That’s right. Fox News “host” Eric Bolling (via Raw Story) claims that our kids are being indoctrinated by DFH* math teachers when they teach kids algebra. No, I’m serious. Those liberal-pinko-commie teachers are indoctrinating our kids when they teach them algebra (also when they teach them the truth that cowboys weren’t the main enemy of Native Americans – that was the US Army’s job). Plus the teachers smell funky, too. Or something.
“But even worse is the way some textbooks are pushing the liberal agenda,” the Fox News host explained, pointing to an algebra worksheet that Scholastic says gives students “[i]nsight into the distributive property as it applies to multiplication.”
“Distribute the wealth!” Bolling exclaimed, reading the worksheet. “Distribute the wealth with the lovely rich girl with a big ole bag of money, handing some money out.” […]
“Everybody has anecdotal evidence of this,” co-host Greg Gutfeld agreed. “I think the only way leftism can survive is through indoctrination because its number one adversary is reality. So you got to get them young and it’s perfect for kids. Paul Krugman’s logic is child’s play: Share your stuff… A lot of this comes from the teachers. They get their news from The Huffington Post and their antiperspirant from a health food store. This is the way they live.”
Bolling was also pissed off because his son’s history book was liberally biased. How so? Because it included statements that Bush went to war because “he heard there were weapons of mass destruction and they were never found.” You know he’s right, that is biased. It assumes Bush didn’t know he was lying about the Weapons of Mass Destruction he kept warning all of us about in 2002 and 2003, though, to be fair, it is correct when it said no WMD’s were found after we invaded.
The Bush administration invaded Iraq in March 2003 on the grounds that its WMD programs posed a threat to American national security.
In his report, Duelfer concluded that Saddam’s Iraq had no stockpiles of the banned weapons, but he said he found signs of idle programs that Saddam could have revived once international attention waned.
“It appears that he did not vigorously pursue those programs after the inspectors left,” a U.S. official said on condition of anonymity, ahead of the report’s Wednesday afternoon release by the CIA.
And yes, that is a 2004 Fox News online news report that I linked to, though I wonder if Mr. Bolling is capable of appreciating the irony that his own network reported that there were no fricking WMD production in Iraq after 1991, and no stockpiles of WMD secretly maintained by the Hussein regime, as determined by the chief U.S. arms inspector, a Bush appointee.
You know what teachers really do, Eric & “friends?” Save their students’ lives. They teach them how to read and write and even how to do algebra. Among, you know, all that other hippy-dippy stuff you pulled out of your rectum and accused them of doing.
* For those who don’t know what a DFH is (Hi Mom) go to this link.
Hah! I always knew algebra was a commie plot… or something. Actually, I didn’t appreciate it until Excel came along much, much later. Where in the world does Fox get these idiots? They really work extremely hard at The Stupid.
Well when I was substitute teaching during lunch in the teacher’s lounge, I remember at this one high school there was an annoying stereotypical loudmouth right winger. I’m not sure what the hell he taught, but he coached football, Murikah’s sport. Meanwhile, most of the teachers in there were to the left of the Establishment, but only one of them really praised European socialism. He was a math teacher. Evidence? I report, you decide.
Distributive property of multiplication relates to distribution of wealth? My head hurts from shaking. Pardon my language but stupid bastards, stupid stupid bastards.
Well, of course it’s nothing but a big conspiracy. It’s perfectly understandable why Bolling’s head would explode.
Read it, and weep for America
I’m sure there was a Kenyan in there somewhere, too.
Now we know why they’ve been fighting the “New Math” for 40 years. It’s that damn distributive property.
Don’t tell them about the additive and multiplicative inverses. Inverses, I said. Inverses.
eric bolling = emily litella without the “never mind …”
No Booman the numbers are actually the DFH, cause they are the ones switching partners and distributing everything on the paper right in front of the children.
Oh the horrors, and then the teachers spread all that liberalism, not only in math classes, but then again in science where they use those horrible numbers also.
The teachers are just the fifth column, it is numbers and science who is the real enemy.
Who will save the children from all those dirty numbers.
Also learning all those liberal facts that cannot be true cause it goes against what we all know in our guts to be true.
Why the know-nothings at Fox who hated numbers and science before they know they were all part of a DFH plot to destroy the real America, and replace it with a pinkocommieislamofascist agenda. After all algebra was started by the Islamists centuries ago just waiting like a sleeper cell till it could be activated by teachers unions to undermine the minds of impressionable youths all over this country.
If it wasn’t fer football, high school would be a total waste of tax payers money, and students time.
And don’t forget: Those are ARABIC numerals. Q to the E to the D!
This reminds me of some of the lunacy surrounding the Red Scare of the late 40s and early 50s, part of which wasted incredible amounts of time ferreting out communist influence in popular culture (and banning its alleged practitioners from writing, acting, directing in movies and TV shows). One of the proud pelts and irrefutable evidence of the insidious infiltration of our precious popular entertainments was a line from “Tender Comrade” written by Dalton Trumbo: “Share and share alike – that’s democracy!”
Well, canny observers can readily see the pernicious nature of such a sentiment, made all the more dastardly for having been spoken by Ginger Rogers, lending as it were a patina of respectability designed to gull the unwary consumer.
Thank the lord above (or below) that we now have Fox to tell us what these things really mean.
If Eric Bolling doesn’t like students learning the distributive property, just think how his head will explode when the algebra students learn about radicals!!! (My family actually used to joke about this when I was in high school in the 1960s. “Dad!! Miss Kubasic taught us about RADICALS today in algebra.” “Oh no!! My poor daughter will be a commie!!!!”)