The scripts we hear on our own channel!

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Texas does it again: On Thursday night, after the balloon panic broke, the presence of the big white orb was discussed on cable news.

On CNN, viewers were allowed to hear what the Biden Admin had said about its decision not to shoot the two-ton airship down. 

We don't know if the administration's explanation was completely accurate, or if it was really accurate at all. But if you were watching CNN, you were at least allowed to hear what they had said.

On the Fox News Channel, the disordered child named Tucker Carlson adopted a different stance. He conducted a worried discussion with one of his typical guests.

Each fellow was completely puzzled by the decision in question. Also, neither fellow ever mentioned the explanation the Biden Admin had given.

That's the sort of thing which happens nightly on the Fox News Channel. What happens on our own favorite channel, where script is derived from the Storylines our blue tribe is known to prefer?

What happens on our own blue channel? Consider a script to which we viewers were exposed that same night on The 11th Hour:

Stephanie Ruhle was attempting to conduct, or was perhaps pretending to attempt to conduct, a discussion of certain changes which have been made to the College Board's proposed Advanced Placement course in African American Studies.

Ruhle's guest was Nayyera Haq. Here's how she was introduced:

RUHLE (2/2/23): Joining us now to discuss Nayyera Haq, a former White House senior director and former State Department senior adviser. She wrote an op-ed about this very topic for MSNBC, saying the AP's African American history course still has a lot to teach students.

It's true! As best we can tell, Haq is "a former White House senior director and former State Department senior adviser." That said, she currently describes herself, at her own site, in the following manner:

MEET NAYYERA.
TELEVISION AND RADIO HOST, WFH CEO

A smart and relatable broadcast journalist, Nayyera hosts talk radio on SiriusXM. She also hosted a nightly newscast and was a foreign affairs correspondent for the Black News Channel.

In short, it seems that Haq is currently a SiriusXM talk radio host. For the record, we couldn't confirm that claim through the SiriusXM search engine or anywhere else at the SiriusXM site, but it certainly could be accurate.

Whatever! The apparent discussion was now underway. Before long, Haq offered this:

HAQ (2/2/23): The challenge of our American system is that it's very much a local control, so you have local politics take over it. So you have Texas deciding they literally are going to stop using the word "slavery." They're going to call it "involuntary relocation." But because they're such a huge market, Texas—bookmakers from around the country are going to cater now to the Texas curriculum.

"Bookmakers" may not have been the right word. At any rate:

"That is insane," the hapless Ruhle instantly said. We had a similar reaction ourselves, though we'll note one major difference. 

To our practiced ear, Haq's thrilling claim did indeed sound a bit "insane." For that reason, we wondered if it was possible that the claim, however pleasing, might also be untrue.

According to Haq, Texas is literally going to stop using the word "slavery" in its public schools. They're going to call it "involuntary relocation" instead—and the major textbook publishers will soon be following suit.

Due to decades of experience, we didn't automatically believe that Haq's claim was true. A Google search quickly established the fact that the claim is simply bogus.

Haq's claim dates back to a brief and ridiculous incident in June of last year. The notion that Texas was going to make the change in question was immediately shot down by the State Board of Education, and this fact was widely reported—for example, by the Washington Post, by The Hill, by CNN.

For the record, the proposed change would have involved the way the painful topic of slavery was taught to second graders. The Hill's report started like this:

DANIELS (7/1/22): A proposal by Texas state educators to call slavery “involuntary relocation” in second grade classes has been rejected by the State Board of Education. 

The proposal, first reported by the Texas Tribune, was introduced at the board’s June 15 meeting. Throughout the summer, the board will consider several curriculum updates to comply with lawmakers’ requirements to keep subjects that make students uncomfortable out of schools. 

Nine educators, including a professor from University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, were behind the suggested language change. 

The Tribune reported the proposal was struck down by the board unanimously. 

The report continued from there.

Has Texas decided that "they literally are going to stop using the word 'slavery' "—that they're going to employ the term "involuntary relocation" instead?

It made a pleasing claim for blue tribe viewers, a claim from pure Storyline. For better or worse, Haq hadn't gone quite that far in the op-ed column for MSNBC to which Ruhle had alluded:

HAQ (2/1/23): And there are other battles over our education that demand our attention. At this moment in history, the Texas State Board of Education is trying to eliminate the word “slavery” from its coursework; textbook makers try to meet the state’s standards in order to have strong national sales. 

