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.
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When I was ten I had to walk past this house where a guy of about 20 going on who knows what would languish about the fence along the road where we children had to walk to school and all the folk thereabout warned us to beware of him as he might just reach through the fence and grab us.
He always had a bandage across the bridge of his nose that looked like what is now called a "Breathe-Right Strip" that served as evidence of his derangement but, in reality, was merely a manifestation of his nervous habit of picking at that bony knob which must have, somehow, interfered with his limited vision of the world outside that fence that scared him as much as those who scampered past.
Inside, behind tightly-drawn drapes his parents silently suffered.
I still, now and then, wonder what ever happened to him.
Too funny!
I never wrote one. :)
I will be ordering one to read to our Grandkids at night when they visit.
http://www.worldaheadpublishing.com/titles/lumb.php
Oh! This is wunnnnnnnnnnnnnnderful!!! Thanks for this super idea!!!
Our little guy is 4 years old, and everytime he visits, he wants to know if PaPa has kicked out all the monsters and beat them up. (PaPa doesn't allow monsters in our house).
We can use this book to show them the various liberal monsters we have kicked out from their bed and our home.
Our little guy is 4 years old, and everytime he visits, he wants to know if PaPa has kicked out all the monsters and beat them up. (PaPa doesn't allow monsters in our house).
We can use this book to show them the various liberal monsters we have kicked out from their bed and our home.
RE your post #64 - VERY interesting!!! Thanks for the ping on this, Lancey Howard.
Now, believe it or not - this actually happened, this regulation of a lemonade stand. I will post a real news article. Seriously. (And, the author of the book may not even realize it happened in real life.)
Call your local bookstore ask if they have it in stock...after enough calls they will most likely stock it...even if they hate it....Ask For It By Name!!!!!!!!!
Thank you Ms. DeBrecht!
About time.
Wow! I'll take two! The first one I am going to shrink wrap and put in the Safety Deposit box! The second is going to get read every night at bed-time! I love this book already!
Hah! The real reason Fat Teddy K is upset: the lemonade isn't alcoholic!
It should have been called "Help! There are liberals stealing my wallet".
How did I miss this one yesterday. Oh, yeah, work. Unnngh.
I have to get a copy!
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We've been burried ourselves! Can't keep up....
Yeah, this damn Bush recession is a killer.
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