Philthadelphia - The Lying Guide

Meet Matthew Ifill, whom we think is the world's most inaccurate tour guide. He is not only inaccurate about American history, he fabricates it! We had hoped to get a recording of Mr. Ifill, however on June 14th 2011 when we returned to Philadelphia, he was working a ticket counter and another guide was giving the tours of Independence Hall.

Among Mr. Ifill's gems were that the colony of Pennsylvania was founded for religious freedoms for "Jews, Christians and Muslims", which is an outright lie, and the invention of the idea that a war between Pennsylvania and Connecticut precipitated the need for the Constitution to replace the Articles of Confederation. This is a mischaracterization of the reasons for the move to the Constitution, and also of the Pennamite–Yankee Wars, which were a dispute between Pennsylvania and New York.