Remember RW bigot Bob Lonsberry? Now he's going after special ed!

The Lonsberry saga began in the fall of '03, when he got fired from his reich-wing hate radio gig in Rochester.

What, exactly, do you have to do to get fired from hate radio? This is a pretty good start:

http://radio.about.com/library/weekly/aa092903a.htm

Newsday is reporting Bob Lonsberry, a conservative talk-show host at WHAM, Rochester, has now been fired after more than a week of intense criticism over recent remarks.

It all began when Lonsberry made on-air comments that alluded to the black Mayor of Rochester, Mayor William Johnson Jr., as a monkey and orangutan.

Kind of a tough act to follow, don't you think? Since the pro-Klan gig wasn't getting him anywhere, he's decided to go after -- no, really! -- children with disabilities.

http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=1618&go=4

Long ago, when America gradually decided to have public education, the argument was that public schools would prepare youngsters to be better citizens. Public education was intended to produce people who could work and provide for themselves, be good neighbors, obey the law, take part in a democracy, vote, be smart enough to serve in the military and on juries, have values and pay taxes....

If the rationale for school taxes is the preparation of a society of employed, contributing, taxpaying citizens, to what degree should we spend those taxes on children who are not apt to contribute to that goal?...

Instead of mainstreaming lifting the weakest of students, it lowers all the students. It dumbs down the classroom. Students not likely to succeed get disproportionate resources and attention and those likely to succeed get the short end of the stick....

Handicapped services should be taken out of the classroom. Separate, specialized settings paid for by something other than the school budget. Some of these settings can be in the school, but they should not typically be in classrooms with regular students. For conventional and special education youngsters to each achieve the most they can, their particular abilities must be paired to separate and specialized programs.

Note that this is really a thinly veiled attack on public education generally. Also note that King Bigot defines millions of Americans with disabilities, including quite a few DUers (present company most definitely included!), as "students not likely to succeed".

And finally, note his plaintive call for "separate, specialized settings". Clearly he's pining for the days not just before IDEA (education for kids with disabilities), but before Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka as well.

:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

for that he would have been the first in line for the Third Reich's "euthanasia" program...

Just when you thought it was safe to turn your radio back on...

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040826/NEWS01/408260338

(August 26, 2004) — WHAM-AM (1180) radio has announced that fired talk-show host Bob Lonsberry has been returned to his regular 11 a.m. spot.

"I never want to hurt feelings because of my stupidity, as I clearly did last year. And for that I am sorry, " said Lonsberry, opening his show.

Lonsberry, 45, was fired on Sept. 29, 2003 after making comments on his show alluding to Mayor William A. Johnson Jr. as a "monkey" and an orangutan."

In a prepared printed statement distributed today, Mayor Johnson said he met with Lonsberry in March so Lonsberry could apologize for personal attacks. The mayor described the meeting as cordial.

Cordial? Eeuuwww! Sounds kind of wussy to me...

Attention upstate NY DUers! Keep AWAY from the Cheap Channel affiliate!!

going into the regular classroom, I think he should spend a month as an aide to a disabled student....then he would see the value of Mainstreaming to the disabled student, to the non-disabled students, to the school, and to the community. Good grief, this man harkens back to the Dark Ages. They get scummier and scummier out there.