America is still reeling from the events in Newton, Connecticut last week. During this holiday season, there are 26 families who will be grieving instead of celebrating, still wondering and trying to make sense of everything that happened. On Friday, the NRA added fuel to that painful fire by having a distasteful "news conference" essentially telling all of us that what happened last week was the fault of everyone and everything BUT the NRA and guns (my most favorite of LaPierre's reasons for what happened? Obama's budget plan. Yeah, I don't even know...) LaPierre offered the NRA's suggestions to keep this from happening once again and arming everyone and their mother was the essential point. The media immediately lambasted LaPierre for his insensitive remarks, both conservative (obvious liberal conspiracy) and liberal publications alike.
Cue in Michelle Malkin. For anyone who isn't familiar with her, she's a spiteful hate monger who works part time for Fox News, runs a website and stalks her opponents on Twitter. In some of her worst works, she wrote a book defending the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War 2. She defends torture, hate speech and violence and despises immigrants. In other words, she's everything the right-wing is trying to be. Anyway, she was on Fox News (obviously) this morning, whining, complaining and crying over the response to the NRA in the days following the incident in Newton. Her quote (and I'm not making this up):
"This should be a time of sober reflection and an inclusive time
for EVERY American with a diverse viewpoint in the national
conversation about gun violence, about the culture, and somehow so many
people, particularly in the crazed, anti-gun liberal media have
demonized the NRA and its millions of law-abiding, peaceful gun owners
who are practicing their constitutionally-protected Second Amendment
rights."
During the entire interview, Malkin and Fox and Friends blamed liberals for demonizing an organization who has paid off congress and state governments to write some of the most loose gun laws we've seen in years. She just couldn't believe the public outcry the NRA has had to "deal with" since last week. How dare we question their ideology! Surely, no gun violence is EVER the fault of the group who advocates an armed overthrow of the government, or that all teachers should carry guns, or that all American's should have guns in order to "defend themselves from the US federal government." No, that would never attribute to gun violence! What could go wrong there?? Sigh. This appears to be the most compelling evidence yet that the lack of critical thinking skills required to tackle serious problems is a requirement for employment with Fox News.I think it's safe to say that the outrage directed at the NRA, is incredibly justified.
My question for Malkin is this - when are you going to think of the families of the 26people who were murdered? When will you show caring for the thousands of families affected by gun violence in our nation EVERY YEAR. When are you going to show compassion? But most importantly, why are you SO MEAN?
Scott Walker was elected in 2010 and took office in 2011, after a month of tax cuts and giveaways to his friends and donors, phase two of his agenda kicked in. Scott Walker's goal was to "divide and conquer" the state. His first target was Wisconsin public workers which largely included the state's educators.
“Well, we're going to start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment
bill. The first step is, we're going to deal with collective bargaining
for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer.” Scott Walker to Diane Hendricks.
Luckily for the survivors of the Sandy Hook massacre, the educators/public employees on staff had more character than our Governor and did not subscribe to the same disgusting philosophy.
Out of the chaos and horror emerged an incredible act of selflessness
and bravery by one teacher who spent her final moments trying to protect
her young students from harm.
As you know here, there is more, there is always more:
Scott Walker has attacked teachers, saying they are "failing our children"
and when a rightwing shock-jock said "most of them are not nice
people," Walker refused to condemn the remark and instead brought the
radio host an on-air Christmas gift of glazed nuts.
"Most Wisconsin public school teachers are absolute lunatics. People
at least now are beginning to say this. I've been talking about this
for years. Most of them are not good people. Most are not fair minded.
Most of them do not care about the children. Most of them are sickening
union thug money jerks who couldn't care less about the public good." Mark Belling.
When the shots rang out, School Psychologist Mary Sherlach threw herself into the danger.
Janet
Robinson, the superintendent of Newtown Public Schools, said Sherlach and the school's principal ran toward the shooter. They lost their own
lives, rushing toward him.
Even as Sherlach neared retirement,
her job at Sandy Hook was one she loved. Those who knew her called her a
wonderful neighbor, a beautiful person, a dedicated educator.
Fox Nation: "Warning, Frothing Radicals Running Wild."
On its Twitter page, Fox Nation promoted its March 9 post calling
protesters "Rabid Leftists" by stating, "Warning, Frothing Radicals
Running Wild." [Media Matters, 3/9/11]
Glenn Beck: "Some Of The Teachers" Protesting In Wisconsin "Are Just Useful Idiots."
On the February 28 broadcast his radio show, Glenn Beck stated: "Some
of the teachers, some of the people who are there, really are just
useful idiots. They don't know what's really going on. They don't know
that this is a coordinated effort." [Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program, 2/28/11]
Michelle Malkin: Protesters "Stormed" Capitol For Demonstration; Teachers Used Students As "Kiddie Human Shields."
