Vanity Fair Fears ‘Texas Witch Trials’ Will Erase the Civil Rights Movement from History Books

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/anthony-kang/2010/03/18/vanity-fair-fears-texas-witch-trials-will-erase-civil-rights-movement- ^ | 03/18/10 | Anthony Kang

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In a textbook case of liberal-hysteria, Henry Rollins and Vanity Fair fear the Texas Board of Education will wipe Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Charles Darwin, the Civil Rights movement, and even the outcome of the Civil War from the pages of history in the "Great Texan Rewrite."

At question is a recent victory by conservatives on the Texas Board of Education to adopt more traditional curricula to be used in writing history textbooks. Due to its size, books adopted by Texas tend to be used extensively throughout the nation.

To Rollins, any attempt to restore balance to the teaching of history is an attempt to turn back the clock.

[stephenjohnbanker]

That faggot publisher and his weasel writers better stay the hell out of Texas.

[madison10]

VF, don’t be stupid.

[MrB]

They’re not being stupid, really.

They see the loss of their main method of indoctrination - the rewriting of history to reflect a liberal bias.

Now that the real history will be presented, they know their ideology cannot stand the light of truth.

[FrdmLvr]

The Civil Rights Movement was a Republican initiative! Why would conservatives/Republicans cut the CRM out of history?

[Windflier]

What puzzles me, is why does Texas drive the direction of what’s printed in the nation’s textbooks, as opposed to California, which has more than twice the population?

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Henry Rollins? Bwah-ha-ha!!! Shut up and sing "Six-Pack" Henry!

I remember Billy West on Howard Stern imitating Al "Grandpa" Lewis. His comment on Rollins was "big muscleheaded dope!" Pretty much sums it up.

[The Comedian]

That faggot publisher and his weasel writers better stay the hell out of Texas.

He'll be allowed to fly into Austin, make a speech, pay off a school board parasite, date a man, and leave. But only because Austin is like an autonomous hippie/fag Vatican completely within genuine Texas territory.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[DPMD]

Presumably, Vanity Fair could be mollified by an offer to have the great historian Matt Damon do the rewrite.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Where was Vanity Fair the last 20-30 years when liberals were stuffing the textbooks with Environmental Garbage?

Oh, that's right! They only care when they don't agree!

[stephenjohnbanker]

“He’ll be allowed to fly into Austin, make a speech, pay off a school board parasite, date a man, and leave”

One step outside of Austin, and we will hang him by his hairdo ;-)

[TexasFreeper2009]

Texas purchases more for some reason, a lot more.

[Right Cal Gal]

“Traditional” i.e., “accurate”.

[Elsiejay]

Wasn’t the birth of the Republican Party a reaction against slavery; and wasn’t Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., a registered Republican, along with his father?

[BobL]

“Texas purchases more for some reason, a lot more.”

Yea, most of California’s textbooks are in Spanish, while no more than half of Texas textbooks are in Spanish (pre-Amnesty, that is).

[chris_bdba]

Oh BOOHOOHOO! Liberals will just hve to do their own brainwashing at home while their kids learn real history at school!

[MamaTexan]

why does Texas drive the direction of what’s printed in the nation’s textbooks, as opposed to California, which has more than twice the population?

Because Texas [being one of only seven fiscally solvent states] has the funds to get the books published, and California is flat broke.

[Windflier]

Texas [being one of only seven fiscally solvent states] has the funds to get the books published, and California is flat broke.

I suppose that would be a primary determining factor. If California can't pony up the bucks to get the printing done, then their state board of education's opinion doesn't matter.

This ought to be a deep lesson to liberals, but alas, it won't be.

[SunkenCiv]

School textbooks need to emphasize the real priorities of Democrats, such as Wilson's jailing of Eugene V. Debs, FDR's attempt to pack the Supreme Court (and he was in office so long, he managed to fill every last seat on the SCOTUS, some of them more than once), Johnson's various bunglings and ballot box attitudes, the various thefts of elections (the past two Washington State governor races, the "election" of Al Franken, Gore's attempt to steal the 2000 election, etc)...

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Thanks 198ml.

[A.A. Cunningham]

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