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History Channel's slanted economic nonsense

Submitted by JackParkman on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 22:08
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Is anyone watching this right now? It started with Madoff, and now they're giving a "history lesson" about how the government has to act, and how Hoover's Treasury Secretary (Andrew Mellon) was wrong to let the market sort things out.

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I Gave Up On The History Channel Years Ago

Submitted by DC on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 23:42.

Yes, they are perpetually misleading.

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"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." -- Joseph Goebbels

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"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." -- Joseph Goebbels

Andy Serwer

Submitted by JackParkman on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 22:22.

I think this guy is with Fortune magazine, they keep quoting him. He's blatantly anti-free market, and bashes "unfettered capitalism" every chance he gets.

Glad to see that "History" as defined by the History Channel is merely a mouthpiece for the ideologues.

yes...

Submitted by john on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 22:21.

everything in the media is slanted 99.99% of the time.
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It's pretty pathetic...

Submitted by Kagiman on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 22:20.

Deregulation is to blame...

I don't get it. Sure, if you

Submitted by BmoreBrawler on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 00:10.

I don't get it. Sure, if you are going to pour money into the economy you had better regulate because moral hazards will pop up. But, WHY do people assume that that money pouring in is a given?

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I was dismissing the argument the history channel was making

Submitted by Kagiman on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 00:32.

Makes me sick seeing the tired old reason that we got out of the Depression was because of a World War... Regulation has always been the problem...

yeah yeah, I mean I dont get

Submitted by BmoreBrawler on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 00:43.

yeah yeah, I mean I dont get the bullshit keynesian analysis of the problem.

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The "History" channel is co-owned by

Submitted by libertyBoy on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 22:21.

GE, Disney and Hearst - need you ask more? Good luck finding any real history on the channel with its most popular shows being UFO Hunters and Mega Disasters.