Rachel Maddow Refutes Rick Santorum with UC Davis Reference

During a speech in Wisconsin Monday, Rick Santorum made a claim that public universities in California don’t teach American History.

“Seven or eight of the California system of universities don’t even teach an American history course,” Santorum said. “It’s not even available to be taught … we’re trying to disconnect American people form the roots of who we are.”

On her program last night, Rachel Maddow addressed these claims. The tool she used to do so was the UC Davis course catalogue.

“Rick Santorum thinks that these schools are actively trying to destroy America,” Maddow said. “That is unbelievable, by which I mean that literally cannot be believed. That is not a true thing that Rick Santorum is saying.”

She then goes on to list a variety of courses:

• History of the United States
• United States since 1896
• The American Revolution (1763-1790)
• The Gilded Age and Progressive Area (Maddow: “Progressive!?!?”)
• Selected things in 20^th Century America

A blog called RickSantorumLies.org -- which obviously has an opinion on Santorum, pulled compiled the courses offered at all ten UC campuses. You can watch the Rachel Maddow segment on that site.

How do you feel about Maddow dropping UC Davis’s name as a way of debunking Santorum’s claim?

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