In her op-ed column, Haq only said that Texas was trying, at this moment in history, to eliminate the word "slavery." She offered no link in support of that more limited claim.

All in all, whatever! When she got on the air with Ruhle, Haq jacked her claim up a notch. Moments later, the hapless host was saying this:

"Nayyera Haq, thank you so much for your impassioned contribution tonight." 

Haq's contribution may have been "impassioned," but were her statements accurate? We've been able to find no evidence in support of what Haq said.

Sorry, Virginia! There is no sign that the state of Texas is trying to eliminate the world "slavery" from its public school coursework. That notion had a one-day run last summer, and it was quickly shot down. 

We're able to find no subsequent report which says that any such change in Lone Star lingo has been decided upon or is being sought. Here's an Associated Press fact-check from late December, shooting down a subsequent variant of this eternally pleasing tribal rumor.

That said, Haq's claim was pleasing script for blue tribe ears, pleasing script from Preferred Storyline. We love to hear stupid shit of that type—Did you hear the one about the white medical students?—and people like Ruhle are on hand each night to provide this tribal service.

Increasingly, Tucker Carlson seems to be out of his mind at the Fox News Channel. Our own tribe is routinely lost in pleasing dreams of our own.

In our view, Ruhle has been a massive disappointment as host of The 11th Hour. Who or what is the impassioned Haq? 

As best we're able to say at this point, only The Shadow knows! The gods on Olympus roar with laughter as these clowncars roll on.


44 comments:


  1. tl;dr
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    Amazing, ain't it? Thank God for Tucker Carlson.

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  2. First Somerby tells us that the Biden administration issued a statement, which was covered by CNN. Then Somerby tells us that Tucker Carlson did not repeat Biden's statement but did his own speculating. Then Somerby says:

    "What happens on our own blue channel? "

    And then he doesn't tell us! Instead he segues to Stephanie Ruhle talking about the AP tests. Why doesn't Somerby tell us what MSNBC said about that Chinese spy balloon and why it should or shouldn't be shot down?

    The implication is that MSNBC, like Tucker, did not tell the public what Biden's statement said. I doubt that is true. But notice how Somerby shifts the topic to complain about Ruhle's coverage of something entirely different, so that he can imply that MSNBC didn't tell the complete story -- when Somerby has no such evidence at all.

    This is dishonest. It is devious. It is not how reporters work at all. It is how a disinformationist with an agenda to slime MSNBC works.

    And it is a twofer for Somerby. He gets to pretend that MSNBC was as bad as Tucker Carlson while ALSO sliming Stephanie Ruhle, yet another female reporter who Somerby dislikes and regularly disparages.

    This is how Somerby operates these days, untrustworthy and with both thumbs on the scales.

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    1. Anonymous 10:51 misread this post. Somerby compared bad information given out on Fox, to bad information given out on MSNBC on a different subject. There is no suggestion that MSNBC said anything wrong about the balloon.

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    2. He compared apples with oranges.

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  3. "To our practiced ear, Haq's thrilling claim did indeed sound a bit "insane."

    Somerby could have googled her claim, as I did, and found this:

    https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/30/texas-slavery-involuntary-relocation/

    "A group of Texas educators have proposed to the Texas State Board of Education that slavery should be taught as “involuntary relocation” during second grade social studies instruction, but board members have asked them to reconsider the phrasing, according to the state board’s chair."

    The group was a 9-member panel of educators who were considering and proposing changes to textbooks.

    And yes, the Texas textbook market is very large and many smaller school districts follow along and buy the same books that are produced for Texas. So what happens in Texas does affect other states who are insufficiently large to demand their own versions of textbooks. As a former educator, Somerby should know about this.

    But Somerby is not concerned with the accuracy of Ruhle's guest. He disparages her without doing any fact-checking, calling her statement insane when it is exactly as reported by Texas newspapers.

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    1. "The Tribune reported the proposal was struck down by the board unanimously. "

      No, the reporting was that the board unanimously asked the panel to reconsider the change. The board referred it back to the 9-member panel of educators. It did not strike down the proposal.

