Posted on 09/20/2005 5:19:03 PM PDT by Libloather
Liberals Furious Over New Children's Book
New kid’s book “Liberals Under My Bed” becomes lightning rod for controversy. Prominent liberals liken it to Nazi propaganda, but conservative author laughs off allegations.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 20, 2005 –- Liberals all over the country are up in arms over a new children’s book that portrays cartoon versions of left-wing icons Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy taxing and regulating a lemonade stand.
“Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed” (Kids Ahead; hardcover: $15.95; ISBN 0976726904) hits bookstore shelves today, but author Katharine DeBrecht has already found herself under fire from liberals. MSNBC host Ron Reagan was incensed over the book and scolded DeBrecht on his cable television show. Fox News host Alan Colmes claimed the book exists for the purpose of “brainwashing.” Democratic Underground, a popular liberal Web site, named DeBrecht to its “Top 10 Conservative Idiots” list. And Daily Kos, the most trafficked left-wing blog, likened the book to Nazi propaganda.
In spite of the unflattering comparisons to Hitler, “Liberals Under My Bed” author DeBrecht is nonplussed by the allegations.
“What else would you expect from liberals?” shrugs DeBrecht, a mother of three and former co-captain of Security Moms for Bush. “Liberals have been foisting their ideological agenda on our kids for years, and now they’re beside themselves that someone would stand up to them. Evidently books about socialist fish and gay kings are OK, but a story about hard work and self-reliance is too extreme.”
DeBrecht asserts that no liberals have protested the presence of books such as “Rainbow Fish” (where a fish is hectored into giving away his beautiful scales so that all the fish look the same) and “King & King” (where two princes marry each other and adopt a little girl) in classrooms. She also points to the prohibition on prayer in school, attacks on the Boy Scouts, opposition to school choice, and the recent court ruling banning the Pledge of Allegiance because it contained the phrase “under God” as evidence of a liberal agenda targeting kids.
“Evidently liberals oppose parents who believe in traditional values having a book that will help them teach those values to their children,” says DeBrecht. “But, then again, liberals oppose anything that supports religion, traditional families, and the free market. Those institutions are obstacles to their goals of eliminating personal responsibility and establishing a welfare state.”
“Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed” -- which features full-color illustrations by award winning artist Jim Hummel -- tells of two brothers who open a lemonade stand. Their plans to save up their hard earned profits to buy a swing set go awry when a Ted Kennedy character taxes away their profits and a pants-suit clad Hillary Clinton look-alike outlaws sugary drinks.
About World Ahead Publishing:
Kids Ahead is an imprint of Los Angeles-based World Ahead Publishing, the West Coast's premier publisher of conservative and libertarian books. To learn more, visit www.worldahead.com.
"Guess he wasn't as liberal as he seemed."
My father (a physician) used to admire hippies for their free love. Until he had to insert an IUD into his friend's 16-year-old daughter who had decided to shack up with her high school English teacher.
I think deep down my father, the son of immigrants, felt insecure and misplaced, which is why these kind of people appeared exciting. Maybe they always do. Until, however, you get too close. Then you realize these people are like a corpse dressed up for a funeral: covered up in make-up to hide the rot & soullessness underneath.
"Mommy, PLEASE! Mommy, PLEASE buy me this book! PLEASE???"
Hey kids! Be the first on your block to own one!
They Lose.
Godwin's law
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Godwin's law (also Godwin's rule of Nazi analogies) is an adage in Internet culture that was originated by Mike Godwin in 1990. The law states that:
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.
There is a tradition in many Usenet newsgroups that once such a comparison is made, the thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. Many people understand Godwin's law to mean this, although (as is clear from the statement of the law above) this is not the original formulation.
It is considered poor form to arbitrarily raise such a comparison with the motive of ending the thread. There is a widely-recognized codicil that any such deliberate invocation of Godwin's law will be unsuccessful. See Quirk's exception below.
Humorous bookmark.
Some of the reviews were posted BEFORE the books release date on Amazon (sept. 20)!
How did all these people read the book on the 18th when it isn't coming out until the 20th? Do they sell advance copies of books to people who will hate them and write bad reviews?
BTW, I went ahead and reported the comment that said christians abuse their kids. I'm not the censoring type, but I do think that type of rhetoric on a review page for a book that children will be looking for is inappropriate.
If more people reported that comment, we might save our children some embarrassment and angst.
You don't mess around, get right to the crux of the matter, as it were. lol
Yeah..they are rotten underneath, so rotten that they have lost their sense of humor...which is why, imo, this gem of a book is so absolutely PERFECT!
I cannot wait to read it...to laugh and to take loads of delight in the great lack of humor the liberals exude as they fume over a book that takes a humorous stab at their black agenda.
Liberals have been going at our children for years, it is even stated, actually written down, in the homosexual agenda, that young school children are the main target for their sick drive to normalize a sexual perversion.
And on and on it goes.
Now that the liberals have to view a book that opposes their anti-value sheer crap, THEY CAN NOT HANDLE IT! hee hee
This is JUST GREAT! Many kudos to the author!
Christmas presents for the little ones?
So the liberals get their panties in a wad over a book.
Well boo-hoo!!!
(I'm hearing violins)
pinged not!
Hilarious!
and maybe stick his effete head onto this guy, too?
[Freepmail me to get on or off this Not-A-Ping-List.]
I've ordered my copy!
OH MY GOSH! Excellent!!!
Karl, I'll head over to B&N too...I buy from them only when I buy stuff like this, for the obvious reasons. ;)
WHOO BOY!!!
Pingeroonie
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