GOP Rep Again Accuses Gay Obama Adviser Of Covering Up Child Abuse — Even Though His Office Was Informed It’s False
Okay, this is really something. GOP Rep Steve King, who’s been leading the charge against top Obama education adviser Kevin Jennings, today called for Jennings to be fired for allegedly “ignoring the sex abuse of a child” when he was a young schoolteacher.
But guess what: King’s office was informed at least a week ago that even Fox News, a lead tormentor of Jennings, corrected these allegations and acknowledged that the “child” was actually of legal consent age. I know, because I informed his office of this, in the course of seeking comment on an earlier story I was doing about the whole mess.
Jennings is reviled by conservatives because of his past as a gay rights advocate. Fox News and many other conservatives have also crusaded against Jennings because as a young teacher, Jennings failed to report it when a teenager confided in him about a sexual encounter in Massachusetts.
Jennings later regretted the incident, there’s no defending what he did, and it’s true that Jennings himself initially described the kid — wrongly — as being 15 years old. Since then, however, as Fox acknowledged in a correction, the kid stepped forward to reveal that he had been 16, the legal age of consent in Massachusetts.
At least a week ago, after Rep. King attacked Jennings over the incident, I emailed his spokesman, letting him know that Fox had corrected the record. The spokesman replied, but I ended up not writing.
Today King, along with at least 50 other House GOPers, sent a letter to Obama demanding Jennings’ ouster, on these grounds:
Equally troubling is Mr. Jennings’ self-described history of ignoring the sexual abuse of a child. In his book, One Teacher in Ten, Mr. Jennings recounts a 15-year old student confiding in him that he had a sexual relationship with a much older man. Mr. Jennings’ only response was to ask if the underage boy used a condom. As a mandatory reporter, Mr. Jennings was required by law to report child abuse, including sex crimes. Mr. Jennings cannot serve as the “safe schools” czar when his record demonstrates a willingness to overlook the sexual abuse of a child.
Contacted for comment, King’s spokesman, Matt Lahr, replied: “Jennings, as he writes in his book, thought the boy was 15 and chose not to speak with law authorities. And as a mandatory reporter, Mr. Jennings was required by law to report child abuse.”
It’s true that Jennings himself — again, wrongly — initially said the kid was 15. But the letter also states as outright fact that this was “child abuse” and the “sexual abuse of a child.” King’s office knows this is false, and yet is repeating it, anyway.
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Let’s just remind ourselves of the source. These are just a few of the comments from King during the campaign.
“Sioux City Journal reporter Bret Hayworth also reported that King said, “Obama is ACORN. … When I see Obama, I see ACORN branded on his forehead.” This wasn’t the first time that King fear-mongered about Obama. Speaking in Exira, IA on Aug. 21, King claimed that Obama was anti-American and raised by polygamists and “left wing hard core atheists”:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/28/king-obama-dictator/
I’m sure that court idjit and troll, qb, will be here soon to defend the repug, king. What repugs are smearing and lying ? Impossible.
Projection.
O but amk – this post just proves that we on the left: find boogeymen and attack attack attack and then whine about being victims and then attack attack attack.
No?
I’m sorry, but this ACORN thing is either the most bizarre obsession I’ve ever seen OR proof positive that African Americans scare the Right to death.
I remember King also comparing Obama to Hitler, Chavez and saying Al Qaida would dance in the streets if he won the election. I think he may have cried wolf a few too many times to be taken seriously by anybody, at least I hope so.
Gosh — King didn’t accuse Jennings of being a Muslim?
For happy hour:
Recession ends in 79 metro areas (1 in 5)
The recession finally ended in August in one out of every five metro areas in the United States, especially in the Midwest and Great Plains, according to the latest Adversity Index from Moody’s Economy.com and msnbc.com.
This is the first month this year when any metro area has moved from recession into the “recovery” category, indicating that the economy grew from six months earlier. Out of 384 metro areas in the nation, 79 are in recovery, according to the August data on jobs, manufacturing and housing. Another 270 areas have a “moderating recession,” meaning their economies were not contracting as severely as earlier. That leaves 35 metro areas in a full-blown recession.
“The initial recovery is going to be slow,” said economist Andrew Gledhill of Moody’s Economy.com. Jobs are still being lost, but in terms of manufacturing production, “the economy is finally beginning to emerge from the cellar.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33312701/ns/business-eye_on_the_economy/
New jobless claims dropped to the lowest level since January and the prices of many household goods stayed low last month, positive signs of stability for the fledgling economic recovery.
The decline in jobless claims shows companies are cutting fewer workers, though the drop isn’t yet steep enough to signal new hiring, economists said. And the low level of inflation is holding down prices as Americans slowly regain their appetite to shop despite rising unemployment and tight credit conditions.
