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   nprfreshair : 

   Princeton University  historian Sean Wilentz on Glenn Beck :  “Glenn Beck is trying to give [viewers] a  version of American history that is supposedly hidden. Supposedly, all we historians — left, right and center — have been  doing for the past 100 years is to keep true American history from you.  And that true American history is what Glenn Beck is teaching. … It’s a  version of history that is beyond skewed. … But of course, that’s  what Beck expects us to say. He lives in a kind of  Alice in Wonderland  world, where if people who actually know the history say what he’s  teaching is junk, he says, ‘That’s because you’re trying to hide the  truth.’ “

nprfreshair:

Princeton University historian Sean Wilentz on Glenn Beck: “Glenn Beck is trying to give [viewers] a version of American history that is supposedly hidden. Supposedly, all we historians — left, right and center — have been doing for the past 100 years is to keep true American history from you. And that true American history is what Glenn Beck is teaching. … It’s a version of history that is beyond skewed. … But of course, that’s what Beck expects us to say. He lives in a kind of Alice in Wonderland world, where if people who actually know the history say what he’s teaching is junk, he says, ‘That’s because you’re trying to hide the truth.’ “

Nate Dern October 13, 2010
Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130534982&sc=tumblr&cc=freshair
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