"Historians Committee for Fairness"

I see that Michelle Malkin has run afoul of some history cops with her new book.

Clayton Cramer rightly takes them to task on his blog and points out the hypocrisy evident in the contrasting reactions of historians to In Defense of Internment and Bellesiles’s Arming America.

If the self-appointed defenders of Historical Accuracy want to be even-handed, perhaps they should encourage all the media who gave Douglas Brinkley a soapbox to bring on some of the critics who have documented the evasions that fill Tour of Duty. By the way, did these historians express any concern that Brinkley was not equipped to write about brown water combat in Vietnam when his book hit the shelves? Come to think of it, how do these velvet-shod bullyboys feel about Kerry/Brinkley locking up the archives that were used for ToD?

This post over at Volokh is spot on.

Finally, since they are concerned that MM is not qualified to deal with her source material, take a look at this article-- Fraud with Footnotes

A sample

Even before the recent postmodernist wave, history graduate faculties were already loaded with future professors who had not so much learned history as historiography, learning "American history," for example, mainly as a review of the various conceptual schemes of Charles Beard, Frederick Jackson Turner, and other such grand explainers, while often remaining very poorly informed about anything that actually happened in the United States between 1776 and the last quarter of the twentieth
century.
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Revisionists of the 1960s tried to select documents that would support otherwise improbable explanations of which forces had most importantly shaped the behavior of past historical figures. The revisionists of this era need few documents, new or old, since they treat all accounts of the past as mere 'narratives' to be mangled and dismembered on their feminist/post-colonial/anti-racist/gender-sensitive Procrustean bed.
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This kind of research is not instructive, but clever: a display of the student's familiarity with fashionable preoccupations, not the historical events on which these are brought to bear.