Douglas..... Brinkley.....
Posted on 12/04/2018 1:57:34 PM PST by detective
“Get off his case
He is probably right
So what”
What are you talking about?
This makes no sense.
This isnt even their new low..yesterday on twitter it was posted how when President Trump/Melania went to Bush’s casket, some jackass on CNN said “I bet Trump was wondering how long he has to stand there before he can leave” so honestly NOTHING surprises me about those a-holes at CNN anymore
Brinkley is a jackass.
Listen to the mockingbird...
The fawning makes me want to throw up a bit. They hated him until Friday night.
Given that this is a Deep State Funeral; Trump should wear this as a Badge of Honor.
Pure BS from Brinkley and classless. But this is what you get from CNN.
If I were going to watch, I would want to see him there. I don’t really care to see the Mooch and Barry there, but oh well.
“The whole Bush family is gleeful around the biggest crooks ever to hold office, Bill and Hillary, and the biggest America haters to hold office, the Obamas. Yet they detest Trump. And they detest all of us.”
Exactly. They totally betrayed the GOP and all of us voters who voted for BOTH Bushes and defended all their actions. They supported the biggest criminal in US history to be POTUS. What on earth?
The MSM Tainted the McCain service. I hope they have better manners this time and hold their tongues.
These people disgust me. They are so over the top deranged. I wish nothing but the worst on all of these hateful pieces of crap.
“Certainly the Bushes must understand, after all Abu Graib was in the news, headlined for a year, “it happened on Bushes watch”. Then another year for Katrina, yellowcake, choking on a pretzel........the list is endless.”
You would think that W would be sympathtic to Trump and all the media bashing which is 100 times what W endured. You would think that W would publicly support the Republican president. Huge dissapointment.
Oh, but the Clintons and the Obamas are and have been? Brinkley should just STFU.
The MSM Tainted the McCain service. I hope they have better manners this time and hold their tongues.
trump being there ups their ratings and they know it.If Trump didn’t go nobody would tune in.
Douglas..... Brinkley.....
Top five worst modern popular historians:
5. Michael Beschloss
4. H.W. Brands
3. Doris Kearns Goodwin
2. Douglas Brinkley
1. Howard Zinn
(no.’s 5-2 are interchangeable)
The all-time list will be difficult to sort, but I’d run with:
5. Charles Beard (excused for later works w/ the wife)
4. Richard Hofstadter
3. Michel Foucault
2. Herbert Croly
1. Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels
Runners up include Arthur Schlesinger, Will Durant, Arthur Link, and George Mowry.
He needs to jump in the lake. I’m somebody and I want to see him there.
Brands isn’t terrible. As left-leaners go, he’s by far the best of the bunch . . . but this is only based on my reading of his Reagan book. I didn’t read his “Grant.”
Brinkley’s book on Katrina wasn’t bad.
Beschloss and Goodwin are typical old Left gatekeepers.
Zinn is in a propaganda league of his own.
Hofstadter at least was interesting and offered different theories.
Now, excluding myself from all discussions, I think the best modern historians are:
1. Ron Chernow. Superb scholarship, even though he’s not a prof.
2. Paul Johnson. Erratic, and he can get details wrong, but when he’s on, there is no one better at weaving together a story.
3. Burton Folsom. He and I disagree on a couple of points about FDR, but he is meticulous and can be, when he wants to go that direction, a terrific “pop” storyteller.
4. Paul Kengor. The best Reagan biographer out there-—and he didn’t even write a Reagan biography.
5. Steven Hayward’s work on Reagan and US history up to Reagan is very good.
Honorable mentions:
1. My co-author on PHUSA for all matters on the West, Mike Allen.
2. David Landes on all things technical and developmental (his history of time, for example).
3. Ronald Spector for WW II.
4. Edmund Morris, if he had died before he wrote “Dutch.”
5. Pauline Maier
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