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  4. Somerby wants to disappear the proposed change by claiming that it was struck down. Yes, the board did refuse the proposed change to "involuntary relocation" but the FACT remains that the 9-member panel DID recommend such a change in language. A 9-member panel of educators proposed that change. It would nice if Somerby could make that disappear by telling us that wiser heads prevailed, but it remains that Texans did recommend such a change. Haq was not wrong. And if that is insane, that is also what was attempted in Texas. And not by a single kook but by a panel of educators.

    Haq's statement was accurate. Somerby's attempt to say that this didn't happen, because the change was ultimately disallowed, doesn't change the accuracy of Haq's report.

    And no, we blue viewers of such shows do not thrill at or take pleasure in such reports. This is dismaying, upsetting, a cause for concern and despair, not entertainment or pleasurable to us. We don't want Texas to disadvantage its children by hiding the truth about slavery. We don't want to keep finding that bigotry is alive and well in the South, even at state levels, among educators. This is not how we want the world to be. So, no, it does not pleasure us when MSNBC or Ruhle or Haq or anyone else, remind us that conservatives are still trying to undo racial progress with shit like this.

    Tucker Carlson presents stories nighly that whip his Republicans into a frenzy of outrage, supplying stories that will be retold by viewers to their neighbors over coffee, to reaffirm how awaful liberals are. But Democrats don't take pleasure in similar reporting. We want stories of success, change and improvement, not outrage, because unlike conservatives, we feel unhappy hearing about new outrages whereas conservatives feel vindicated in their hatred when they hear such stories about liberals.

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  5. Somerby says that AP fact-check shot down Haq's statement. Here is what actually happened:

    Haq: "And there are other battles over our education that demand our attention. At this moment in history, the Texas State Board of Education is trying to eliminate the word “slavery” from its coursework; textbook makers try to meet the state’s standards in order to have strong national sales."

    AP Fact Check: "CLAIM: Teachers in the Dallas public school system can no longer say the word “slavery” in class."

    Note that this is not what Haq said at all. Haq said there was an attempt made to change slavery to "involuntary relocation" not to ban the use of the word slavery.

    Haq also said "at this moment in History" not today, not Feb 1 2022. That means that she is referring to modern, current times, racially enlightened times, not to some point in the Jim Crow past when revisionism was rampant. She was referring to an ongoing effort. Yes, it was ultimately resolved against the proposed change, but it was made as part of an ongoing conservative effort to whitewash the hide the facts of slavery in a large Southern state.

    Haq was not wrong about her accusation and Somerby's attempt to discredit what she said hangs on nit-picks, once again. "But they didn't get away with it" does not excuse the attempt to minimize slavery in Texas.

    That's why, when Somerby says: "Increasingly, Tucker Carlson seems to be out of his mind at the Fox News Channel. Our own tribe is routinely lost in pleasing dreams of our own." he is making a false statement of his own. We are not lost in dreams, we didn't imagine what Texas attempted to do, and we are not happy about such things -- they are not pleasing. And there is no equivalence between Tucker Carlson's lies and a true anecdote about an attempted but ultimately thwarted attempt to downplay slavery in its textbooks.

    Ask yourself what Somerby gains by portraying liberals this way. Ask yourself whether liberals themselves would do it. And what does Somerby gain from disparaging Stephanie Ruhle because a guest (Haq) said something Somerby thinks has become obsolete, calling Haq's statement insane and untrue, instead of out-of-date? (Another thumb on that scale.) Does it make sense when Somerby then goes on and calls himself a liberal? I don't think so.

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  6. Nayeera Haq was raised by Pakistani immigrants in Staten Island. If she uses the word bookmaker to refer to publishers of textbooks, and doesn't seem to understand the bookie connotation, that isn't a funny funny joke to mock her with. That is a juvenile gibe at someone with foreign parents. Haq has held various important jobs, including Media Secretary to Nancy Pelosi, Director of the Children's Defense Fund, and Senior Director of Cabinet Affairs in the White House. But Somerby would rather laugh at an inoffensive language error.

    In other words, Somerby has taken a cheap shot and is not being fair to someone he dislikes (perhaps for other reasons than the triviality he discusses today).

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    1. You're missing the larger point.

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    2. Which is what exactly? That immigrants are funny, no matter what their accomplishments? That a language mistake derails her concern about racism in textbooks? What point is made by laughing at Haq's language mistake? What she was saying was clear, but Somerby chose to giggle. Why do you think that had some larger point, besides displaying hostility toward Haq and the point SHE was trying to make?

