"America, The History of Us"

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http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Cultur...s-gives-a-vivid-docudrama-sheen-to-US-history

“America: The Story of Us” debuts with a lead-in from no less a figure than President Obama, extolling the virtues that make up the American character and encouraging Americans to help shape the nation’s future through understanding a shared past.

. But clearly the producers know their target market – they plan to distribute the DVD to “every school and accredited college” in the United States and hope to develop a curriculum for teachers in partnership with the Library of Congress.

Whether or not the country’s teachers really need more civics class textbook materials based on a television show remains to be seen.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/23/AR2010042301898.html

Other celebrities who pop up and quickly pop down again include Meryl Streep, Michael Douglas, Sheryl Crow, Colin Powell, Donald Trump, Buzz Aldrin, Martha Stewart, Al Sharpton (at his most dignified), current New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, current NBC News anchor Brian Williams and previous NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw.

Maybe everything that happens changes the course of something. Or maybe nothing that happens changes the course of anything. Simply saying "everything changed forever" is really a substitute for thinking, not an example of it, but then "America: The Story of Us" is basically a poor excuse for a documentary -- even if it succeeds on the superficial level of, say, a lava lamp.

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Knowing the History Channel, as the Hysterical Channel, for its' blatantly Partisan presentations, I am somewhat less than entusiastic about the upcoming series.

We shall see.

Amicus
 
http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Cultur...s-gives-a-vivid-docudrama-sheen-to-US-history



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/23/AR2010042301898.html



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Knowing the History Channel, as the Hysterical Channel, for its' blatantly Partisan presentations, I am somewhat less than entusiastic about the upcoming series.

We shall see.

Amicus

For the WaPo to diss it, it can't be all bad, unless it doesn't go far enough in chronicling all the injustices in American history to suit them. ;)
 
Interesting first two episodes...if anyone watched it....at first blush, I would guess the Tea Party Patriots might gain some inspiration from the birth of a nation.

Amicus
 
Didn't President Obama kick off the first night of the special? Sounded like he supported it...
 
Interesting first two episodes...if anyone watched it....at first blush, I would guess the Tea Party Patriots might gain some inspiration from the birth of a nation.

Amicus

The tea party 'patriots' will gain the same racist inspiration that infused the original 'birth of a nation' by Griffiths......just as you did.....but it's still the same old tired bullshit that it's always been......
Yer showing yer racist ass now, little man.....
 
Didn't President Obama kick off the first night of the special? Sounded like he supported it...


Yo Alt/Bitch/Boy

The tea party 'patriots' will gain the same racist inspiration that infused the original 'birth of a nation' by Griffiths......just as you did.....but it's still the same old tired bullshit that it's always been......
Yer showing yer racist ass now, little man.....
 
http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Cultur...s-gives-a-vivid-docudrama-sheen-to-US-history



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/23/AR2010042301898.html



~~~

Knowing the History Channel, as the Hysterical Channel, for its' blatantly Partisan presentations, I am somewhat less than entusiastic about the upcoming series.

We shall see.

Amicus

You only see what ya wanna see: Hitlers goosesteppers marching thru Portland.....Yer old road is rapidly aging.....so get outta the new world if you can't lend a hand....
Cos the times
they are a'changing........................
 
Didn't President Obama kick off the first night of the special? Sounded like he supported it...

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Yes, he introduced both parts one and two...I muted the television set. Just as I cannot stand Slick Willy's voice or the whining Jimmy Carter, I mute them too.:)

Amicus
 
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Yes, he introduced both parts one and two...I muted the television set. Just as I cannot stand Slick Willy's voice or the whining Jimmy Carter, I mute them to.:)

Amicus

The Times They Are A-Changin' lyrics

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.
 
Here is another 'preview' of the extravaganza that might tickle a few...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/04/the_history_channel_presents_a.html

Ami

Hahaha...I knew there would be something in the production for someone to bitch about...'The Story Of (Some) Of Us' indeed...I wonder where the PC watchdogs were when History was putting this documentary together? :rolleyes:

Then there was the snipe at Sean and Ann of course, like they're not fit to be a part of this series, but then this squawk is from National Peoples Radio...an unbiased source if there ever was one...NOT! ;)
 
Every person, whether he knows it or not, is a philosopher. Each of us necessarily develops a theory of how the world works. This theory is expressed as a set of axioms. The axioms are self-evident ideas that are recognized and accepted by everybody in sight. The axioms define human nature, the content of history, the workings of economics, the purpose of government, the goals of life. Today’s American population operates according to axioms which are false, oligarchical – and suicidal. A dictatorship or a monarchy can get by with slaves or subjects, but a republic demands educated and capable citizens. Without citizens, a republic cannot survive. The most dangerous force in American life today is public opinion itself. In today’s crisis, public opinion rejects out of hand all the urgent measures needed to promote national survival. This public opinion is stupefied by television and spectator sports and crassly manipulated by the news media. This depraved public opinion reflects not so much the admitted failure of political leadership as the degradation of the intellectual life of the average citizen. In the face of this kind of public opinion, world civilization as we have known it cannot long survive.

- Webster Tarlpey

http://tarpley.net/online-books/
 
The History Channel's main income is from reality shows now. Its most popular show is probably Monster Quest, where they seek out a different guise of Bigfoot or some from of dinosaur every other episode. Nostradamus 2012, knights templar, bible code/Armageddon nonsense is the non-reality programming.

I'd rather History Channel turned into A People's History Channel, did the Howard Zinn worker's interpretation of history. We need more revolutionary socialists and anarchists on the history channel as opposed to none.
 
The History Channel's main income is from reality shows now. Its most popular show is probably Monster Quest, where they seek out a different guise of Bigfoot or some from of dinosaur every other episode. Nostradamus 2012, knights templar, bible code/Armageddon nonsense is the non-reality programming.

I'd rather History Channel turned into A People's History Channel, did the Howard Zinn worker's interpretation of history. We need more revolutionary socialists and anarchists on the history channel as opposed to none.

So when will you be hosting a show....I'm sure you'd do well among the rest of nonsense and crap on TV.
 
The History Channel's main income is from reality shows now. Its most popular show is probably Monster Quest, where they seek out a different guise of Bigfoot or some from of dinosaur every other episode. Nostradamus 2012, knights templar, bible code/Armageddon nonsense is the non-reality programming.

I'd rather History Channel turned into A People's History Channel, did the Howard Zinn worker's interpretation of history. We need more revolutionary socialists and anarchists on the history channel as opposed to none.

Before the Renaissance started about 1400, there was a discouraging sameness in most known forms of human society. Some were better, some were worse, but they were generally two-class systems: ruling elite and mass. The mass made up 95% of the population. They were peasants, serfs, and slaves, almost always laboring on the land, almost always illiterate and benighted. Their lives were nasty, brutish, and short. Over these peasants and serfs commanded a feudal aristocracy. Monarchy is bad enough, but most of the pre-Renaissance societies were something worse: they were small ruling classes called oligarchies. The aristocrats had military retainers, priests, scribes, and lackeys, making up at most 5% of the population. Under these conditions, world population potential was measured in the hundreds of millions, and even these were decimated by frequent plagues and famines.

- Tarpley
 
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