Is it me or is the does the History Channel sometimes seem full o' hooey?

[kitkat65]

More like half truths really. I briefly sat through a thing about Saddam and it glossed over the UN inspections saying Saddam was duplicitous and didn't allow the inspectors access. I thought the lead inspector said that wasn't completely true. Wish I had seen the beginning to see if they mentioned the fact that Saddam was initially supported by our former boys in the white house (insert photo of Rumsfeld and Saddam here).

I don't watch the channel all that much but when I have, I've noticed things like this happen a lot. And they sure seem to love those Antichrist and Armageddon stories.

Just an observation.

[aquart]

1. History it ain't.

[EFerrari]

3. Maybe History of Propaganda.

[originalpckelly]

7. Though I do have to give them some credit for talking about the Business Plot:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_plot

[Phredicles]

2. The History channel has only the vaguest interest in any history that

took place before 1939 or after 1945.

[illinoisprogressive]

4. many years ago it was pretty good and now it sucks.

[Donnachaidh]

12. yup -- they seem to focus on Hitler, war, guns and big testosterone machines

I'm sick to death of the all-Hitler days running into weeks.

[PFunk]

20. Have to agree.

Before Bush and the repugs came into office it was actually quite good. Now it's hit or miss. They still put out some damn good (and actuarate stuff). But it's now increasinly become mostly right wing drivel now.

[Junkdrawer]

25. Yep. n/t

[ComerPerro]

5. and yet there are people here who somehow believe Bush will be viewed badly by history

history is written by conservatives

[originalpckelly]

6. Yeah it's owned by A&E, and they're owned by NBC, Walt Disney, and Hearst:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26E_Television_Networks

So in other words, you're probably receiving 100% grade A bullplop propaganda.

[DeSwiss]

8. You've nailed it!!!

As Deep Throat said: "Follow the money...."

[originalpckelly]

9. Of course, and I bet if we look at the boards of those three companies...

we'll probably see big money Republicans who have an interest in propagandizing Americans.

[DeSwiss]

22. Or as Molly Ivins once said....

..."whose gettin' screwed, and whose doin' the screwin."



:)

[harlinchi]

28. Great button! n/t

[Captain Angry]

10. It's a shame too.

Too much drama, too few facts, and a whole lot of pandering to the lowest common denominator these days.

As you mention, the Antichrist and end of the world crap is old. Nostradamus is not history, and re-re-reinterpreting his writings is old.

I get more history from the Daily Show than the History Channel.

[undergroundpanther]

11. treating theology like history

Is hooey.There's a shitload of Hooey on the History Channel.Once in awhile they put on something good tho.

[kskiska]

13. I watched a History Channel program on presidents once

and they claimed that * was born in Texas.

[Mendocino]

14. The History Channel is the greatest.....

....reason why we need public television. Give me PBS any day.

[hellbound-liberal]

23. Wish I could share your enthusiasm for the "Re-public-an" Broadcasting Service, Mendocino

But they too have become willing participants in the assault on reason. Media Matters has plenty of examples of their mis-representations of the truth. The only responsible journalist on PBS is Bill Moyers.

http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/search_results?qstring=pbs

[Fox Mulder]

15. I like the shows they put on about UFOs and such...

and I sort of like "Digging for the Truth". But after that, it's a bunch of crap.

[tjwash]

16. Modern Marvels is OK

Everything else on that channel blows

[Manifestor_of_Light]

17. You mean "The Hitler Channel"???

My kid told me one of her high school teachers called it that.

Sometimes during fundraisers, the local PuBieS channel turns into "The Hitler Channel". Or alternatively, "The Hirohito Channel".

[Hardrada]

19. But...but... I saw a very good special on Mussolini

the other day. I guess the Italians were on Hitler's side!

[Tyler Durden]

26. "Nazis 'r' Us" is what we call it on occasion!

The shame is that that Deb and I watch it and feel better about ourselves and what's going on here.

Sad.

[ellisonz]

18. They've made some good programs, but now it pretty much stinks.

History Channel International is much better.

[Swamp Rat]

21. I much prefer Animal Planet

:)

[Screwfly]

24. The price of being right...

Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter was the one saying all along Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction I believe. A few weeks into the invasion of Iraq war, I saw a former US ambassador to some middle eastern country on the news, and he predicted with a great deal of accuracy the mess Iraq and the mid-east are in now. I have no idea what the former ambassador's name is, since I saw him on the news only once and then never again. Weird how the media shuns experts who are proven right, while showing the same Pollyanna pundits day after day with their glowing, bullshit prediction about the Iraq ad nauseam.

[Vidar]

27. No, five years ago they were still exposing the US's treachery

in South America & government cover-ups from Roswell to JFK. These days, it's military propaganda, corporate cheer-leading & Sunday school Bible stories.