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In case you suffer from the impression that the activist Left in America is really a bunch of well-intentioned do-gooders who only want kindness and good, and who play by fair rules in the public square of open debate, actor Adam Baldwin ("Chuck", "Full Metal Jacket") describes what is nothing less than a propoganda war in the the classrooms for the minds of children.  Howard Zinn acolytes and critical theory smarty-pants celebrities seem to think kids should spend formative time questioning whether or not to salute the flag, based on Zinn's radical, revisionist, and admittedly biased interpretation of American history.  Aimed at 10-14 year olds, A Young Peoples History of The United States portrays America as a country worthy of less than admiration, to say the least.  Now the History Channel has signed on to this tearing down of American pride in its own history.  Ugh.  All it makes me think of is Mark Steyn - or is it Victor Davis Hanson - saying, "a culture unwilling to defend itself cannot last."

Update: More from Big Hollywood.  What a cast of Marxists and victims-studies radicals characters!  The sad thing is that we're not talking about actors marching against a war, or trying to bring attention to the plight of children starving in the 3rd world, but instead using their skills and their charisma to coo impressionable minds into absorbing a kind of revisionist history Marx himself might have dreamed up.  This book and this film should be shunned by parents and schools across the country.  Dear Hollywood, tell your own kids America s**ks - leave the rest of them alone.