Apparently still smarting from his defeat by Bruce Lee in “Way of the Dragon,” Chuck Norris has become a much-loved evangelist for the destruction of America’s public education system. Taking a hiatus from Total Gym informercials and campaigning for Natalie Portman’s counselor, Mike “The Fundie” Huckabee, Norris has brought his formidable expertise on education theory (apparently derived from reading a single book), in a series of articles in News Net Daily, a rightwing website deeply into birther conspiracy theories, Christian dominionism, and the kind of uncompromising journalism that boldly announces: Islamic extremist have “already” smuggled a nuclear bomb into the US (I guess it was just a matter of time)
“What happens,” laments the erstwhile Texas Ranger and quasi-actor, “when the political and public educational pendulum swings from concern for the tyranny of sectarianism in Jefferson's day to secularism in ours? What happens when U.S. public schools become progressive indoctrination camps?” His answer: America’s youth are trained to “defend” homosexuality (is this code?), as well as advocate the related vices of “relativism” and the “green agenda.”
It appears that if you cut Norris in two, you’d find a cross-section of every conservative meme in Tea Party Occupied America.
On a personal note, I remember seeing Norris on Trinity Broadcasting Network’s wonderfully entertaining Jan and Paul Crouch evangelist “talkshow,” along with his model wife (he predictably divorced his first one, which suggests that monogamy is not one of the vices taught in the public schools he so deplores). As Jan’s mascara ran with tears, and as the gold knickknacks glistened on the neo-rococo stage so popular with televangelists, Norris recounted how he converted to Christianity (deftly avoiding the “danger area” about the daughter he had out of wed lock, another one of those nonpublic school evils), which had something to do with a fight with somebody. It was telling to learn that the only way Norris knew how to save anybody involved martial arts. That personal narrative goes on today in his politics.
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