Posted on 09/28/2005 2:38:08 PM PDT by shining_city
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 27, 2005 -- Liberals on the airwaves and across the Internet have assailed the bestselling new conservative children's book "Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed" (Kids Ahead; hardcover $15.95; ISBN 0976726904) since it was announced several weeks ago, but the criticism took a surprising turn on Monday when prominent liberal Andrew Sullivan waded into the controversy, this according to the book's publisher.
Sullivan — the author of multiple books and a former editor for the magazine "New Republic" — claimed on his popular blog that the book contains nudity, a charge which set off fierce debate across the blogosphere that ultimately resulted in Sullivan issuing a retraction. The allegation nonetheless came as a shock to many and prompted concerned inquiries directed to both the author and the publisher. The book, which contains full-color illustrations, tells the story of liberals taxing and regulating a lemonade stand and features cartoon look-alikes of liberal icons Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy. It is currently ranked #3 in the category of children's bestsellers on Amazon.com.
"How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?" Sullivan wrote on his blog. "When it attempts to indoctinate 4 – 8 year olds." He went on to instruct readers to "check out some of the illustrations" and provided a link to a website which hosted fabricated images purporting to be from the book. One of the images on the page Sullivan linked to featured cartoon nudity and showed a caricature identified as Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) clad in inappropriate pants.
"National Review" commentators Jonah Goldberg and John Podhoretz criticized Sullivan for his attack, prompting Sullivan to later acknowledge that he had realized that the illustrations were "fakes and parodies." But no sooner had he delivered his mea culpa than the he resumed his attack on "Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed," saying it was "ideological fanaticism" that invoked memories of Chinese dictator Chairman Mao Tse-Tung.
Sullivan is just the latest high profile liberal to criticize author Katharine DeBrecht and her popular book. Alan Colmes, co-host of Fox"s Hannity & Colmes, called the book "brainwashing." MSNBC host Ron Reagan mused that he should write his own kid's book depicting conservatives as "hat[ing] black people." The Democratic Underground website listed DeBrecht on their "Top 10 Conservative Idiots" list and was the source for the phony picture that Sullivan claimed was real. And Daily Kos, the most trafficked left-wing blog, likened the book to Nazi propaganda.
"I'm disappointed in Andrew Sullivan, but I'm not surprised," said DeBrecht, a mother of three. "Left-wing books have been pouring into our classrooms and libraries for a long time. Now liberals are incensed to see a book supporting traditional values come along, sell well, and have a little fun in the process." DeBrecht added that children's books advocating socialism ("Rainbow Fish"), homosexuality ("King & King" and "Daddy's Roommate"), and Bush-bashing ("No, George, No!") have long been in circulation.
"Is being compared to Chairman Mao a compliment coming from a liberal?" quipped DeBrecht. "Last week the liberals were calling me a Nazi, so I'll take this as a sign of progress."
About Kids Ahead:
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.
Contact Information:
To interview author Katharine DeBrecht, contact Special Guests at (630) 848-0750.
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The answer, I think, is yes.
Since when do liberals care about nudity and children?
Going from murdering 13 million to murdering >60 million is certainly a step up for liberals.
"....Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) clad in inappropriate pants."
How is this possible?
Don't want to know. Not going to Google for the picture. Please don't post it.
hehehe!
"Since when do liberals care about nudity and children?"
Liberals are only upset when the nude Children are not performaing homosexual acts.
He's aligned himself with the sicko Dan Savage, which should tell anyone all they need to know about where Sullivan's thoughts lie.
New book promotes sex with children
WorldNetDaily ^
Posted on 09/18/2005 10:38:36 PM PDT by scripter
A new book published by Haworth Press features multiple Ph.D. "experts" claiming that sex with children "can benefit" boys and even serve a "mentoring function."
"Same-Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity and in the Classical Tradition of the West" features "scholarly" treatises by a raft of mostly-PhD academics, all praising earlier civilizations – particularly Greece and Rome – for the role homosexuality played in those ancient cultures.
In the chapter titled "Pederasty: An Integration of Cross-Cultural, Cross-Species, and Empirical Data," Bruce Rind Ph.D. lauds the rampant child molestation that reportedly occurred in those societies, at one point citing evolution as supporting a pro-pedophilia worldview.....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1487154/posts
Didn't the publisher pull out of the deal with that book?
At least he is being correctly labeled as a liberal. Usually they do what the Globe did several weeks back, call him a conservative and then promote some stock talking point of the gay activist agenda assuming that the conservative label gives Sullivan credibility.
A hole in the seat???
In my case, inappropriate pants would mean no room for a strong side inside-the-pants holster and matching mag pouch.
In Barney's case....I just can't see how anything could be inappropriate.
Hit dog yelps the loudest.
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