[xmca] correction Re: off-topic: false history, Texas, & the Del. GOP House nominee

[Tony Whitson <twhitson@UDel.Edu>]

I sent the wrong link (but a related one)

The video of the Delaware candidate is at

http://curricublog.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/urquhart-hitler-church-state/

On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Tony Whitson wrote:

> This is off-topic, but some people here have been interested in such items in 
> the past (and besides, Jim Wertsch has written on the importance of such 
> matters as the ideological distortion of national history).
>
> This concerns a movement whoese propoenents claim, among other things, that 
> the US founders did not advocate the separation of church and state, but that 
> that idea originates from Hitler.
>
> National media has been filled with news and commentary about popular 
> mainstream Republican Congressman Mike Castle's loss to a "nutty" (Karl Rove) 
> Tea Party candidate in the Republican primary to run for Joe Biden's seat in 
> the U.S. Senate.
>
> Less noticed, another Tea Party candidate, Glen Urquhart, defeated the 
> moderate businesswoman who had been endorsed by the GOP state party 
> convention to run for Delaware's only seat in the House of Representatives, 
> vacated by Mike Castle in his run for the Senate.
>
> Urquhart's campaign has featured the kind of outrageously false history 
> propounded by David Barton and promoted by Glenn Beck that depends on a level 
> of historical ignorance in the general population, and which threatens to 
> displace real history in the public school curriculum, beginning with the 
> Texas social studies standards.
>
> For video and links, see
> http://curricublog.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/tea-partiers-anti-democratic-ignorance/
> shortlink: http://wp.me/p1V0H-14i
>
> Tony Whitson
> UD School of Education
> NEWARK  DE  19716
>
> twhitson@udel.edu
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Tony Whitson
UD School of Education
NEWARK  DE  19716

twhitson@udel.edu
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