▪️The ridiculous “banned book” hysteria appears to still have legs, and its adherents still fail to realize that their ability to easily obtain supposed banned books means they’re not banned.
▪️In this case, the “banned book” was the graphic adaptation of the Handmaid’s Tale. Note, the original Handmaid’s Tale is still available at the school library, but the school decided to remove the graphic adaptation because the library serves grades 6-12 and they didn’t have a method of limiting books to certain grade levels.
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/education/article288836625.html?tbref=hp
▪️If you ever find someone championing the book ban hysteria, ask them if they think school computers should be allowed to access all websites. The answer is, of course, no, schools should try to limit content not appropriate for kids. It’s not “banning websites,” it’s not a freedom of speech issue, and the exact same principle applies to school libraries.
It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.
If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.
This is almost laughingly misleading, as it leaves out everything before the letter.
▪️After being repeatedly lampooned by the Smothers Brothers over Vietnam, Johnson finally had enough. One night at 3 am he called the head of CBS William Paley, demanding that he “get those bastards off my back.”
▪️Paley then asked the heads of CBS entertainment to get them to back off of LBJ. However, instead of backing off the Smothers Brothers doubled down, booking a folk musician performing “Waist Deep,” an anti-war song about a soldier being stuck in the mud while “the big fool says to push on,” clearly a dig at LBJ.
▪️At the last minute, CBS cut the song from the pre-taped show to the outrage of the Smothers. They continued to push the boundaries off and on for the rest of his presidency, with CBS sometimes cutting segments that they thought went too far. Basically, it was a soft form of censorship.
▪️It wasn’t until Johnson made his surprise announcement not to run in 1968 ...
