Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Liberal Critics Trash Texas Series - 'History as Imagined By the Tea Party'

Liberal newspapers to the History Channel: Don't make Texas look heroic. The New York Times, the Washington Post, Britain's Guardian newspaper and others are all trashing a new miniseries on the Lone Star State. The Post lamented the fact that the five episodes fail to portray the "Alamo and the Texas Revolution [as] a land grab by white slaveowners." The Guardian complained that Texas Rising is "American history as reimagined by the Tea Party." Writer Brian Moylan huffed that the program is "almost sure to be a hit as it falls right within History Channel’s red-state wheelhouse." He suggested that the show will appeal "directly to the libertarian and conservative sensibilities of the macho-man demographic that tunes into the channel."...more 

Looks like I better make time to watch this...

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