Thursday’s reports “all point to an economy that is starting to grow again,” said Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist at the Economic Outlook Group.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33324983/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/
“at least I hope so.”
right on that -
[hmm - begs the question: am I channeling Nelly or Slo Mo?]
Isn’t this POS also a birther nut ?
King also recently asserted in an on the record interview that same-*** marriage is a purely socialist concept.
(same-s*x)
King is way off the deep end, along with Bachmann.
“Don’t confuse me with facts. I’ve made up my mind.” — Rep Earl Landgrebe, R-Indiana, 1974.
King is not troubled by cognitive dissonance because he is wholly unacquainted with cognition to begin with.
King is the very embodiment of ignorance in action.
“King also recently asserted in an on the record interview that same-*** marriage is a purely socialist concept.”
Whooo weeee! This guy does have scrambled brains. I’d like to see him justify this statement, which I’m reasonably sure he wouldn’t. Like the trolls – just throw it out there – it’s going to stick to anybody listening who is as nutty as this idea is.
Christian fundamentalists have had a problem with facts for at least a century now.
“The recession finally ended in August in one out of every five metro areas in the United States, especially in the Midwest and Great Plains, according to the latest Adversity Index from Moody’s Economy.com and msnbc.com.”
Of course – that’s why Arianna has a Drudge-sized lede now about how things are the worst they’ve been EVER.
I’m beginning to think she’s still a Republican and gets paid for this c*r*a*p.
“# oddjob | October 15th, 2009 at 02:54 pm
Christian fundamentalists have had a problem with facts for at least a century now.
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Darwin really mess with their minds.
Obama in townhall today – “Those folks who are trying to get in the way of progress – let me tell you, I’m just getting started. I don’t quit. I’m not tired; I’m just getting started.”
Also, classy and snarky Obama
“the crowd boos Obama’s mention of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.
“No, no – I like – Bobby’s doing a good job – hey, hey, hold on a second,” Obama tells the crowd. “Bobby, first of all, if it makes you feel any better, I get that all the time. And the second point is, you know, even though we have our difference politically, one thing I will say is, this person’s working hard on behalf of the state and you have to give people credit for working hard.”
messed
***sob***
““Those folks who are trying to get in the way of progress – let me tell you, I’m just getting started. I don’t quit. I’m not tired; I’m just getting started.””
That’s Obama in a nutshell, to me.
ACORN is The Republican’s Way To play The Collective Willie Horton card. It is the Republicans cover for playing their subliminal race messages.
As For Arianna:
Arianna is a political Chameleon. I have never bought into her act. She married a wealthy Right Wing Republican, because she saw him as her ticket to becoming First Lady. He got elected to Congress, and he then ran for The US Senate, and Arianna was spouting the same Right Wing talking points that he was. He lost. so she divorced him. Soon after that he announced that he was g@y.
Arianna then decided that she was going to be an Independent candidate for Gov. of California. Recall how she embarrassed herself by stepping in front of the Cameras, at an Arnold campaign stop.
She lost badly, so she had failed on the right wing, and as an Independent, then she suddenly morphed into being a Progressive.
She is just a opportunistic Political Chameleon, or if you prefer; A Political Windsock.
“She is just a opportunistic Political Chameleon, or if you prefer; A Political Windsock.”
I pretty much agree. And she’s also looking to build a virtual Vanity Fair empire out of HuffPo.
She seems to me to be jumping the shark with these screaming ledes. But maybe that’s just me.
@Tena,
She sure has a lot of her web page devoted to sensationalist tabloid like ****.
It looks more like a Murdoch dung heap, than a progressive site.
Edit;
The site will not allow the word cr@p, but it will accept:tabloid like shite.
Darwin really mess with their minds.
Yes indeedy do.
Tena – That “I don’t quit” is a jibe against you know who.
Greg,
I don’t think this statement can be defended as accurate:
“But the letter also states as outright fact that this was “child abuse” and the “sexual abuse of a child.””
King’s letter does not say that.
If the general public knew the facts about Jennings, including the book for which he wrote the forward, I don’t think it there is much chance they would approve of him holding his position.
But in any event, the statement I quoted is inaccurate.
More Obama on a roll today
“This is when the insurance companies are really going to start gearing up. Their stock went down when the Senate Finance Committee passed that bill. Now, they’re getting nervous.”
He warns the audience that they’re going to start hearing from “front groups” for the insurance industry, with vague names like “Americans for Good Health Care.” “Don’t fall for it “.
In Nola, 4th grader Terrance:
“Why does everybody hate you? They’re supposed to love you… God is love.”
Just awesome. And Obama’s response was totally on point.
