History Channel

Vanity ^ | 9/24/2004 | piytar

[piytar]

Was watching a late night History Channel program about that shoot out at the OK Corral. Very good piece, looked very well researched. However, I just could not get some of their leftist bias (see linnk) out of my mind. Made me take the entire program with a grain, no a block, of salt.

Wonder if the people running these media outlets have any idea what they have done to their credibility? Comments?

[piytar]

Comment in body -- it is a vanity.

[Soliton]

Comment in body -- it is a vanity.

Why would you waste time pointing that out? Who cares?

[farmer18th]

I’ve been involved in several History Channel shoots and they are, indeed, agenda-driven and left-leaning. We were involved in one production on the subject of dueling and the director didn’t seem to have any grasp of what the concept of “honor” really meant.

[max americana]

I watched their series on the Hindenburg, and they were spouting all this conspiracy nonsense instead of the simple “fire engulfed the blimp ergo, it crashed” explanation. Then they compared it to 9/11. That was the tipping point for me. I had to look at the TV Guide to find out if was watching the Sci Fi Channel or Comedy Channel.

[max americana]

>We were involved in one production on the subject of dueling and the director didn’t seem to have any grasp of what the concept of “honor” really meant.<

I live in Hollywood, and one of my lib neighbors also couldn’t grasp the concept of “term limits”. It amazes me that they work for the CW network, yet ring my door bell when they couldn;t get their Tivo to properly record.

[skimask]

I saw it too and thought it had a left leaning sub plot.

[piytar]

LOL, why would you bother commenting on it? FYI, I wasn’t sure it would post without something in that field and didn’t feel like testing it. Gee, (don’t want a zot for a personal attack, so I’ll refrain).

[Soliton]

Sorry! I didn’t see that you were responding to yourself. I thought the poster was being nitpicked by the anal FReeper police wannabes.

[Americanwolfsbrother]

i just finished watching this and I don’t know where you are getting the idea about it being left leaning. I thought it was one of the better shows about the OK Corral.AWB

[piytar]

You know, I was going to rip you for that “First!” like comment, but then I read some of your posting history and decided not to do so. You actually have a lot of very intelligent and insightful posts. That’s why your post just baffles me: If my putting that comment in there (explained above) was inane, then you wasting time commenting on my inane comment was even more inane. On top of that, the thread generated some very interesting comments on the History Channel, including one from an apparent insider. Ergo, it wasn’t an inane post, but one which was interesting to at least one other person than me.

Just guessing you are violating the Iron Fist Rule (Google it with an “LGF” term added). Oh well.

[hamboy]

I have the same feeling. Not all that History Channel and PBS present are true. Sometimes partly true but mostly lies. It’s Joe Goebbles’ doctrine.

[piytar]

Ah, now I get it. Working on a ####y internet connection, so I didn’t see this post until way after I tried to send mine (shows up above or below — I just can’t tell yet). Please ignore it.

Oh well, those are the things that happen with posting lag.

PS Iron Fist Rule is “’If you think you are too drunk to post, you are too drunk to post.’ A word to the wise to prevent unnecessarily antagonistic or rambling comments.” Often applies at 4:02am EDT. Sorry to imply that’s what was happening...

[piytar]

That was my point: It seemed good, but I’ve seen so much left-leaning garbage from them that I just couldn’t accept the program at face value. I’m wondering “what did they spin here that I’m just not catching?” Hence my comment about if they understand what they have done to their reputation — even a good program has been tainted by it.

[claymax]

But doesn't anyone with half a brain realize this by now? The left have been hell bent on rewriting history to fit their agenda for some time now. I would like to say it started in 1968, but the further I research history, I find it goes back further than that. I was in a English class and we had to describe what patriotism meant to us without looking up the definition. When I defined it as courageous acts that go beyond the call of duty, the liberal instructor then stated that someone that didn't share the same views of that Country could still be be patriotic. I kind of put him in his place when I asked him in front of the class when I stated this “give me an example of how someone with communist views can be a patriot of America”? He went into a ramble that sounded like one of Obama’s speeches without a teleprompter, uh, umm....you get the picture. But he did mutter the name Rosenbergs, which I quickly corrected him that they were tried as spies to the Soviet Government. I happened to do alot of research in this field before I took this class about McCarthy. But the point I am making here is that it is really sad the how these kids who don't know history are really susceptible to falling for the lies that the left will generate for their own agenda...HATING AMERICA.

[LS]

I did a 30 minute TV pilot/demo based on my book, A Patriot's History of the United States. The director and I took the Reagan chapter and made a vid called "Reagan: The Cold War and a Speech," hoping to sell the concept for a series based on the book to Hist. Channel or Discovery. So far, we haven't gotten ANYONE at any of these places to even look at it.

[70th Division]

I actually enjoyed their series on “Dog Fights” It was partially narrated by WWII pilots. That was cool.