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.
Cool, huh?
Thanks for pingerooing me...lol.
Amazon.com Sales Rank:
Today: #530 in Books
Yesterday: #8,902 in Books
Moving fast. Thanks libs for agreat free pr campaign. He He!
Amazon.com Sales Rank:
Today: #530 in Books
Yesterday: #8,902 in Books
Moving fast. Thanks libs for a great free pr campaign. He He!
Heh-heh!
I would have to agree that some children are naturally self-centered but I've found that some are more so than others. Maybe I should've said more accurately that children are more susceptible to "idealism" and are more trusting because they have not developed adequate critical thinking skills. Now when I am saying this I mean they are more likely to accept extreme views concerning the environment, feminism etc without speaking to the quality of those views.
I tend to view liberals as thinking themselves as being high-minded and even though I would agree with you in that I don't think such views are truly "idealistic", the liberals that hold them surely do. They see themselves as correcting imbalances and inequities and offer solutions that are far detached from reality. I would not be so generous as you to think that liberals are "ignorant" because I believe they know exactly what they are doing even though I believe that they are simply wrong.
The same people who think that comparing President Bush to a chimp is the absolute height of wit. I'm not going to lose sleep worrying about their delicate sensibilities. In fact, I'm going to go order a copy of that book right now.
Yup! Never "communist propoganda".
The teacher told me that a parent saw that book at open house and was not really pleased. His attitude was -- tough luck.
Exactly--tough luck!
'Bout time we stood up!
What the heck is that?
This was exactly the outcry her publishers were counting on. If liberals just ignored the book, it would die a quick obscure death just as hundreds of other childrens books do. Apparently, they fall for this baiting just as surely as people on the right do.
And you are correct. The "progressive" America-haters have one solution to deal with everything with which they disagree...
Outright REPRESSION!
It never occurs to America-haters that Stalinist repression will eventually hurt them, too.
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" Ron Reagan"
I feel so sorry that this dolt issued from the loins of such a great man. Recessive genes at work obviously.
Nam Vet
We have honestly encountered a curriculum in which bath-house sex is to be tolerated but conservatism isn't. What I like best about young people is that most of them see right through this crap.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/9/prweb287440.htm
LOL
I just checked Amazon.com for this fine tome.
It's rated # 523 in sales!
For Ages 4-8. 54 pages.
Not bad for a book that is so supposedly and strenulously despised and some are eager to "Ban"!!!!
Jack.
This is for real, isn't it?
Irony has just become anachronistic.
Reality programming now appears to be the backboard against which our nightmare balls bounce.
I remember a time many years ago, it now seems, when you wrote your "oops opus" (my term, no offense) and I sincerely thought you were leaving, so glad you stayed.
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