Woodrow Wilson was a flaming liberal out of the ivy league (Yale).  The two-part PBS program on this president was perhaps the prime achievement in public broadcasting’s attempt to rewrite American history in their politically correct terms. Republicans were described as cold, hateful, warmongers,  while people like Eugene Debs (a self-identified socialist who wanted to destroy the U.S. Constitution in favor of the "principles" of Karl Marx) were presented as hero figures in the battle for equality and free speech. 

Liberals for free speech?   Tell that to Clarence Thomas, Walter Williams, Ward Connerly and Thomas Sowell.   Liberals for equality?  Tell that to the multitudes of Asian students in America who have been passed over in favor of blacks with lesser academic ability when it comes to access to the famous universities.  Tell both to the Christians who have been banned from public educational premises where witches and Moslems now promulgate their faiths. (You didn't know they're studying the Koran in California public schools?  I hear it's being done at both the elementary and secondary levels.  Try teaching a course on the Bible in one of them.)

Mr. Wilson was a southerner.  As a child, he stood in his yard and watched his Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, pass by in chains.  The Confederate flag Jefferson Davis represented was a Democrat flag.  The Civil War began when Democrats who created this flag walked out of congress.  The Union army that freed the slaves was run by Republicans.  Public broadcasting’s vaunted history programming has never mentioned most of what you’ve just read, and this program was no different.

Teddy Roosevelt was portrayed here as a war-mongering, blood-thirsty maniac.  This is, by the way, the same TR who busted the trusts.  The same TR who created the first national park on Earth and began the process that has protected our greatest scenic wonders for all time.  But, TR called Wilson a coward for ducking WWI even after the Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine. TR believed in a strong military.  He believed in dumping foreign tyrants on their butts.  (He's the one next to Lincoln. PBS, in their program about Mt. Rushmore, made a snotty remark about him, implying that the man who invented national parks doesn't belong in this one.)

Ho Chi Minh, who wrote a letter to Wilson, was presented as a noble young man seeking independence and freedom for his nation.  You could go there tomorrow, if you wish, and see the kind of freedom that was created when U.S. liberals saw to it that Ho's Cadre got the chance.

The people of all depressed countries crowded around Wilson as he made a speech in France.  The previous sentence is almost a direct quote taken from the text of the program.  It reeks with the tone of communist posters, films and newspaper accounts from 1917 to today.  It stinks of little children throwing flowers before the feet of the beloved Kim Il Sung, Jr. of North Korea.  The happy workers of Stalin.  The adoration of Chairman Mao.

The program, in scene after scene, ranked with the most biased junk PBS has yet produced.  But, it wasn’t satisfied with just that.

Liberals are never satisfied.

The entire two-part propaganda vehicle was constructed, it seems, for another purpose.  If I am wrong about this, then where I am wrong is in suggesting conscious intent.  But, that doesn't matter. A liberal doesn’t have to think to lie.  He doesn't, in fact, even have to be conscious to do it.  It’s natural with them.  Ducks fly, liberals lie, mama made good apple pie.

Here is my point.  Wilson was a philanderer.  We know that, like FDR and JFK, he cheated on his first wife.  Nobody knows for sure how many times. (The DNC should consider exchanging the jackass symbol for a goat.)   PBS will admit to one such Wilson extra-marital dalliance.  When, following the death of his first wife, he eventually remarried, and became debilitated after a stroke, his second wife (“a strong woman ahead of her time who drove an electric car around Washington, D.C.”) ran the nation in secret.

Minus the stroke, we have a liberal who uses the presidency to get sex, spends a great deal of time in peacemaking activity that failed miserably and who was married to a "strong" woman who liked to wield power in secret.

Does this remind you of anybody?

The New York Times published a fake interview with Wilson, saying that the rumors of his incapacitation were false.  He was in charge of his faculties and the nation, according to the Gray Lady, to this day referred to as the newspaper of record for the nation.. It was a coverup, pure and simple.

Does this remind you of recent activity by the same newspaper?  Can you think of a recent Democrat president the Times flacked and covered for?

So, the question.  This program was obviously a warped description of all the people of Wilson's day, including himself.  Without doubt, it was as much an attempt at giving him a noble legacy as it was an attempt to justify his obvious character faults and vilify his Republican opponents.

Was the unavoidable comparison with a much later Democrat president an attempt to justify his eerily similar behavior, as well?  The poor slob has lost luster of late when compared to the decisive, decent, honorable, straightforward and courageous man who followed him.

The timing is about right. 

Perhaps in September, just before the mid-term elections that liberals are terrified will return congress to complete Republican control,  PBS will rerun the Reagan program in this series.  They portrayed him as a mental defective who favored the rich over the working man (most of whom, strangely, voted for him twice), and claimed that his tax cuts drove the nation into gigantic deficits.  (Reagan brought down the Soviet Union without firing a shot.  His tax cuts doubled revenues to the treasury.  The deficits were due to necessary rebulding of a military Carter had raped, and profligate social welfare spending by a Democrat congress.) (LL)

(C) 2002 Oregon Magazine  The classic White House style presidential portrait of Herr Clinton is from a libertarian internet political forum called Free Republic.  The name of the artist who created it is unknown to us.