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Liberals Furious Over New Children's Book (“Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed”)
Press Release Newswire ^ | 9/20/05

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
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221 posted on 11/23/2005 6:21:31 PM PST by timestax
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224 posted on 11/25/2005 7:40:02 PM PST by timestax
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To: derllak
There's nothing funnier than watching a lib have a cow! I love it! Ahahaha!

And that's pretty much what's in the book. Great reading for all ages!

225 posted on 11/25/2005 7:41:51 PM PST by kstewskis ("Thank you ladies and gentlemen, you've been a wonderful audience" ...Rocky Rhodes)
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To: doug from upland

Is that photo from the Clinton Library?


226 posted on 11/25/2005 7:44:43 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: Libloather

This just made my Christmas shopping a lot easier.


227 posted on 11/25/2005 7:47:24 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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It is my Kerry book in the classroom of a teacher from Pico Rivera, California. I am helping him do battle with the teachers union. He is going to file for a religious exemption from dues and have all the money sent to charity. The charity, in this case, the the Boy Scouts of America. Legal representation is prepared to help him take them on if and when they refuse. This could be a really fun case.


228 posted on 11/25/2005 8:13:56 PM PST by doug from upland (The troops will come home when the mission is complete)
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Today, on Amazon, the book is rated at #1286.

I'll be ordering 5 of them for my grandbabies.


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To: Libloather
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.

UP THE HAUGHTY NOSES OF ALL KENNEDY AND CLINTON LIBERALS AND THE HORSES THEY RODE IN ON!

240 posted on 12/02/2005 11:35:37 AM PST by VOYAGER (M<)
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