Archive for the Political Correctness Category
Posted on October 22, 2009 by Mary Grabar
SOCIALISM! As I was teaching “The Speech” last night it struck me that in 1964 Ronald Reagan was not afraid of using the S word. Yet, “conservative” (by Daily Kos standards) columnist Kathleen Parker, in a column likening Glenn Beck’s program to a “sideshow,” cited a count of the number of times Glenn Beck used [...]
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Posted on October 21, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Here is one professor weighing in in a forum called “Brainstorm” on the number one issue facing America today: race, specifically, racism in the form of one isolated Justice of the Peace refusing to marry an interracial couple….and Rush Limbaugh. The professor in typical humorless fashion ignores the origins of the “magic negro” comment, and [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2009 by Mary Grabar
I had been working on this in-depth report for a while, and was glad to make my debut on Big Government.com with it. (They’re the folks who brought you the undercover videos of ACORN employees offering business tips to actors posing as pimp and prostitute.) Those interested in education might want to know that PETA [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2009 by Mary Grabar
More moral equivalency by CNN in reporting on the Glenn Beck segment that exposed White House Communications Director Anita Dunn’s commencement speech for St. Andrews Episcopal School at the National Cathedral; there she praised Mao Tse-Tung and Mother Theresa as her “heroes.” The CNN article uses Media Matters as a source to say that Republicans [...]
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