And Bush accuses his foes of revisionist history!?

[elfs]

If you go to the Lincoln Memorial, you will be standing in a national park, the National Mall. There, once upon a time, you would have been privileged to watch an eight-minute video about The National Mall, including its use as a site for popular protests, including anti-war demonstrations at the height of Vietnam and the Millenium March for Gay and Lesbian Rights.

No longer. National Parks Director Donald Murphy has ordered that all references to the Millenium March be removed from the video. The same is true of Vietnam-era protests. Murphy's excuse is that the tape "gave viewers the impression that Lincoln would have approved of those issuse" (gay rights, anti-war). Maybe he would have. That's not the point.

In order to pad out the tape's voice-over run length, however, the video has been filled with shots of pro-Gulf War activists and a Promise Keepers rally, neither of which happened at the National Mall!

I want my country back. Don't make me come over there and take it.

Comments

oh dear...

[tonyawinter.livejournal.com]

... I knew it happened sometimes, but that is disturbing. The deliberate spin out there in the open is ... chilling.

Re: oh dear...

[rapier.livejournal.com]

It isn't spin, my dear Citizen, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. It's only ever clarification, and when it's not, it's creative license taken by a third party contractor that the United States government cannot acknowledge as its own viewpoint. Rest easy. Go about your business. Don't for get those last minute holiday gifts. In Jesus' name, Amen.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I want my country back. Don't make me come over there and take it.

G'wan. Let's go. I gotcher back. Have a can of Whoop Ass™.

WHAT!

[http://users.livejournal.com/dominic-m-/]

NOT A SPIN!.your obviously so blinding by some sort of republican cause or religious material that you do not pay attention to whats going on around you my poorly misguided friend.This terrible excuse of a president is trying to inspire people(tourists/nationalists in this case)to listen to his terribly misguided cause and sway them his way by way of brainwashing and as stated above.REVISIONIST HISTORY! he is trying to hide the good things in the world that this country is known for such as civil libertys and the right to protest and be recognized for your cause,but not in bushes case he decides to censor the public of these things by making them unavailable where they ahppend and placing his of terribly staged material in place.typical republican views.pathetic.

in hindsight

[http://users.livejournal.com/dominic-m-/]

wellrapieri just noticed you previous statement has a twinge of sarcasm.i am either to sensitive to it or completely inept because i caannot tell if your being sarcastic or not.to save my dignity i hope you where not but to save the world i hope people with opinions like the one above dont really exist out there....either way i win some lose some...i have to learn to control my outbreaks before i start shouting like mad.oddly enough i hope it was required beacause i love to bash republicans on their veiws but i would like liberals with a strong sense of sarcasm out there with me.ok time to stop before i lose what little is left of my honor.

Re: in hindsight

[omahas.livejournal.com]

He's being sarcastic, hon.

yea i know

[http://users.livejournal.com/dominic-m-/]

i figured that out just after i posted my liberal furor.i cant help it im a very pissed off lefty and i cant help but yell at anyone hwo says anything conservative.i relized it was quite uncalled for.so like what is written above.in hindsight.i apoligize fellow democrat(and hopefull liberal).ive just been more frustrated than usual because of recent right side movements to censor everything out there and call anything thats not their views heresy and the like.ignore earlier comment to the shame of my outburst.