Top House Republican leader, Trump sycophant, and conspiracy theorist extraordinaire, Representative Elise Stefanik of upstate New York, is busy attacking the New York State Department of Education claiming it is using federal funds to promote the dreaded Critical Race Theory or CRT in state public schools. Stefanik is also pressing New York education officials on how they are using money provided through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) on “social emotional learning” and “culturally responsive and sustaining education.”
State Education Department Commissioner Betty Rosa tried to explain to Stefanik that “the state Education Department does not provide critical race theory. It does, however, provide critical thinking. This allows our children to distinguish fact from opinion, achieve deeper understanding.” Rosa added, “Your accusation — whether intentional or negligent — is disappointing. What lesson are we teaching our children when a U.S. Representative traffics in conspiracies — and conflates opinions with fact.”
Stefanik replied “Instead of addressing my questions into the blatant misuse of federal taxpayer dollars, Commissioner Rosa shamefully attacked me. The facts in my letter were clear, and the implementation of CRT by any other name in New York classrooms is wrong. It is no surprise the Far-Left department would fail to fully comply with my request for the truth and revert to petty name-calling, because they know how outraged parents would be if they knew their hard-earned taxpayer dollars were used to peddle this radical ideology.”
Unfortunately, Stefanik, who graduated from Harvard University, seems unable to understand the distinction between Critical Race Theory and critical thinking or the difference between Critical Race Theory and respect for diversity and inclusion.
There must be something wrong with education at Harvard. Senate Republicans with Harvard degrees include rightwing Presidential hopefuls Tom Cotton (Arkansas) and “Ted” Cruz (Texas). Other Senate Republicans who are Harvard alums are Dan Sullivan (Alaska), Michael Braun (Indiana), Michael Crapo (Idaho), Mitt Romney (Utah), Ben Sasse (Nebraska), and Pat Toomey (Pennsylvania). Beside Stefanik, there are five other Harvard alum serving as Republican members in the House of Representatives. Harvard can also boast rightwing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Virginia Governor Glen Youngkin as alums. Youngkin recently appointed a Civil War apologist to the Virginia historic resources board who insist that the he Civil War was fought to defend the “sovereignty of each state and constitutional law” and that statues celebrating Confederate leaders who made war against the United States “were built to tell the true story of the American South.”
Stefanik was originally elected in 2014 as a relatively moderate Republican but has since swallowed the Trump red pill and gone fully MAGA. Expect Stefanik’s nastiness and lunacy to get worse if Republican’s take control of the House of Representatives in November. During Congressional hearings on the January 6, 2021 invasion of the United States Capitol Building, a tweet was posted on Stefanik’s official Twitter account accusing a Republican White House staffer who testified about Donald Trump’s response to the invasion of being “Just another liar and pawn in Pelosi's witch-hunt.”
If this is a witch-hunt, maybe Stefanik is worried because she is a witch?
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Media Watch – July 25, 2022
Hosts: Robert Anthony and Eric V Tait, Jr. and guest Alan Singer guests analysis President Biden’s job performance thus far:
1) Foreign Policy/recent Mid-East Trip
2) Domestic: Manchin torpedoes Dems Climate Change agenda
3) Mid-Term races: Dems “supporting” Far-Right Republican extremists in Primaries
4) Indiana Physician who performed the abortion on the 10 year old rape victim files notice of intent to sue her State’s AG for Defamation
5) Musk-Twitter trial date fast-tracked
