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.
"MSNBC host Ron Reagan was incensed over the book.."
I always like Ann Coulter's line about him.. Something about being living proof of the limits of genetics.
But I guess you could always buy a copy, take it to a library and put in on the shelf - a la Sandy Berger.
Finally, a book Liberals can read and understand
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Here's a great book selection for any teacher who wants to truly educate their students about the dangers of the Democrat Party and its agenda to bring Euro-style secular socialism to America, while at the same time belittling American tradition, people of faith, and the traditional family unit.
Liberals think they're the smart and enlightened ones, yet "Nazi" seems to be the only response they can come up with when anyone gives them a dose of their own medicine.
"Children are naturally idealistic so the left takes adavantage of their ignorance."
What's more, children are naturally at a stage in life where having someone of something (a village maybe?) make all "bad things" go away.
Enter the liberal machine, trumpets blaring...
Congrats on your efforts and please keep it up!
I think I will need to order this at Barnes and Noble just to see the look on their faces.
The show which this drip who inherited neither his father's brains or his looks, would obviously NEVER have if not for his name and the fact that in his arrogant ignorance he trashes everything his great father stood for.
I love this! Why are the lefty's upset? They control the mass media with their liberal rags, books, news, movies, TV shows etc. The right does a little book and they freak? Oh such tolerance!
Everyone I know is getting this for Christmas this year.
Liberals of today have no principles. While what you say of the past is certainly true, today's liberals are simply antagonists and obstructionists regardless of the issues. If Bush is for something reasonable, they have to be against it because it's Bush. It doesn't even matter if it adversely harms their own children...as long as they oppose whatever Republicans support. They have become contrarians irrespective of circumstances. This is how petty this party has become, and why they have no solutions for today's problems.
Some of the reviews seem to be by people who have heard about the book, but not read it. When I see a review that just calls names and does not address the book itself, I click on "report this". I have seen reviews like that disappear.
I'm sure your kids will love this!
This pleases me greatly...I've got five copies on order :)
The Daily Kos is complaining about propaganda? It publishes propaganda every day. Highly scurrilous propaganda, at that.
i promise, I won't make any jokes about the coincidences of that book and your screen name... : )
I cannot wait to buy this book.
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