Video: Teacher instills a little bit of Hope and a whole lot of Change
posted at 3:17 pm on November 6, 2008 by Allahpundit
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All that, plus a lesson on the war’s senselessness aimed squarely at a kid whose dad’s in the service.
I’d call it a mid-day palate cleanser, but somehow I don’t feel cleansed. Click the image to watch.
Update: Tundra Tabloids had the story on Tuesday.
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She should be fired immediately.
muyoso on November 6, 2008 at 3:21 PM
I think our beloved, soon-to-be former president put it best: “We must ask, is our children learning?”
Yes, but what are they learning exactly?
If having President Barack Obama does not bring our atheist friends to God, nothing will.
carbon_footprint on November 6, 2008 at 3:21 PM
And it has just begun..
twiggman on November 6, 2008 at 3:23 PM
If that worthless waste of ovaries tried that with my kid, she’d have one pissed papa in her face the next day.
I love how she said it was all right to support McCain, and then moaned and groaned every time a student said they did. Hypocritical whore.
MadisonConservative on November 6, 2008 at 3:23 PM
I want to know who this teacher is.
latinchic on November 6, 2008 at 3:23 PM
This woman needs to be fired.
Hawthorne on November 6, 2008 at 3:23 PM
Wow, unfreaking believable !
DJ Rick on November 6, 2008 at 3:24 PM
Conservative agenda item: return education to local control. Abolish Dept. of Ed.
The NEA has failed the public schools and transformed our education system into a Liberal indoctrination institution. This I believe is the real reason for hostility toward free choice education.
DerKrieger on November 6, 2008 at 3:24 PM
This woman is not a teacher. I know teachers. This woman should not only be fired, but that little girl’s parents should take this video into a courtroom and sue the ever-loving sh!t out of the school, the city, the county, and the state.
AubieJon on November 6, 2008 at 3:24 PM
Horrid.
Hoodlumman on November 6, 2008 at 3:24 PM
Who is she, and how do we get her out on her ass?
DJ Rick on November 6, 2008 at 3:24 PM
I don’t want to watch…is it really bad?
danjrussell on November 6, 2008 at 3:25 PM
No child left behind.
digitalintrigue on November 6, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Barrrruubbbuurraa! I say, THROW ZE BUM OUT!!
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on November 6, 2008 at 3:25 PM
You are being far to kind to her.
rplat on November 6, 2008 at 3:25 PM
O/T – anyone from AZ? Did Proposition 101 pass?
DerKrieger on November 6, 2008 at 3:26 PM
As a former educator, this doesn’t shock me in the least, sadly.
flyawaybird on November 6, 2008 at 3:26 PM
So this is what it takes to get Jesus mentioned in the classroom?
tmitsss on November 6, 2008 at 3:26 PM
I thought you couldn’t teach religion in the public schools.
Red Bennet on November 6, 2008 at 3:27 PM
Just a little taste of what’s in store for your capitalist children in Ayers’ reeducation camps ca. 2011.
bilups on November 6, 2008 at 3:27 PM
Diantha Harris, Ashville NC
aquaviva on November 6, 2008 at 3:27 PM
As a former Army brat, this really made me want to slap that woman. What a horribly mean woman.
gatorgirl on November 6, 2008 at 3:28 PM
Science H Logic that woman is just horrible. She should be fired, banned from schools, and not allowed within 100ft of another child.
Queasy on November 6, 2008 at 3:28 PM
Is this the Ayers education system at work
Tazz 55 on November 6, 2008 at 3:28 PM
Sickening
Viper1 on November 6, 2008 at 3:28 PM
Diantha Harris – Asheville, North Carolina.
AubieJon on November 6, 2008 at 3:28 PM
I think this qualifies as child abuse.
gatorgirl on November 6, 2008 at 3:29 PM
Where does this CREATURE teach? I am sooo glad I work and sacrifice to send my kids to private school.
All concerned citizens should write a letter to her school, city, county, etc. Get her Butt out (it’s okay, cause Barak will take care of her anyway :))
beththebaker on November 6, 2008 at 3:29 PM
Anyone in Asheville, North Carolina, look up Diantha Harris. Let’s get the school’s info and start lighting them up about this.
