Horowitz on Zinn on NPR

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[Michael van der Galien]

Mr.DAVID HOROWITZ (Author): There is absolutely nothing in Howard Zinn’s intellectual output that is worthy of any kind of respect.

KEYES: Conservative pundit and author David Horowitz is among critics who fiercely disagree with Zinn’s politics. Horowitz calls “A People’s History of the United States” a travesty.

More at NewsRealblog (where you can also listen to the audio).

[ken21]

i remember happening upon one of zinn’s so-called american history books about 1990.

i read the lies with disbelief and tore the book up and trashed it.

[therut]

Chrissy Matthews praised the man yesterday. He has really gone off the deep end.

[MrB]

I’m going to ruin your day.

Zinn’s “People’s History” is now pretty much THE standard history book in major universities.

Don’t send your kids to these places.

[Buckeye McFrog]

my personal ranking of the 3 most destructive texts of the Modern Era:

1) The Communist Maninfesto by Karl Marx

2) Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky

3) People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

[Para-Ord.45]

Zinn was as Satanic and evil as they come. I have NO DOUBT God has annihilated his soul in the same manner a smoker grinds a smoked cigarette into an ash tray.

Zinn back in 2006,

” On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.
Is not nationalism — that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder — one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred? “

The topper to this evil comes word that Matt Damon and Ben Afflek will produce a 10-hour miniseries for Fox based on Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States !!!

Remind me of characters out of Gulag Archipelago who end up in re-education camps and come out as reformed comrades parroting the party line verbatim.

[LS]

Not at the U. of Dayton, where some of us use “A Patriot’s History of the U.S.”

[pogo101]

Go UD! Go Flyers!

/grewupinCenterville

[loveliberty2]

Reading some of the articles on the Horowitz site about Zinn's distorted version of the history of Americans dealing with the Great Depression reminded me of another recent example of such distortion. Powerful union leaders and power-grasping politicians did not cause America's great progress and prosperity. It was a free "People" and their determination and hard work

A recently self-imploded Far Left politician named John Edwards grew up in a wonderful rural small town, surrounded by small farms, caring communities, and proud citizens whose families had worked in a textile industry whose profitable operations had enabled them to educate their children, build homes, tithe to their numerous churches, and live a good life.

Edwards' recently-disclosed hypocrisy about personal matters is only indicative of his larger hypocrisy about poverty, its causes, potential solutions, and his willingness to denigrate the community and parents who made it possible for him to attend college and graduate law school. The latter hypocrisy enable him to attract the support of Far Left radicals, union leaders, and people like Zinn.

His home county also is home to Pinehurst and Southern Pines, NC, a golfing mecca and place where the wealthy retire, and have done so since the early 1900's. His own community in that county has excellent schools, including his own high school, which produce educators, physicians, attorneys, bankers, church and civic leaders--even an astronaut. His father was a manager in a thriving textile industry, not one of the so-called "millworkers" with lint in the hair which he portrayed in one of his early speeches. His mother was a postmistress and shop owner.

Yet, Edwards was willing to sacrifice the great dignity of that community in order to cast his lot with the unions and Democratic leadership to advance his own agenda. His political rhetoric cast that community, the industry which had brought progress and prosperity to the entire region, and the people who lived there in an unfavorable light--all for the purpose of advancing a Far Left agenda which favored big union and big government power.

Like Zinn, he ignored the realities of the tremendous growth of his region, the standard of living his own family had enjoyed, and promoted a big government solution which would rob the people of their personal earnings in order to advance a "cause" which is anathema to the Founders' philosophy of freedom and the U. S. Constitution's protections for individual liberty.

He would have been better off studying Adam Smith if he truly wanted to "help" the poor. Smith, the moral philosopher, knew that the real question is "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the wealth of Nations," not a phony center for studying and discussing "poverty."

Ideas have consequences.

[Stoat]

From the linked page:

UPDATE: David Horowitz’s comments to NPR were edited into soundbites. They cut out his main point which was this:

David Horowitz: The important part of my commentary that they cut was that this man was a Stalinist and a lifelong supporter of America’s enemies up to and including the Islamic terrorists.

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It's so nice to be continually reminded of how even-handed and nonpartisan NPR is....when they need a few extra seconds of airtime so that they can air another installment of "the noble Mexican farmworker's valiant struggle against the evil American Capitalist Corporations" completely uncut, it's great to know that they edit a completely inconsequential point out of David Horowitz's interview, such as how Zinn " was a Stalinist and a lifelong supporter of America’s enemies up to and including the Islamic terrorists." No big deal...that doesn't affect the substance of the points he was making at all.

(hopefully I don't need to add a "sarcasm" tag here.....)