History Channel Rejects Video Ads

[redcliffsw]

The 60-second history segments commemorating the Sesqicentennial of the "Civil War"
have been pulled from the air by the History Channel in Georgia.  The ads are still running
on other networks in Georgia.   

Here's the one-minute ads that the History Channel has rejected:

http://scvcalifornia.blogspot.com/2010/12/view-georgia-scv-ads-banned-by-history.html

[Patriot]

God forbid they fact check!  If it doesn't fit the commonly held template, let's just reject it out of hand!  Would government collude with big business and lie to ya?  Count on it!

[Varmit]

Not a big shocker that they pulled the ads.  If the "commoners" learn the truth then they might start questioning the big gov't mentality so feverishly preached by in our schools and media.  God forbid they should start thinking that it is the People that should hold the power of this country and not the gov't.

[redcliffsw]

No, it's not a great shocker being that the History Channel has a bias against true history.

Good audio interview here regarding the issue:
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wabe/news.newsmain/article/1/0/1737422/Atlanta./Has.Political.Correctness.Blurred.Interpretation.of..the.Civil.War

[srkruzich]

You know what, its a sad day.  I grew up knowing these facts, my children grew up knowing these things that the SCV has done a EXCELLENT job on.   The south is all about jeffersonian viiews and beliefs and has always been.  
Thinking about it now yes southerners are still freemen.  Even the war didn't stop that. Thats why you often hear the souths gonna rise again.  Its a UP YOURS attitude to the Government and its deep seated and very much alive today!
Yeah they called us bubbas growing up but these bubbas are the ones who will be on the front lines fighting for freedom.

The truth be known, the south never fell, it has grown over the years since.  Just waiting for the right time right place.

[Mom70x7]

Oh, dear - just to play devil's advocate - here's another side:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/opinion/19Ball.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=ab1

The article quotes are contrary to some of the ads the History channel rejected.

[Mom70x7]

Also - this article about Paul Revere's ride -

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/opinion/19Lepore.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=ab1

I can quote parts of it, but surely don't remember studying the history of it.
I knew the facts weren't accurate, but assumed that was "poetic" license - not an attempt to sway political opinion.

[srkruzich]

Oh, dear - just to play devil's advocate - here's another side:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/opinion/19Ball.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=ab1

The article quotes are contrary to some of the ads the History channel rejected.

Not even close there.  Nothing but opinion. At least the videos present facts backed up by Documents.  The one question no one will answer is why did lincoln wait til 1864 to declare slavery as the cause in which they were fighting for? heck slavery wasn't abolished until 1868 3 years after the war was over.

Slavery was AN ISSUE, but not THE CAUSE. Slavery would have eventually been abolished for economic reasons without the war. There were some in the North who truly saw slavery as an evil that should be abolished, but the majority was not so vehemently opposed to it. Only a very small percentage in the South owned more than one or two slaves and therefore had an economic interest in maintaining the status quo. Actually, only 5% owned even one slave. Mothers would not send their sons to die to free the slaves or maintain the plantations labor supply. I have read a few Yankee Civil War diaries and NONE said they were fighting to free the slaves. None of the Rebel Diaries i've seen said they were fighting and dying for slavery.  Most of them never owned a slave.

With a larger population (20 million vs 5 million citizens plus 4 million slaves), the Northern states controlled the House of Representatives. With a larger number of states (19 vs 11), the North controlled the Senate. The South had an agricultural economy, primarily from exporting cotton. EXPORTS of agricultural products were taxed, keeping prices low. The North had an industrial economy. IMPORTS of finished products were taxed, inflating the value of industrial output. 85% of the US budget was from taxes collected in the Southern states. With the Missouri Compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the South saw their power in the Federal government being reduced even further. The primary cause of the Civil War was the same as the justification of the American Revolution - Taxation without representation.

[twirldoggy]

Thank you

[Patriot]

The primary cause of the Civil War was the same as the justification of the American Revolution - Taxation without representation.

And today, not a heck of a lot has changed.  Except that agricultural folks in the great plains and points west have been added to the under represented.