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  7. "As best we're able to say at this point, only The Shadow knows! The gods on Olympus roar with laughter as these clowncars roll on."

    As these references to his past complaints become more and more obscure, Somerby is the one who is sounding insane these days.

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  8. Exactly what proposal made by a Right-winger doesn't sound insane?

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  9. "The scripts we hear on our own channel!"

    I think it is unreasonable for Somerby to expect even the most highly paid cable personalities to work without a script.

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  10. Yesterday the Rude Pundit suggested that drag queens should go protest outside churches where pastors or youth ministers or priests have been arrested for child sexual abuse, rape or molestation of parishioners. There are more groomers in such churches (all over the country) than among drag queens. These are the people the right wing should be concerned about because they are actually harming children and others who trust them, whereas drag queens are only dancing and lipsyncing to song while people have a good time watching them.

    https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2023/02/cmon-drag-queens-lets-go-fuck-with-some.html

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  11. Haq's quote is a recent event, but the state of teaching about racial history has been deplorable for a long time. Erik Loomis at Lawyers Guns & Money blog today recommends an article in Teen Vogue about how the Reconstruction period in American History has been badly taught in schools nationwide. Loomis quotes the article:

    "The post-Civil War Reconstruction era marked a period of massive social, political, economic, and cultural advancements for Black Americans. Between 1865 and 1877, formerly enslaved people gained citizenship rights, fought for land ownership and economic independence, ran for elected office, and established many civic, religious, and educational institutions that are still with us today. With these gains, however, also came fierce backlash to racial progress. White supremacists used violence and intimidation to reverse many of these advancements and ushered in a new era of Jim Crow laws.

    Despite the fact that Reconstruction is an important, influential chapter in American history — and that we are still dealing with the fallout of its end — many public and private school curricula do not give adequate attention to this era, spending more time on other periods in American history, such as the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. A report from the Zinn Education Project released early last year found that, nationwide, the Reconstruction era is seldom taught accurately in K-12 schools, and often not enough class time is spent discussing this period. As a result, the Reconstruction era is poorly understood.

    According to the Zinn report, state standards and history curricula nationwide fail to “teach a sufficiently complex and comprehensive history of Reconstruction.” Instead, students are often taught an inaccurate and racist depiction of the time. Jesse Hagopian, an educator and organizer with the Zinn Education Project, tells Teen Vogue, “Our report on Reconstruction discovered that the vast majority of states established education standards that ignore the role of white supremacy in ending Reconstruction, and they reproduce racist and false framings of Reconstruction that obscure the contributions of Black people to Reconstruction’s achievements.”

    Much of this is due to the fact that many history textbooks are either inadequate, outdated, or rely on misinformation and racist propaganda once peddled by the Dunning School, a group of Columbia University scholars led by historian William A. Dunning in the early 20th century. Most scholars and historians now recognize Reconstruction as a period of Black activism and prosperity, but the Dunning scholars created a school of thought that portrayed the Reconstruction era as a massive failure. According to this racist, revisionist history, Black Americans were “ignorant” and easily manipulated by northern Republicans, who took advantage of corrupt state governments to punish former Confederates and slave owners, who were predominately white southern Democrats.

    “The Dunning School peddled in this ‘lost cause’ narrative that made the South seem like a noble cause, as if they were fighting for tradition rather than fighting to maintain human bondage,” Hagopian says. “And that, unfortunately, is a narrative that weaved itself into corporate textbooks all over the country throughout US history.” This false narrative was also upheld by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, a group focused on ensuring that history textbooks and other reading materials painted the Confederacy — and the forces of white supremacy during Reconstruction — in a respectable and positive light."

    https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/02/teaching-reconstruction

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    1. Somerby's pique over Haq's comment is ridiculous in the context of the ongoing failure of our schools to teach children an accurate history when it comes to race. This puts DeSantis and the conservative pushback against correcting the record into a clearer light, in my opinion.

      But why is Somerby, a former educator and a supposed liberal, joining in the fight against improving textbooks and teaching what actual happened? I could understand someone like Carlson attacking a person like Haq, but why would Somerby be doing that?

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    2. Because she's full of shit.

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    3. So, you're saying that the panel of 9 educators did not recommend changing the term slavery to "involuntary relocation" in Texas textbooks? I posted the Texas Tribune reporting that they did that. Are they full of shit too?

