History Channel Ditches Nostradamus and the Mayan Prophecies for Howard Zinn’s “History”.

I am amazed that Howard Zinn is seen as an honest intellectual. How can you consider someone smart who writes such drivel as this?

Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery that would prove enormously useful for the next two hundred years. They found that by creating a nation, a symbol, a legal unity called the United States, they could take over land, profits, and political power from the favorites of the British Empire. In the process, they could hold back a number of potential rebellions and create a consensus of popular support for the rule of a new, privileged leadership

When we look at the American Revolution this way, it was a work of genius, and the Founding Fathers deserve the awed tribute they have received over the centuries. They created the most effective system of national control devised in modern times, and showed future generations of leaders the advantages of combining paternalism with command.

Yet Zinn’s book as been used a high school and college textbook and has become the backbone of a History Channel special presentation which purpose appears to be little more than  indoctrinating schoolchildren with Zinn’s ridiculously-flawed version of history. Michelle Malkin jumps ugly on Zinn’s propaganda-stragavanza as well, and gives us a look at the tangled web of America-hating progressives behind the whole effort.

Here’s what bugs me about this story. It’s clear that Howard Zinn and his comrades despise America, and they have to express their hatred lest it burn them up from the inside out. But, there are plenty of sins they can yell about. Zinn didn’t need to make anything up, yet he did. Why? Like I said in the latest epidose of The Delivery, you can always count on a progressive to overreach badly. Zinn’s alleged history book is a classic chunk of overreach that contains just enough warm snuggly progressive talk to gull the Hollywood empty-heads.

I guess it’s too late for the History Channel to scrap Zinn’s project and run a few shows with more intellectual heft, like re-runs of old documentaries about Nostradamus, the Bible Code, and the 2012 Mayan Apocalypse.

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Tags: Education, Progressives

Category: Edyookashun, Progressives