Thank God we have a thoughtful, sensible President.
Regarding the underage issue;
Didn’t Dennis Hastert,when he was Republican Speaker of The House cover up for Mark Foley,when they knew he was pursuing underage boys, in a sexual manner. Didn’t several senior Republicans participate in that cover up.
Did any of them report it to the legal authorities when they first learned of it.
Greg,
Perhaps you could ask Rep.King what he knew about that, and what he said about it, after it became public.
Did any of them report it to the legal authorities when they first learned of it.
In DC they were of legal age.
Good catch Liam.
“Thank God we have a thoughtful, sensible President.”
I do, about every 5 minutes. And I’m an agnostic. Bush/Cheney all but made a believer out of me again-
“Didn’t Dennis Hastert,when he was Republican Speaker of The House cover up for Mark Foley,when they knew he was pursuing underage boys, in a sexual manner. Didn’t several senior Republicans participate in that cover up.
Did any of them report it to the legal authorities when they first learned of it.”
Good one Liam.
But even if they were of legal age, Mark Foley was still in a Power, Boss like position over them. That is also against the law. It was, at the very least, sexual harassment by a Superior, in the work place. So, I ask again. Did Speaker Hastert(R) and his cohorts, report it promptly to the legal authorities?
Forget the Public Option, open Medicare For All…
…Says Blue Dog Mike Ross?!?!
Blue Dog Rep. Mike Ross, who made headlines by rejecting a compromise he’d negotiated on a public health insurance option, has suggested to Democratic leaders that the government-run Medicare program be opened to those without insurance.
Ross (D-Ark.) has made the suggestion in meetings with House Democratic leaders and brought the idea to the closed-door House Democratic Caucus meeting Thursday.
[...]
But regarding opening Medicare, he added this caveat: “Let me be clear: I do not endorse this idea, as it was just one of many ideas we, as legislators, have brought up and discussed in the numerous, ongoing negotiations and discussions we have had on healthcare reform over the past several months.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/63281-leading-blue-dog-suggests-opening-medicare-to-all
Interesting to say the least…………..
“Interesting to say the least”
I’ll say. Huh -
Isn’t this whole thing about this kid telling Jennings about a homosexual encounter, and wasn’t Jennings trying to keep from outing this kid?
And by “this kid,” I mean this kid of legal age.
Ethan-
Re: Ross- say *what*? Thats ridiculous! Who got to him?
But even if they were of legal age, Mark Foley was still in a Power, Boss like position over them. That is also against the law. It was, at the very least, sexual harassment by a Superior, in the work place. So, I ask again. Did Speaker Hastert(R) and his cohorts, report it promptly to the legal authorities?
No argument from me!
Much as it is always against my better judgment to engage anything Liam says, just let me point out that the Mark Foley scandal isn’t comparable.
There was a lot of dispute and murkiness about when people knew about text messages, but surely it can’t escape people that text messages aren’t *** or sexual abuse.
In legal terms, Liam, “sexual harassment” isn’t something that is reported to law enforcement authorities. The police wouldn’t even take a report for that. As a sometime criminal lawyer, I would think Tena would get that.
It doesn’t change the fact that Foley was a creep (and I suppose a bit tragic given what happened to him as a teenager) and justly forced to resign. But you are comparing apples and oranges.
Breaking News.
QB thinks that he has “better judgement”! In other similar news of the day; skunk declares that he believes that he smells as sweet as Shalimar.
Not reporting something to the authorities is not the same thing as covering it up, and Hastert covered for Foley all over the damn place.
Please.
Apples and Oranges.
Republican Leaders of the Congress engaged in long term cover up for Sexual Predator in their own caucus.
An Individual revealed in his own book, how he had handled a situation, when a student told him about a sexual encounter. The author was the first to reveal it, and also to write that upon reflection, he probably should have handled it differently.
Apples and Oranges indeed!
“In legal terms, Liam, “sexual harassment” isn’t something that is reported to law enforcement authorities. The police wouldn’t even take a report for that. As a sometime criminal lawyer, I would think Tena would get that.”
And so you think they shouldn’t have impeached Bill Clinton for having *** with an adult woman not his wife?
You cannot simultaneously make excuses for Foley and Hastert, and blame Bill Clinton and think he was rightfully impeached and should have been fired.
I doubt that you know many details of what Hastert knew and did.
But in any event, once again you folks can’t keep your story straight. Liam made a lame and easily claim that Hastert was required to report “sexual harasment” to the authorities. That’s just stupid. If you are aware of some actual crime that was required to be reported, you’re free to identify it. But the Foley scandal didn’t involve *** with a page, or a minor, or anyone else.
