On Sunday, Mike Huckabee said the signers of the Declaration of Independence were “brave people, most of whom, by the way, were clergymen.” CQ’s Politifact.com says “not so fast”:
Only one of the 56 was an active clergyman, and that was John Witherspoon. Witherspoon was a Presbyterian minister and president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). . .We’d like to give Huckabee every benefit of the doubt, but even if you consider former clergymen among the signers the best you could come up with is four. Out of 56. That’s not “most,” that’s Pants-on-Fire wrong.
Or he could just be bad at math. See, maybe he was trying to make a point: we need better math education in schools so that presidential candidates will know that you need 29 out of 56 signers to have “most.” At least that’s what I choose to believe.
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