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Liberals Furious Over New Children's Book (“Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed”)
Press Release Newswire ^ | 9/20/05

Posted on 09/20/2005 5:19:03 PM PDT by Libloather

Liberals Furious Over New Children's Book

New kid’s book “Liberals Under My Bed” becomes lightning rod for controversy. Prominent liberals liken it to Nazi propaganda, but conservative author laughs off allegations.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 20, 2005 –- Liberals all over the country are up in arms over a new children’s book that portrays cartoon versions of left-wing icons Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy taxing and regulating a lemonade stand.

“Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed” (Kids Ahead; hardcover: $15.95; ISBN 0976726904) hits bookstore shelves today, but author Katharine DeBrecht has already found herself under fire from liberals. MSNBC host Ron Reagan was incensed over the book and scolded DeBrecht on his cable television show. Fox News host Alan Colmes claimed the book exists for the purpose of “brainwashing.” Democratic Underground, a popular liberal Web site, named DeBrecht to its “Top 10 Conservative Idiots” list. And Daily Kos, the most trafficked left-wing blog, likened the book to Nazi propaganda.

In spite of the unflattering comparisons to Hitler, “Liberals Under My Bed” author DeBrecht is nonplussed by the allegations.

“What else would you expect from liberals?” shrugs DeBrecht, a mother of three and former co-captain of Security Moms for Bush. “Liberals have been foisting their ideological agenda on our kids for years, and now they’re beside themselves that someone would stand up to them. Evidently books about socialist fish and gay kings are OK, but a story about hard work and self-reliance is too extreme.”

DeBrecht asserts that no liberals have protested the presence of books such as “Rainbow Fish” (where a fish is hectored into giving away his beautiful scales so that all the fish look the same) and “King & King” (where two princes marry each other and adopt a little girl) in classrooms. She also points to the prohibition on prayer in school, attacks on the Boy Scouts, opposition to school choice, and the recent court ruling banning the Pledge of Allegiance because it contained the phrase “under God” as evidence of a liberal agenda targeting kids.

“Evidently liberals oppose parents who believe in traditional values having a book that will help them teach those values to their children,” says DeBrecht. “But, then again, liberals oppose anything that supports religion, traditional families, and the free market. Those institutions are obstacles to their goals of eliminating personal responsibility and establishing a welfare state.”

“Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed” -- which features full-color illustrations by award winning artist Jim Hummel -- tells of two brothers who open a lemonade stand. Their plans to save up their hard earned profits to buy a swing set go awry when a Ted Kennedy character taxes away their profits and a pants-suit clad Hillary Clinton look-alike outlaws sugary drinks.

About World Ahead Publishing:
Kids Ahead is an imprint of Los Angeles-based World Ahead Publishing, the West Coast's premier publisher of conservative and libertarian books. To learn more, visit www.worldahead.com.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
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A Hillary Clinton look-alike regulates a lemonade stand in the new children's book "Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed."


A Ted Kennedy look-alike and a trouble-making donkey are just two of the colorful villains from the new children's book "Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed."

1 posted on 09/20/2005 5:19:07 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

I want one!!! I'm posting this and the link to buy on ALL my web sites!!


2 posted on 09/20/2005 5:21:20 PM PDT by hombre_sincero (www.sigmaitsys.com)
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To: Libloather

3 posted on 09/20/2005 5:22:15 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (France is an example of retrograde chordate evolution.)
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To: Libloather

Suuuuuuure...

4 posted on 09/20/2005 5:23:06 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Libloather

I so need to get this book for my kids.


5 posted on 09/20/2005 5:23:11 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: hombre_sincero

omg


6 posted on 09/20/2005 5:23:15 PM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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To: Libloather

The teachers' unions will ensure that this book is banned from school libraries.


7 posted on 09/20/2005 5:23:44 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Libloather

I'm buying a dozen donating them to a local public school! LOL

Love it.


8 posted on 09/20/2005 5:24:21 PM PDT by Fledermaus (I've totally given up on the possibility any politicians can govern....left or right or middle.)
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To: Libloather
Liberals are upset about Kennedy/Clinton likeness's in a children's book. But Depicting Bush as Hitler in art museums is OK!

Democrats must begin to realize it's a new world, ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN do not rule the airwaves anymore.

9 posted on 09/20/2005 5:24:21 PM PDT by rocksblues (I support the war on terror)
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To: Libloather

The reactionary leftist response to this: CENSORSHIP.

The conservative response: write a funnier, better book in response.


10 posted on 09/20/2005 5:26:16 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: Libloather

Freedom of Speech my dear Rats.


11 posted on 09/20/2005 5:26:39 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (Undocumented border patrol agent.)
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To: Libloather

http://www.worldaheadpublishing.com/helpMom/index.php


12 posted on 09/20/2005 5:27:18 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Libloather

LOL! The truth hurts, doesn't it?


13 posted on 09/20/2005 5:27:50 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Libloather

How long before the teacher's unions have this book banned from the schools, all the while playing Farenheit 911 on a continuos loop?


14 posted on 09/20/2005 5:28:15 PM PDT by Chicos_Bail_Bonds
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To: Libloather

This is Nazi propaganda? Hardly. I can't wait to see where Barnes & Noble tries to hide it.


15 posted on 09/20/2005 5:29:37 PM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: hombre_sincero

I'll buy them. Now they want to CENSOR an author? What about "Heather has two mommies?"

They can dish it out but they can't take it. Just shows what their agenda is all the time. I hope this book goes to the number one best seller. It will and I'll sure as heck do my part to see it gets there by buying as many as I can!


16 posted on 09/20/2005 5:29:40 PM PDT by cubreporter (I trust Rush. He has done good more for our country than anyone will know. He's a man of honor.)
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MSNBC host Ron Reagan was incensed over the book and scolded DeBrecht on his cable television show. Fox News host Alan Colmes claimed the book exists for the purpose of “brainwashing.” Democratic Underground, a popular liberal Web site, named DeBrecht to its “Top 10 Conservative Idiots” list. And Daily Kos, the most trafficked left-wing blog, likened the book to Nazi propaganda.

What do they call it when they take our tax dollars and use them to put Kofi Annan on Sesame Street -- where he intervenes wisely in a disagreement among Muppets, and they all end up shouting: "We solve our probelms the UN WAY!!"


17 posted on 09/20/2005 5:30:04 PM PDT by Maceman (Pro Se Defendant from Hell)
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To: Libloather

TEEHEEHEE


18 posted on 09/20/2005 5:30:06 PM PDT by Irish_Thatcherite (~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds

Anyone remember that moronic woman who wrote a book called "No, George, NO!". Treating adults as children and children as adults, by trying to simplify everything into a child's viewpoint. Not that I read it, but it was fine with liberals.


19 posted on 09/20/2005 5:30:45 PM PDT by The Worthless Miracle
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To: Libloather

BUMP!! And bookmarked!

This is incredible.


20 posted on 09/20/2005 5:31:12 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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