Wednesday, February 2, 2011

2 February 2011 Palin’s history defended

Posted at 8:14 AM ET, 02/ 2/2011

Right-wing bloggers defend Sarah Palin's fake history

By Stephen Stromberg



According to the right-wing blogosphere, Sarah Palin knows more about history than I do.

Last week, I wrote that Palin got some history wrong when she claimed that the Soviets incurred crippling debt in their effort to launch Sputnik. Palin seemed to want to suggest a lesson to apply to the U.S. debt debate. But as I wrote, her narrative doesn't have much to do with what actually happened. ..”

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2011/02/the_right-wing_conspirosphere.html



The danger found in this article stems not from the lack of factual knowledge actually resident in the gray drive of Palin, but in the willingness of those who should know better to allow her leniency on her lack of basic knowledge while simultaneously demonstrating their own lack of concern for facts in ideological conflicts. Palin is adept at making things up while blaming the error on others. There is no reason to allow historical revisionism for the purpose of backstopping her innate lack of education.

We are not only encountering willful destruction of the American public education system, we are seeing it replaced whenever possible by a system that is constructed to replace fact with lies, science with myths, and to denigrate the benefits and value of higher education in this nation. Higher education may soon come to mean “able to read the directions on a microwave meal.

Today in Puxatawney, Palin failed to see either her shadow or any shred of truth about the history of this nation.

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