Known history in one monotone run on sentence....

(edited after watching the entire series)

Just started watching this. Guess I was expecting something 'shockingly unknown', or at least little known. What you get is a basic 'fill in the blanks' version of history, where Stone fills in the blanks he chooses.

Perhaps the final piece was seeing Borat used. I don't know about you, but as much as I love Borat, it doesn't quite qualify as primary evidence of the American jingoist mind (rather it's ignorance....which was Cohen's point).

Stone is fortunate to have major media/video resources at his disposal. What he doesn't have is an unbiased viewpoint. I don't begrudge him or the series for that. But anyone semi serious about history knows (and I did get my degree in history), valid history is unbiased and unemotional. Stone's monotone delivery may pass as unemotional, he seems to spend far too much time spewing vitriol about past presidents (especially Truman, and even went as far as to note how he had feminine features as a child and was chided for being 'soft'). In fact, if one were to utilize this as a primary teaching source, you might not imagine anything good ever happened. He passed over most of civil-rights and space race among others. I understand this is more of a 'political history', but relying on such a time really diminishes any validity his views might offer.

I can't say it's all bad. There's interesting detail about Wallace and others. But I really do question the facts being presented, considering the bias....