The New York Times blasts podcaster's ‘revisionist history’ —  while ignoring its own



A recent New York Times hit piece titled, “The Podcaster Asking You to Side With History’s Villains,” is a prime example of why many Americans no longer trust the mainstream media.

The piece criticizes “The Martyr Made Podcast” host Darryl Cooper’s revisionist history — which Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” believes couldn’t be more hypocritical, as the New York Times was behind the “1619 Project” written by Nikole Hannah-Jones.

Some of Cooper’s claims that the New York Times took grave issue with were that “Winston Churchill was the ‘chief villain’ of the war, not, by implication, Adolf Hitler,” and that “millions had died in Nazi-controlled Eastern Europe because the Nazis had not adequately planned to feed them.”


The New York Times also took issue with Cooper being platformed by Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan, who have had the podcaster on their own podcasts.

“They go on and on and on to talk about how ‘this just can’t stand, I mean, there’s got to be some sort of filter, and you know, Joe Rogan just can’t have on whoever he wants to have on,’” Glenn comments.

“That’s the problem, is it, New York Times? Is that the problem?” Glenn asks. “Let me just look in the past here and see if we’ve had this exact same problem with anybody else, because the person that came to mind was not Darryl Cooper, but Nikole Hannah-Jones, because I think those two are the same coin, and the coin’s counterfeit.”

“Jones, she did the ‘1619 Project.’ She did the same thing in reverse, except I think she’s actually worse, I mean, because I think she made up almost everything in that. She recasts American history as racist from the very inception of the country. Neither one of them is telling the whole truth,” he continues.

“They clutch their pearls because he has an audience, and only the New York Times can have that audience. But where was that concern when they gave an audience to Nikole Hannah-Jones and gave her a Pulitzer for a project now so discredited by the very historians that are now talking about Cooper?” he says.

“Where was the caution when they declared that 1619, not 1776, was the true founding of the nation? They didn’t question her authority; they didn’t say, ‘Well, she’s not a historian.’ They printed it. In fact, they taught it and endorsed it. They platformed it in schools,” he adds.

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Florida has once again evidenced Gov. Ron DeSantis' November claim that the state "is where woke goes to die."

Students will not be subjected to textbooks pushing leftist propaganda and revisionist histories. Instead, per the suggestion of Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr., kids will be provided with textbooks that "focus on historical facts" that are "free from inaccuracies or ideological rhetoric."

The Florida Department of Education announced Tuesday that 66 out of the 101 instructional materials submitted for inclusion in the state's social studies curriculum for every grade level were approved.

While the majority of materials were ultimately accepted, only 19% of materials were initially approved "due to inaccurate material, errors and other information that was not aligned with Florida Law." However, the Education Department has worked with publishers to get the materials up to Florida's standards.

\u201cComm @SenMannyDiazJr has released FL\u2019s initial adoption list for K-12 social studies instructional materials. The approved list includes state standards-aligned social studies curriculum for every grade. To date, 65.4% of materials have been approved. https://t.co/Ul6z3ulleB\u201d
— Florida Department of Education (@Florida Department of Education) 1683635661

Sticking to the facts

The state has provided several examples of what didn't make the cut.

One submission provided guidance on how to talk to young children about the national anthem, suggesting, "You can use this as an opportunity to talk about why some citizens are choosing to 'Take a Knee' to protest police brutality and racism."

This suggestion was stricken from the accepted material.

Another textbook, this time targeting grades 6-8, attempted to hype socialism — an ideology linked to most of the 20th century's totalitarian regimes and mass murders.

The text said that socialism "keeps things nice and even and without unnecessary waste. These societies may promote greater equality among people while still providing a fully functioning government-supervised economy."

Rather than include this advertisement for the discredited ideology, the revised textbook strikes a historically accurate distinction between planned and mixed economies, noting some of the disincentives for industriousness and efficiency intrinsic to the former.

\u201cA textbook claimed that socialism "keeps things nice and even and without necessary waste" and that socialism "may promote greater equality among people while still providing a fully functioning government-supervised economy."\u201d
— Bryan Griffin (@Bryan Griffin) 1683642193

In a grade 6-8 text that delves into the positive impacts of the Judeo-Christian tradition on society, leftist rhetoric has been dropped in favor of more neutral terms in the utilitarian accounting.

