Howard Zinn on Comedy Central

[sinanju]

I just saw Howard Zinn plugging his new book "Voices of a People's History of the United States" with John Stewart on The Daily Show. Holy Cow! What a hate Amerikka lovefest. I know a little about Howard Zinn, Dave Horowitz has fingered him for being an old hardline lefty professor and that he writes regularly for The Nation, Mother Jones, The Progressive, and all the usual suspects, but it's one thing to read about such people and another thing to see and hear them. I am shocked that this hate-crazed Chomskyite's classic tract "A People's History of the United States: From 1492 to the Present" is required reading in so many college history courses. Where is it written that just because the nuts have white hair they are now entitled to respect? The man was quivering with eagerness to put down America and her genocidal history. He led off trying to link the evil Christopher Columbus with the evil George Bush. John Stewart was only too happy to make obeisance and add his usual wisecracks. The man did come off as sane, let alone scholarly.

[Borges]

The DVD set of the Rambo films had a brief interview clip with Zinn talking about the 80s zeitgeist that made the films so popular. When you interpret not just one or two events but all of history as the white man stomping all over oppressed peoples everywhere you come off not just as a leftist proffesor but as a self parody of one.

[LibFreeOrDie]

A few years ago, Fox TV network was working with Zinn, and Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, to turn that book into a mini-series. The project fell through, thank God!

[Dolphy]

I am shocked that this hate-crazed Chomskyite's classic tract "A People's History of the United States: From 1492 to the Present" is required reading in so many college history courses

My 15 year old nephew is required to read A People's History and he attends a public high school in Iowa. I asked my sister if there would be a counter argument presented and she didn't know and didn't seem to care. (A whole other story.) The book is toxic, propaganda, particularly to a young mind who lacks a sense of perspective. When I read it I was depressed for weeks. It wasn't because I was naive. It was because it was written with such absolute certainty of our hatefulness and corruption.

[weegee]

Howard Zinn is a liberal bigot. Political correctness be damned, he is.