Never forget that the same History Channel responsible for dumping the $30 million dollar miniseries “The Kennedys” due to “accuracy concerns,” is and was behind an all-out effort to mainstream Howard Zinn, one of the most dishonest, anti-American historians in what is a long line of them. Using celebrities like Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and the usual Hollywood suspects, the History Channel aided and abetted a glowing, much-publicized two-hour special around the old liar not long before he passed on to receive whatever reward he had coming.
Our contributors did a marvelous job documenting Zinn’s profane legacy and now, thanks to Josh Brolin, we’re reminded that we’ve arrived at the one-year anniversary of Zinn’s death:
By: Josh Brolin
February 2, 2011It was a year this past January 27th that my friend, Howard Zinn, passed away in Santa Monica, California. …
The impact that Howard Zinn has had on the world of fair, conscientious people is profound, and the impact that he had as a friend will be forever felt by me and by all those that knew him with the deepest, most visceral tickle imaginable. He was mischievous, fun, childlike, and an appreciator of all things beautiful. My wife was so smitten with him and he knew, in that classy old-school way, how to sustain it. We had spoken about women and how we both felt that they are, ultimately, the keepers of all things good. He was a smart man, a gentle man, and a gentleman.
To admit: I still speak with him at times when I am alone. He brings that kind of solace. It’s not exclusive to crisis, no – it’s as a friend, as someone I could always have a laugh with, and as someone who could inspire with the simplest glance. He understood that to bring a smile to someone’s face was as important to our well being as was protesting the myriad issues that Howard did. His motive, how it resonated in me, was simply to carve a more loving life for our children and those to follow.
You are so missed dear Howard, but your smiles will always live on.
On background, someone told me Brolin’s original draft was written in longhand and that all the i’s were dotted with little hearts.
This is how the Ministry of Truth operates, though. You take a wickedly dishonest historian who happens to look kindly and grandfatherly, and turn him into some kind of folk hero. You use him to continue to rewrite the past so you can steal the present. You can never let a Howard Zinn truly die because he’s too useful to the Leftist cause. Better still, you blow him up into another Che Guevera, a chic commodity more attractive than truth and decency.
Think about it. We actually live in a world where a multi-millionaire movie star born in a stretch limo with NEPOTISM license plates can preach this shit and not be guffawed off the face of the earth.
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