Darn it, should have said “easily refuted claim”
What makes me so mad about this is that Foley was preying on pages, and Hastert knew it and that is a damn far cry from a kid with a problem trying to talk to an adult he trusts about that problem.
There should be adults that adolescents can talk to about sexuality without being judged, but of course, that doesn’t sit well with the Right. They want to drag them off for exorcisms and “de-gay” them.
QB,
Is defending Dennis Hastert, Republican Speaker of the House, for engaging in a long term cover up of the actions of A Sexual Predator in his own congressional caucus, and for allowing him to continue to prey on young pages.
That is all you need to know about QB, the resident pompous moralist, who loves to lectures liberals on their failings.
Your problem isn’t with “the Right,” then, but with the law that required reporting (or at least so Jennings thought). Don’t think you would be likely to convince too many of that position.
Liar Liam,
Please quote where I defended Hastert.
@Tena,
The Republican knew for a long time, what Mark Foley was doing. It had been reported to them on several occassions.
Just like they knew what Larry Craig was like.
Did you know what Larry Craig was tapping out in code, in the Men’s Room Stalls.
No you don’t, I hear you say.
It was morse code.
He was tapping out with his foot,
I-Da-Ho…I-Da-Ho…..I-Da-Ho
Liam – O god – that’s so bad on so many levels. LOLOL!!!
If you want to talk about sexual harassment of pages, Liam,
how about we talk about the scandal in the 70s/80s. You’re old enough to remember that — actual *** with pages by two Congressmen.
Want to know how that was handled? Republicans led by Newt Gingrish tried to have both of them, a Dem and a Rep, expelled, but the “moderate” Rep leadership joined the Democrat leadership in merely censuring them. Why didn’t Tip O’Neill or Jim Wright “report them to the authorities” for sexual harassment?
Because it is a fatuous notion. But at least we know which party protects ACTUAL sexual harassers in Congress — your party.
Hastert was required to protect the pages from a known sexual predator. Hastert was informed of Mark Foley’s predations on a number of occassions. Hastert did not conduct any investigation, and did not inform the pages’ families.
QB thinks Hastert did nothing wrong. That is defending Hastert.
Liam,
“You lie.”
I didn’t say a word defending Hastert; I showed that you made another fatuous comparison in trying to defend the sick individual Obama appointed to oversee school safety.
“the sick individual Obama appointed to oversee school safety.”
O – I see – you think being homosexual means being “sick.”
Now I get it.
@Tena,
There you go Tena. QB comes right out and admits that he is a homophobe.
Wait until SBJ hears about that. I am sure he will defend QB’s right to hate him.
What needs to be done to this slime ball is sue him in a court for slander and any other slime balls that either distorts the truth, lies to damage ones charactor and job!
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After what Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) indicated was a tense health care discussion, Senate health care leaders declared, confidently, that the overhaul package that comes to the floor will earn every Democratic vote. However, they also made clear that the ultimate decision maker on key questions like the public option is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
“Reid’s making these decisions ultimately, and I think he’s listening and…I feel good about it,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH).
“Conrad spoke out for co-ops,” Brown said, “six or seven people spoke out for [the public option],” adding later that the pro-public option senators were articulating a policy preference, and not pressuring Reid to act one way or another as he weaves two competing Senate bills together. Nobody, he says, spoke out against a public plan.
Brown’s confidence springs from a belief that conservative Democrats do not want to be held responsible for killing reform. “No Democrat wants to be on the wrong side of history and vote on a procedural vote to kill the most important domestic vote of their careers,” Brown said.
But Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus went even further and suggested that every Democrat would ultimately vote for the final bill”
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/after-tense-health-care-discussion-dems-predict-unanimity-on-reform.php
@Tena,
Just like I have been indicating for some time. No Democrat can vote to sustain a filibuster.
“No Democrat can vote to sustain a filibuster.”
I never thought there was much chance at all of that, either.
So what were the activists so jumped up about? *sigh*
@Tena,
Once you label yourself “an activist” then you have to stay active, even if there is nothing valid to get worked up about.
Group speak is a double edged sword.
How typical of you clowns: Make silly claims, get skewered on the facts, and resort to ad hominem.
Jennings, as you know, wrote the laudatory foreword to that landmark publication Queering Elementary Education, and singled out a man who was a champion of pedophilia as one of his greatest inspirations. Anyone who doesn’t affirm homosexuality is a bigot, according to him, and he is a long time champion of indoctrinating children in that belief system — parents notwithstanding.
You can make all baloney distinctions and qualifications you want to that record, but he is a champion of a truly sick ideology. His goal is “safe” for homosexuality but not “safe” for anyone who doesn’t affirm it. Let the public know his record and see what they think.
