Keith Olbermann features historian who debunks Glenn Beck University’s American History Lies
Why is this important, you ask?
Glenn Beck is fond of warning his viewers that America is sliding towards some sort of mutant totalitarian amalgam of socialism and fascism (oxymoronically ignoring the fact that through most of the early 20th Century Nazis and Communists were at each others throats) but Beck seems to have learned a trick or two from German fascism and Soviet-style communism – both movements were fond of rewriting history. Why ? George Orwell, in his dystopian novel 1984, summed it up – “Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.”
David Barton’s lies, which have gone surprisingly mainstream (his revisionist interpretation of church-state separation has been featured on PBS and promoted by the Department of Defense), are concocted to buttress the inaccurate claim that America was founded as a Christian nation.
Read more here. While there may be different interpretations of the facts of history, you can’t just make shit up like David Barton does.
The Liars for Jesus website has a wealth of information you should check out as well.