In a February 16 post about protests in Wisconsin, Malkin wrote that
the SEIU "and its allies stormed in for a sleepover protest" at the
state Capitol building. She later wrote of teachers staging a protest:
"Kiddie human shields become kiddie sacrificial lambs." In a later post,
Malkin called the protesters "union thugs." [MichelleMalkin.com, 2/16/11, 2/16/11]
Jay Severin: "A lot of" teachers are "losers" and "little Napoleons." On the June 25 edition of his WTKK show, Jay Severin said
of teachers: "These little Napoleons -- think about these teachers and
how they act, a lot of them. This is their little, tiny kingdom. A lot
of them are losers, and they're little, tiny Napoleons, and you go into
the school and this is their only chance in life, is to boss around
parents."
Bill O'Reilly claims studies indicate that "most" high school and college teachers "bring in a anti-American viewpoint." On the October 24, 2007, edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly asserted:
"[I]t seems to me, and the studies indicate, that most teachers -- high
school and college in the United States -- are left-wingers. That they
bring in a anti-American viewpoint to the sense that they don't preach
about the nobility of America, they teach about the deficits. Now, I
think you have to teach both." O'Reilly introduced the segment by
saying, "[W]ith many public schools teaching diversity, tolerance, and
self-esteem rather than history, civics, and geography, lots of American
kids know little or nothing about their country, including what they
owe their country." O'Reilly did not indicate which studies show that
most teachers "are left-wingers."
Jim Quinn insists the public school system is filled with feminists who would "make male behavior illegal." On the November 6, 2008, edition of Clear Channel's The War Room with Quinn & Rose, co-host Jim Quinn read
from a blog post describing a Georgia teacher who reported to her
principal and campus police that one student's artwork might contain
gang symbols. Quinn called the incident evidence of "the chickification
of schools, the feminization of society, and the war on masculinity." He
then stated that "the goal of the public school system -- the feminists
in the public school system -- is to make male behavior illegal, a
crime." (editors note, all educators who died in the horrible massacre were female).
NealBoortz says teachers unions are "the single most dangerous entity, group of people, in this country right now." On the April 16, 2008, broadcast
of his radio show, Neal Boortz said, "I think the most dangerous -- the
single most dangerous entity, group of people in this country right now
are the teachers unions." He continued: "I think teachers unions do
more damage to this country than the Los Angeles Lakers. They do more
damage to this country than all the drug pushers together. ... If I had a
button right now, two buttons -- push this button and it gets rid of
all the drug dealers; push this button, it gets rid of the teachers
unions -- I'm getting rid of the teachers unions."
Diane Day, a school therapist, told the Wall
Street Journal that she and several other teachers were in a meeting
with Mrs Dawn Hochsprung and Mrs Sherlach when the shooting began.
“We were there for about five minutes chatting and we heard, 'pop pop pop',”
she said. “I went under the table.”
But the principal and the school psychologist ran toward the sound of the
gunfire with complete disregard for their own safety.
“They didn’t think twice about confronting or seeing what was going on,” Ms
Day said.
Rabbi Shaul Praver, who visited the scene, said that Mrs Hochsprung and Mrs
Sherlach were killed in an "execution-style" shooting.
Sen. Glenn Grothman said they are trying to shut people out because the place
is "becoming a pigsty." He also called protesters staying overnight in
the Wisconsin Capitol "slobs." When pressed to clarify he remarks, he
insisted all those people were just a bunch of "college students having a
fun party."
I suspect that the good people of New Berlin don't need a bunch of
out-of-district union toadies to tell them how to run their school
district. I also suspect that the taxpayers of New Berlin don't need
don't need the WEAC bosses of the world to tell them what's best for
their community. Nevertheless, the outside agitators will be there
tonight - perhaps in force.
Maybe it's time for the taxpayers of New Berlin to arrange for some pest control. The plague of locusts is definitely coming! - Jeff Wagner
I’m curious how many of the teachers will actually show up at the
Capitol to protest compared to how many of them will treat it as “a
mental health day.” (And no, I don’t take seriously the threat of the
doctor’s note requirement by the school district.) - Jimmy Wigderson
Just a couple of weeks ago, the Newtown school board, like school
boards all over this country, was considering cutting the school’s
elementary music program and library program. It should be noted that
both the school librarian and the school music teacher, whose jobs were
on the line at the school board, stayed with the kids they were teaching
when the attack began.
Yet in an attitude all too typical of many Americans’ thinking, one
man, in a discussion section of the local paper, discussing the local
School Board’s $1-million budget cutting plans last spring, wrote to a
teacher last spring:
You, as a public sector employee, don’t generate ANY revenue.
Every penny of the budget of your public sector enterprise is TAKEN from
producers. It’s other people’s money versus money your organization
EARNED. Your salary is not market based. Your salary, nor your benefits,
nor your job, is in jeopardy during contracting economic times. If I
want a raise I have to prove I have contributed more to the bottom line,
and then it doesn’t matter unless the entire firm has grown the bottom
line sufficiently to give me that raise. You are insulated from that
reality. Your private (sic) sector salary only goes up. How is that
fair? Especially in light of the fact that you don’t even generate the
revenue that pays for your constantly rising salary?
Some of those “non-revenue-generating” unionized teachers, and the
school’s non-revenue-generating principal, just died defending those
kids.
I wonder if their tax-obsessed critics would have done the same?
Can you imagine such a vile LTE in one of our paper? Me too!
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