“Jennings, as you know, wrote the laudatory foreword to that landmark publication Queering Elementary Education, and singled out a man who was a champion of pedophilia as one of his greatest inspirations”
Prove these accusations.
QB hate Homosexuals. He thinks they are sick. Ergo; he thinks that Mary Cheney and Phyllis Schlafly’s gay son, are sick.
All one has to do is go through the secret files of Roman Catholic Bishops, any where around the world, to find the names lots of Champions of Pedophilia.
Look it up, Tena, those are well document facts — and facts that were rabidly defended on this site and elsewhere.
Liam, your act is so tiresome.
QB tells Tena to look it up, because he can not.
To hell with that hate mongering cretin.
I’m so sick of your: “look it up, these are well-documented facts” bs – that’s all you ever say. Either that or “you’d know the answer if you weren’t so dumb.”
Those aren’t answers, that’s not proof and you’re a total waste of oxygen.
Oxycontin must make ya paranoid:
” LIMBAUGH: When the whole thing started to unravel last week, whenever, whoever — whenever this thing leaked — and by the way, I learned yesterday that George Soros might be in this group. Reuters had a story that George Soros is one of Dave Checketts’ partners. I did not know that. I wasn’t told that. The — Mr. Checketts is not the primary partner here. The NFL has a rule that the primary owner has to have 30 percent equity in the team, and our group lost our 30 percent equity guy, and we had to scramble and find a new one. And I was told who it was, but now I’m wondering if it was Soros and I wasn’t told. Soros and Checketts did, I have learned, partner together previously, try to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers. So, and of course, Mr. Soros is well known politically for his left-wing slants. His politics fits in perfectly, apparently, with what the National Football League is becoming. But I wonder if they know he is also involved in the movement to legalize marijuana, and how that will play as the owners decide whether or not he’s fit.
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LIMBAUGH: And the real reason, the real reason — and there are many, many reasons that are valid — but the real reason that pressure was brought upon me by Sharpton and Jackson and DeMaurice Smith and the commissioner is that the players association is using my involvement in the Rams and this whole episode as a bit of leverage in their negotiations, the upcoming negotiations with the league and with the owners on a new collective bargaining agreement.
Later in the program, Rush gave us what we all saw coming, his sour-grapes moment:
LIMBAUGH: They had to demonize me with false, fake, made-up quotes to protect their precious little National Football League as an outpost of racism and liberalism, which is what it is.
@Liam….”QB thinks that he has “better judgement”! In other similar news of the day; skunk declares that he believes that he smells as sweet as Shalimar.”
OK my Irish friend you move back to the top of the comedy heap.
What’s just as funny is QB the king of non specific ad hominem attacks…ohhh but we’ve been there before in our discussion of PROJECTION.
As a newcomer to this blog perhaps somebody can enlighten me as to why QB even shows up here…why doesn’t he just go to the Drudge report? And why all the hostility to SBJ..who I admittedly totally disagree with…but he seems to be far less obnoxious than Q.B.
I understand these guys are trolls but do they really think they’re going to flip us or something. Why don’t they contain themselves to Sean Hannity’s website or somewhere else where their blarney (like that one Liam?) might be appreciated?
“he is a champion of a truly sick ideology”
The fact that you never qualify your statements as your own opinions is what gets you into trouble, IMHO.
You are a dipsh*t from a truly sick ideology imho.
Here is one of many links I decided out of the goodness of my heart to fetch for you poor, helpless souls who claim to be unaware of the facts.
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/
Feel free to go over to Media Matters to get your side’s defense of it all, including the Jennings Foreward to Queering Elementary Education — a contribution I’m sure all parents would be thrilled to know their official school safety federal adminstrator made.
“Those aren’t answers, that’s not proof and you’re a total waste of oxygen.”
You claim ignorance of everything. If I said grass is green you would ask me to prove it. I know you read Media Matters as gospel. You can go look up Kevin Jennings there. I don’t even have to bother giving you more right wing or neutral cites.
By the way, Tena, I noticed you proved exactly nothing about the things Rush Limbaugh supposedly said. I asked you to prove he said slavery has merit, and you didn’t. You said you could prove 1000 even worse racist statements he’s made, and you produced nothing.
You’re just full of hot air.
Ethan,
I’m so sorry, I forgot that you are mentally challenged in not understanding the difference between opinions and facts. But you are right. Perhaps if I start carefully labeling all of my statements “fact” and “opinion” you and your little friends here might start to learn the difference.
Their is a method to my madness. They are always attacking where they are the weakest. They learned that trick from Tu*rdBlossom(Rove)
Swift Boating an actual veteran of Vietnam is a prime example of their tactics.
There is only one way to combat their vile ways. Put them on the defense about their behavior and expressed views. Notice who has not shown up all day on any other threads.
