Zinn’s Ahistorical Anti-American Movie Cheers on Community Organizers

David Horowitz's NewsRealblog ^ | 14 December, 2009 | Matthew Vadum

[Michael van der Galien]

Howard Zinn (left) with the very serious-looking actor Viggo Mortensen

The small-screen version of Marxist historian Howard Zinn’s leftward-slanted history of America, The People Speak, aired Sunday night on the History Channel.

The film, based on Zinn’s influential book, A People’s History of the United States, is chock full of useful idiot celebrities including Matt Damon, Marisa Tomei, Morgan Freeman, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Penn, Bruce Springsteen, and its executive producer Josh Brolin, all parroting the radical platitudes written for them.

One scene in the shlockumentary tells the story of an organizer-agitator who rallied tenants against landlords during the Great Depression. In the current recession, “We’ve seen examples of people rebelling,” said Zinn.

“We’ve seen tenants rebelling against foreclosures. This is the kind of thing that happened in a much larger scale in the 1930s.”

Added Zinn, “If this spreads — the idea of fighting foreclosures, the idea of workers going on strike — it’s possible this can lead into a larger movement for economic justice.”

This is what the radical community organizers of ACORN do. ACORN is about causing upheaval that will ignite social change. The group cares little about abstractions about justice: it is focused on revolution.

Through its support for the financial affirmative action program known as the Community Reinvestment Act, ACORN has played a major role in the subprime mortgage mess that has undermined Americans’ support for free market problem-solving and set off a worldwide chain of financial troubles. It is also implicated in vote fraud schemes from coast to coast. ACORN aims to give America change that socialists can believe in – by any means necessary.

And now Congress is poised to begin funding the advocacy group-cum-organized crime syndicate again.

[Buckeye McFrog]

for anyone out there who is unfamiliar with Prof. Zinn, his 1980 book A People’s History of the United States is the Rosetta Stone for all of the Hate America crowd. It was no doubt a key influence in young Barry Obama’s life. You cannot find any sort of public event where Bill Ayers or Michael Moore is appearing where Prof. Zinn is not close behind.

[LifeComesFirst]

The free market is the most just economic system there is: people are rewarded based on what things of value they contribute to society, and nobody is given undue rewards. Zinn’s preferred economic system would be where a government planner decides who gets what, based on the planner’s vision of society—not on what people actually deserve or don’t deserve.

[Senator John Blutarski]

Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky: the two principal sources of intellectual pollution along the banks of the Charles River.

[xone]

The same clown pushing the Just War theory.

[Landru]

One look at the celebutards that were to be featured in this baloney was enough to send me reeling to the bathroom to gag my guts out.

Needless to say we skipped it, as ratings for the Hitler Channel's abomination shall reveal. LOL

[SnakeDoctor]

Is Howard Zinn still alive? That guy looked like a well-used catcher’s mitt a decade ago.

SnakeDoc

[Radagast the Fool]

For those who may not know, Zinn’s “People’s History of the United States” includes letters written by people who were present at various historical events.

Yeah, there is some interesting material in the book, but the choices are highly selective, to say the least.

For example, Zinn includes a huge section on the Hiroshima Maidens, but presents no letters written by survivors of the Bataan Death March, or other atrocities perpetrated by the Japanese in WWII. The implication is that the atomic bombs were dropped on the poor little innocent Japanese for no reason at all.

This book is currently being used in high schools all over the country, as THE primary American History textbook. Little wonder, then that high school students are growing up with an inaccurate and agenda-driven view of their country’s history.

It’s ultimately just more of the “we need to destroy those rich, white American bigots” crap, being produced by, guess-what, rich, white American bigots.

What a waste of time, to say the least!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Is Howard Zinn still alive? That guy looked like a well-used catcher’s mitt a decade ago.

He used to get around that by standing next to Studs Terkel at all speaking engagements. That option is no longer available to him.

[Senator John Blutarski]

Radagast the Fool wrote: “Zinn’s “People’s History of the United States” ... is currently being used in high schools all over the country, as THE primary American History textbook.”

..... Are you JOKING ?!?!?!?

[a fool in paradise]

Any school that permits this Marxist indoctrination should allow for time to read the names of the 100,000,000 people killed under Communism in the 20th Century.

[Radagast the Fool]

I wish I were joking.
This alleged “textbook” is being used as THE primary American History textbook in many public high schools around the country.