Brad Neely produces some funny shit.
The JFK video won't embed, but is almost as funny. I think both of these videos do what Howard Zinn or James Lowen can't by popularizing critique of American history as told in traditional ways. They take that critique out of the realm of he said/she said historical accounts (though these should not be discounted by any measure: Zinn and Lowen were a big influence on me) - and instead skewers dominant historical narratives as hype. The Neely approach regards historical-hype pure ideological speculation by taking the Washington-as-hero narrative to the extreme, and in doing so draws humor from its absurdity.
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