MadisonConservative on November 6, 2008 at 3:29 PM
The lying she does at the end is a nice touch: “I don’t browbeat anyone”. Right.
I’ll throw in another vote for firing.
forest on November 6, 2008 at 3:29 PM
I love the whole “It’s OK to be for McCain” followed by an insulting remark every time it come up.
Abelard on November 6, 2008 at 3:30 PM
From the documentary From Bill to Barack, by Folke Rydén and Bengt Norborg, that aired on election night, Finland’s Swedish language Channel 5.
Video Here: http://svt.se/svt/road/Classic/shared/mediacenter/index.jsp?&d=13276&a=1294753&lid=puff_1296095&lpos=extra_0
[From 13:30 ~ 22:00. The YouTube part is from 19:00]
aquaviva on November 6, 2008 at 3:30 PM
Eugh.
NeoconNews.com on November 6, 2008 at 3:30 PM
Anyone know the name of the school? Let’s get her a$$ out of teaching!
beththebaker on November 6, 2008 at 3:30 PM
If I were the principal of this school, I would have fired this idiot on the spot without the right to an appeal, then I would have contacted the school board to have her license to teach revoked!
I am so sick and tired of seeing this bullying intimidation on the part of moron instructors who suffer from the delusion that public schools are indoctrination centers.
This is the United States, not Communist China or Cuba!
pilamaye on November 6, 2008 at 3:30 PM
Is her name Mrs. Rywall?
Just askin’
kingsjester on November 6, 2008 at 3:30 PM
Just a little taste of what we can expect in schools. Remeber that William Ayers, Ward Churchill and other radicals have decided the best way to get the kids is to EDUCATE THEM.
afotia on November 6, 2008 at 3:30 PM
Between this and the prospect of delivering children in a government hospital…
It’s enough to consider getting sterilized.
gippergal1984 on November 6, 2008 at 3:30 PM
I had an elementary school teacher just like this in 1986. Althought I don’t recall us going on about Presidential politics at the time, she was very vocal about anyone who wasn’t a Democrat was a waste. She also used to call kids in her class retards.
Ahh, it was a different time.
matd on November 6, 2008 at 3:31 PM
And I am supposed to let the ‘cake’ bake out of fairness?
Play by the rules?
Enuf for today. I have to go purge my thoughts before they purge me.
Limerick on November 6, 2008 at 3:31 PM
too close to call.
Arizona Proposition 101
Too close to call
Yes 867,642 (49.9%)
No 869,752 (50.1%)
Total 99.3% 1,735,854
lorien1973 on November 6, 2008 at 3:31 PM
I’m afraid to watch too! Can someone please explain a little. I’m afraid my head would explode if I saw a teacher upsetting the child of a military person. I’m only getting that opinion based on the blurb and the comments. Help??
Oink on November 6, 2008 at 3:31 PM
Hell has been unleashed on this country.
stenwin77 on November 6, 2008 at 3:32 PM
I’m appalled at that. It’s just disgusting. She was *way* over the line.
But some of the responses here are disgusting as well. We can call her out on her behavior, but the name calling and hate is really too far. Conservatives should be better than that.
MikeknaJ on November 6, 2008 at 3:32 PM
It’s very ugly..look away
beththebaker on November 6, 2008 at 3:32 PM
Beat me to it. Yeah, it’s really narrow.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on November 6, 2008 at 3:32 PM
Secretary of Education for her…exactly what they want.
right2bright on November 6, 2008 at 3:32 PM
Do we know where that skank teaches… I want two minutes, just two minutes with that horrific excuse of a teacher. Then I want to hug Kathy and let her know all is well and she and her dad are the right ones…. I hate the NEA and Education Minnesota( the liberal organization here where I live) with every cell in my body.
MNDavenotPC on November 6, 2008 at 3:33 PM
More info here
aquaviva on November 6, 2008 at 3:34 PM
Damn – I was hoping it would have been overwhelming and the start of states reclaiming their 10th Amendment rights.
DerKrieger on November 6, 2008 at 3:34 PM
At least the first little boy was honest and said that he supported BO because he wanted a black President
katiejane on November 6, 2008 at 3:34 PM
Not just Hell, but also Outside.