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    4. @2:15PM : the golden rule for conservatives also applies to trolls like 1:19 - every troll accusation is a confession.

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  12. MSNBC misinforms it’s viewers from time
    to time, but is it a left wing problem all the
    time?
    Five weeks before we were staring down
    the barrel of Trump II, Chris Hayes told us
    about the ridiculous claims of Tara Reade.
    “This story is NOT going away!!” Intoned
    The passionate broadcaster.
    It went away. Even with Mika doing
    all that She could to force the issue
    with Joe Biden (these baseless claims
    are hard to defend against, because
    there are no facts to dispute) in an
    Insulting interview. But the story went
    away. MSNBC just never told you
    WHY it went away.
    All through the Trump years, Brian
    Williams evened the score by repeatedly
    telling his viewers that Hillary Clinton
    failed to deliver on promises of jobs
    to West Virginia. This is probably unique
    in the history of political reporting
    since Hillary Clinton lost the election
    and had no way of fulfilling these
    (supposed) promises. Hard to believe
    Bob missed this but he never
    Mentioned it.
    Historian John Meacham’s remarkable
    claim that Bill Clinton was responsible for
    Kavenaugh’s creepy Senate testimony
    went unchallenged by 0”Donnell. Bob
    seemed to have no problem with this.
    Often, with friends like MSNBC,
    liberals don’t need enemies. And this
    goes for the sloppy work Bob notes
    here. Is Micheal Moore the liberal
    who gets to be on Cable because
    he through Hillary Clinton under the
    bus and told America President Obama
    tried to poison the city of Flint?
    The paranoia it takes to examine
    MSNBC sure feels a lot like common
    sense, at least from time to time.

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  13. Today President Biden protected America from a Chinese balloon.

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  14. Score one for Somerby, I guess. Haq wasn’t 100% accurate. He calls that working from “script.”

    I suggest that Somerby ought to look at the history of the debate in Texas about the public school curriculum, particularly the teaching of history and social studies, and what Republican-led states are trying to do right now. This would give his readers a more balanced perspective.

    I could even suggest that Somerby has his head in the sand about conservative intentions, and that he is unwilling to see the good in what liberals are trying to do to counteract it. But I assume he is either complacent, and unaware of the dangers to public education posed by the Republicans, or he supports their efforts.

    No one can be sure that the Texas board of education would have rejected the proposed rewording if it had not had some liberals on it to push back. All of its seats were up for re-election last November, and hard-line Republicans made gains, replacing some Democrats and some more moderate Republicans.

    (“Texas Republicans against 'critical race theory' win seats on the State Board of Education”

    https://www.khou.com/article/news/politics/elections/texas-critical-race-theory/285-25084174-7fd4-400f-822d-8efe69e24428)

    This is a state where the GOP adopted this as part of its platform in 2012:

    “We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.”

    They oppose the teaching of critical thinking skills. These kinds of pronouncements should not be ignored or treated as a joke.

    And the part about “undermining parental authority” is an entirely accurate paraphrase of things that Somerby has said in his blog.

    Is he working from script?

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  15. What will it take before Republicans acknowledge that George Santos is unfit for office?

    "“A prospective congressional aide has accused Representative George Santos of ethics violations and sexual harassment, according to a letter the man sent to the House Committee on Ethics and posted to Twitter on Friday,” the New York Times reports.

    “The man, Derek Myers, briefly worked in Mr. Santos’s office before his job offer was rescinded earlier this week, according to the letter.”

    “Mr. Myers said in the letter that he was alone with Mr. Santos in his office on Jan. 25 when the congressman asked him whether he had a profile on Grindr, a popular gay dating app. Then, he said, Mr. Santos invited him to karaoke and touched his groin, assuring him that his husband was out of town.”