It just so happens that I only use the facts that they provide, against them. SBJ is clearly a racist.
Anyone who believes that he got offended by the Obama campaign’s response to what Bill Clinton started, and that SBJ did not know what the Bush Campaign did to John McCain and his daughter, or thinks Hillary saying “hard working White Americans” in West Virginia, is perfectly acceptable, even after she apologized for having used that racially loaded phrase,is terminally naive.
He sits out elections, and does not vote, but he voted this time to defeat Obama.
He said he would not have bothered to vote, if Hillary was the nominee.
He is a racist.
“By the way, Tena, I noticed you proved exactly nothing about the things Rush Limbaugh supposedly said. I asked you to prove he said slavery has merit, and you didn’t. You said you could prove 1000 even worse racist statements he’s made, and you produced nothing.
You’re just full of hot air.”
I produced 44 pages of direct links to video of Limbaugh saying literally hundreds of things that were worse.
44 pages of long lists of links directly to video of Limbaugh saying worse things.
qb – That’s called proof.
What you do – is just bull*s*h*i*t
http://newsone.com/elections/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/
1. I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.
Source
Source 2
Liam,
You couldn’t put a child on the defensive. Really. You make ridiculous claims, they get knocked to pieces. You cut and paste the same garbage again. And you name call. That’s your method.
http://newsone.com/elections/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/
2. You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed.
Jennings, as you know, wrote the laudatory foreword to that landmark publication Queering Elementary Education, and singled out a man who was a champion of pedophilia as one of his greatest inspirations.
A ‘champion of pedophilia’? Not only was Jennings talking about Hay’s other work, not only did Jennings denounce Hay’s efforts to include NAMBLA in a march, that’s not even what Hay did.
Dishonesty as thick as his skull. There’s your bigot.
Tena,
Proof of WHAT? 44 pages of stuff that MM says is offensive. Big deal. The attack this week was based on FABRICATIONS, like the one Liam the Liar just posted.
http://newsone.com/elections/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/
3. Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?
“Proof of WHAT? 44 pages of stuff that MM says is offensive. Big deal. The attack this week was based on FABRICATIONS, like the one Liam the Liar just posted.”
One more time – 44 pages of links to LIMBAUGH ON VIDEO SAYING WHAT MEDIA MATTERS SAID HE SAID. IT’S HIM ON VIDEO YOU NUMBNUTS!
http://newsone.com/elections/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/
6. The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.
The problem, Tena, is that qb lacks the courage of his convictions. He’s not going to go read things that will challenge his fantasy world.
The core of bigotry is cowardice.
http://newsone.com/elections/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/
7. They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?
Those are some statements that Rush Limbaugh has made about African Americans.
They are sourced, at the link.
QB is always referencing 5 year olds, and children.
What is that all about?
Tena,
Are you playing dumb or really that dumb? I don’t care how many videos MM has of Rush saying “things.” The media spread the claims that he defend slavery as having merit and thinks James Earl Ray should have gotten an award.
Does MM claim he said those things, and do they have proof???
Here is one of many links where people investigated these claims and found them to be FABRICATIONS of left wing internet rats.
http://maaadddog.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/quotation-attributed-to-rush-limbaugh-is-a-damnable-lie/
“Tena,
Are you playing dumb or really that dumb? I don’t care how many videos MM has of Rush saying “things.” The media spread the claims that he defend slavery as having merit and thinks James Earl Ray should have gotten an award.
Does MM claim he said those things, and do they have proof???
Here is one of many links where people investigated these claims and found them to be FABRICATIONS of left wing internet rats.”
You are ridicuous – I’d rather talk to a table. You reject actual videos of Rush saying far worse things that the one thing you are hung up on – out of literally hundreds if not thousands of worse things I linked to VIDEO of RUSH SAYING.
Frakking troll! You could be onfire and you’d deny it if MediaMatters said you were.
Here is another link for you folks. Follow the embedded and stacked links through. Then tell me everything on the internet is true.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MGExZmMxZDExNzY3MzI5ZDgwOGU4NGY2MGU1YmQyNzQ=
Straight people who are secure in their own sexual orientation, are far less likely to engage in homophobic rants, than those who have serious questions about their own sexuality.
Take that Pastor Ted Haggard, for example. He never stopped bashing Homosexuals and calling them sick.
I must say, Quarterbacks do love to put their hands under center.
Right, I thought so, Tena,
He didn’t say the things the media spread this week, and even MM doesn’t claim he did. But you wave your hand around and claim he OBVIOUSLY said “hundreds if not thousands of worse things.”
Really? Worse than saying he supports slavery and the assassin of MLK should get a Medal of Honor? And he said SO MANY worse things that lefties just like you had to make these up? Yeah, very tight story you have there.
