LEARN OUR HISTORY

Former preacher, Arkansas governor and, since 2008, Fox tv host and radio personality Mike Huckabee may not want to give up his entertainer celebrity status for the unholy grind of campaigning for President — he said all those around him encouraged him to make the run but the Almighty didn’t give him a sign — so he’s getting into animated cartoons. He’s launched a new educational company called Learn Our History, saith foxnews.com, “that aims to get kids excited about studying the nation's past. The cartoon “follows the adventures of the Time Travel Academy, a group of young friends who use a homemade time machine to travel back in time to relive America's history.”

Said Huckabee: “America's youth aren't excited about our past because they're being taught history in a way that minimizes what has made America a beacon of hope around the world for over 200 years. It's impossible to overestimate the importance of giving our children a historically accurate and unbiased education that allows kids today to enjoy and understand our history, and build their pride in our great nation.”

The series will doubtless be as accurate and unbiased as any Grandstanding Obstructionist Pachyderm can be. The first in the series spotlights the GOP godling, Ronald Reagan: the characters experience the 1980 presidential election and Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech in Berlin.

In what foxnews.com calls an “amusing and sometimes alarming retrospective of how things went down, the teenagers encounter on the streets of Washington a dark-skinned mugger clad in a ‘Disco’ muscle shirt and armed with a knife, demanding money. Other scenes of violence unfold before Reagan appears like a white knight with a message of hope and optimism.”

Right. “Accurate and unbiased.”

Future installments in the series will focus on World War II, the Sept. 11 attacks and the ensuing war on terror, the American Revolution, Christopher Columbus and the first Thanksgiving. We wonder if any Native Americans will show up at the accurate and unbiased inaugural Turkey-Day-According-to-Huckabee.

Comments

[Mick]

Forget Huckabee and his propaganda 9/11 cartoon (about as accurate as the 9/11 Commission Report). Don’t waste your hard-earned money, instead read a BANNED 9/11 book like “America Deceived II” by a real rebel and the “World’s Most Hated Author”, E.A. Blayre III.
Last link (before Google Books bans it also]:
http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000190526