As Barton sees it (along with many other wingnuts such as Ann Coulter), all you need to know is that the Democratic Party is responsible for everything from slavery to Jim Crow laws.

Here is a clip from a DVD Barton’s organization Wallbuilders is encouraging everyone to buy called Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black and White:

Here is a report People For the American Way compiled on Barton’s revisionist history.

H/T - Right Wing Watch

Some here have taken issue with me for even calling David Barton a “pseudo” historian, I guess because even that insult is an insult to pseudo historians everywhere, but I digress…

At any rate, David Barton was on Glenn Beck’s TV show, discussing the film Lincoln, even though he admits he didn’t see it because it had lots of bad words in it.

Let’s go to the tape:

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When video footage from 2010 of then-Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi calling Jews “the descendants of apes and pigs” surfaced two weeks ago, it properly focused international attention on the Brotherhood’s bigoted ideology. Morsi’s comments, after all, are just the tip of the iceberg for the Brotherhood, which has long argued that Egyptian Christians should be barred from running for president, and which recently pushed through a new constitution that denies religious rights to Baha’is and Shiites.

Given that the Muslim Brotherhood is now Egypt’s ruling party and Morsi is Egypt’s president, the international community must challenge the Brotherhood on its many hatreds to ensure that they are never acted upon. In this vein, Morsi’s visit to Germany on Wednesday represents an important opportunity to force him to recant perhaps the vilest example of the Brotherhood’s intolerance: its denial of the Holocaust.

Ironically, Morsi’s visit will come only days after International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which the German government first established in 1996 and the United Nations later recognized in 2005 to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Although the purpose of Holocaust Remembrance Day is to raise awareness of genocides to prevent them from being repeated, the Muslim Brotherhood used the occasion in 2010 to argue that the Holocaust is “the largest swindling operation in history.”

According to the Brotherhood, American intelligence agencies invented the Holocaust “myth” during World War II “to destroy the image of their German opponents” and “to justify a massive war of destruction against military and civilian facilities of the Axis powers.” In its revisionist history, the Brotherhood further accused “world Zionists and Israel” of using the Holocaust for “the political and financial blackmail of Germany and other Eastern European countries,” claiming that reparations “didn’t go to the Holocaust victims or their heirs, but to the Israeli war treasury in the greatest funding operation for the real Holocaust against the Palestinian people.” Finally, the Brotherhood invented statistics to argue that many fewer than six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. “The German census established that the number of German Jews ranged from 600-700,000 and half-a-million remained when the war ended,” according to the Brotherhood’s Holocaust history, “And this doesn’t include the Jews who died because of natural death, road accidents, and as victims of Allied air raids.”

More: Will Germany Confront Morsi’s Holocaust Denial? - Eric Trager - the Atlantic

Lack of familiarity was the culprit for the few accidents there were during that time:

Explaining that he began teaching his own kids how to use guns at the age of four, Barton said that people only want to get rid of guns because they are afraid of them, which can be attributed to the fact that they don’t know how to use them.

As such, if everyone had a gun and was taught how to use it from childhood, there would never be any firearm incidents or accidents, just like during the founding era

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I have searched and in the founding era I think I’ve only ever found two gun accidents and everybody was hauling guns back then; you took your guns to church, you were required by state law in some states to take your guns to church.  We didn’t have accidents because everyone was familiar with how to use them.  It’s not being familiar that makes is dangerous.

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TPM has the full story, some info below

The firings of Pizzato and Howland resulted in the resignation of all non-Commission members of the station’s fundraising team — including one, Joe Mays, who had served for 20 years — as well as five of the seven members on the Board of Directors. And it was one of the former board members — the source remains unnamed — who claimed that the commission had attempted to ‘force Pizzato to air Christian-themed programming by … Barton.’

(It should be noted that the firings, lawsuit, and resignations come amidst some of the steepest cuts in public television funding yet seen across the state. Between 2008-11, the station lost 50 percent of its state funding, forcing it to shutter its Montgomery bureau and lay off 19 members of its staff.)

The programming in question, which was being considered for inclusion on APT at the time of the firings, was the ‘American Heritage Series,’ a set of documentaries examining the ‘new version of history [that] has assaulted the moral and spiritual fiber of our nation.’ The videos are produced by WallBuilders, an organization founded and directed by Barton.

According to Howland, Pizzato and his staff shared ‘grave concerns’ over airing Barton’s material, but members of the AETC maintain that Pizzato’s views on the matter played no role in his firing.

“And don’t think Oh, this is just something that happens in the Deep South.”

With the Bradlee Dean debacle still fresh in our minds, Sean Faircloth gives a very compelling speech on the subject of religious bullying of children, and how it is aided by the government and taxpayer dollars.

It is just a little over half an hour, but well worth watching if you have the time.

Glenn Beck is predictably freaking out over a new exhibit at the Smithsonian that looks at race and racism in the United States through “biological, cultural, and historical points of view.” On his radio show today, Beck specifically attacked a five-minute video featured in an exhibit named “RACE: Are we so different?” for pointing out that Thomas Jefferson was a “slave-holder” when he penned the Declaration of Independence. Beck said he was angered not because “they said that Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner, ‘cause it’s technically true,” but because owning slaves was “not the sum total of his work.”

