Huckabee Launches History Cartoons That 'Celebrate Religion' For Kids (VIDEO)

Were you absent the day your history teacher informed the class that the Reagan Revolution was powered by a divine intervention from God? Did you fall asleep during the lesson on black, unemployed people who, at one time, completely lacked ethics? Don't worry -- Mike Huckabee has made a tool to school your entire family on these subjects.

The former Arkansas governor announced Thursday that he's launched a company called Learn Our History, with the objective of making history lessons for students entertaining through the use of animated videos, according to PR Newswire.

"America's youth aren't excited about our past because they're being taught history in a way that minimizes what has made America a beacon of hope around the world for over 200 years. Instead, history lessons today often focus on America's faults," said Governor Huckabee."

The objective is to combat what Huckabee and co-founder Brad Saft see as the mundane, inaccurate and biased way in which history is taught, according to the website.

As a way to instill American pride in students, a video "Origins of World War II" that's previewed on the site includes dialogue and narration such as:

"Show those Germans and Japanese the power of America."

"You can see that every American pulled together to win this war. Even the gals were in on it. You go, girl."

Learn Our History also includes a video with religious undertones about the Reagan Revolution:

"God had a plan for America...If we ever forget we're one nation under God, we'll be one nation gone under."

The company's website says the history videos celebrate religion, but not any specific denomination, however.

"At Learn Our History we recognize and celebrate faith, religion and the role of God in America's founding and making our country the greatest place on Earth. Our videos are non-denominational in nature and can be enjoyed by families with diverse religious beliefs."

The Reagan video also describes the past economic downturn, illustrated by a black man wielding a knife as one of the people out of a job "whose morals are just gone."

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Comments

[jp90]

08:29 PM on 05/16/2011

Oh my God. I mean really, there are no words. That's 1:51 of my life I'll never get back.

[HopeLiesBleeding]

09:15 AM on 05/15/2011

OM*G! I am not a religious person by any stretch of the imagination, but today I will be sure to make time to quietly thank God that this man will not be running for president.

[Jerrybrice]

12:46 AM on 05/15/2011

After watching Mike Huckabee's kids cartoons, it's painfully clear that Mike Huckabee does not know any kids.
These are terrible, artistically and literally!

[annon78]

09:16 PM on 05/14/2011

Republicans should not be allowed to breed

[dmessy]

05:16 PM on 05/22/2011

Hitler said the same for the Jews. You should be ashamed of yourself.

[Shortyshort95]

09:07 PM on 05/14/2011

I like how they forgot the whole "Reagan-Paid-The-Islamic-Fundamentalists-To-Keep-The-Hostages-As-Long-As-Carter-Was-President" deal. Good to know what my fellow students are suffering through. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to move to Europe...

[ca va pas non]

07:51 PM on 05/14/2011

hack a bee

[Max Shelby]

06:09 PM on 05/14/2011

You know the Geico commercial that asks "Is the pen mightier than the sword"--- fast shot to a serious ninja sword wielder who looks like a first rate bad *ss---meanwhile the possible victim standing about twenty feet away just received a package from the UPS guy, he signs for it, opens the box, pulls out a neat little gizmo and points it at said ninja and ZAP!

Ninja drops into a useless heap on the floor.

I'd find one of those useful about now.

[moogaloog]

04:48 PM on 05/14/2011

guys go to their channel and view the one about wwII. token back girl walking with her head on backwards. HILARIOUS.

[Tom Iarossi]

04:22 PM on 05/14/2011

The right bemoans the loss of religious faith in America, then demonstrates why that's occurring by churning out blatantly untrue, biased drivel like this.

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ" - Gandhi

[dagmaclugh39]

06:46 PM on 05/14/2011

To be Christian is not necessarily to be Christlike--and vice versa.

[Teacher Trish]

03:15 PM on 05/14/2011

Excuse my typing "pure" drivel.

[Teacher Trish]

03:14 PM on 05/14/2011

As a American History teacher I have to say this is oure drivel. National and State standards require that students examine primary source documents as the primary means of learning about how the events of the past unfolded. Cartoons that string together a series of non-sequitors have no place in my classroom.

[SanDiegoCoyote]

03:05 PM on 05/14/2011

As I recall, restaurant workers tips became taxable as regular income under Reagan. Just one of the many reasons the Gipper was also known as "Robin Hood in Reverse." I wonder if anything like that is in these videos.

[Tom Iarossi]

04:24 PM on 05/14/2011

He also increased the Social Security tax and starting taxing its benefits when it finally paid out, in addition to signing at least six tax increases. As Governor of California, he made a previously free higher education system prohibitively expensive and appointed people to the Board of Regents who were grossly unqualified and blatantly political.

[Miss Grey]

10:22 PM on 05/14/2011

He's the reason we have so many homeless people today. He shut down all the mental hospitals and turned the veterans out on the streets. He's also why AIDS got as much traction as it did. Dude is a straight up villain.

[champagne charlie]

11:28 AM on 05/14/2011

Our current economic problems are the result of "Reaganomics" a major part of the "Reagan Revolution". Nuff said!

[champagne charlie]

11:25 AM on 05/14/2011

Ironically Ron and Nancy Reagan never attended church during his entire presidency. Nancy also has a White House astrologer. Just what deity was Reagan following?

[Teacher Trish]

03:16 PM on 05/14/2011

Fanned and faved for the truth.

[Tom Iarossi]

04:25 PM on 05/14/2011

The Church of Saint Ronnie the Daft...

[ubar]

11:06 AM on 05/14/2011

Complete and utter BS. For some reason, my memory of the Reagan era was not nearly as "hopeful". I was only a child, and the politics did not mean much to me, I just remember my father being repeatedly laid off, my mother working constantly to try and fill in the gaps financially, and eating a lot of potato soup. My brother and I worked for local farmers, and sold produce we grew in our garden to add to the good of the order. During my Father's many lay offs he did handy man work, and any thing to keep money coming in. Returning to the "hope" of the Reagan era doesn't seem all the great to me. I cannot remember any other time that my family was as poor as we were then.
P.S. Don't write some BS blaming all of this on Carter.