Friday, August 13, 2010

Jay Homnick: 'Why, the optic nerve of that woman!'

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Humorist Jay Homnick shares his thoughts on the left's knickers-in-a-twist outrage over Gov. Palin, who can evidently kill teachers with her eyes:
She rolled her eyes at a teacher! At the whole teaching profession! What if she becomes a roll model?! Why, the optic nerve of that woman! It's bad enough that she turns heads, now she's rolling eyes!

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TRUTH BE TOLD, if truth is a meaningful element in such discussions, I join Sarah in rolling my eyes at teachers. The profession of teaching is an honorable one, but the leftist teachers who dominate schools today are dishonoring it by much of what they profess. Look at this woman herself. First, her conclusion that Sarah left office just to cash in her celebrity sounds like one she reached via a long jump, hardly the stuff of judicious analysis. Second, her bestowal of the Worst Governor Ever lifetime achievement award based on that critique smacks of the hyperbolic rhetoric students are supposed to unlearn in school.

My own children, despite attending Jewish parochial schools, are constantly subjected to this brand of haranguing by the teachers in the secular department. One daughter had an entire test in science period devoted to global warming. A class play about forests (in 3rd grade!) included speaking birds who advocated for killing the woodchopper for his desecration of trees.

A different daughter, as a junior in high school, had to write a report on an angry novel about Southern racism in the early 20th Century, where blacks had to wait for whites to go first over the bridge and a host of similar indignities. In her essay, she wrote that such atrocities are a thing of the past. In the margin the teacher commented: "Who says?" In each case, I considered unleashing angry missives but remembered that these activists held my children's grades hostage.

So when these teachers stop being so contentious and tendentious we will begin again to eye them with respect. In the meantime, they should be not surprised to see some rotation of pupils.

Curious how "progressives" obsess and rage over literally every little thing they perceive Sarah Palin to do, but when a Democrat candidate for public office in New Hampshire publicly wishes for her death in an airplane crash, mostly what we hear from stage left is the sound of canned crickets.

h/t: roy y

- JP

1 comment:

  1. Sarah has a big can of raid , when the crickets are gone the dems will have nothing to hide behind for their failures

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