The Distortion-of-History Channel

Tonight at 8 PM EST the Distortion-of-History Channel will air yet another “documentary” on Lincoln. The advertisement for it on the Channel’s web site makes it sound quite critical, bringing up various well-documented but covered up (by the history profession) facts such as: Abe’s two nervous breakdowns; his decision as a young man to stop carrying a knife for fear he would kill himself with it; his poems about committing suicide; his talk in the White House about committing suicide; his worries that he, like a childhood friend, would lose his mind and go berserk; his belief that he lived … Continue reading The Distortion-of-History Channel

The Distortion of History Channel

Well, it wasn’t quite a hatchet job, only a big deception, as usual. Big surprise. After interviewing me on camera for 90 minutes last summer, the Distortion of History Channel only used the three 5-10 second soundbites in the entire interview that had nothing to do with any of the facts documented in The Real Lincoln. All of them were taken out of context, and one of them actually made me sound like a Lincoln sychophant. No mention of the bombing of southern cities and the killig of civilians, the suspension of habeas corpus, Lincoln’s views on “colonization,” his racist/white … Continue reading The Distortion of History Channel