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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 02:05 PM Jun 2014

AZ schools chief outs himself as anonymous Internet troll who calls poor people ‘lazy pigs’

Arizona state schools Superintendent John Huppenthal admitted this week that he was the person who had been posting controversial anonymous messages on Internet websites, including one that likened poor people to “lazy pigs.”

For several months, writers at the Democratic Blog for Arizona have suspected that Huppenthal was the commenter that had been posting inflammatory comments at their site and others.

“We now know that (Franklin D. Roosevelt) was almost completely responsible for the great depression,” a user named Falcon9 wrote last year in the Blog for Arizona comments area. “Only in liberal mythology did FDR ‘save’ the nation. … Worse yet, Roosevelt’s disastrous economic policies drug down the whole world and directly led to the rise of a no-name hack named Adolph Hitler who was going nowhere until Germany’s economy went into the tank.”

Falcon9 also wrote that “job creators are being taxed to death,” while “Obama is rewarding the lazy pigs with food stamps (44 million people), air-conditioning, free health care, flat-screen TV’s (typical of ‘poor’ families).”

At another Arizona website, Seeing Red AZ, a user named Thucydides opined that it had been “Darwin, not Hitler, who named the Germans the master race.”

He added: “It was Darwin who expressed approval of eliminating both Jews and Africans. Hitler worked to eliminate the Jews. Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood was given the job of eliminating African-Americans. Hitler fed 6 million Jews into the ovens. Sanger has fed 16 million African-Americans into the abortion mills.”

More here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/19/az-schools-chief-outs-himself-as-anonymous-internet-troll-who-calls-poor-people-lazy-pigs/

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AZ schools chief outs himself as anonymous Internet troll who calls poor people ‘lazy pigs’ (Original Post) Playinghardball Jun 2014 OP
He is just saying what all cons believe, wrong about everything of course randys1 Jun 2014 #1
Agreed. No use hiding behind ideology anymore. Can't trust them with anything. freshwest Jun 2014 #3
Their belief is that if you are poor that it is your fault Victor_c3 Jun 2014 #20
Amazing , isn't it .. 1StrongBlackMan Jun 2014 #2
... Skittles Jun 2014 #4
I've met this imbecile ThoughtCriminal Jun 2014 #5
School superintendent who lacks basic knowledge of history? onenote Jun 2014 #6
Even Worse Leith Jun 2014 #7
Whether these liars know their propaganda is tblue37 Jun 2014 #16
not just a school superintendent hfojvt Jun 2014 #22
This person is not only ignorant Athena66 Jun 2014 #8
Because he's attempting to hide his education so as not to be ID'ed. WinkyDink Jun 2014 #9
this guy is an administrator, not an educator.. frylock Jun 2014 #10
I'm sure of that Athena66 Jun 2014 #11
Well, THAT'S for darn sure! WinkyDink Jun 2014 #17
I think you give him too much credit. He is obviously ignorant enough to swallow the Fox News Dustlawyer Jun 2014 #18
I thought schools were 'zero-tolerance' on drugs. Eleanors38 Jun 2014 #19
What an asshole. nt AverageJoe90 Jun 2014 #12
Dear Mr. Huppenthal 47of74 Jun 2014 #13
So when will he be fired? adigal Jun 2014 #14
I'm wondering what his Freeper handle is now? 47of74 Jun 2014 #15
Check the timeline idiot CanonRay Jun 2014 #21

randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. He is just saying what all cons believe, wrong about everything of course
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 02:09 PM
Jun 2014

but they ALL hate, and I mean really phucking HATE poor people

with a passion

even the white ones...

Pretty much if you are still a republican, after everything we have seen and heard from them, you are a disgusting person who doesnt deserve to be spoken to or given any credence ever for anything

THAT is how bad they are

Victor_c3

(3,557 posts)
20. Their belief is that if you are poor that it is your fault
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 07:15 AM
Jun 2014

and that if you are rich it is completely due to your own intelligence and work ethic.

They seem to overlook the fact that it mostly depends on whose vagina you popped your head out of. Sure, hard work and intelligence is part of it, but luck and who your parents are is at least 50% (if not more) of it.

ThoughtCriminal

(14,047 posts)
5. I've met this imbecile
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 03:43 PM
Jun 2014

It is shocking that in Arizona, complete ignorance is not just common among the state's conservative leaders, it is REQUIRED.

onenote

(42,700 posts)
6. School superintendent who lacks basic knowledge of history?
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 03:55 PM
Jun 2014

That's beyond pathetic.

Given that Roosevelt didn't take office until March 4, 1933, and the Great Depression started with the crash of 1929 (and unemployment had skyrocketed by 1932 before FDR was elected) and given that Hitler was named Chancellor before FDR became President, it's pretty clear this idiot couldn't pass a basic history test, which one would think should disqualify him from having any role in the school system, let alone superintendent.

Leith

(7,809 posts)
7. Even Worse
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 02:13 PM
Jun 2014

He probably does know that the Great Depression started years before FDR became the president and when Hitler rose to power. He doesn't care. What matters to that jerkface is smearing Democrats. Lies are quicker and easier than having a coherent and intelligent political philosophy.

tblue37

(65,340 posts)
16. Whether these liars know their propaganda is
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 01:32 PM
Jun 2014

all lies or not, they are quite certain that their base does not know, so they feel perfectly safe spouting such garbage.

Athena66

(61 posts)
8. This person is not only ignorant
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 07:04 PM
Jun 2014

about history, he is also ignorant about proper English.
"Roosevelt's disastrous economic policies drug down the whole world".....
"Drug down"? Really? Try "dragged down," you idiot.
Okay, maybe I'm being picky here, but why is this person a state school superintendent, when he is totally incompetent regarding history and English?
And I'm betting he's not terribly well versed in science and math, either.

frylock

(34,825 posts)
10. this guy is an administrator, not an educator..
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 07:31 PM
Jun 2014

I'm sure he's every bit as stupid as his posts would indicate.

Athena66

(61 posts)
11. I'm sure of that
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 08:07 PM
Jun 2014

And one of the biggest problems with our educational system is that way too many of the administrators (not to mention those who have conceived of and implemented the "Common Core" standards) are not, and never have been, educators.

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)
18. I think you give him too much credit. He is obviously ignorant enough to swallow the Fox News
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 09:37 AM
Jun 2014

idea of poor people, so it wouldn't surprise me that he is not very bright. All he had to do was to express his ignorant beliefs to the local Republican Party and the school job was his!

 

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
19. I thought schools were 'zero-tolerance' on drugs.
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 11:34 AM
Jun 2014

Maybe this cloud of RW coyote flatulence was on drugs.

CanonRay

(14,101 posts)
21. Check the timeline idiot
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 09:39 AM
Jun 2014

Blaming 2008 the Depression on Roosevelt is like blaming the bank collapse on Obama. They simply just were not around. FDR took office in 1933, years into the depression. This guy should be teaching, at most, Vacation Bible School.

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