**I am glad Cassie Hutchison is FINALLY speaking the truth; it took a subpoena for sure and I would guess a fear of criminal indictment if she kept lying under oath.
**I am glad Mitt Romney is stepping down; openly admitting he can’t support the criminal he has supported since 2015.
** I am glad Liz Cheney and Adam Kizinger finally did the right
thing AFTER Jan 6
BUT NONE OF THEM ARE HEROES
SIGH. I am a retired teacher. I taught for nearly 40 years in public schools. I mostly taught sixth grade, in elementary schools for the first 20 years or so and then when 6th was moved to middle school, I went with them. After a few years in middle school I went back to elementary as the tech/library educator. I have a Master’s Degree in Tech Ed +90 hrs, and then some of post graduate education in counseling as well as in Diversity Ed. I also taught some graduate classes for people getting their MAs in education.
In the entirety of my teaching career, at every level, I always made it clear to students, and to those who were planning to teach, that a classroom is a community and in that community “doing the right thing” was considered our norm; not to be celebrated or awarded. JUST THE NORMAL WAY OUR COMMUNITY SHOULD WORK. I always spent a lot of time in the beginning of the year to establish that norm: DOING THE RIGHT THING: we discussed what that meant: I began the discussions as the “sage on the stage” but moving to the “guide on the side”.
DOING THE RIGHT THING: respect for self and others; honesty, sharing, caring, forgiving, helping.
I have been frustrated with the MSM for many many years; for their caving into the fears created by the GOP’s constant “liberal press”. I was sickened about how so many bent over backwards trying to prove they were not liberal. But once the corporate conglomerates bought up 95% of the media, both siderism, and “access journalism” became the norm. Frustration on steroids.
But I REALLY went off the wall angry when the media became obsessed with making Liz Cheney, a woman who supported DJTrump and his policies for four years, into a hero for FINALLY SPEAKING OUT AFTER JAN 6th. To some extent they did it for Kinzinger too but THEY ALL WERE OVER THE TOP WITH CHENEY. Boo Hoo, the legacy congress person who barely needed to work for election, whose Daddy outed a CIA operative, lied about WMDs and with his partner W, lied us into yet another war for oil, was now heroic? What he h*ll was that? DO YOU KNOW WHO THE REAL HERO ON THAT COMMITTEE WAS? It was the fine gentleman Bennie Thompson, who rose above his racist state, a humble teacher elected to represent his district, who had the class to give Cheney a strong voice. But the media ignored Congressman Thompson’ or the fine, intelligent work of Raskin, Schiff in favor of Liz and Kinzinger. They were literally swooning over the “brave republicans”. NO THEY WERE NOT BRAVE. THEY WERE FINALLY DOING THE RIGHT THING AFTER FOUR FREAKING YEARS OF ABETTING HIS CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR.
DITTO with Ms Hutchinson. Am I glad she FINALLY spoke truth to power? Of course! But it took a subpoena and I would guess a fear of criminal indictment for lying under oath. That does not mean we cannot be glad she FINALLY DID THE RIGHT THING. BUT IT IS NOT HEROIC OR COURAGEOUS!
Yet the MSM is hellbent on making her heroic. Citing her age. HELLO. My sixth grade students UNDERSTOOD THAT DOING THE RIGHT THING is the NORM. Why are adults in the media acting like. “DOING THE RIGHT THING IS SOMEHOW AN HEROIC ACT”. I hear them calling her BRAVE, COURAGEOUS. SIGH. I call BS on all of them.
Yes DJTrump is a bully and will threaten them. HELLO! he and his ilk have been threatening us all, but specifically he has openly threatened so many from Adam Schiff to Eric Swalwell, AOC to Maxine Waters, Shumer to Pelosi, two poll workers in GA (who actually are heroic).. And remember, one of his crazies acted out his violence on Pelosi’s husband. But she has not stopped speaking truth to power.
Mitt Romney “quitting” the Senate is NOT heroic. He supported, voted for Trump and his allies for all this time. Hutchinson has said publicly “she supports his policies STiLL” and NOT ONE MEDIA PERSON challenges her to explain, elaborate? Does/did she support “The Muslim Ban? The children in cages? Stealing classified docs cause he UNclassified them?” This media craze must be called out by all of us. Tweet to them. Email them. Let them know.
END RANT but I still feel like I am in the Twilight Zone.