Your defense is exhausted and you have made a fool of yourself — again.
And Liam, you old fool, in case you don’t get it yet, NOT EVERYTHING someone says on the internet is true, even when they SAY they have a source. But I know, you don’t care whether what you say is a truth or a lie. It serves your purpose either way.
This one’s just too funny. Here, Liam the Liar, is what you have on “Source 2″ (Huffpo) for your first fake quotation:
“Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this post contained quotes attributed to Rush Limbaugh, which Limbaugh has since denied making. As is our policy when a fact in a blog post is called into question, we gave its author 24 hours to substantiate the quote. Since he has not been able to do so, the quotes have been deleted from the post.”
Source 1 — a book (actually an Amazon link) — doesn’t contain it either.
Feel stupid, yet, Liam? Ready to stop posting garbage and defamation?
Quarterback is our Truth Oracle.
Only believe what he determines to be the truth.
Have you got that people?
Have an answer for the links proving you posted fake quotes, Liam the Liar? Or are just going to go back to making your silly kindergarten insults now? I think I know the answer.
Quarterback accepts Limbaugh’s denials.
And we know that Rush Limbaugh never tries to deceive. After all, St. Rush would never have a member of his house staff purchase prescription drugs for him, from drug dealers, and St. Rush would never use an other person’s prescription to get a supply of Viagra.
So if Rush denies something, you can be sure he is telling the truth.
Otherwise, QB, The Truth Oracle, would never vouch for him.
No – qb – check the fraking thread. I said if that one comment was false, that I could produce literally hundreds of worse racist things Rush has said.
I produced links to hundreds of video clips of Rush saying worse things.
It’s very simple, darlin. You reject actual video of Rush actually saying racist things as proof that Rush has ever said racist things.
Tena,
Which things were worse than supporing slavery or wanting James Earl Ray to receive a Medal of Honor?
Liam,
You understand that, as the person claiming Rush said X, it is your obligation to prove it? And that proof isn’t some other anonymous board poster who said he said it?
You posted a link to Huffpo as a source. That link says the quotations were removed because the author couldn’t substantiate them. How would that be, exactly, given that everything Rush says has been recorded by the left for years?
QB,
You came on here and provided no links to substantiate your homophobic claims. Then you finally came back with some cooked up stuff from an off the wall right wing site.
How about you following your own rules then. It is up to you to provide proof that your links are telling the truth.
Take a hike; you hate mongering cretin.
We’ve gotten whee we are because we’ve been sleeping while the teachers indoctrinate. Socialists ans Communists have infiltrated our schools. Explain to me why children know more about Che and Mao than the founding fathers?
http://animal-farm.us/change/teachers-union-and-your-children-691
Liam,
You lost. I proved you posted falsehoods about Limbaugh. Indeed, proof that makes you a laughingstock, since the very link you posted said the quotation was unsubstantiated and therefore removed. Hahhaha — laughing at you not with you.
And I posted proof about Jennings and Harry Hay. I guess things like photos of Hay at NAMBLA meetings and indisputable proof that Jennings knew he was a champion of “pedarasts” — Hay’s own word — still leave you in denial.
Sorry you were proved wrong both times. Oh, but do go to Amazon or Media Matters if you want to see Jennings’ Foreword to Queering Elementary Education.
Because Che and Mao were not born until long after the founding fathers were pushing up daisies. The founding fathers could not have known about them.
Well, Foxwood,
You can see from that response by Liam what an advanced intelligence you are confronting here.
“Why does everybody hate you? They’re supposed to love you… God is love.”
“Just awesome.”
Just awesome?
ROTFLMAO!!!
SBJ, Did you see where your Right Wing Pal, Quarterback said that gay men, like you, are sick?
@Liam & Tena…why do we engage with mental midgets like QB. Not only do FACTS mean NOTHING to him…Tena posts links to ACTUAL VIDEO of the fat man making the comments and the mental midget STILL DOESN’T GET IT. QB is a total waste even by righty standards…actually arguing with a table would be MORE productive!
“Tena posts links to ACTUAL VIDEO of the fat man making the comments and the mental midget STILL DOESN’T GET IT.”
I know this basic logic stuff is hard for you to follow ruk, but try.
The claimed statements were that slavery has merit and James Earl Ray should get the medal of honor.
If you have seen video of Rush saying those things, please let the world know, because no one else has, Tena and MM included. The MM archives don’t have video of those fabricated quotes, because they were FABRICATED. And Tena claimed she could prove Rush said hundreds or even thousands of things MORE racist than those.
She couldn’t point out where that proof is, in MM’s archives or anywhere else.
