Posted on 10/19/2005 12:17:53 PM PDT by shining_city
Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed! may be an innocent children’s book written by a 35-year-old conservative mom of three young boys in Torrance, Calif., who attend Christian schools. But once the Internet got a hold of it, things turned nasty.
The storybook involves two young brothers who sell lemonade to pay for a swing set — the idea being that they will feel better about themselves if they earn the money to buy their own toy.
The author is Katherine DeBrecht, a journalist and member of the South Carolina Federation of Republican Women. Her book, published by World Ahead Publishing, incorporates caricatures of contemporary politicians. They include Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as Congresswoman Clunkton, who orders the boys to reduce the sugar in their lemonade and add broccoli to each glass, and Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), who, as Mayor Leach, takes half the lemonade profits to purchase dustpans instead of a more charitable cause.
Philippe “Salty” Reines, Clinton’s press secretary, remarked, “Can’t wait for the sequel, Help! Mom! I Can’t Read This Book Because Republicans Have Cut Literacy Programs!”
While one left-wing website compares DeBrecht’s book to Nazi propaganda, another, Democratic Underground, adds DeBrecht to its weekly list of “Top 10 Conservative Idiots.”
Part of the controversy surrounding the book involved a doctored photograph of Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), in chaps that reveal part of his rear end, that was initially said to be in the book. The doctored photograph, allegedly created by a liberal website, then appeared on conservative commentator Andrew Sullivan’s website, setting off wild reaction throughout the Democratic Web community.
“I was surprised how fast the lies about my book spread,” said DeBrecht in a phone interview with ITK. “Do they do any fact checking up there?”
DeBrecht attributes the doctored photos to liberals who can’t stand her conservative prose. “It’s just whining from the left,” she said. “It just shows that they aren’t going to stop at anything to discredit me or my book.”
The Help! Mom! series was created in 2000, when DeBrecht’s husband was downstairs watching a game while she was watching the Republican National Convention upstairs in her bedroom. Her oldest son came upstairs and asked what she was watching. She explained that the nation was electing the next president and that she wanted George Bush to win over Al Gore.
“The harder daddy works and the more money he makes, the more liberals want to take that money out of his pocket,” she told her son, recalling that his eyes got “real big and wide and he leaned over the side of the bed and said, ‘Where are the liberals, mom?’”
And with that, the Help! Mom! series was born.
Books in the making include Help! Mom! Hollywood Is in My Hamper!, Help! Mom! There Are Lawyers in My Lunchbox! and Help! Mom! The Ninth Circuit Nabbed the Nativity!
Truth hurts, huh.
"(Hillary's spokesman attacks kid's book)"
I'm sure I'm in the minority here but I Tivo (and usually watch) The West Wing.
In the Democratic primary season there was going to a debate with only the top two candidates so the #3 candidate sent a staff member in chicken suit to ask why #1 candidate was afraid to debate.Donna, a lead staffer for candidate #1 was caught on camera yelling at the chicken suit guy about what a cheap stunt it was.
Somebody asked Josh, Donna's mentor, didn't you ever teach that girl not to argue with a chicken?
We should just enjoy this one if Hillary is stupid enough to go after a children's book.
Merry Christmas to all those who receive this book from me!
See, you think every great idea is taken, and this one was just sitting out there. What a great idea! My kids might be getting these in their stockings.
"Truth hurts, huh."
That's what the "liberal" party is all about. Turning the truth into lies and vice versa.
Hey, Salty, I'll give you ten-to-one that the children of Conservatives have a much higher literacy rate than the children of Liberals.
Why don't you put your money where your mouth is?
How about a REALLY scary book:
"Help! Mom! Ted Kennedy is driving my school bus!"
(some freeper posted that, it ruined my shirt, pants and keyboard!)
Reines--it is exactly because of liberalism that Johnny can't read. Take another drink of that swine aid, bud.
Just like their hero, Dan Blather, they proudly proclaim that they have checked no fact since WWII!
Reines should not complain. More illiteracy means more Democratic voters.
“I was surprised how fast the lies about my book spread,”
Clintonistas work fast.
Sounds like a great book! All FR's should order them now...
I hope someone gets us, uh, our kids this for Christmas.
Pretty sad that we need literacy programs. Don't parents and teachers help kids read??
And in reality, how much have literacy programs been "cut?" Is there a single thing in the federal budget that has actually been reduced by some dollar amount?!
YIKES!!! That is scary!
Kennedrunk behind the wheel of any vehicle, let alone a school bus, is scary!
What Salty and his boss should realize is that we don't need "literacy programs" if the schools and parents are doing their jobs.
They are quite aware how important parents are to successful education.
That's why they oppose home-schooling. It makes the government schools look even worse.
You see, this is such tasty irony here. Only a liberal would make the connection that a kids book, written by a mother who is obviously involved in her kid's education, would somehow result in illiteracy. To a liberal, it truly takes a village.
Here is a quote from a blog on her website. Ron Reagan should ask the blacks in LA what they think of Democrats what an ass:
"Friday, October 14, 2005
Left-Wing Whacko Kid's Book of the Week (part 2)
Liberals have been relentless in attacking Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed for exposing children to (shudder) politics. Alan Colmes called it "brainwashing," Ron Reagan said he wants to make a book that shows how "conservatives hate black people," and Andrew Sullivan says it reminds him of Mao Tse-Tung."
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