Rewriting History

As someone who's been taking a post-reconstruction history course this semester, I must register my protest at the right wing nutjobs' re-writing of history these days. Most recent example here. Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and others like them don't like the way history actually happened. So they do to those in the past what they do to those in the present. They create a reality and ask you to step inside. I'm not only offended by this, I'm outraged. The tactic goes like this: Introduce a side of history that people have never heard that bolsters their case for some fear or hatred message of the day. Then, when someone points out that there is zero evidence that supports it, they say, "Yeah, but that's because there was a conspiracy by the liberal media of that time to erase the REAL story from the history books and write what they wanted us to believe."

BULLSHIT! If there's one thing I've learned in this class, it's that historians take GREAT pride in trying to capture history accurately. They research their theses and present evidence to back it up. They don't always agree completely, but rarely if ever do they all entirely get it wrong. I'm tired of being told I'm unAmerican by these rating seeking tools who do FAR more damage to America by their fictitious so-called history lessons and I hope that when history is written about them, it will accurately depict them as the con-men of the media that they are.