Kansas Republican Suggests Replacing Common Core With Rush Limbaugh ‘Historical Fanfiction’
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Source: The Raw Story
Rush Limbaugh won the Childrens Book Councils Author of the Year Award for Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures With Exceptional Americans. Nominees for the award are determined solely based on titles performances on the bestseller lists. Children then vote for the winner online with the assistance of teachers, parents, librarians, and booksellers.
Upon learning that Limbaugh had won this award, MSNBCs Al Sharpton claimed the vote must have been rigged and demanded to see the photo ID of the kids that voted, an unsubtle jab at the conservative talk radio hosts belief that Democrats only win elections via massive, yet undetectable, voter fraud. Limbaugh did, in fact, enthusiastically encouraged his audience to win him this award, regularly imploring his audience to have their children vote for Rush Revere on his popular syndicated radio program: After learning that Limbaugh had won the award, Republican Representative Tim Huelskamp of Kansas tweeted that the book should be adopted by schools across the nation in place of the Common Core curriculum.
Limbaugh claimed that the novel about the fictional Rush Revere and his talking horse, Liberty, is designed to teach children about American history. I love America, he said in his acceptance speech. I wish everybody did. I hope everybody will. Its one of the most fascinating stories of human history, this country and what it has meant to the world and what it means to citizens who live here. And its a delight and its an opportunity to try to share that story with young people so that they can grow and learn to love and appreciate the country in which theyre growing up and will someday run and lead and inherit. The Washington Post was less impressed than Limbaugh at the quality of the historical information communicated in the Rush Revere books, calling them historical fanfiction that Rush Limbaugh has written about himself.
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SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Stupefying.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)growing up will suck (oh mommy and daddy got you to vote in an adult poll tease tease) yeah I was bullied until high school ended. Moronic bad parents..
tofuandbeer
(1,314 posts)big_dog
(4,144 posts)blm
(113,065 posts)because he wouldn't want to get caught in his depravity in THIS country.....that he 'loves' he says......so much.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Of a man named Rush who had a fake ear.
Ol' Rush was gigantic, big and boxy,
But the worst thing of all: He was full of Oxy.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)benld74
(9,904 posts)big_dog
(4,144 posts)If you are considering using this book to teach your children about the pilgrims, please consider the following points:
1. Scientists have not yet perfected any reliable mechanism for traveling back in time. Many physicists believe that time travel is impossible. Given that the world's foremost experts have not solved the mysteries of time-travel, it is unlikely that talk-show host/"fearless middle-school history teacher" Rush "Revere" Limbaugh can travel back to 1620, to visit the "brave pilgrims" on the Mayflower.
It is far more likely that Limbaugh, a well-known drug addict who pled guilty to criminal prescription fraud in 2009, merely dry-swallowed a bunch of Vicodin and hallucinated that he traveled through time.
Because this is a book about drug abuse, it is inappropriate for children to read.
2. Rush Limbaugh made extremely graphic and sexually suggestive statements regarding Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student who testified in support of health care before Congress. He called her a "slut" and a "whore."
Sandra Fluke is thirty years younger than Limbaugh; he is old enough to be her father. If I had a daughter, I would not want her to be exposed to a book written by Mr. Limbaugh.
So, I will reiterate that it is inappropriate for a man known for drug abuse and graphic and lascivious public statements about the sexuality of young women to be writing books for children.
3. Rush Limbaugh and the publishers of this book are uniquely unqualified to teach children about history, and here's why: This is ostensibly a book about the "brave pilgrims," but the cover of this book shows Rush Limbaugh wearing a tricorn hat and standing with a horse.
Here is what I found out in approximately ten minutes of research: Tricorn hats were first adopted by French solders during their conflict with the Spanish in the Netherlands in 1677, and the style spread from France throughout Europe after that.
The Pilgrims traveled from England to the New World on the Mayflower in 1620, long before the invention of the tricorn hat Limbaugh is wearing on the cover, which wouldn't have been prevalent in England for another 80 years.
The horse Limbaugh is standing next to on the cover is also anachronistic for a story about the pilgrims, because there were no horses on the Mayflower. Limbaugh also appears to be wearing a powdered wig in the cover image. But it wasn't popular for English men to wear wigs until decades after the pilgrims sailed to America.
Despite this being a book about "Rush Revere" traveling to "the deck of the Mayflower," he is represented not in pilgrim garb, but, rather, in colonial garb more appropriate to a period a hundred and fifty years after the time of the "Brave Pilgrims."
This is not some minor point, but, rather an indication that the author is not well-enough informed about the historical period he is writing about to distinguish it from an entirely different historical period.
It is inappropriate to drop a time-traveling character wearing late eighteenth century garb onto "the deck of the Mayflower" the same way it would be anachronistic to drop a character into the Victorian England of Charles Dickens
So this is an author who can't even fact-check the cover illustration of his own book, and a publisher who can't be bothered to subject a text that purports to teach children about history to even the most superficial factual scrutiny.
The level of irresponsibility on display here is extraordinary.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/712685768
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)wilt the stilt
(4,528 posts)with pictures.
VWolf
(3,944 posts)it's a pedophile book.
Just sayin'
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Joe Bacon
(5,165 posts)Fifty Shades of Bullshit!!!!!!