I was going to upvote this for its opposition to one-line, smug comments. However, your insistence that RomeoStevens' example must be of something uniquely bad spoiled it. I think albeola was just calling for an example to show that OP was strawmanning.

Also, Whig history does not mean what you seem to think it means: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_history