explaining Tax Day and why he should hate Obama. He doesn't know if any of them are true or not, but he sounds smart when he can recite a quote from Lincoln, assuming that he has a chance to talk about it the same day that he heard it on the radio. People may even think that he has read up on Lincoln.

c) Somebody asks him a question about why he is there. Since his taxes did not go up and he does not have taxation without representation, he can't answer that he is actually upset about his taxes. So he chooses to grandstand and talk about something that sounded really intelligent when he heard it on the radio.

d) He tries to give the exact same answer as he heard on the radio. Beck probably read the exact quote that you showed in your post. Unfortunately for him, the closest he can get to remembering it was to refer to it as that "Lincoln thing"

e) It is pretty clear by the interviewer the this is one more guy who is a "Radio Republican" that gets all of his information from the continuous stream of vile heard on the radio and is reciting some line he heard, but still can't explain why he is there. She sees where this is going, but does let him finish his first answer, but doesn't let him have the entire hour to just complain that he is upset that McCain/Palin did not win.