I remember reading in a novel (Elmore Leonard? John D. McDonald? Carl Hiaasen?) one of the characters saying something like: "It's as if someone tilted the United States and all the crazies and grifters rolled down into Florida."
The latest news from the Stand-Your-Ground State that elected a crook as Governor and the spittle-flecked Alan West as a Congressman, comes from Florida state senator Alan Hays (R-Natch). According to The Hollywood Reporter:
A Florida state senator plans to introduce a bill that would make Dinesh D'Souza's docudrama, America, required viewing for most teenagers in the state, The Hollywood Reporter learned on Friday.
Republican Alan Hays said he’ll introduce in November his one-page bill that simply states that students in the 1,700 Florida public high schools and middle schools are to be shown the film unless their parents object.
And how did Hays', ahem... 'moment of clarity' come about?
“I saw the movie and walked out of the theater and said, ‘Wow, our students need to see this.’ And it’s my plan to show it to my colleagues in the legislature, too, before they’re asked to vote on the bill,” Hays said.
Those who oppose the plan are also likely to point out that D’Souza could be headed to prison after he pleaded guilty to illegally promising to reimburse some people who donated to a friend’s Senate campaign. D’Souza faces up to two years for that transgression and he will be sentenced in September.
Nevertheless, the bill could pass, given that Republicans hold a substantial majority in Florida’s Senate and House of Representatives, and Gov. Rick Scott is also a Republican.
“I’ve looked at history books and talked to history teachers and the message the students are getting is very different from what is in the movie,” Hays said. “It’s dishonest and insulting. The students need to see the truth without political favoritism.”
My irony-meter just exploded. History books and teachers are 'dishonest and insulting' but the shrill, lying revisionism of convicted felon Dinesh D'Souza is '...the truth without political favoritism.'? Priceless.
So, who is this idiot? According to wikipedia:
During a 2010 debate over legislation that required a woman to undergo an ultrasound before receiving an abortion, Hays controversially compared abortion to the Holocaust...
Uh-huh. Well,
he sounds nice. Go on:
During the 2013 legislative session, Hays sponsored legislation that would have banned public buses from stopping on streets after an incident in which he was driving behind a bus that pulled off on the side of the road to load and unload passengers, and he was unable to pull around it...
Wow. A moron, then. According to the sensationally dimwitted Hays:
The most dreaded disease in America today is political correctness.
This is very true...if you're an imbecile. Congratulations, Florida! I am personally awarding you the coveted
Louis Gohmert Brass Sphincter for services to stupidity. Bravo!