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Mayor fires back after librarian calls Dr. Seuss book cliche
The Virginian-Pilot ^ | September 29, 2017 | The Associated Press

Posted on 09/29/2017 8:58:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — The mayor of Dr. Seuss' hometown fired back at a school librarian on Thursday who called the children's author's books "racist" and "cliche" in rejecting a donation of them from Melania Trump.

The comments of Cambridge Public Schools librarian Liz Phipps Soeiro were "political correctness at its worst," Springfield, Massachusetts, Mayor Domenic Sarno said in a statement.

"One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish, I think her comments stink and are ridiculous towards our beloved Dr. Seuss," he said.

Dr. Seuss, whose real name is Theodor Geisel, was born and raised in Springfield.....

(Excerpt) Read more at pilotonline.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Books/Literature; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: books; massachusetts; melania; trump
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1 posted on 09/29/2017 8:58:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The lady says her librarian has a graduate degree in “library science”

Maybe that person’s salary needs to cut.


2 posted on 09/29/2017 9:00:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

You need a masters degree to be a librarian, so EVERY one of them have that.


3 posted on 09/29/2017 9:02:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Tucker Carlson was hilarious tonight on his Fox News show, as was Mark Steyn.


4 posted on 09/29/2017 9:03:31 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The librarian mafia is as left-wing and vicious as any profession in America. They have been taken over by rigid political correctness and rabid anti-Americanism. Not your grandparents’ librarians anymore!!!


5 posted on 09/29/2017 9:04:12 PM PDT by Enchante ( I lost my tagline, has anyone found it???)
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To: BenLurkin

she should be fired for turning down books for kids.


6 posted on 09/29/2017 9:04:25 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Okay.

That person’s salary still maybe needs to be cut.


7 posted on 09/29/2017 9:05:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This librarian is the problem and the exact person we must always right back against and be vigilant towards. She is the typical ‘I am with her’ supporter and she brings this into her work life as well.

JoMa


8 posted on 09/29/2017 9:06:55 PM PDT by joma89
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To: morphing libertarian

Somebody needs to look into just what kind of phony baloney “education” this librarian was tainted with.


9 posted on 09/29/2017 9:07:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LIBRARIAN, YOU’RE FIRED!

Well in private industry she would be, anyway.


10 posted on 09/29/2017 9:07:32 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The master's degree librarian is too stupid to remember having her picture taken celebrating Dr. Suess' birthday before opening her big mouth. This is the type of master's graduate you get when "everyone deserves a college education". Pic here (click)


11 posted on 09/29/2017 9:09:32 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Same woman - before the book donation; after the book donation.

Psychologically not well and unfit to be around children.

12 posted on 09/29/2017 9:10:50 PM PDT by Bon mots (Laughing at liberal tears!)
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To: Bon mots

Her mother-in law called Boston NPR this AM and said that she is really a great person.

Her mother-in-law,for heaven’s sake.

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13 posted on 09/29/2017 9:16:22 PM PDT by Mears
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To: BenLurkin

this comes from the church the Obamas attended for 20 years. They learn to hate all things white and to upset the culture wth posionous venom In the immortal words of Rev Wright GD America.


14 posted on 09/29/2017 9:17:17 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: Bon mots

You can go to the school library website and see the Dr Seuss books in their catalog.


15 posted on 09/29/2017 9:18:27 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey, Mayor, the librarian wasn't being politically correct...she was being an a$$hole.

16 posted on 09/29/2017 9:21:16 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Give her some slack! When she goes back to the university, her PhD thesis will be to deconstruct Horton Hears a Who.
17 posted on 09/29/2017 9:23:46 PM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: Mears

Mother in law?
Looks like she lives with 50 cats & is clearly deranged.


18 posted on 09/29/2017 9:40:32 PM PDT by rainee (Her)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, pfathinatin. I have been reading, of late, Thoreau’s work, A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS, which he actually put to pen at Walden Pond, and is a companion piece to his more famous WALDEN work.

Well, early on he waxes poetical, not to say fantastical, about fish, observing for example,

“Think how in winter you can sink a line down straight in a pasture through snow and through ice, and pull up a bright, slippery, dumb, subterranean silver or golden fish!”

This put me in mind immediately of McElligot’s Pool, and if you read the paragraphs, I don’t know how you would disagree.

... so is Thoreau as well, who is a virtual Saint of the Left, about to be thrown overboard? I wouldn’t doubt it, if he hasn’t been already! ... which I wouldn’t doubt either.


19 posted on 09/29/2017 10:16:58 PM PDT by dr_lew (I)
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To: Hotlanta Mike; Whenifhow; LS; GregNH; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; ...

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/09/29/steyn-space-20-minutes-weve-gone-confederate-flag-racist-star-spangled-banner-racist/

Steyn on Tucker’s show


20 posted on 09/29/2017 10:20:49 PM PDT by bitt (The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literal)
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