It’s “technically true” that Jefferson owned slaves? Who gave Beck this line? Michele Bachmann?

However, the RACE Project “seeks to expand current thinking about race and human variation and encourage an integrative and comprehensive view of this complex topic.” The project hopes to initiate conversations in order to “challenge how we think about” race and to combat “discrimination and oppression” in American society. As the narrator of the video explains, the exhibit was created “to share the complicated story of race, to unravel fiction from fact, and to encourage meaningful discussions about race in schools, in the workplace, within families and communities.”

Media Matters

RACE Project

Science Museum of Minnesota

Maine Tea Party Gov. Paul LePage (R) has ordered the removal of a 36-foot mural depicting Maine’s labor history from the lobby of the state’s Department of Labor offices, claiming they received “some complaints” from business owners. The Governor has also directed that eight conference rooms named after labor leaders — including Cesar Chavez — be renamed “after mountains, counties or something.”

The Ministry of Truth rates this doubleplusgood.

While the state’s AFL-CIO called the removal “mean-spirited”, a spokesman for the governor has said that the removal was not meant to “antagonize” labor, but rather to correct the office’s “one-sided decor.” In an e-mail to Labor Department employees, acting Chief Laura Boyett sought to explain the decision:

We have received feedback that the administration building is not perceived as equally receptive to both businesses and workers – primarily because of the nature of the mural in the lobby and the names of our conference rooms. Whether or not the perception is valid is not really at issue and therefore, not open to debate. If either of our two constituencies perceives that they are not welcome in our administration building and this translates to a belief that their needs will not be heard or met by this department, then it presents a barrier to achieving our mission.

Think Progress

Ah yes. So the attempt to demean the workers of this country reaches a new stage.

Huckabee also said that when he grew up (in the town Hope, Ark., in the late 1950s and 1960s), folks were more open about their faith.

“We were not ashamed of Judeo-Christian heritage,” he said. “And schools and the community did everything they could to support it.”

When he arrived at the third topic of his speech, Huckabee aligned values with the notion of being “created equal,” as is noted in the Declaration of Independence. He said that idea did not exist at the time of the founding of the United States

In something of a tongue-twister, Huckabee said the U.S. “was created to be an exceptional exception to that notion of exceptionalism” that existed at the time.

He said that the kind of “biblical worldview” taught at SCS was in the direction of unmitigated equality.

“I’d love the world to be lead by people who have a biblical worldview,” he said.

“Wouldn’t it be an exciting thing to have leaders who believe all of us are equal?” he later asked.

Huckabee said part of such a worldview as is taught at Statesville Christian is the idea of absolutism that rejects moral objectivism and stipulates that some things “are always right” and others “are always wrong.”

Statesville.com

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Recy Taylor: A Symbol of Jim Crow’s Forgotten Horror

After her brutal gang rape, Recy Taylor became a global symbol of American injustice and helped inspire the civil rights movement. So why has nobody heard of her today?

It’s curious, to say the least, that Taylor’s name is not mentioned in history books. While most analyses of circumstances that inspired the civil rights movement focus on black men — being lynched or railroaded into jail, or facing down segregationists — the stories of countless black women like Recy Taylor, who were raped by white men during the same era, have gone understated, if not overlooked entirely.

Nearly 70 years later, having such a brutal attack swept under the rug is still a source of pain for a surviving victim.

“Wasn’t nothing done about it,” Taylor, now 91, told The Root in a phone interview from her Florida home. “The sheriff never even said he was sorry it happened. I think more people should know about it … but ain’t nobody [in Abbeville] saying nothing.”

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Two days later, he remembers, someone threw a firebomb at the home of Taylor, her husband and their 3-year-old daughter. “After that, they moved in with us,” said Corbitt. “At night, my father would sit in a tree and guard the house with a shotgun.”

The following month, in a farce of a grand jury trial at which none of the assailants even showed up, an all-white, all-male jury elected not to indict.

The family didn’t know it back then, but Parks, dispatched by the Montgomery NAACP to investigate the case, was setting the gears in motion for a far-reaching campaign. “Miss Parks told me to go with her to Montgomery until things were clear,” said Taylor, who stayed for three months in a rooming house, arranged for by Parks, before returning home. “She was trying to get something done. I’m not sure what. I was young and didn’t know nothing about law and stuff like that.”

Parks saw an opportunity to hold up Taylor’s story as a national example of Southern injustice. She partnered with other progressive groups — including the now mostly forgotten Southern Negro Youth Congress, the defense team of the Scottsboro Boys, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and other labor organizers, as well as communist networks — to form the Alabama Committee for Equal Justice for Mrs. Recy Taylor. The coalition became a national movement that the Chicago Defender called “the strongest campaign for equal justice to be seen in a decade,” and daily stories on the case were printed in newspapers across the nation, from Baltimore to Los Angeles.

But not in the tiny town of Abbeville, where Taylor’s family was largely unaware of the proceedings. Corbitt had quite a shock, years later, as a soldier stationed in Germany. “A German guy asked me where I was from, and when I told him Alabama, he started to tell a story he knew about that happened there,” he said. “He was talking about my sister.”