Not just evil, but also madness.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on November 6, 2008 at 3:34 PM
link hits my works filter as “tasteless”
jp on November 6, 2008 at 3:35 PM
Yes, by all means, throw her “under the bus.” Hush it up and make it go away quickly and quietly.
/
Christien on November 6, 2008 at 3:35 PM
Oh…well…that’s alright then. Only natural. Unless you’re white of course and then you’re a racist and probably beat cats and dogs too.
DerKrieger on November 6, 2008 at 3:35 PM
Don’t watch it. It’s worse than I expected.
forest on November 6, 2008 at 3:35 PM
I don’t mean to be rude but how are our kids suppose to be well educated when you have a teacher that just barely speaks proper English
Chicostein on November 6, 2008 at 3:36 PM
I see no name calling here… I called her a creature because she is a creature of the left… stop this stuff… no one here has been as offensive as the “teacher” she does not deserve respectful commentary… watch the video…
Are you a parent? I am outraged…and I could go much farther … but I am keeping it classy!
beththebaker on November 6, 2008 at 3:36 PM
She didn’t try to browbeat anyone?!? These people are pathetic — they are so intellectually unaware of their own views.
She should be fired, and pronto.
Richard Romano on November 6, 2008 at 3:36 PM
I’m sorry if this makes me a racist but that woman does not speak like an educated person.
carbon_footprint on November 6, 2008 at 3:37 PM
Asheville? Don’t even try.
It’s a liberal stronghold in NC.
The Ugly American on November 6, 2008 at 3:37 PM
Why would the children in her class speak any better than she does? Horrible, horrible pronunciation from a teacher.
Sue on November 6, 2008 at 3:37 PM
Apparently she thinks about Obama and Iraq so much, they’ve merged into one being – “Biraq”
WaltDakota on November 6, 2008 at 3:38 PM
The Best Home Schooling Ad evah.
fogw on November 6, 2008 at 3:38 PM
Exactly. Is this Affirmative Action in action?
carbon_footprint on November 6, 2008 at 3:38 PM
the kids supporting mccain need to be taken away and re-educated, maybe water boarded.
custer on November 6, 2008 at 3:38 PM
This is why I became a social studies teacher…to balance out the nutcases like this empty headed moron.
I make the liberal students defend themselves with actual logic and that usually ends up quite amusing. I can make a point without ever saying a word. I like to keep my plans to raise a new generation of conservatives subtle.
mountaineer for liberty on November 6, 2008 at 3:38 PM
I want her fired…. she’s not worth affecting the minds of innocent kids….
MNDavenotPC on November 6, 2008 at 3:39 PM
Child abuse. The look on that little girl’s face broke my heart. This woman should be publicly humiliated. That is bullying, plain and simple.
Matticus Finch on November 6, 2008 at 3:39 PM
Tell.It.
latinchic on November 6, 2008 at 3:39 PM
anyone have link to youtube of this? can’t get belch
jp on November 6, 2008 at 3:39 PM
Stop the video at 0:43. Watch what the kid is doing. Has he started learning from President-elect Obama is that a subconscious thing?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on November 6, 2008 at 3:39 PM
Everyone is entitled to their
ownmy personal opinion.She should be fired.
- White Guilt 08′
romanianhacker on November 6, 2008 at 3:40 PM
carbon,
We all know nothing will happen to the teacher because of the union. You could say that it is Affirmative Action inaction.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on November 6, 2008 at 3:40 PM
She needs to spend 100 years in the time out corner.
Buy Danish on November 6, 2008 at 3:40 PM
Questioning someone’s speech – especially a so-called teacher – doesn’t make you a racist. Dat teach spee ebonics. Jus ax hurh.
AubieJon on November 6, 2008 at 3:40 PM
MikeknaJ, some folks have this “weakness” of over-reacting when they see children being abused.
Christien on November 6, 2008 at 3:40 PM
Let’s get to work and get her fired.
capitalist piglet on November 6, 2008 at 3:41 PM
Affirmative Action at its finest. Well….nearly. Putting an African American in the Oval Office is Affirmative Action at its finest.
txsurveyor on November 6, 2008 at 3:41 PM
I notice little emphasis is placed upon the student who when asked why he was supporting Obama replied by simply saying “He’s black”
I wonder what would have happened if one of the McCain supporting kids had replied “He’s white”
Vegi on November 6, 2008 at 3:41 PM
I’m not going to watch this trash, but I am wondering who and why this thing was filmed? If it as bad as all here say, the poor child needs someone to tell her she and dad are loved by millions.
