Dear Don McLeroy of TX. We are not making you look like "dumb morons". [View All]

[madfloridian]

We don't need to do so. Just open your mouth and give interviews.

‘They want to make it look like we are dumb morons'

From an interview with the Globe and Mail.

The Globe’s John Allemang interviews Don McLeroy, a board member (and dentist).

Interviewer: You've been the leader in the campaign to introduce conservative values into the Texas school curriculum. What's your goal?

McLeroy:We're just trying to remove bias and get accurate history.

Interviewer: Where's the bias?

McLeroy:Here's an example: At the kindergarten level, the standards committee talked about the kids becoming global citizens instead of United States citizens. The bias is their idea that, ‘Oh, we're just part of the world,' instead of emphasizing the uniqueness of being an American. Some of us don't have a problem with seeing America as being a little unique. Here's another example: In eighth-grade U.S. history, the committee deleted, “Describe how religion contributed to the growth of representative government in the colonies.” Well, I was stunned. Our whole country was born out of Biblical ideals and principles.

He says the liberals are trying to make them sound like "dumb morons."

Interviewer: Speaking of Biblical principles, didn't your committee delete reference to Thomas Jefferson, who actually talked about the separation of church and state?

McLeroy: That's not true. Look, down here there are these groups from the far left. Whatever we do, they want to make it look like we are dumb morons. They're very effective, dadgummit. Jefferson's name was taken out of a list of Enlightenment philosophers in world history because he didn't fit the period of the Enlightenment.

Jefferson didn't fit the period of Enlightment?

Don McLeroy of the Texas Board of Education received a special award from The National Center for Science Education.

First Annual Upchucky Awards Announced

His nomination announcement:

Don McLeroy, former chair, Texas Board of Education

Don is a dentist and when he's not drillin', he's fillin' the Texas Board with an amalgam of misinformation and misunderstanding about evolution. His numbing effect on the board is accompanied by a high-pitched whine—the sound of Don drilling holes in Texas state science standards. (Thankfully, Texas voters just booted McLeroy off the board.)

Notable Don quote: "Somebody's got to stand up to experts!"

The announcement that he won the award:

And the winner is...Don McLeroy! (Chunderous applause.)

Said Steve Mirsky, who announced the coveted UpChucky award during a ceremony held in conjunction with the 2010 AAAS convention in San Diego:

"The amazing thing about Don is that he's a dentist who spends all his time—when he's not destroying academic standards in Texas—working with some of the primary evidence of human evolution. Teeth! Whole fossil lineages can be defined by their teeth! Don doesn't get that. He's clearly a worthy winner of the first annual UpChucky award."

No, none of us liberals had to make him and his fellow board members look like "dumb morons."

There was no need to do so.