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...
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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