Nathan Kalmoe (he/him): When somebody’s history is bested by the History Channel, you know it’s bad.

Yeah it’s not like we’ll see a repeat of 1968, when the Democrats downshifted to a Vice President at a convention in Chicago that was plagued by protests against the party’s support for an unpopular foreign war and wound up creating an opening for a candidate they’d beat before. Totally different!

YES THAT WORKED SO WELL AND DID NOT AT ALL THROW THE PARTY INTO A DIVISIVE NOMINATION CONTEST AND LOST ELECTION THAT WOULD HAUNT IT FOR THE NEXT HALF CENTURY

Here’s a better take www.history.com/news/lbj-exi...

LBJ Announced He Wouldn’t Run Again. Political Chaos Ensued | HISTORYwww.history.com How President Johnson’s exit from the 1968 presidential race rocked politics.

When somebody’s history is bested by the History Channel, you know it’s bad.

The author is a good historian, the piece was originally from 6 years ago

Ah, didn’t know the channel ever hired historians!

I’m guessing it was a mistake here?

What the hell do you have against Ancient Aliens, Kevin

I have serious issues with Ancient Aliens, I seriously want to tie down one of the Ancient Alien "experts", and give that fucker a proper hair cut.

Ancient Aliens*

I hate the casual racism on display, “Brown People couldn’t have possibly built the pyramids, it had to be aliens”

I can never quite figure out whether the guy in the "aliens"/"is it possible?" meme image has the same haircut as Londo Mollari in an act of self-parody, or if it's because he thinks he's a Centauri.

so old i remember the history channel employing historians who appeared on air to intro movie or doc, during breaks to discuss, and after to talk about historical veracity. alas, also remember when they based an entire series on mistaking a pic of moe howard for hitler. @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

They did a one hour special a decade ago on how a political scientist who made predictions for the CIA was the second coming of Nostradamus.

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