WATCH: The New Naked Gun Trailer Drops With the PERFECT O.J. Simpson Joke
Flashback: Here's Nancy Pelosi Singing a (D)ifferent Tune on China, Trade Deficits, and...
‘Hmmm’: Adam Kinzinger Suspicious There Are No Tariffs on Russia
What a Peach! Watch Unhinged Leftist Crow About 'No FEMA' for Tornado-Impacted Red...
Tim Walz's Magical Media Tour Continues! He Tells MSNBC Voters Regret Electing Trump...
Not Even CLOSE, Bud! The Hill Wants Us to Believe the Pendulum Is...
Only 19% of Baltimore Kids Are Proficient in Math, So the District Spends...
Jamie Raskin Calls Fed. Employees Patriots, Claims They Pass Up MANY Rich Jobs...
U.S. Bans Romantic Relationships Between Gov Workers and Chinese Citizens, Eric Swalwell H...
EPIC Post from GenZ'r Explaining Why He's NOT Worried About His 401K DECIMATES...
Now That the Border Is Secure It's Safe for Dems to Go (Tom...
NBC News Scrapes the Bottom of the Barrel to Get a Nurse's Opinion...
CNN's Abby Phillip Gets Fact Checked to Her Face!
HORSES**T! Stephanie Ruhle Tries Lecturing MAGA About What THEY Voted for but Dean...
Chuck Schumer Triggered By Elon Musk's Spot-On 1-Word Post About Dems Suing to...

No apology coming from editor who envisions charter school proponents fed to rabid animals

The usually soft-spoken Gov. Mike Huckabee didn’t make it very far in the contentious race for the GOP nomination, but those early debates were downright civil compared to a recent editorial in the Detroit Free Press.

Advertisement

Newsbusters busted Free Press editorial page editor Stephen Henderson for writing that the public “really ought to round up the lawmakers who took money to protect and perpetuate the failing charter-school experiment in Detroit, sew them into burlap sacks with rabid animals, and toss them into the Straits of Mackinac.”

So, that whole fuss about “violent rhetoric” has been retired, huh?

Don’t wait around for Henderson to “clarify” his piece, because he was making a historical reference: “… isn’t that what the Romans or Greeks or some other early practitioners of democracy used to do with solicitous and unprincipled public officials?” In other words, don’t focus so much on the, “We really ought to …” part.

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/740257565028798464

Advertisement

Really? The Federalist stripped out the context? Here’s a link to Henderson’s complete piece (complete with typos) so readers can judge for themselves. Not only does Henderson write, “We really ought to round up the lawmakers,” but revisits the theme again paragraphs later, repeating that charter school proponents in the legislature deserve every bit of “old school” retribution:

It is every bit deserving of an old-school retributive response.

A sack. An animal. A lake.

No lover of actual democracy could weep at that outcome.

Henderson has a point. America counts on public schools to prepare students to enter today’s safe-space universities, where our intellectual betters wring their hands over whether some people have a “genuine right to speak” on campus if what they say has “no intellectual worth.” (Just to be clear, that professor was referring to guest speakers, not faculty.)

Advertisement

But that punishment really ought to be revived to keep politicians in line, right? Forward!

 

Henderson’s editorial won’t do a thing to sway opinion toward his cause, but at least it will generate material for another piece.

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Twitchy Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement