Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee Selling Children’s Cartoon About 9/11 Attacks

August 3, 2011 4:23 PM

A screengrab of Learn Our History’s ’9/11 & The War on Terror’ cartoon. (credit: YouTube)

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – 9/11, the cartoon?

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee thinks it’s a good idea. He’s one of two people behind Learn Our History, a company which says it is “dedicated to celebrating America’s contributions to the world and making it fun for kids to learn our history.”

The way to make it fun? Cartoons. The company has put together three of a planned 14 videos in its “TimeCycle Academy” series. The series is about a group of kids who “go back in time to relive the most influential stories of our nation.”

They’ve produced three features so far: 9/11 & The War on Terror, Origins of World War II and The Reagan Revolution.

“Our children’s classes and learning materials are often filled with misrepresentations, including historical inaccuracies, personal biases and political correctness,” the company says, explaining part of their educational vision.

The image at the top of the website depicts three historic American figures: Benjamin Franklin, Ronald Reagan and George Washington.

The company pledges the videos are “free from distorted messages that dilute the significance of our nation’s most important series.”

A promotional clip of the 9/11 video is on YouTube. It depicts a cartoon jet hurtling toward the Twin Towers before cutting to a child looking up and saying “No!” Another child asks “Who would do such a thing?” After introducing Osama bin Laden, the cartoon shows a group of men in traditional Islamic garb, waving AK-47s, saying in heavily accented English “The time for Jihad is upon us! Death to the Americans!”

While the promotional video makes mention of the fact that bin Laden is dead, it ends with a cartoon George W. Bush delivering his iconic “I can hear you, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon” remarks at Ground Zero.

“In this important film, the time traveling teenagers learn about America’s heroic response to the tragic events of 9/11,” the website reads. “They strive to understand why Al-Qaeda attacked us and how the ongoing War on Terror protects Americans at home and American ideals abroad.”

Watch the video:

In an introductory message on the site, Huckabee says “Schools across the country have turned their backs on our children by distorting facts, imposing political biases and changing the message behind the important lessons of our history.”

The video is available for $9.95.

What do you think of the video? Tell us your reaction in our comments section.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee Selling Childrens Cartoon About 9/11 Attacks

Blowback

Kids already understand how 911 happened. If you kill people to steal their oil, they will fly planes into your buildings.

Michael Givens

Afghanistan doesn’t have oil, idiot. And we are giving billions of dollars a year to the countries that have oil.

Not Michael Givens

Hey dummy, the hijackers were Saudis! And they cited the western occupation and looting of Iraq for the past century as one of their reasons for the attacks. Also US military bases all over the place in Saudi Arabia to support the monarchy there to control the oil supply.
Realist

No, it’s really more about intolerant ideology.

Thank god we don’t have that type of thinng here, with a political organization placing rabid ideology before common………… Oh yeah, we do.

Michael Givens

Just curious, did Bali steal oil too? Because jihadists blew up a bomb in Bali. What about Spain? Because the blew up trains in Spain.

And what about the Muslim men in the USA who murder their own daughters because they are becoming to western, huh?

So, stoning a woman to death because of an accusation of adultery, that the husband can levy with no evidence, is reasonable?

So, banning women from driving a car is reasonable?

So, forcing women to hide their face and cover the bodies head to toe in 120 degree weather is reasonable?

You people who act as if MODERATE Muslims are morally equivalent to western values, let alone the jihadists who cut people’s heads off, make me sick.

Blowback

Who cares what they do in their own countries? Stop bombing them and stealing their resources and they’ll leave us alone! Just read the reasons they have given for the attacks.

As for those who immigrated to the US, as long as they don’t break our laws who cares what the women wear or if they drive?

Children already know this, why don’t so many adults? Mind your own business, don’t kill, and don’t steal.
Michael Givens

You aren’t grasping simple English presented to you.

We aren’t STEALING oil. We are BUYING oil and they are the wealthiest people in the world.

Bin Laden was a millionaire. These terrorists are often doctors and have PHDs. The idea that they have a REASONABLE motive for wanting to behead someone is insane.

There is no justification for beheading someone, simply because they are a Jew or too Western?

That’s what you fail to see. They are INSANE with hatred.

I’m guessing you don’t make excuses for the KKK who lynched Blacks, huh? This is that. This is hatred, pure and simple.

Question – since we get most of our oil from Canada, why aren’t Canadians blowing themselves up in Times Square? Oh, that’s right, they aren’t insane.

Michael Patrick Schmitt

Huckabee is nuts to be doing this. Actually he was nutty before also. Ron Paul has a more correct version of history. When America sticks its nose in other countries business, we should expect them to retaliate.
Michael Givens

And we have gone to the Middle East to spread democracy. Who are they electing? Hamas and, soon, The Muslim Brotherhood, both of which want Israel wiped off the map, as does the average Arab in the Middle East.

How did we, ultimately, get Bin Laden? By soldiers in Afghanistan or Iraq? No, we went into Pakistan and shot the guy in the head with Navy SEALs. After that happened, I realized having 100,000 troops in the Middle East is a sad waste of American lives.

Israel LIVES right there, and they aren’t invading Arab nations. They use intelligence and strategic bombing, when necessary.

Going into Iraq and Afghanistan, and now Libya, was a huge mistake. Get our troops out of there. Get out of South Korea. Get out of Germany. I will not sacrifice my son for these causes.

I love how the Right wants to cut government…except for the Defense Department. The defense budget went up 12.4% in 2010 alone. It’s almost $700 billion per year, and we make about $2.1 trillion. It’s 1/3rd!

Let’s show Reagan getting the heck out of Lebanon after our Marines were killed. Ronnie wasn’t stupid. He new the Arabs are freaking nuts and left them alone.

What Huck wants to do is just show another slanted, incomplete history lesson. I say we tell the whole story.
Kusokurae

“Schools across the country have turned their backs on our children by distorting facts, imposing political biases and changing the message behind the important lessons of our history.”
And now Mike Huckabee will try his hardest to ensure that the deception continues.
Michael H.

The religious right has tried to push science out of schools, and now they’re going to try and push revisionist history into our classrooms. I fear greatly for the future of the American people. Extremists like Huckabee are going to drive this country straight into a new dark age.
The Wally Lama

Wow . . . the wack jobs are out in full force on this one.
avi

good job mike- the left is already distorting history. just look at the anti semitic comments that have been posted.

ohyan2912

Hear Hear!

Conspiracy Theory

Yes, Ace Ventura… please come up with your real and true version of how you rescued the Miami Dolphin
Liberty

What a wonderful idea! Americans have been taught lies for many years now in school and in all media forms. It is time for truth. They cannot protect themselves and the institutions that keep them safe unless they know they the truth. Go for it, Governor Huckabee!
Kevin D. Korenthal

Parroting more discredited revisionist history. Nice job useful idiot.

Iraq Vet

Go back to sleep Kevin. Everything is just fine. Baaaaaaaaahhhhhh.

Fred Smith

Thanks for the laughs!
I enjoyed Latoya Jackson’s cameo , a few seconds in.
I could almost hear the banjo music.

Michelle Obama

Latoya Jackson… LOL!

Kevin D. Korenthal

It’s no fricken worse the the leftist revisionist history that I was forced to learn IN ORDER TO GRADUATE TO THE NEXT GRADE so I am all for it!
MorganGray

Huh?

Howard Ferrer

Showing this to your children should be considered child abuse. Loose change or zeitgeist or alex jones or jordan maxwell or michael tsarion or OSHO or something that teaches your child to question authority and not be a slave or something that teaches him about tyranny or the constitution or how about self inquiry and meditation and self realization…

MorganGray

Gee, Mom; how much hate and bigotry can you cram into one sentence? I’m concerned for *your* kids.
Danny

Haha your pretty funny TruthIsReal for saying something as untruthful as that…

Let me correct that statement for you… Every person that thinks 9/11 was a false flag to go to war in Afghanistan is unintelligent for they can provide no ‘empirical evidence’ that proves such a statement.

Howard Ferrer

Wheres the evidence that proves otherwise? Nobody has ever shown evidence of planes disappearing in fields or jets crashing into buildings with no engines or damage to the lawn. Wheres the evidence of buildings coming down from fire? When does molten steel pool in the basement of a structure if it fell from a fire that was 80 stories up? and how come there’s molten steel anyways? And what about the reports of the building coming down before it actually did? and what about building 7??? They specifically said that one was a controlled demolition! there’s video of them evacuating, telling people “they are bringing it down”. How? They magically rigged an entire building in a few minutes? I have another question… You really believe what they say is true?

Terry Black

People saw it happen. It was on TV. You must have missed that.

Medbob

What is inaccurate about this video? It is all factually correct and dispassionate.

Howard Ferrer

LMAO!!!

ohyan2912

Typical response of the low brow, inbred moron!

The Clintidote

Leftists hate it when you show the Moslem death cult for what it really is.

Danny

For they don’t think with both there feelings and brain but only there feelings.
SenateCrimeWatch

right wing radical Zionists like Breivik hate it when you tell the American public of the ZIONIST satanic cult for what it really is.

ohyan2912

You have opened you fowl mouth and removed all doubt, YOU ARE A BIGOT!

Katie Lynn

& who killed some of the children of Norway?

Jon

Oh wow… Big surprise that the lefties already hate this idea.. What’s wrong, not enough glorification of communism? glorification of gays? Or abortion? Or is it that they don’t tell the story from “Bin Laden’s side”? You people are a disgrace..
TimeCycle graduate

anything that makes the left barf – like this video will – is OK with me.
Joe Greene

I think they should include, “My Pet Goat” and his involvement.

Howard Ferrer

hahahaha! That book is written in magic passport paper. you know, the paper that withstands the jet fuel fire that supposedly melted hardened steel.
michaelfury

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/the-judas-goat/

Michele

Nice for the truth being taught for once. The people of the United States are tired of the twisted left’s revisiounist history.
susan

pardon my spelling..i was in a hurry and did some typos..i do not feel this type of teaching is a good idea..history is history in black and white, so why not teach it as such without cartoons..life is real and so was 9/11..george bush was not a hero..he was the president..children cannot comprehend the idea of a terrorist, and this to me would make them fearful rather than teach what happened..also, what age are these people aiming at? little ones in grade school certainly would have more questions than answers,and older children shoud be able to read the history books and see pictures..bad idea again!
susan

bad idea..history should be taught es it happened with the fact and not anind of distortion..i dont think huckabee has the right idea here and after all, he is with the fiox tv network!

Way Cup

History has never been recorded without slant. Right or left, they’re all @ssholes.

Steve

Beats anti-america hating from the left. I’ll take the former, thanks.
Thomas Swist

History from the Right. You gotta love it.

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