Just when you thought the liberal media couldn’t go any lower, they find a way to careen over the edge. That was the case Thursday on MSNBC’s ReidOutJoy Reid, former chairman of the RNC, and Michael Steele both decried calls for sexually explicit material to be removed from schools. They were apparently siding with pornography in response to a stereotypical that teenagers watch pornography on cell phones while having sex behind them at school dances.
Warning: Opting it would be homophobic, meddling with schools “helping students explore the world around them,” Glenn Youngkin (R), the Virginia Governor-elect, was also criticized by both of them as running a campaign against women. “book banning, anti-blackness, [and] anti-history” that’s become a GOP hellbent on lionizing whiteness.
Steele laughed at this bizarre pornography idea, which came just after the end of A-block. “all those parents worried about pornography in the literature”We are grateful “kids ain’t worried about pornography in literature” “[y]ou better take your son’s phone and take a look at what that bad boy is downloading.”
Steele continued to add: “[Y]ou better go — go to that — go to that — go to that school — that school dance and see what they out doing out behind the school, baby. You must act now. You better take your son’s phone and take a look at what that bad boy is downloading.”
To recap, Steele argued that banning pornography in schools was neither here nor there because, according to his broad generalization, boys have already downloaded porn on their phones and everyone’s having sex behind school buildings on the night of school dances.
Reid was a willing participant and agreed to let go of his parents’ insistence. “don’t have they kid’s [sic]password. This means that even if they get the password they still don’t understand what it contains. [sic] kids are watching on the phone.”
Prior to that, Reid’s hatefest began with a clip of book burning from the 1966 movie version of Fahrenheit 451 to symbolize the GOP in 2021 and spew falsehoods about Youngkin as the leader of some far-right movement to ban not only sexually explicit content, but history writ large (click “expand”):
The Republican Party 2021 is open! The future dystopia of the republic is here. When it comes to inflaming the fears of conservative white suburbanites in order to keep control of the party, the Republican Party is on board. This is especially true after Glenn Youngkin, riding a wave of fragile emotions to victory last week in Virginia. Youngkin was buoyed by an advertisement featuring a white parent, who insisted in banning Toni Morrison’s book about slavery’s legacy and black pain in 2013. Youngkin’s final message featured Youngkin talking about a campaign that Youngkin ran in which Youngkin.
And within days of the election, the Republican leader in the House, Kevin McCarthy declared the Republicans are the party of education, announcing plans to unveil “a parents’ bill of rights” in Congress. Virginia is yet another destination on the road they have been on for several months. They are claiming that anti-critical racism theory is being taught only in law schools and not in public schools. This is launching an aggressive war against books. There are books about Martin Luther King Jr. and seahorses. This week, a Kansas school district reinstated 29 books removed from circulation after a parent objected, including Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Fences. Texas also has books under threat thanks to the support of elected Republicans. Governor Greg Abbott is demanding that the state association of school boards investigate pornographic books and told state agencies to develop standards to block books with “overtly sexual content.” That’s fresh off a state representative’s probe into hundreds of books that caused discomfort, almost all of them about race, gender identity, and sexuality. You won’t be able to find out about Texas’ history in Texas.
Reid eventually brought in Steele and complained to the possible Maryland Republican gubernatorial candidate that Youngkin’s “closing argument” He was so “took the Trumpian pill”By saying “I will ban Toni Morrison books” Part of the A “book banning, anti-blackness, anti-history platform.”
Steele assured Reid that Youngkin “can’t get away with it” and he’ll be forced to choose between reconciling with Black audiences over Morrison or disappointing white people if he’s “not oversee[ing] the burning or banning of books.”
Steele made a scathing attack on right-of center efforts to ban sexual content from schools. This was grossly insinuating Steele’s belief that many right-wingers have an unseemly past of sexual activity.
Never having to fear the likes of CNN’s Daniel Dale, Politifact or The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler, Reid kept lying about Youngkin as having “played games” “footsie with far right wing, dangerous Trumpism” By having zero “problem with” Flying “a treason flag…that flew at the Capitol on the insurrection day flew at one of his rallies.”
Then she added the Tiresome allegationThe 1980 speech by Neshoba County in Mississippi, which portrayed Ronald Reagan as a devout race racialist.
Along with suggesting that Texas’s probe of books was homophobic, racist, and sexist based on the authorship of a 100-book sample, Reid later expanded her smear:
I had intended to state that this is an open assault on books about slavery and racism. It’s also very invasive against the LGBTQ community. Because pornography is the second piece they are trying to eliminate.
And moments before their gross mockery of those who abhor pornography, Steele suggested without evidence that parents speaking out at school board meetings aren’t even tangentially involved in the lives of their children and, by being so vocal, they’ve violated the freedom of teachers to have students “explore the world around them” (click “expand”):
[A]At the end of it all, school boards play a vital role in education. Joy knows that these boards include moms, dads, and community activists who care about education. They’re — so, they’re not in the business of banning and burning books. Their job is to help students discover the world and give them as many opportunities as possible. That’s all respected. Republicans do not follow that tradition. The Republicans are trying to claim that we determine what morally right. We decide what is the best book for you to read and we know in — in history what that is and what that looks like, looks like what it means. This is why communities are often shocked to see it. No, we’re not going to ban any book. We just want to make sure that the best education is being provided for our kids and these individuals who are — that we elected in the last cycle, they haven’t changed. They’re still the same good citizens and parents as they were four or two ago, depending upon the term.
It’s up to us all to make it happen. Joy. Virginia might be more of an exception than any other state. It’s not the standard we see heading into the next election cycle, ’22 or beyond. Parents, in general, seem to understand. Remember, those people showing up at school boards screaming and shouting, I bet you a dime to a donut, if they’re parents, ask them the last time they went to a PTA meeting. You can ask them when the last teacher’s conference was. I’m sure they won’t be surprised to learn that they don’t show up for their children’s teachers’ conferences. They come for the noise. They do not show up to work.
MSNBC’s support for pornography being shown to children and attacking of parents who oppose it was made possible thanks to the endorsement of advertisers such as Fidelity, Kayak, and Volvo. Follow the links to see their contact information at the MRC’s Conservatives Fight Back page.
You can view the MSNBC transcript of November 11 by clicking here.
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