Sorry for the vulgarity in the video below.  Be warned.

My verdict is that this is not The most honest three and a half minutes of television, EVER…. The script writer, Aaron Sorkin, has a very distorted view of our history.

We stood up for what was right – genocide of the native population, slavery.

We fought for moral reasons United Fruit in South America, oil in the middle east. We didn’t get caught on the wrong side of history by all the dictators we backed and put into power.

We never beat our chest as we entered the space race. We didn’t televise the moon landing. We didn’t have the USIA and Radio Free Europe. Fortunately we have our women baring theirs. We didn’t misinterpret the title of the book The Ugly American by thinking it referred to our behavior when we were visitors in other countries.

We cultivated the world’s greatest artists. Beethoven was born in Brooklyn and Leonardo DaVinci was born in little Italy.

We acted like men until Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem told us we were overdoing it. Still, we couldn’t pass the Equal Rights Amendment.

We aspired to intelligence, we didn’t belittle it. It didn’t make us feel inferior. We didn’t call Adlai Stevenson an egghead to belittle him compared to Eisenhower the war hero. We didn’t go after the Professors in academia by trying to brand them as Communists.

We didn’t identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election – really?

We were able to do these things because we were informed. James W. Loewen didn’t write the book Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong