”We put too much faith in conventional wisdom.
Insist on the truth or you will never be free.” - me
Rush Limbaugh has said that our most expensive commodity is ignorance. And the cost of that ignorance could not be better illustrated than by the fact that the American people have just voted an America-despising terrorist-coddling Marxist-socialist into the White House.
Well, enough of that. ‘Tis the season of truth, my friends. The season of myth debunking. The season of setting the records straight, once and for all.
I've recently treated myself to two books that looked really fantastic and really important. Having read the intro and skimmed some of the chapters, I was not disappointed.
The first book is 48 Liberal Lies About American History (That You Probably Learned in School), by professor Larry Schweikart. Schweikart is also the author of a history textbook called A Patriot's History of the United States, whose title is presumably meant to counter Howard Zinn's widely used anti-American textbook A People's History of the United States.
The best thing about this book is that it tackles a wide range of topics. It was designed so you don't have to read straight from beginning to end. You can scan the table of contents and just read those chapters you're interested in. The chapters aren't even ordered chronologically. In other words, it seems to be set up like a reference book, giving overviews rather than really digging deep into each topic.
Because of the number of issues, 48 can only devote a few pages to each lie, otherwise the 320-page book would be much larger. The benefit of this is that each chapter contains just enough information for one to absorb and memorize. On the other hand, I found myself hungering for more information in some chapters, such as the one addressing the JFK assassination, as well as the one discussing Reagan, Gorbachev, and the ending of the Cold War.
That is why I was pleasantly surprised to learn of last week's release of the second book: The 10 Big Lies about America: Combatting Distructive Distortions about our Nation by Seattle-based radio host Michael Medved. These lies include “America was founded on Genocide against Native Americans” (Big Lie #1), “The Founders Intended a Secular, Not Christian, Nation” (Big Lie #3), and “America Is an Imperialist Nation and a Constant Threat to World Peace” (Big Lie #7).
With 288 pages to play with, Medved has a lot more space to delve into the those big myths we’re always hearing liberals spread or teach our children in school. Where possible, Medved explains where the myths originated, and why, and methodically debunks them point by point.
The chapter about the genocide of American Indians is particularly apropos, with Columbus Day a few weeks back and Thanksgiving just two days away. Reminiscing about his school-day Thanksgiving pageants, Medved laments how liberals have totally distorted the meaning of this holiday and transformed it into a club with which to beat the American people into a state of shame and self-hatred. Medved suggests liberals actually ask some American Indians what they think about Thanksgiving, because there are tribes that celebrate it as well, the way it was originally intended: as a way to thank God/Nature/etc. for the gifts we are given. In short, today’s American Indians don’t mourn Thanksgiving, so why do we? Plus, virtually every nation of the world has a history of cruelty and barbarism that dwarfs ours, but you never see the French mourning Bastille Day or the Mexicans kicking themselves over Cinco de Mayo.
Medved—a Rite Jew, by the way—has a degree from Yale in history and also went to Yale Law.
I highly recommend these books to anyone. Get them for yourself. Get them for a friend or relative. Get them for Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, Grandma Lee’s birthday, whatever. Time to get the word out. I’m so tired of liberal/Democrat liars who have been trying to tear down this, the greatest nation on God’s green earth!
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