tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708139263643046536.post728373066032353718..comments2024-03-28T14:59:42.168-04:00Comments on Kresta In The Afternoon: "America: The Story of Us" Review it for me!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708139263643046536.post-39594624271474685612010-05-29T00:22:23.365-04:002010-05-29T00:22:23.365-04:00This series is horrible. For the most part, it foc...This series is horrible. For the most part, it focuses on unimportant events. Furthermore, they spend a half hour talking about buffalo. How about natural rights, Roman origin of constitutional republicanism, the gilded age, the trusts, progressives, expansion of executive power, welfare state, massive debt, hundreds of military bases around the world, and all of the other SIGNIFICANT issues impacting this country? This is nothing more than an attempt to indoctrinate people with a version of history that suits the needs of the elite. Besides that, it is a massive Bank of America ad. Why else would they offer it free to all schools? Just more nonsense from the establishment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708139263643046536.post-634021903696880782010-05-17T01:31:10.157-04:002010-05-17T01:31:10.157-04:00Lies are often most loudly proclaimed through the ...Lies are often most loudly proclaimed through the use of silence or ignor-ance = ignoring key elements of the story. I too had hoped for a good, well-balanced program overviewing the history of America. Instead I have been disappointed by the fact that the script neglects to tell the most important element to the American story--the impact and influence of the Christian faith. So far I think I maybe saw a shallow passing reference to Cotton Mather and then a somewhat degrading mention of the evangelist Billy Sunday, who is portrated as a preacher primarily against alcohol. They've missed the biggest part of the American story, and in so doing have told a huge lie. Very disappointed. They did not mention such important events as the Great Awakening. How do you accurately tell the American story without telling that story. And no mention of the "Black Regiment", the ministers who preached and taught the ideas that led to the Revolutionary War. King George after all referred to the American Revolutionary War as "The Scottish Presbyterian Rebellion." No mention of that either. Sad. Revisionist History to be sure. Wasn't it Lenin or maybe Marx who said that to conquer a nation all you must do is seperate one generation of that nation from their past, then insert the version you want them to have and you have effectively conquered them. This series presents only a Marxist, materialistic, economic view of American history, which is not the whole story by a long ways. Sad.The Deansterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02649660999968002214noreply@blogger.com