Texas SBOE - "McCarthy was basically vindicated"

[texastoast]

McLeroy is at it again. Please. SOMEBODY. Run against him. Our kids really need protection from this nutter.

http://tfninsider.org/2009/10/21/more-mcleroy-malarkey-part-1/#more-4349

[hobbit709]

1. Maybe he means Charlie McCarthy

:rofl:

[sonias]

2. The area that McLeroy represents

Texas Education Agency site
SB OE Member District 9
State Board of Education, McLeroy, a Republican, represents Anderson, Brazos, Camp, Cherokee, Delta, Falls, Fannin, Franklin, Freestone, Grimes, Henderson, Hopkins, Houston, Hunt, Kaufman, Lamar, Leon, Limestone, Madison, Navarro, Rains, Red River, Robertson, Titus, Upshur, Van Zandt, Walker, and Wood counties, as well as parts of Collin County.

He's from College Station or Brazos county. I would think that someone from Collin County would have a good chance of challenging him.

Sonia

[sonias]

3. Rehabilitating Joseph McCarthy?

TFN blog 10/29/09
Rehabilitating Joseph McCarthy?
(snip)
But now right-wingers are once again promoting the nonsense that McCarthy was a truth-telling, anti-communist hero and patriot. And if they get their way, that’s what Texas history students will soon be learning in their public school classrooms.

As we reported last week, board member Don McLeroy, R-College Station, earlier this month told curriculum writers in a memo: “Read the latest on McCarthy — He was basically vindicated.” One of the high school U.S. history curriculum writers — a political activist and non-educator appointed to the writing team by McLeroy — has also insisted that the standards point out that McCarthy was “exonerated” by revelations in the “Venona papers.” Peter Marshall, a conservative evangelical preacher appointed by the state board to a panel of social studies “experts,” backed that perspective in his review of the writing team’s first drafts of the proposed new standards. Marshall wrote that he “emphatically agrees” that the ”Verona Papers … confirm as truth many of Senator McCarthy’s accusations about Soviet spying in the U.S.” David Barton, a Republican Party activist and another supposed “expert,” also agrees. Barton wrote in his review (same link as for Marshall’s) that the curriculum writer’s insistence about McCarthy “is quite proper and reflects a commitment to accuracy and truth in history.” State board chair Gail Lowe, R-Lampasas, and board member Barbara Cargill, R-The Woodlands, have also asked the curriculum writers to include information about the “Verona papers” in the standards.

Once again, however, these amateur “historians” simply don’t know what they’re talking about.

Very good read. Make sure you understand Venona vs Verona. They just make up stuff so they won't have to think too much. You'll be hearing a lot of this tripe from the right.

These crazies are really twisted. :puke:

Sonia