Florida also refused to subject students to sanitized, revisionist histories about BLM radicals.

A grade 9-12 text was flagged because it entertained the leftist fallacy that brutal communist regimes such as those found in the Soviet Union, Cuba, and China were not representative of real communism.

"As for a true communist economy, there are none in the world today, and there have never been any in the past," said the text. "Communism still remains a theoretical ideal in the minds of many revolutionaries, even though in practice it has never been reached."

DeSantis' education department saw to it that the text now reads, "In theory, labor in a communist system is organized to benefit the whole community, and everyone consumes according to his or her needs. In practice, wealth in communist systems flows to a tiny elite. ... Communism as imagined by Marx remains a theoretical ideal in the minds of many revolutionaries, but in practice it has failed."

Awake, not woke

"Thanks to Governor DeSantis’ and the state’s consistent adherence to high quality, rigorous and factual content, Florida continually earns praise as a leader in education, including the recent number one ranking by U.S. News & World Report," Diaz said in a statement.

"To uphold our exceptional standards, we must ensure our students and teachers have the highest quality materials available – materials that focus on historical facts and are free from inaccuracies or ideological rhetoric," Diaz added.

This initiative is keeping with DeSantis' vow in April 2022: "In Florida, we will not let the far-left woke agenda take over our schools and workplaces. There is no place for indoctrination or discrimination in Florida."

The New York Times reported that these efforts may prove consequential in states besides Florida.

Extra to sparing 3 million Florida public school students from leftist talking points, students in Florida, Texas, and California may also benefit, since the publishers who worked with the DeSantis administration to achieve higher standards with their texts also cater to these states.

Republican efforts to take politics out of education are not without their critics.

The editorial boards for the Orlando Sentinel and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel decried the removal of leftist propaganda from the curriculum in a Wednesday op-ed, writing, "It's better to be 'woke.'"

The editorial collective claimed that DeSantis' objectives were to "cater to bigoted and resentful white voters"; "breed a generation of future voters who will have learned nothing about racism's history or continuing consequences"; and "desensitize the nation's courts to systemic economic and political injustices."

After comparing the elimination of leftist agitprop from Florida grade school textbooks to efforts by apologists for the former Confederacy to paint a rosy picture of slavery, the editors suggested that it's up to the voters — who re-elected DeSantis in a landslide — to determine whether or not eliminating woke content should continue.

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HarperCollins radically changes Agatha Christie novels to satisfy revisionists' preferred vernacular



Amateur sleuths and keen-eyed detectives may have noticed something amiss about the new HarperCollins editions of several Agatha Christie novels. Words are out of place. Entire passages have been cut. One character was eliminated from a reissue altogether — without the fictional detective Hercule Poirot having been left so much as a clue.

Dame Christie's novels have received a similar treatment to that of Roald Dahl's and Ian Fleming's: They have been transmogrified by so-called "sensitivity readers."

The purpose of these rewrites is apparently to accommodate the sensitivities of those delicate readers who are ill prepared for language and ideas predating the latest leftist awakening.

Christie's detective novels: Meta-victims

The Telegraph reported that new HarperCollins editions of Christie's Poirot and the complete Miss Marple mysteries have been revised and "reworked" for "modern sensitivities."

Some of the doctored Christie books have been in print since 2020, whereas others are on their way.

There are "scores of changes," including alterations to Christie's narration. Miss Jane Marple and Herule Poirot's monologues have been sliced and diced. Unpleasant characters have had their dialogue tailored or dropped. References to ethnicity have been stripped, along with certain characters' innocuous racial observations and humor.

According to the Telegraph, the character of Mrs. Allerton in the 1937 Poirot detective novel "Death on the Nile" expresses her disdain for children. How she originally expressed this disdain was evidently unacceptable for the revisionists at HarperCollins.

Christie had Allerton say that the group of kids bothering her would "come back and stare, and stare, and their eyes are simply disgusting, and so are their noses, and I don’t believe I really like children."

