THE WELL-DRESSED WHACK JOB IS AT IT AGAIN - AT 7:49 P.M. ET:  Most of you have seen Katrina vanden Heuvel on TV.  She's the chic, expensively dressed editor of The Nation, which is often incorrectly described as a "liberal" magazine.  It is not.  It's a far-left magazine, which is a euphemism for something else.  Vanden Heuvel, who hails from a veddy, veddy upper-class background, is herself way out there.  Now, as reported in the Washington Examiner, she's trying to poison the minds of youth:

Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor and publisher of The Nation, has just sent out a fundraising letter making fantastical claims about the 9/12 protest in Washington. Promoting the magazine's "Student Outreach Program," in which she and her colleagues offer teaching guides to help educators counter the influence of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, vanden Heuvel described the march this way:

Just days ago, Glenn Beck led the astro-turf 9-12-09 "Taxpayer March on DC." Compared to the millions who have marched for civil rights, equal rights, and gay rights, and against the war, Beck's 70,000 would be small stuff -- except for the tens of thousands waving Confederate flags, anti-gay hate signs, and shouting "White Power!"

Vanden Heuvel goes on to say that students need "well-equipped minds" to stand up to the "increasingly dangerous, racist and radical right wing." That's where the Nation's Student Outreach Program comes in -- with its teaching guides, the Nation Student Essay Contest and Student Journalism Conferences. "Won't you give a gift today to keep this essential program going strong?" vanden Heuvel asks.

COMMENT:  The idea that this stuff can get into our schools is chilling.  Parents have a right to examine what their kids are being taught, and the materials used.  Exercise that right. 

What strikes me is The Nation's contempt for democracy and freedom of assembly.  There are a few bad eggs in every demonstration, but vanden Heuvel's grotesque description of the taxpayer march is extreme even by The Nation's lax standards.  Shame.

September 22, 2009