Owellian Re-Writing of History
I really like National Review's Mona Charen. She writes on topics, like the culture, that I blog about. Today, she reviews a new book that explores the Liberal revision of history into a more acceptable collection of "facts". She starts her piece with a quote from Winston Churchill, who once said, History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it. Which, BTW, he did - in multiple volumes. His history of the pre-WWII period is comprehensive and riveting (The Gathering Storm). Mona points out one of the most ubiquitous examples, one that has made into mainstream history books: In 1963, a popular Democratic president was assassinated by a Marxist named Oswald, who had actually defected to the Soviet Union and returned to the U.S. with a Soviet wife, was an active member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, and had attempted to assassinate a right-wing general named Edwin Walker earlier in the year. So, who is blamed for the Kennedy assassination? The "clim...