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History Channel Presents Laughably Inaccurate 'Sons of Liberty'
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| January 26, 2015
| P.J. Gladnick
Posted on 01/26/2015 11:05:56 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Okay, it wasn't quite as bad as "Sam Adams: Vampire Hunter" but it was close. I am referring to the History channel's series "The Sons of Liberty" in which the real life Sam Adams, who was a middle-aged portly guy by the time of the opening scene in 1765, comes off as a young athletic urban ninja hopping up to the rooftops of Boston to evade arrest by British troops. And that was just one of the many laughable inaccuracies of the History channel's presentation of the era leading up to the American Revolution.
Although one can easily get the sense that history was often left by the wayside just by watching it, several websites have pointed out the numerous historical inaccuracies of the series. Journal of the American Revolution is among those sites listing the many, many inaccuracies of this series. For the sake of brevity, we shall only look at the glaring errors of only the first episode:
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: historicalerrors; historychannel; sonsofliberty; tvseries
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To: oh8eleven
I did the exact same thing except I only lasted 5 minutes.
I had intended to watch it but got caught up in watching something else. After that program went off I was scanning channels and came across it. It didn’t take long at all before I just switched to something else.
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posted on
01/26/2015 11:31:22 AM PST
by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: PJ-Comix
hopping up to the rooftops of Boston Mark Twain hopped from rooftop to rooftop for sport as a (crazy) young man in Virginia City, Nevada
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posted on
01/26/2015 11:37:12 AM PST
by
JennysCool
(My hypocrisy goes only so far)
To: MacombBob
I found it a safe assumption that if its on the History Channel, its not history.
I suppose we're just lucky if it does not include aliens or the open slander of Christianity.
To: Iron Munro
I am waiting for the Global Warming reference and the mention that the 2nd Amendment is about hunting.
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posted on
01/26/2015 11:38:42 AM PST
by
Bucky14
(And I would have gotten away with it too, if not for you meddling kids!)
To: PJ-Comix
Actually, the commercials made me want to miss it, and I did.
To: ozzymandus
Actually, the commercials made me want to miss it ...
That's another reason not to watch. You get 7 or 8 minutes of TV show, then 4 minutes of commercials.
After a couple of cycles you can't remember WTH you watched because of all the damned commercials.
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posted on
01/26/2015 11:43:34 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: SolidRedState
I’m in agreement. I watched the first hour. The HBO series John Adams is still my favorite.
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posted on
01/26/2015 11:46:12 AM PST
by
UB355
(Slower traffic keep right)
To: wattsgnu
I heard it happened a lot after the most recent Beowulf movie, too.
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posted on
01/26/2015 11:47:09 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("Ragnarok" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L5nD7-qsEw)
To: LukeL
The middle age of a 60 year old is 30.
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posted on
01/26/2015 11:47:21 AM PST
by
Slyfox
(To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
To: PJ-Comix
The portrayal of John Hancock as a psycopathic metrosexual wasn’t exactly great either.
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posted on
01/26/2015 11:48:15 AM PST
by
pfflier
To: Slyfox
I’m so old I remember when the History Channel showed history.
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posted on
01/26/2015 11:48:49 AM PST
by
AZLiberty
(No tag today.)
To: Bucky14
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posted on
01/26/2015 11:50:52 AM PST
by
SueRae
(It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
To: PJ-Comix
Not really seein' it . . .
(Copley's portrait of ol' Sam)
The guy on the beer label is loosely based on the Copley portrait of Paul Revere, with a foaming mug substituted for the iconic silver teapot.
They've revised him a couple of times, so he doesn't look nearly as much like Paul as he originally did.
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posted on
01/26/2015 11:55:38 AM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
To: PJ-Comix
Gee Thanks!
I have it on the dvr, but haven’t seen it yet.
You, in your literary comments, have ‘done the dog’ for the rest of us!
To: Buckeye McFrog
still cant get over the fact that its an 18th. century drama overlaid with 20th. century rock-and-roll music from The Rolling Stones, a BRITISH band. No.....so far just the commercials played ‘paint it black’
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posted on
01/26/2015 11:57:33 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: SolidRedState
Thoroughly enjoyable.
I recommend it.
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posted on
01/26/2015 11:58:59 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: CodeToad
The animal and the excrement was invented by then. And one Irishman pronounced the second word with a brogue.
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posted on
01/26/2015 12:00:46 PM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: AZLiberty
Can’t wait to see how they hash-up the Boston Tea Party.
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posted on
01/26/2015 12:03:43 PM PST
by
AU72
To: Vaquero
Earliest use of the term is 1915 (the words “air” and “plane” existed in the 17th century but weren’t combined until much more recently).
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posted on
01/26/2015 12:05:44 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
To: PJ-Comix
Forgot to add that Sam was a bad boy. His cousin John did some serious covering for him in the Boston Massacre trial, or there would have been a warrant or two out for him.
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posted on
01/26/2015 12:06:53 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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