old salt wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 10:52 pm
You think VDH is an apologist for the Catholic church, just because he listed some of their positive contributions to history ?
No! I think that he's on FoxNews, taking potshots at the RollingStone writer....and is too busy doing that to be an honest, big-boy-table historian. Instead, he shows that history takes a backseat to being a dumb*ss FoxNation Republican hack.
Example?
When the FoxNation talking head makes fun of the idea making Notre Dame "a gathering house" (her words) rather than a Catholic institution....does VDH respond like a historian, and tell her "actually, part of Notre Dame's rich history is that it was
precisely that during the French Revolution..it was renamed "the Cult of Reason", and the "Goddess of Liberty" replaced the Virgin Mary on altars"?
Hell no. That would have, you know, honored the history of the place, and we can't have that when the real goal of the interview is to make fun of the stupid libs for ruining everything. And, you know, Fox views might have learned some actual history from Hanson.
And again, we can't have that, now can we?
So yep, I'm going to hammer Hanson for bemoaning a lack of honoring of history....when he literally does the exact thing he's complaining about. Typical Hanson.
BTW, when Hanson whines about not building stuff like Notre Dame, it really illustrates what a partisan hack he is. Who does he think builds places like Notre Dame? Yep. Big government. Commissioned by Louis VII himself. The very thing he complains about 24-7. But what does he do? He makes it sound like liberals are in the way of building stuff like this.
Tell you what, Hanson. Make folks like Cortez responsible for spending at the Smithsonian. Do you think she'd build more monuments and museums? You bet she would. We stopped building things like the Smithsonian buildings because Republicans thinks public art and culture are bad. So we don't build those things anymore. And, of course for VDH...it's STILL the liberals fault.