Posted on 11/18/2005 9:15:38 AM PST by shining_city
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is attacking a children's book that depicts her as an inveterate liberal who tries to regulate a lemonade stand run by two budding entrepeneurs.
The book, "Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!," by Katharine DeBrecht, stars "Congresswoman Clunkton" - a kind of cartoon verson of Nurse Ratched in a pantsuit who orders the young boys to reduce the sugar in their lemonade and add broccoli to each glass,
"Can’t wait for the sequel, Help! Mom! I Can’t Read This Book Because Republicans Have Cut Literacy Programs!” Clinton's spokesman Philippe Reines fumed recently in comments to The Hill newspaper.
A few days later, the Hillary flak lauched another attack.
"It’s not the liberal under the bed that they should be worried about,” he snapped, "it’s the sales that are in the basement.”
In fact, "Help! Mom!" has been flying off bookstore shelves since its release in September, topping the Barnes & Noble bestseller list and climbing on Amazon's list to just behind ""Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
DeBrecht tells NewsMax that she wrote "Help! Mom!" because there were no childrens' books written from a conservative perspective.
On the other side of the political aisle, she noted, children are inundated with books like "It's Just a Plant: A Children's Story of Marijuana" and "No George, No: The Reparenting of George W. Bush "
"I can cite a ton of examples on the left that constantly attack conservatism," DeBrecht said. "But there was nothing there to basically teach traditional values."
The South Carolina-based writer got the idea for "Help! Mom!" after watching the 2000 GOP convention with her own young boys. Four years later, DeBrecht saw an ad on NewsMax.com for Xulon Press and self-published her story.
"Help! Mom!" caught the eye of Florida talk radio host Greg Allen, who put DeBrecht on his "Right Balance" radio show.
Allen helped put her in touch with World Ahead publishing, which reissued DeBrecht's book with new artwork under its Kids Ahead imprint.
Just two days after it was re-published in Sept. 2004, "Help! Mom!" was touted by conservative mega star Rush Limbaugh, who said his "hat was off" to the conservative children's book writer.
The endorsement catapulted "Help Mom" to the top of the Amazon and Barnes & Noble bestseller lists.
Liberal reaction was swift. One left-wing Web site began comparing DeBrecht’s book to Nazi propaganda. Another, the Democratic Underground, trashed her as one of their "Top 10 Conservative Idiots.”
Far from slowing DeBrecht down, however, the overheated response has only encouraged her to begin a new project - turning her "Help! Mom!" book into a full-blown series.
Pending titles include: "Help! Mom! Hollywood Is in My Hamper!," "Help! Mom! There Are Lawyers in My Lunchbox!" and "Help! Mom! The Ninth Circuit Nabbed the Nativity!"
"Since Philippe Reines says the federal government should be teaching children to read, please accept this as my contribution toward your noble efforts."
Best $10 I've ever spent. Just picturing the look on her face if she caught some of her staff standing around reading it made it worthwhile!
Heh heh...If Hill's po'd I'm happy.
Very apt. I hadn't thought of that one.
THAT, my friend, is quite an honor.
Thanks for making a stink Hitlery, now I'm gonna buy one, too.
Ok this is it I am buying the book....my kids are grown but the satisfaction of keeping it on the best seller is good enough for me.....besides it sounds like a good read
By the way, here is the Hildebeast's mailing address, just in case any other fun-loving FReepers want to send her a copy.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
United States Senate
476 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-0001
This is not fiction. While the part about Hillary maybe, the underlying story is 100% true. In the FR archives there are several stories of children lemonaide stands being shut down for failure to have a business license and other such government nonsense.
Far out! A U.S.P.S. FReep!
Wouldn't need literacy programs if parents would take responsibility and teach their kids to read themselves, instead of depending on the government to do it for them.
Just my $0.015974632 (after the government takes its cut...which, last I checked, includes Sen. "Se Who Must Not Be Named")
She's just mad that it was written at a level her supporters could understand.
Sales might be in the basement but I just bought my copy for my kids. I read to them every night. Might be fun.
I love these stories about innovative American entrepreneurship.
The book has good pictures of Teddy K also. It is a fine book.
My daughter could read before she went to school. I WAS a Republican Literacy Program. nver mind baking the cookies for your daughter Hillary, you should have read with her.
We already have a government literacy program -- it's called the public schools. In NYS we spend about $13,000 annually. Over 13 years that's 169,000 -- a lot of money to produce an 18 year old who can't read a book. Why should taxpayers pour more money down this particular rat hole?
s/b ..depicts her as an invetebrate liberal!
to wit a SLUG!
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