"Texas Rising" History channel's shift from Nazis to TeaBaggers. LIOTTA goes "nuts on the Mexicans"
That's a quote from Ray LIOTTA on Kelly & Michael just now about his character.
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http://riograndeguardian.com/lopez-texas-rising/
[font size=5]López: Texas Rising?[/font]
by Jose Antonio Lopez
.... (A) On March 2, 1836, when Anglos supposedly created it, Texas was already 145 years old! Texas was born in 1691 with the naming of Domingo Terán de los Rios as its first governor.
(B) In 1836, Texas was not part of the U.S. frontier, contrary to the customary talking points long used by post-1836 historians and parroted by “Texas Rising” writers and producers. ....
In reality, when Anglos left the U.S. and immigrated to Mexico, they were seeking a better life, not unlike the dreams of today’s immigrants. When crossing into Mexico (Texas), slave-owning Anglos refused to free their slaves as requested by Mexican government officials. So, the main bone of contention between encroaching Anglos and Mexico was slavery. ....
It’s time to concede that the U.S. was the aggressor in 1836 Texas, not the Mexican Army. Continuing to deny the early chapters of Texas just because they’re written in Spanish and/or don’t fit the Sam Houston model is unjust. It always has been. Acknowledging it now isn’t only wise, but timely. The following is the reason why.
Demography experts predict that Spanish-surnamed Texans will soon again be the majority population, a status they once enjoyed before the Anglos’ arrival. Teaching them a seamless social studies and history curricula in the classroom will finally grant Mexican-descent students their early Texas history ownership, long denied many generations of their elders. ....
Editor’s Note: The main picture accompanying this op-ed is of the Tejano Monument that graces the grounds of the state Capitol in Austin, Texas. The monument acknowledges and pays tribute to the contributions by Tejanos to Texas history and culture. Armando Hinojosa of Laredo sculpted the life-sized bronze statues that honor the early Spanish pioneers who settled Texas. The statues are mounted on a 275-ton granite base on the southeast grounds of the Capitol. Five accompanying plaques tell the Tejano story, beginning with the arrival of the Spaniards in the 1500s.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-st-review-texas-rising-20150525-column.html
Mary McNamara
[font size=5]Review 'Texas Rising' an exciting charge through the Texas Revolution [/font]
History (channel) is attempting to repeat itself. At least ratings- and Emmys-wise.
The network's new miniseries, "Texas Rising," is not only executive produced by Leslie Greif and written by Ted Mann, part of the team responsible for the network's phenomenal "Hatfields & McCoys," but it also shares a leading man.
In the five-part chronicle of the Texas Revolution, Bill Paxton, nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of Randall McCoy, plays the legendary Sam Houston, Tennessee governor turned victorious Texas leader.
Unfortunately, "Texas Rising," is not as uniformly rich and splendid as "Hatfields & McCoys" or even Paxton's terrific performance as Houston. Though an exciting tale told in careful detail with the help of a remarkable cast that includes Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Thomas Jane, Jeremy Davies, Brendan Fraser, Ray Liotta and Kris Kristofferson as President Andrew Jackson, "Texas Rising" is tonally challenged in a way that regularly undercuts its own inherent drama. ....
Playing men as human as they are heroic — Houston fled a marriage that failed under mysterious circumstances; Smith is made vulnerable by a Mexican wife whom he deeply loves — Paxton and Morgan manage to make their characters believable in moments sweeping, swift and occasionally absurd.
They may not be enough to raise the entirety of "Texas," but they along with rich historical details that go well beyond the usual Alamo myths make the series worth watching.
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myself. 
I thought our proudest moment was the first word spoken from the Moon 
You just want to be outraged at Texas, so no point in arguing. You have a great day!
then I've always thought the first "word" was "BAM!" as exclaimed when the engine shut off. Someone should tell Emeril 
"Don't mess with Texas!" 
The show looks like it was created for dudes still stuck in adolescence.
the John "draft dodger" WAYNE/proto-TeaBagger version of things. The author does mention the extermination of Native Americans, but skips on by the inconvenient Spaniards. When I first looked at the picture of the monument, the figure of the Conquistador was invisible. He focuses on Mexico's "21 years" and Spain's 302 yrs is skipped on by but for the chart:
