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Boycott the History Channel's Advertisers
Coach Is Right ^ | 12/20/10 | Bruce Karlson

Posted on 12/20/2010 8:07:19 AM PST by brucek43

Recently the History Channel proved that it is as snarky as those of who watch it thought.

To wit: the Georgia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) wanted to run some ads on the History Channel. These ads pointed out the legal basis for secession and, quite accurately, that the North invaded the newly configured Confederacy (Manassas/Bull Run is, after all, in Virginia). Another pointed out that Northern interests essentially ran the Federal government, frequently to the advantage Northern supporters at the expense of the South. The most accurate ad of all simply stated that ANY STATE had the right to remove itself from the Union. It is fair to opine that, if our Founders had put an ominous clause in the Constitution forbidding an exit, our nation would have started out with many fewer states…including Virginia,... … Continue Reading:Boycott the History Channel’s Advertisers!!

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antiamerican; boycott; confederacy; hisrorychannel; historychannel; itsaboutslaverydummy; kukluxklan; partyofsecession; partyofslavery; proslaveryfreepers; secession; treason; whitehoodscaucus; whitesupremacists
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To: wbill
The new carrier is going to eat Time Warner Cable's lunch.
I have TWC and I'm almost ready to pull the plug too. My alternatives are Direct TV and DISH, which aren't much better.
Who's your new carrier?
61 posted on 12/20/2010 9:32:45 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Uncle Ike

Oh, ok. There is some of that. However, there is also the 2 hour special “Little Ice Age” that says that weather changes are not GW but just natural global weather patterns.


62 posted on 12/20/2010 9:34:47 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: brucek43
...the North invaded the newly configured Confederacy (Manassas/Bull Run is, after all, in Virginia).

Hmmm... was that before or after Fort Sumter?

63 posted on 12/20/2010 9:37:31 AM PST by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: April Lexington
Agreed. Once you get past the slavery issue, the South had it right.

Ah, yes. "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?"

64 posted on 12/20/2010 9:46:05 AM PST by r9etb
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To: April Lexington
Once you get past the slavery issue, the South had it right.

Once you get past the slavery issue, the Lost Cause revisionists have won.

65 posted on 12/20/2010 9:48:20 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Daveinyork
WTF does Ice road Truckers and Axe Men have to do with history?

About as much as Pickers and Pawn Stars do.

66 posted on 12/20/2010 9:50:42 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: KC_Conspirator

> “Not withstanding, some of the shows that do air on the History Channel can be revisionist.”

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Right, and we cannot tolerate deviance from politically ordained history. Who knows what might happen; freedom might even break out all over.


67 posted on 12/20/2010 9:55:30 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: SZonian

Crap, I don’t recall the name of the show, but was that the same one that was giving the German perspective on the “appeal” Hitler had?

I caught part of one this week that had interviews of Germans giving their version of events at the time indicating why Germans followed the Nazis as willfully as they did.


The documentary “The World at War” has two episodes that chronicle the war from start to end entierly from the German perspective. Gives a good insight into how an entire nation of rational people could go down a road that is (in retrospect) insane.


68 posted on 12/20/2010 10:00:22 AM PST by Brookhaven (Moderates = non-thinkers)
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To: brucek43
It is fair to opine that, if our Founders had put an ominous clause in the Constitution forbidding an exit, our nation would have started out with many fewer states…including Virginia,...

If our children were taught real history, there would have already been a secession, long ago.

69 posted on 12/20/2010 10:02:44 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Brookhaven
Of all the problems facing the country today, is the question of whether or not states have the right to succeed from the Union at the top of the priority list?

Considering where we are heading, I would say it is becoming the last viable option.

70 posted on 12/20/2010 10:04:15 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: brucek43

Seriously, with all of the History channel’s defamations of Christianity and Jesus, you get ticked off because they refused to ran advertisements for the Confederacy’s secession? Interesting to know where your priorities.


71 posted on 12/20/2010 10:07:42 AM PST by dangus
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To: cripplecreek; Brookhaven

Thanks for the info.

You’re correct CC, I could of used a more appropriate word vs. “appeal”. That was the first one that sprang to mind.

I look at 0haha and what he’s been doing and the comparisons between him and what Hitler did are striking.


72 posted on 12/20/2010 10:13:05 AM PST by SZonian (July 27, 2010. Life begins anew.)
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To: brucek43; All
People, get a grip. It's TV, just what did you expect, Biblical truth and reasoning?
73 posted on 12/20/2010 10:14:38 AM PST by SouthTexas (WE are the Wave)
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To: Raymann
I believe the Georgia group has every right to say whatever they want, and the History Channel has every right to accept whatever advertising they want. However, that which is advertised via Government promotions ("Public Service Announcements"), etc., rightfully should likewise be able to be REFUSED, to dismantle the State Run Media propoganda machine.

Your interpretation of History may be different than others, by the way. That which you BELIEVE to be accurate, is based on someone's research and/or statements, as is ALL History (unless one were present).I don't believe you were present during the Civil War, and your "facts" are those recorded or "produced" by someone else. That's true of all History....it's passed on and filtered.

74 posted on 12/20/2010 10:21:17 AM PST by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: traditional1

So what you’re saying is “everything is relative”? How progressive a thinker you must be!


75 posted on 12/20/2010 10:34:31 AM PST by rockrr ("I said that I was scared of you!" - pokie the pretend cowboy)
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To: stuartcr

Not all HC content is the same, for example, there is some subject matter that they will show in Canada but not here.

The HC doesn’t always provide a complete historical picture and sometimes distorts it.


76 posted on 12/20/2010 10:44:50 AM PST by montyspython
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To: brucek43
Do blogpimps need to excerpt their own blogs?
77 posted on 12/20/2010 11:02:58 AM PST by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: montyspython

It’s just entertainment.


78 posted on 12/20/2010 11:06:43 AM PST by stuartcr (When politicians politicize issues, aren't they just doing their job?)
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To: r9etb
Ah, yes. "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?"

Aw, heck... they was jest sore losers is all...

79 posted on 12/20/2010 11:16:08 AM PST by April Lexington (Study the Constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: traditional1
You are quite correct about what History is.

We have massive amounts of facts about the WBTS, most of them unchallenged. But a bunch of facts,even when compiled, do not constitute History.

History is important facts about the past, assembled and explained in such a way as to show what they mean.

Which facts you consider important and what they mean are be definition matters of opinion. Which does not mean that some opinions are not better than others.

Accurate history should include discussion of why certain facts were included rather than others, and why the historian reached his conclusion as to what those facts mean.

Unfortunately, this seldom happens. The writing of most "histories" starts off with the historian having a more or less fixed view of the Meaning of the period, then selecting the Facts that will support that view. Which is of course, IMO quite backwards.

We should try to understand the past for what it may be able to teach us about the present and future. When we manipulate the story of the past to try to impose our view of what the present and future should be, we defeat the purpose of history. Many of the posts on these Civil War threads illustrate this point perfectly.

80 posted on 12/20/2010 11:19:52 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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