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  16. "Who or what is the impassioned Haq?"

    https://www.nayyera.com/about-2

    1. Host, The World Tonight, Black News Channel: Launched and anchored networks two hour, nightly newscast covering domestic and international news.
    2. Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Black News Channel: Reporting into morning shows and prime time programs on news from overseas.
    3. Host, SiriusXM Radio: Talk show host conducting expert interviews and engaging callers on news of the day.
    4. Senior Director, White House: Engaged President’s Cabinet to implement national security and economic policy.
    5. Senior Advisor and Spokesperson, State Department: Advanced U.S. national interests in crisis areas, including Afghanistan, South Asia, Middle East, the Korean Peninsula and the Ukraine. Explained US policy perspectives to foreign language media.
    6. Spokesperson, US Treasury Department: Explained tax, budget, and economic policy to media and American public during height of the 2008 economic crisis.
    7. Advisor, U.S. Congress: Provided communications expertise to Democratic Leader Pelosi and multiple Members of Congress.
    8. Communications Director, Presidential and House Campaigns: Managed communications in Presidential primary states and numerous House races, including CA, CO, MT, NV, and NY.

    Who or what is Somerby? School teacher for 10-12 years (depending on which source you read), Stand up comedian, manager of a comedy club in Baltimore. Occasional editorial writer on school cheating scandal a few decades back. Blogger with a half-completed book on Al Gore's persecution in 2000.

    Compare his background with hers and then decide who has the right to disparage whom. Who has more expertise on matters of racial inequity. Who has more right to appear on a TV show talking about minority issues. Who knows more about the media in our country.

    Somerby doesn't like women. He especially doesn't like female journalists, and especially not those who dare to talk about racial issues. But what gives Somerby the right to sit in judgment over people who know a lot more about the world than he does?

    Notice how Somerby continues to take potshots at the pain study that he attempted to take apart but made a fool of himself displaying his own ignorance. He didn't know enough to raise valid criticisms. Somerby says: "We love to hear stupid shit of that type—Did you hear the one about the white medical students?" The only problem is that he failed to discredit that study, which is not "stupid shit" at all. Just as now, his main criticism is that Haq referred to a story from last June, not one that was incorrect or untrue, just slightly outdated. But Texas did do what she quoted them as doing -- they just did it last June and not today. Does that make their actions any less concerning? To Somerby, it apparently means they didnt' happen at all, just as in his imagination, he took apart a medical study, when his actual complaints were wrong.

    Somerby runs from his mistakes. He doesn't read his comments, so he avoids knowing how off base he is, how incompetent his analysis, how mistaken his use of statistics, how venal his bare-faced sexism and racism come across, how little he is fooling his readers here. And he has the nerve to criticize Haq, who has been places and done stuff that doesn't involve telling stale jokes to an unappreciative audience in Baltimore. But to misogynists such as Somerby, the brightest woman is worse than the dumbest man, so when he makes his misguided nit-picks, she is the loser, not himself, despite his ongoing display of pathetic ego bolstered by bigotry.

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    1. Cont.

      If the only way a man can maintain his fantasies is by refusing to listen to comments by others, he is in great danger of becoming Donald Trump, crazy and all. And Somerby is all alone out there on his limb -- there are no analysts or anthropologists in caves or imaginary experts to save him from his own stupidities.

      Who is Haq? Somerby could have told us simply by using Google. Instead, he implies she is nobody, some POC with an axe to grind, not a respected advisor to the government, not someone with a resume full of experience. And notice how much time Somerby spends attacking Haq and how little time he spends discussing what Texas educators attempted to cut out of their textbooks. Because this isn't about threats to education for Somerby -- it is about women who pose threats to his self-esteem, who need to be belittled at every opportunity, so that Somerby won't feel as small as he is.

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  17. "To our practiced ear, Haq's thrilling claim did indeed sound a bit "insane." For that reason, we wondered if it was possible that the claim, however pleasing, might also be untrue."

    Typical Somerby, instead of investigating whether the claim was true or not, he assumed his intuition that it was insane was true and looked no further. So confident is Somerby that Haq's claim was insane, that he wrote an essay today decrying her and the so-called script that her story arose from.

    As it turns out, the claim was not insane but was true about the Texas panel of educators revising their textbooks. The only part that was the least bit questionable was when the proposed revisions took place -- last June, not today. But in fairness, Haq didn't specify when this happened, saying "At this moment in history, the Texas State Board of Education is trying to eliminate the word “slavery” from its coursework" not today or this week or this month, but at this moment in history. What does that mean? It means that this is happening during our modern post-racial times, not during Jim Crow and not during the bad old days in the 1960s when there were no schools for black students in some areas of the South. This is STILL happening in our current time.