That actually means YOU and she and the rest of the brain-damaged liberals here were again shown to be “full of it,” to use the scientific term for your condition.
“…Tena posts links to ACTUAL VIDEO of the fat man making the comments and the mental midget STILL DOESN’T GET IT. QB is a total waste even by righty standards…actually arguing with a table would be MORE productive!”
I know I know- my bad. Some days for some reason I just do it.
It’s a waste of time.
qb – final word – Rush’s buds, who asked him to come in with them buying the Rams are the ones who dumped him.
You can blame that on everyone but where the blame rests, but the fact remains – his friends didn’t stick up for Rush – they dropped him like he’s hot. They obviously didn’t think it was worth it.
So knock yourself out trying to do what people who actually know the man refused to do.
rukidding – Hey, A table atleast has some legs to stand on. And it serves an useful purpose.
qb, OTOH, is just an dishonest idjit wingnut troll, having a pea for a brain. It must really suck being him.
this is a witch hunt, plain and simple. they are using lies have the right wing media repeating them, despite being shown the real mtruth repeatedly. the same extremists got Van Jones fired, their new target is Kevin Jennings and they’ll just keep moving on to the next person they don’t agree with -it has turned into McCarthyism and I hope the Obama administration publicly says “stop” now – if they don’t, these folks will not until the day his Presidency is over.”
“lies have the right wing media”
Nonsense, you don’t identify a single lie. It is a fact that Jennings wrote the Foreword to Queering Elementary Education. It is a fact that he did not report what he believed was a case of public restroom *** with a minor — and even he admitted he acted improperly. It is a fact that he cited Harry Hay as an inspiration, and that he knew Hay was a combative advocate for pederasty.
Those are undisputed and undeniable facts. Most of the public would not want that person overseeing school policies, let alone in a high-level federal position.
Sorry but it is NOT a fact. The young man provided his I.D. which proved that he was of age. AND he already said no sexual activity occurred. As for the Harry Hay thing, Jennings said nothing about NAMBLA but praised Hay’s EARLY work for the cause of gay rights. This is simply a case of people who will not admit that they are attacking someone because of his sexual orientation. So they have manufactured all of these ridiculous excuses.
Read more carefully, a mcewen.
As I said, he did not report “what he believed” to be bathroom *** with a minor. Undisputed, indisputable fact.
And it is a FACT that he cited Harry Hay as his inspiration, and Hay was a notorious advocate of pederast “rights,” as Jennings indisputably had to know. It makes no difference whether he cited that part of Hay’s public record; it was undeniably a huge part of Hay’s record and reputation. And he did NOT distinguish it. No one of sound character and judgment would ever have cited Hay as an example in that context — NO ONE.
Jennings is NOT just a gay man but a gay man with a long record of activism aimed at children and families that is offensive and troubling to many parents.
i informed them too. apparently english isn’t their first language.
I hate and ******, and I think quareterback is the most honest person on this entire sight. **** the rest of your with your fake video ***** from that left media matters bulsshit site, that’s all shopped and made up anyway.
keep up the good fight qb and take this country back from these damn ******* nad ****** that are ruining it
keep
Quarterback, you are playing rhetorical games. You take an obvious verbal misquote from Jennings and stream all sorts of nonsense.
But the facts are the facts. No *** was had, no crime was committed. The child was of legal age. So Jennings didn’t break any law and was not bound to report anything.
And you talk about “Jennings had to know about Hay.” Totally irrelevant because Jennings never gave any support to NAMBLA or Hay’s support of NAMBLA. Your statements are pure speculation and conjecture. Speculation and conjecture don’t stand up in court. Why should they stand up here?
Your last comment reveals a certain inaccurate perception of superiority. Jennings has a history of activism that is SUPPORTED by a lot of families. Lgbts lead families too my friend.
Mr. Sargent,
It doesn’t matter that the boy whom Kevin Jenning counseled back in the day has surfaced with a driver’s license to prove that he was 16 at the time, nor does it lessen Jennings’ negligence if there was no intercourse between the minor student and an adult male.
Keving Jenning BELIEVED that the boy was 15 and he BELIEVED he was having *** with an older man, as he so clearly wrote in his book.
Jennings is guilty as charged.
Peggy, do the world a favor and never reproduce. You’re a ******* moron.
Even if he were 15, there wasn’t any *** involved. The guy was an adolescent looking for advice on a difficult topic, and Jennnings gave him perfectly sound advice. What, you’d rather he’d just tell the kid to **** off and learn on his own? No wonder teen pregnancy rates are so damn high, imbeciles like you don’t understand why talking about *** and sexual health is important.
You are wrong, and the worst part is you’ll probably never understand why.
I really wish Boosh still came on air! I miss that series.