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Bob Somerby is an important national treasure. Well, he is someone who should be read with the morning paper!
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THE TEACHERS WELL: When CARLSON suits up for the Washington Generals, others
are free to say what they please. Consider Ellen Sorokin’s consummate clowning
on page one of this Monday’s WashTimes. “NEA delivers history lesson,” the
headline said. “Tells teachers not to cast 9/11 blame.” Here was the opening
paragraph.
Really? Teachers shouldn’t “suggest
any group is responsible” for September 11? Sounds strange, but what did
that clipped statement mean? Did it mean that Al Quaeda wasn’t responsible
for September 11? That would be a very strange thought. Or did it mean that
Muslims as a group weren’t responsible? That, of course, would be perfectly
accurate. Sorokin showed no sign of knowing what the NEA said or meant; her
article was marked by the truncated “quotes” which tell us that spin is in
progress. But no matter. The nation’s screamers took to the airwaves, teaching
Americans to hate teachers well.
By Monday evening, the NEA website had
been posted, but Mike Barnicle showed no sign of having reviewed it. On Hardball,
he simply read the truncated “quotes” from the Times, then began to state
the dimwitted points his paymasters want him reciting:
If an engineer mocked facts the way Barnicle does,
he’d be fired in a Chris Matthews minute. But in today’s press corps, this
PlaySkool punditry is quite routine. Ka-ching! Can you hear Mike’s fat paycheck
passing?
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THE TEACHERS WELL: When CARLSON suits up for the Washington Generals, others
are free to say what they please. Consider Ellen Sorokin’s consummate clowning
on page one of this Monday’s WashTimes. “NEA delivers history lesson,” the
headline said. “Tells teachers not to cast 9/11 blame.” Here was the opening
paragraph.
SOROKIN: The National Education Association is suggesting
to teachers that they be careful on the first anniversary of the September
11 attacks not to “suggest any group is responsible” for the terrorist hijackings
that killed more than 3,000 people.
Really? Teachers shouldn’t “suggest
any group is responsible” for September 11? Sounds strange, but what did
that clipped statement mean? Did it mean that Al Quaeda wasn’t responsible
for September 11? That would be a very strange thought. Or did it mean that
Muslims as a group weren’t responsible? That, of course, would be perfectly
accurate. Sorokin showed no sign of knowing what the NEA said or meant; her
article was marked by the truncated “quotes” which tell us that spin is in
progress. But no matter. The nation’s screamers took to the airwaves, teaching
Americans to hate teachers well.
By Monday evening, the NEA website had
been posted, but Mike Barnicle showed no sign of having reviewed it. On Hardball,
he simply read the truncated “quotes” from the Times, then began to state
the dimwitted points his paymasters want him reciting:
BARNICLE: What’s
the NEA thinking about, talking about September 11 in this manner? Are they
nuts?…What moral relativism can we draw from September 11? They seem to be
trying to do that. We have to think of what was in the minds of these hijackers.
Let’s figure out what was on their minds. We know what was on their minds!
They wanted to kill us!
If an engineer mocked facts the way Barnicle does,
he’d be fired in a Chris Matthews minute. But in today’s press corps, this
PlaySkool punditry is quite routine. Ka-ching! Can you hear Mike’s fat paycheck
passing?