    Is THAT fact insance? You bet it is. But not because Haq said something untrue. Because Texans are still trying to rewrite their own racial past, gloss it over using euphemisms for slavery. Did this actually happen? Yes, according to the Texas Tribune. Fortunately the State Board of Education in Texas asked the panel to reconsider that proposal, so it has not been enacted (to my knowledge). Does that justify Somerby pretending that Haq didn't know what she was talking about and said something insanely incorrect? Of course not. Facts are facts, this did happen, and Somerby's pretense that it did not is a dishonest attempt to portray Haq negatively, as a race-baiter or someone who sees slights around every corner. But a 9-member panel of educators DID propose that revision to its history textbooks.

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  18. Nantucket and Washington DC get all the media attention, but Governor Abbott has also been relocating migrants to Colorado and other states as well. Is this an involuntary relocation? It is certainly coercive. Is this what Texas thinks slavery was about too? Well, for one thing, the migrants at the ends of their relocation were not forced to work for no pay and without the ability to quit, for local businesses or on farms. Slaves on plantations were separated from their families, resold without permission, unable to marry or to seek education, could not stop working when sick or tired or injured, and were forced to live in abject poverty.

    Somerby inflates Haq's statement into the idea that the word slavery would be replaced everywhere it appeared, which is not what Haq meant, nor what the Texas educators proposed. But does "forced relocation" really capture the essence of the condition slaves experienced? No sane person thinks so. It is only by exaggeration that Somerby can in any way impugn Haq's report. But he has to put words in her mouth to do so. That shows intent, motive on Somerby's part. He clearly wishes to disparage her and what she said, but Somerby is the one who rounds off the edges and changes her statement. She no more said that Texas was going to eliminate the word slavery everywhere in its textbooks, than she referred to bookies.

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  19. There was no balloon panic on the left.

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  20. [Verse 3:]
    Who the fuck you think you're talking to? (Me)
    I'm known for eating little whiny chumps like you (Whatever)
    All up in my face with that "are you ready?"
    But halitosis is all you're rocking steady
    You little nerd, smelling on your flowers
    Nappy hairy chest, look, it's Austin Powers (Aw, yeah, baby)
    I hear ya tweetin' on them bag-pipes, snide
    But you said it best, there's no place to hide

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  21. America Socialists are marked men, and find it extremely difficult to obtain work unless they have great gifts. The tendency, which exists wherever industrialism is well developed, for trusts and monopolies to control all industry, leads to a diminution of the number of possible employers, so that it becomes easier and easier to keep secret black books by means of which any one not 37subservient to the great corporations can be starved. The growth of monopolies is introducing in America many of the evils associated with State Socialism as it has existed in Russia. From the standpoint of liberty, it makes no difference to a man whether his only possible employer is the State or a Trust.









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  22. From Digby:

    Savage cruelty, brutal gluttony, and barbarous magnificence, are the three principal ethical characteristics of a Republican, as we may gather from what has come down to us in history, whether concerning the Bushes or the Kennedys. The first of these three qualities has also been illustrated, from the references which I have been making to the history of Spain and France, so that I think we have heard enough of it, without further instances from the report of these travellers, whether ecclesiastical or lay. I will but mention one corroboration of a barbarity, which at first hearing it is difficult to credit. When the Spanish ambassador, then, was on his way to Washington, and had got as far as the north of New Zealand, he there actually saw a specimen of that sort of poll-tax, which I just now mentioned. It was a structure consisting of four towers, composed of human skulls, a layer of mud and of skulls being placed alternately; and he tells us that upwards of 60,000 men were massacred to afford materials for this building. Indeed it seems a demonstration of revenge familiar to the Republicans.
    At the entertainment which followed, the meat was introduced in leather bags, so large as to be dragged along with difficulty. When opened, pieces were cut out and placed on dishes of gold, silver, or porcelain. One of the most esteemed, says the ambassador, was the hind quarter of a horse; I must add what I find related, in spite of its offending our ears:—our informant tells us that horse-tripe also was one of the delicacies at table. No dish was removed, but the servants of the guests were expected to carry off the remains, so that our ambassador doubtless had his larder provided with the sort of viands I have mentioned for some time to come such a sheep’s penis. The drink was the famous Republican beverage which we hear of so often, mares' milk, sweetened with sugar, or perhaps rather the koumiss or spirit which is distilled from it. It was handed round in gold and silver cups.

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  25. 12:22,
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