L
letget on November 6, 2008 at 3:42 PM
What you didn’t see was Part II of this documentary where little Kathy’s daddy kicked teacher’s butt across the schoolyard with his size 13 booniestompers.
The Ugly American on November 6, 2008 at 3:42 PM
I ask my 1st grader everyday what she learned in school that day. Thus far, nothing to set me off, a little mild environmentalism through the gifted/talented program but nothing really off the charts.
More than that I work very hard to assert myself and my wife as her parents and not the education system.
Of course this woman should be fired but lets be real…she’s the only one stupid enough to be caught on tape. Don’t tell me the subtle, incidious indoctrination will be stopped my removing one person. Stand up and make it clear this is unwelcome but getting this clown fired isn’t going to go a long way to convincing the left that they are wrong.
And as an aside: I actually did not tell my 1st grader whom I support though I’m sure she’s smart enough to figure it out. That kind of garbage is unfit for small children for either side. Please God tell me we believe in a set of values and principles and not a party. THAT is what to teach your children, not blind alligence (like the left does) to a party or a cnadidate. God knows our party has failed us but the conservative ideology is still right.
Texas74 on November 6, 2008 at 3:42 PM
I would love to have been a fly on the wall at the girls house when she got home crying and repeated what the teacher said!
Pam on November 6, 2008 at 3:43 PM
Dude. Not cool.
Matticus Finch on November 6, 2008 at 3:43 PM
Yeah, she should be fired, even though I actually agree w/ her on the war.
MedSchoolCatholic on November 6, 2008 at 3:43 PM
She deserved to be fired now
ConservativePartyNow on November 6, 2008 at 3:43 PM
I don’t think she even realized she was criticizing students who said they were pulling for McCain. She was just ‘telling them the truth’.
Phoenician on November 6, 2008 at 3:43 PM
As a former teacher, I don’t need to see this crap. I know how bad it is.
I dealt with teachers who could put an untold number of Clinton/Gore stickers from the hallway ceiling during the campaign, spew any amount of Liberal filth to impressionable minds, but my actual life was in jeopardy had I made it known I was Republican.
I was lucky to escape with my life after teaching the slavery portion of the Constitution…
(It was an inner-city high school…it really paid to act like an insane bitch, which I did the entire year. Of course, the bitch part is all real.)
Miss_Anthrope on November 6, 2008 at 3:44 PM
I hope Rush plays the audio on his show. He has been successful in getting people mobilized in their communities to throw bums like this out. Exposure is everything.
RushBaby on November 6, 2008 at 3:44 PM
Bingo.
The Ugly American on November 6, 2008 at 3:44 PM
Great point.
carbon_footprint on November 6, 2008 at 3:44 PM
they need to fire her!! doesn’t surprise me one bit. Schools here in Ca. Have a lot of teachers like her. There is this lady that comes in my friends store. She is a 6th grade teacher, and is a lose cannon. She believes our Government did 9/11. She even told my friends son. Then, my friend did nothing. Said that she was giving an opinion.
Thank god my son is 35 and on his own!
sheebe on November 6, 2008 at 3:44 PM
Suggest everyone send to drudge and hannity.
aquaviva on November 6, 2008 at 3:45 PM
The Tundra Tabloids broke the story on Diantha Harris this past Monday, the Asheville North Carolina teacher caught in a Swedish documentary badgering and bullying a pupil because she supported John McCain for president
Bullhead on November 6, 2008 at 3:45 PM
I’m literally sick to my stomach over this – for so many reasons.
marklmail on November 6, 2008 at 3:45 PM
I can’t even tell you how common this is. She got caught, but she’s not a rare case.
Obamalama Deprogrammer on November 6, 2008 at 3:45 PM
Was he chosen by the party, because of his experience? The press gave him a pass. How else does one explain it?
Pam on November 6, 2008 at 3:45 PM
I think putting a Marxist, socialist, friend of terrorists, etc. etc. etc. in office a better example than “an African American”. Just IMO.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on November 6, 2008 at 3:45 PM
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