Posted on 01/23/2017 7:22:21 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
There it is: a set of books in a Smithsonian shop criticizing the president. That this is a departure from tradition is suggested by the code of ethics set forth by the National Museum of American History (NMAH), which states that the museum must avoid “conduct that would compromise the integrity of or public confidence in the Smithsonian.” Moreover, since 1939, the Hatch Act has sought to “ensure that federal programs are administered in a nonpartisan fashion, to protect federal employees from political coercion in the workplace.”
The paper-doll creator doesn’t appear to share that perspective. In a “2016 Year in Review” post on his website, Foley recently wrote:
As I start the new year, it is with more trepidation, uncertainty, and fear than I’ve ever felt after any election year in my entire life. I’ve survived Republican presidents in the past (5 of them in fact), but never before have I had this feeling of riding on an out of control train barreling towards a cliff with a raving madman at the controls. Hopefully I am over-reacting.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
James Smithson would be appalled.
The curator violated federal law. Fire ‘em.
I stopped being a sponsor years ago because of crap like this.
My parents subscribed to Smithsonian all through my childhood, National Geographic, too. They were great, inspiring, beautiful magazines. The subject matter, research, writing and photography were absolutely top shelf. That began to change, slowly at first, along about the time I went to college in the 80’s. They dropped their subscription because of political opinion being interjected into non-political subject matter, and it’s only gotten worse as time has passed.
As a survivor of three decades at the Smithsonian I can assure you that in the aggregate the organization is as leftist and anti-American as any other snooty enclave of intellectualoids. There are many good and honorable folks there but we learned to keep our heads below the envirofascist/cultural marxism that flowed overhead without ceasing.
FYI the gift shops are not Federal, they are operated by the Smithsonian Trust and thus exempt from the Hatch Act.
Liberals always manage to find a WAY AROUND THE LAW.
Dittos on that. FWIW Reader’s Digest is now sinking in the same morass.
Last time I was there the rotating exhibit was about how the war lords almost destroyed an entire generation of youth. They were seriously malnourished and being trained to fight a final suicide mission before the bomb fell. Indeed, the youth nearest to ground zero who became the first bomb victims were performing demolition work in preparation for that final mission.
One walked away with idea that the bomb was not only necessary, but the only logical solution available at the time. Indeed, you could say that the academics in Japan were more honest on the subject that their counterparts in the USA.
Someone needs to be “FIRED!”
Time to let a new contract for operation of the gift shops!
Fire them immediately.
They better start selling “The Art of the Deal’ and Trump paper dolls! The Liberal Progressive Democratic Party is out and the Trumpocrats are in charge now.
I used to subscribe to both. Dropped them both because of blatant partisanship.
Deification of 0vomit, chronic drumbeat about global warming.
Chronically minimizing/denigrating western culture and glorifying anything non-western, black, American Indian, muslim, etc. I particularly recall the top 100 Americans list. Minorities were GROSSLY over-represented. I am NOT against having them on the list, but they are clearly not over-represented in their contributions to American life, culture, and achievement, and so they should not be over-represented on the list. (Malcolm X? Seriously? In the top 100???)
My family didn’t make it quite that far before canceling. They made it through all the new ice age propaganda, sillier in hindsight than it appeared at the time, but then the Reagan psychosis did them in and then they canceled before his second term was done.
Their concept of honor is complicated and more elaborate as well as much more important to them than to us. We lost that sense when duels and voluntary resignations went out the door, and even then it wasn’t quite as big of a deal by comparison.
The exhibit is likely viewed similarly to doing penance, admitting error and chastising themselves. But, it becomes losing face when someone from outside does the same thing.
Yes, I’m aware of all that and concur. Thx ...
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