[areafiftyone]

This columnist seems to like pomp and ceremony. When Cardinal O'Connell died she was fascinated by the ceremony of the Roman Catholic Church. She is right about students not knowing about American history. American Students fail miserably when it comes to their own history.

[Ratatoskr]

She compares a state funeral to Leno's monologue and decides we come up short in the gravitas department? Uh-huh.

[lawdude]

" I used to laugh at the segment, but now it's just painful — a display for all the world to see just how dumb we are in what is supposed to be the greatest nation on Earth. "

Please understand the people Leno talks to are New Yorkers. I used to live in upstate (Rochester) and found the locals, as a group, to be totally ignorant of anything outside of their own little worlds.

For example, my neighbor, a college educated lady of about 30, was convinced that New York had mountains higher than those in Arizona. She firmly believed that Arizona was a land of scalping, rampaging indians and sand dunes!

Hers was not an isolated view and I was amazed at how ignorant of the world the people were.

Sorry New Yawkas, but that's what I saw.

[Clemenza]

I agree about that it is disgusting that the US has no sense of its history, but this slavish admiration of a bunch of millionaires without jobs (those inbreds in the "royal" family) has got to stop in this country. The USA wisely decided to throw out the House of Hanover/Windsor in 1776, yet we still have idiots in this country who devote attention to those horse-faced leeches.

[KansasConservative1]

"In this country, we are too busy — and too lazy — to be bothered much with current events, let alone history."

No, we are too busy distorting our history, perverting our heros and founding fathers and basically undermining our historical foundations.

[Eva]

One of the communist goals, as stated in the congressional record of 1963, was to lighten the school curriculum, particularly regarding American History, and to emphasize the accomplishments of communist nations.

-Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations.
- Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture."
-Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of the teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

[glockmeister40]

We may be a bunch of ignorant rednecks, but we pulled england's fat out of the fire in WWII and, to a lesser extent, in WWI. Without us, they'd be speaking german (or russian) right now.