{"id":29057,"date":"2015-12-15T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=29057"},"modified":"2015-12-05T21:25:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T02:25:53","slug":"qotd-when-pop-culture-is-based-on-myth-rather-than-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/12\/15\/qotd-when-pop-culture-is-based-on-myth-rather-than-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: When &#8220;pop culture&#8221; is based on myth rather than fact"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Everything you think you know about the 20th century is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivefeetoffury.com\/2013\/02\/13\/duh-dr-wertham-was-the-al-gore-of-comic-books\/\" target=\"_blank\">a favorite theme of mine for years<\/a> \u2014 that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1595230564\/pjmedia-20\" target=\"_blank\">liberal (self-)mythologizing<\/a> rarely withstands even the slightest scrutiny:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>The Rosenbergs were guilty. Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty. Alger Hiss was guilty. OJ was guilty. Lee Harvey Oswald was guilty. Mumia was guilty. Leonard Peltier was guilty.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rachel Carson lied. Alfred Kinsey lied. Betty Friedan lied.<\/p>\n<p>To that list, <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/eddriscoll\/2013\/02\/13\/everything-you-know-about-the-20th-century-is-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Driscoll<\/a> adds familiar names like Kitty Genovese and Truman Capote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsrealblog.com\/2010\/04\/16\/earth-day-liar-liar-rivers-not-on-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Day<\/a> started out as a commemoration of an event that didn\u2019t quite happen as advertised.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/the-vietnam-war-everything-you-know-is-wrong-part-one\" target=\"_blank\">Vietnam<\/a>? Don\u2019t get me started.<\/p>\n<p>One day, we\u2019ll find out the Scottsboro Boys were guilty.<\/p>\n<p>And some people still wonder why <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/tatler\/2013\/12\/02\/dayna-morales-suspended-on-suspicion-that-she-falsely-accused-family-of-being-homophobes\/\" target=\"_blank\">a lesbian waitress<\/a> would cook up a hoax about homophobic customers\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Kathy Shaidle, <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/lifestyle\/2013\/12\/06\/altamont-when-the-hippies-were-expelled-from-the-garden\/?singlepage=true\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Altamont: When the Hippies Were Expelled From the Garden: Did the Sixties really end on December 6, 1969?&#8221;, <em>PJ Lifestyle<\/em><\/a>, 2013-12-06.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything you think you know about the 20th century is wrong. It\u2019s been a favorite theme of mine for years \u2014 that liberal (self-)mythologizing rarely withstands even the slightest scrutiny: The Rosenbergs were guilty. Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty. Alger Hiss was guilty. OJ was guilty. Lee Harvey Oswald was guilty. Mumia was guilty. 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