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Noonan

Feb 20 2007, 05:34 PM

Teachers Are Worse Than Al Qaeda

So say Boortz and Hannity.

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SEAN HANNITY: Alright, let me ask you. Because, you — when you said about the Department of Education — you want to abolish it — when you said that the teachers unions is more dangerous to this country in the long term –

NEAL BOORTZ: In the long term, yeah.

HANNITY: Than al Qaeda.

BOORTZ: Right. Look, Al Qaeda, they could bring in a nuke into this country and kill 100,000 people with a well-placed nuke somewhere. Ok. We would recover from that. It would be a terrible tragedy, but the teachers unions in this country can destroy a generation.

HANNITY: They are.

BOORTZ: Well, they are destroying a generation.

HANNITY: They are ruining our school system.

BOORTZ: They’re much more dangerous. We worry about al Qaeda and we should. But at the same time let’s not let the teachers union skate.

HANNITY: They destroyed our school system, and we don’t do anything. The parents — why there aren’t people rising up against it is unbelievable.

Regardless of how you feel about the Liberal or Conservative "bias" in classrooms, this is just a completely absurd statement to make, and Hannity just rolls right along with it. I'm sure Boortz is basing this on some sort of evolution/sex education/liberal propaganda strawman, but this is completely out of line. Infuriatingly, neither one of these men will face the slightest repercussions for saying something so outrageous, other than a statement from the NEA. The thing that annoys me the most about this statement is that you can apply it to simply anything:

Video games are more dangerous to our country than terrorists.

Television is more dangerous to our country than terrorists.

Pornography is more dangerous to our country than terrorists.

...and as long as it's a "controversial" bugaboo that's supposedly causing all the problems, you can just make this statement, not provide a lick of evidence, and the bobbleheads will agree. But you have to be some sort of award-winning jackass to come out and say "teachers are worse than al Qaeda." The cowards won't even have a spokesperson from the NEA on the show to debate bigmouth Boortz.

I've got a new one: Fox News is more dangerous to our country than al Qaeda.
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kindergarten teacher

Feb 20 2007, 06:59 PM

I'll second that one!

Fox News is more dangerous to our country than al Qaeda.

billfmsd

Feb 20 2007, 08:44 PM

Being married to a teacher, and one of the more influential ones in her school, I guarantee that teachers and teachers unions don't have the power to control most of there own materials, agenda, and schedules, let alone the entire school system. People who don't want to fund our school system are the ones who destroy it. This is like blaming the failure in Iraq on the front line low-rankiing soldiers.

winston smith

Feb 20 2007, 10:22 PM

QUOTE(Noonan @ Feb 20 2007, 03:34 PM)

Teachers Are Worse Than Al Qaeda

So say Boortz and Hannity.
Regardless of how you feel about the Liberal or Conservative "bias" in classrooms, this is just a completely absurd statement to make, and Hannity just rolls right along with it. I'm sure Boortz is basing this on some sort of evolution/sex education/liberal propaganda strawman, but this is completely out of line. Infuriatingly, neither one of these men will face the slightest repercussions for saying something so outrageous, other than a statement from the NEA. The thing that annoys me the most about this statement is that you can apply it to simply anything:

Video games are more dangerous to our country than terrorists.

Television is more dangerous to our country than terrorists.

Pornography is more dangerous to our country than terrorists.

Barbie is more dangerous to our country that terrorists.

Chocolate milk is more dangerous to our country than terrorists.

Laser beams is more dangerous to our country than terrorists.

$2 Chuck is more dangerous to our country than terrorists.

CGCS is more dangerous to our country than terrorists.

A Hugo is more dangerous to our country than terrorists.

...and as long as it's a "controversial" bugaboo that's supposedly causing all the problems, you can just make this statement, not provide a lick of evidence, and the bobbleheads will agree. But you have to be some sort of award-winning jackass to come out and say "teachers are worse than al Qaeda." The cowards won't even have a spokesperson from the NEA on the show to debate bigmouth Boortz.

I've got a new one: Fox News is more dangerous to our country than al Qaeda.
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Damn Noonan, You Are 100% CORRECT!

Pie

Feb 20 2007, 10:36 PM

What a crock from Faux- yet again. It is unreal that this crap is spewed continually and that so many people listen to it.

We should start a "deport Murdoch" campaign.

And I have no clue as to where Faux comes up with this notion that "all" teachers are 'liberal leftie commies' ! Through volunteer work in school classrooms and having personal friends who are teachers, I know that teacher's ideologies run the full spectrum of political thought.

Noonan

Feb 24 2007, 10:42 AM

QUOTE(Pie @ Feb 20 2007, 10:36 PM)

What a crock from Faux- yet again. It is unreal that this crap is spewed continually and that so many people listen to it.

Deporting Murdoch wouldn't do a thing to stop his apparatus. You're right about ideologies. The one person I know of that has done more to destroy our local school is a right winger that actively talks down our town, school and schools in general in his classroom. He has the lower grades in our high school, and it is then my job (among others) to try and restore some sort of school/civic pride in these kids, not to mention self-esteem, while unteaching some of the crap he taught them about "what's wrong with our country" (while being 'fair and balanced').

Ok, a couple of articles to post and then it's time to start packing, unpacking and painting.

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