[Chewie84]

"I saw a profile on the movie "Alexander", in which Oliver Stone said something like "We're not historians; directors have 'License'." IOW, "We can take a historical event and twist it to read the way we need it to read.""

Amen to that. Spielberg has already proved to be an expert at that with the "Into the West" miniseries that came out last summer. The first half of it was pretty good, but after that, it was mainly just "Noble Indian lived in perfect peace and harmony until evil, smelly White Man came and destroyed everything for no reason."
In that miniseries, they glossed over the Indian attacks on settlers, they REALLY glossed over the battle of Little Big Horn and its aftermath (Even though a fairly major character in the series dies in Little Big Horn), yet they showed instances of white violence against Indians (i.e. the massacres at Sand Creek and Wounded Knee) with full gory detail. It's what liberal directors do best: Twist historical fact to suit whatever their agenda is.

[Mia T]

It's what liberal directors do best: Twist historical fact to suit whatever their agenda is.--Chewie84

Liberal historians, too....

Someone--was it Maupassant?--
once called history "that excitable and lying old lady."
The same can be said of historians.

Surely it can be said of Doris Kearns Goodwin,
the archetypical pharisaical historian,
not-so-latently clintonoid,
Lieberman-Paradigmatic
(i.e., clinton is an unfit president;
therefore clinton must remain president),
intellectually dishonest,
(habitually doing what the Arthur Schlesingers of this world do:
making history into the proof of their theories).

History Lesson
by Mia T
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