[Pharmboy]

He never had an affair with Sally Fairfax...he had a crush on her when he was teenager, and always repsected and loved her. We have absolutely NO evidence that he was inappropriate with her.

It was only a matter of time before you pieces of sh*t at NBC attacked one of the greatest men of all time.

[Pharmboy]

General Washington revisionism ping to the list...

The RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington ping list...

[jaz.357]

Doesn't matter.

Its the seriousness of the charge!

[the OlLine Rebel]

“had an adulterous affair with his best friend’s wife.”

What a bunch of BS.

Why isn’t the wonderful (albeit still trying to push the Fairfax angle a bit) 1984 Barry Bostwick bio available even just to play on TV?

They don’t need another. They broke the mold putting Bostwick in there.

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

It has been done before, and very well, too.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086720/

[cripplecreek]

I’m sure they’ll have him abusing Billy Lee as well.

[Signalman]

with his supposed mouthful of wooden teeth,

This is a myth.

Washington never had wooden teeth. The dentures he wore were made, generally, from ivory and/or gold.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Fiction. Just a cheap TV ripoff of “Abraham Lincoln the Vampire Hunter”.

[jessduntno]

[Slyfox]

The first time I went to Mount Vernon and stood by George Washington's grave I burst into tears. I have no idea why.

You can bet that these yokels are just going to string together a number of rumors-slash-liberal ideas and call it history.

I really hate it when they use someone like George Washington as a prop.

[FerociousRabbit]

I can’t wait for the NBC version to finally tell the truth about Washington. The history books cover up the fact that he was actually a black homosexual Marxist.

I really hope I don’t need the /s/ here.

[oldplayer]

This is pure bull. NBC just couldn’t possibly bring themselves to base a series on the best respected academic work on Washington: James Thomas Flexner’s “Washington, the Indispensable Man.”

Flexner shows him as a man that was respected and loved by all, despite human shortcomings that he readily admitted himself.

NBC would rather have a straw man that they could contrast against their man, Ubama.

Oldplayer

[miss marmelstein]

Ugh! Like Sarah Palin, my favorite Founding Father. But he’s apparently going to be portrayed as Bubba the First.

[RightOnline]

Check out Glenn Beck’s take on this (no secret he’s a HUGE G. Washington fan). He eviscerated NBC over this. I mean....it was ugly, and absolutely spot-on. Good on ‘im.

[DemforBush]

Oh goodness, I can only imagine what claptrap we will see from NBC. Probably something about the British valuing profit over the common good or something like that.

[Jacquerie]

In this post-constitutional America, I suppose it makes sense for the Left to finish off George Washington.

If the man who, from the beginning in 1765 risked his property and his neck, commanded the Continental Armies, gave us the Constitution, served two Presidential terms without pay . . . can be so easily vilified and destroyed in popular culture, it means there is little chance to restore our once republic.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Bttt

[YHAOS]

If NBC doesn't show GW in his killing vampires days, I ain't watchin'.
(Oh . . . wait . . . I don't watch NBC)

[NoLibZone]

They will say he was a gay, muslim.