Fox "News" Claims that Algebra Classes Are a Conspiracy of Liberal Indoctrination
January 11, 2013
Sometimes, you just can’t make this stuff up. But there’s actually a video clip of the Fox News dolts sitting around expressing dismay at 6th graders learning about algebra.
<blockquote style="background-image: url(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/sprite_master.png); background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); border-width: 1px 1px 1px 3px; border-style: dotted dotted dotted solid; border-color: rgb(227, 227, 227) rgb(227, 227, 227) rgb(227, 227, 227) rgb(221, 221, 221); clear: both; margin: 0px 12px 18px; padding: 8px 12px 5px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 1.5; background-position: 0% -475px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 10px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.75; text-indent: 30px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71) !important;">Fox News host Eric Bolling on Wednesday accused some schools of “pushing the liberal agenda” for teaching an algebra lesson about the distributive property.</p><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 10px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.75; text-indent: 30px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71) !important;">…</p><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 10px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.75; text-indent: 30px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71) !important;">“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.”</p><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 10px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.75; text-indent: 30px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71) !important;">“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.”</p><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 10px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.75; text-indent: 30px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71) !important;">Co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle explained that the algebra worksheet had put her on “high alert” for the liberal agenda in her 6-year-old son’s curriculum.</p></blockquote><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(44, 43, 43);">Wait. These clowns don’t understand the distributive property in elementary arithmetic, and they confuse it with some kind of Communist plot? I think we’re done here. Where’s the hook? Can someone just yank these idjits off the stage?</p><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(44, 43, 43);">And there’s more exercise for the fainting couch!</p><blockquote style="background-image: url(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/sprite_master.png); background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); border-width: 1px 1px 1px 3px; border-style: dotted dotted dotted solid; border-color: rgb(227, 227, 227) rgb(227, 227, 227) rgb(227, 227, 227) rgb(221, 221, 221); clear: both; margin: 0px 12px 18px; padding: 8px 12px 5px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 1.5; background-position: 0% -475px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 10px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.75; text-indent: 30px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71) !important;">Co-host Dana Perino also expressed concern over an effort to stop children from role playing “cowboys and Indians” at Thanksgiving because experts say that “the historic enemy of Indians was not cowboys, but the U.S. government.”</p><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 10px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.75; text-indent: 30px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71) !important;">“So it starts in third grade and guess what happens?” Bolling remarked. “Through their whole educational experience, they continually get indoctrinated, even through college.”</p></blockquote><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(44, 43, 43);">It’s always fun to watch a bunch of rich white folks downplaying the government’s role in historic genocide, and calling it indoctrination.</p><blockquote style="background-image: url(http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/sprite_master.png); background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243); border-width: 1px 1px 1px 3px; border-style: dotted dotted dotted solid; border-color: rgb(227, 227, 227) rgb(227, 227, 227) rgb(227, 227, 227) rgb(221, 221, 221); clear: both; margin: 0px 12px 18px; padding: 8px 12px 5px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 1.5; background-position: 0% -475px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 10px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.75; text-indent: 30px; color: rgb(71, 71, 71) !important;">“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.”</p></blockquote><p style="border: 0px none; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(44, 43, 43);">Wait, wait, again. These guys are denying algebra and calling it socialist propaganda, while claiming the <i>left</i> is an enemy or reality? Forget the hook, just drop the curtain and close the whole damn show. This is ridiculous.</p>
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