Written by Tim Graham
Liberals love to insist they’re on the “right side of history,” and their confidence crests in the liberal dominance among historians. Just as the liberal media dominate our evaluation of day-to-day developments, liberals count on their historians to dominate our evaluation of the decades behind us.
It’s not just historians but our taxpayer-funded storytellers, like the insufferable PBS documentarian Ken Burns. On the day before President-elect Joe Biden‘s inauguration, NPR’s “Morning Edition” presented him as an American treasure with no partisan bias.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Brian Stelter, CNN, David Nakamura, Democratic National Committee, Douglas Brinkley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Joseph Crespino, Ken Burns, Leah Wright Rigueur, Matthew Dallek, Morning Edition, Nicole Hemmer, NPR, Politico, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Sara Gideon, Sherrod Brown, Susan Collins, The Washington Post, Washington Post
Media Watch | David E. Smith |
January 20, 2021 8:00 AM |
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Written by Robert Knight
It may be Christmastime, but our ruling elites are keeping up their campaign of cultural cleansing.
Not even Honest Abe is safe.
In San Francisco, a committee tasked to rid the school system of now-disgraced public figures at 44 sites says that a high school named after Abraham Lincoln, who freed the slaves and held America together through the Civil War, ought to drop the Great Emancipator.
“Lincoln, like the presidents before him and most after, did not show through policy or rhetoric that Black lives ever mattered to them outside of human capital and as casualties of wealth building,” explained first-grade teacher Jeremiah Jeffries, chairman of the renaming committee.… Continue Reading
Tags: 1619 Project, Abraham Lincoln, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Asbury United Methodist Church, Black Lives Matter, Cultural Marxism, Dan Snyder, Dianne Feinstein, Francis Scott Key, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Floyd, George Washington, James Garfield, James Monroe, John Muir, Junipero Serra, National Football League, Paul Revere, Proud Boys, Teddy Roosevelt, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Thomas Jefferson, Washington Redskins, William H. Lamar IV, William McKinley
Education, Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith |
December 21, 2020 7:00 AM |
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Written by Chistine Misner
Switching Party Histories and Whatever Else it Takes to Make History Convenient
Have you heard the news? America’s two main political parties have switched. The Party of Lincoln is now the party of slavery and oppression, while the Party of FDR is the party of free speech and people’s rights. Are you surprised? Having earned degrees in and relating to history and political science, it surprised me.
I first learned about the “switch” theory while reading the usual culprits —) Facebook and Twitter.… Continue Reading
Tags: 1964 Civil Rights Act, Bolshevik Revolution, Dr. Eric Wallace, Eric Rauchway, Everett Dirksen, Franklin D. Roosevelt, French Revolution, Jim Crow laws, Live Science, Natalie Wolchover, New Deal, Richard Russell, Robert Byrd, Sam Ervin, social justice, Southern Strategy, Strom Thurmond, The 1619 Project, William Fulbright, William Jennings Bryan
Political | David E. Smith |
October 13, 2020 4:00 AM |
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