In August Beck falsely alleged that the Center for American Progress advocated cutting “U.S. history” from “education.” In fact, CAP had identified a grant program for teacher development titled, “Teaching American History” as spending that “should be eliminated” because it “lacked demonstrated effectiveness.”

Nevertheless, Beck attacked CAP for its report and suggested that it was motivated by a desire to erase history, which he claimed “serves as a damning series of rock-solid evidence that progressive policies do not work”:

BECK: I told you earlier this week about George Soros and the funding that he sent to the Center for American Progress -- not really a place known for its, you know, cost-cutting measures. But, it -- there is a booklet on education. And it said that these are the things, these are the niche items that we can cut from education.

Are you ready? U.S. history, constitutional studies, and anything to do with economics. That's what the Center for American Progress -- they say that is “niche”: the Constitution.

Well, the reason I wanted to tell you about that is because that “niche” history is being erased and it's only going to get much, much worse. The way history has been disappearing -- you have to ask yourself, why? Why haven't you been talked some of the things that you've learned on this program? Because history serves as a damning series of rock-solid evidence that progressive policies do not work. The only way to convince people to keep trying them is to keep changing the names, places, dates, erase whole sections of history. You've got to change history.

But during today's edition of America's Newsroom, Beck's Fox News colleague William La Jeunesse advocated cutting the same program.

In a segment on ineffective federal programs, La Jeunesse said:

LA JEUNESSE: So you can try to go after the budget one slice at a time or one bite at a time. That is how the federal budget is built by thousands of different programs.

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LA JEUNESSE: This was Teaching American History for teachers to teach history, quote, in more exciting and engaging ways. Again, no evidence that it works.

The point is small cuts add up.

Looks like Beck's own network is in on the progressive plot to disappear history!