I have gotten completely engaged by the History Channel’s series called “The Men Who Built America.” I love the way industrious people, seeking a profit, create wealth for society, and the series depicts much of that. I would love to recommend the series to you, but…
I was made aware of a glaring misrepresentation of the Homestead Strike in 1892 in the series when I happened on this article. I have just finished writing a post about lying politicians to this very blog you are now reading, and here I was presented with two drastically different accounts of an historical event, one on the revered History Channel and the other on the detestable American Thinker website. One of them is lying. Which one was I to believe? Clearly the History Channel, by its nature, should be more true to the actual history of a historical event, no?
Well, this being history after all, I decided it should be easy to check with at least one other source. I chose Wikipedia, admittedly not the most technically correct or bias-free place to go, but at least it’s another resource and it’s easy to access.
Imagine my surprise to find that Wikipedia’s account of the Homestead Strike in 1892 correlates almost exactly with what the American Thinker writer said, which is drastically divergent from the depiction in the series on the History Channel.
I have only one question: Why would the series writers on the History Channel engage in what can only be described as willful misconduct?
The only conclusion I can draw is that it is Bush’s fault.