Courtesy of "sensitivity readers" at HarperCollins, the quote now reads: "They come back and stare, and stare. And I don’t believe I really like children."

LGBT propagandist Juno Dawson noted in the Guardian that a "sensitivity reader is an additional editor who works alongside the publishing house staffer who acquired the rights to your book. This individual will conduct a very specific read of the manuscript, and offer notes on characters from marginalised groups, or elements which may cause offence."

Whereas a black servant in one Christie book had previously been described as grinning, now he is no longer black or emotive. Sensitivity readers dehumanized and reduced him to base mechanics, such that he is left just "nodding."

Just as smiling black men are verboten, references to "beautiful teeth" were all scrubbed from the Miss Marple novel "A Caribbean Mystery."

Sensitivity editors found various metaphors too troubling for today's readers. In the same novel, a description of a prominent female character — as having "a torso of black marble such as a sculptor would have enjoyed" — was edited out, thereby denying the character the suggestion of firmness, elegance, and classical beauty.

The sensitivity editors have reportedly committed literary genocide as well, eliminating the Nubian people from "Death on the Nile."

Instead of the "Nubian boatman," for instance, there is now only "the boatman" traversing the Nile, despite the fact that the Nubia is an ancient region extending from the Nile River valley to the shores of the Red Sea, inhabited today, in part, by hundreds of thousands if not millions of Nubians or Nobī.

HarperCollins' sensitivity editors have eradicated gypsies from Christie's works, too. Similarly, a character in "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" who had once been recognized as Jewish now enjoys no such heritage.

"Natives" are no more. There are now "local."

Jake Berry, a Conservative member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, denounced this latest revisionism with a quote from George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four": "Every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. … Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."

Those who control the press control the future

Christie is not the first well-known author to have her works butchered posthumously in recent months.

TheBlaze previously reported that "James Bond" author Ian Fleming and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" author Roald Dahl suffered similar erasure in their works.

Like HarperCollins, Ian Fleming Publications Ltd hired sensitivity readers to purge the James Bond books of undesirable content ahead of their re-release in April to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the publication of "Casino Royale" – the first novel in the 007 franchise.

In addition to racial descriptors being eliminated and the cast of characters ultimately being rendered homogeneous, entire scenes have been edited out.

Bond originally witnessed a striptease at a nightclub in Harlem, New York, in "Live and Let Die."

"Bond could hear the audience panting and grunting like pigs at the trough. He felt his own hands gripping the tablecloth. His mouth was dry," Fleming had written.

The sensitivity readers reckoned the following was instead suitable for a modern audience: "Bond could sense the electric tension in the room."

One character was originally given an accent described as "straight Harlem-Deep South with a lot of New York thrown in." Now he has no accent to speak of.

The sensitivity readers who aided in the changes to the 2022 Puffin (Penguin Random House) editions of various Roald Dahl works — such as "Matilda," "James and the Giant Peach," "The Witches," "The Twits," "The BFG," and "Fantastic Mr. Fox" — denied the long-dead author even his own allusions.

TheBlaze noted that whereas Dahl had made passing mention of Rudyard Kipling, now the novel references Jane Austen instead.

In "The Witches," a passage that formerly read "'Here's your little boy,' she said. 'He needs to go on a diet.'" now only says "Here's your little boy."

This Dahl book and others underwent hundreds of changes, which some have suggested effectively collectivized the works, transforming them into Dahl-esque narratives that substitute the "contemporary sensibilities" of his publishers for Dahl's own.

Emboldened revisionists

Revisionists have not just targeted the works of dead authors, but have recently sought to rewrite the works of authors still around to raise a fuss.

TheBlaze reported earlier this month that R.L. Stine, author of the "Goosebumps" series of kids' novels, noted that the over 100 edits made to his book series, which have sold over 400 million copies, had been done without his knowledge.

Sensitivity readers and Scholastic editors covertly sanitized the language, removing references to slaves, language about being "crazy," and language suggesting characters are fat, among other edits.

Scholastic issued a statement after its covert efforts had been exposed, claiming that it had "reviewed the text to keep the language current and avoid imagery that could negatively impact a young person’s view of themselves today, with a particular focus on mental health."

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