Things You Didn’t Know But Should Have: Algebra Has a Liberal Bias

January 12, 2013 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

Thank you, Fox News.  Listen to Fox news host Eric Bolling —

“But even worse is the way some textbooks are pushing the liberal agenda,” the Fox News host explained, pointing to an algebra worksheet that Scholastic says gives students “[i]nsight into the distributive property as it applies to multiplication.”

“Distribute the wealth!” Bolling exclaimed, reading the worksheet. “Distribute the wealth with the lovely rich girl with a big ole bag of money, handing some money out.”

Eric!  Shuddup!  Distributive property is what helps us do math in our heads.  Okay, okay, not your head.  I get that part.  Distributive property has diddle squat to do to making Paris Hilton pay her fair taxes, although it probably should.

And it’s not just math that has a liberal bias.  You know how kindergarten teachers say to play nice with each other and share?  Pure communism.  Fox news believes that it’s better that Little Leon grab all the blocks and hoard them.  Screw this sharing stuff.

And, of course, there’s history with its liberal bias.

Bolling advised parents to read their children’s history books because his son’s textbook addressed the Iraq war “and they were very, very liberally biased, saying George Bush went in there because he heard there were weapons of mass destruction and they were never found. It was a very liberal bias to the history books.”

So, truth has a liberal bias.

I give up.  No, I really do.  The family tree does not fork at Fox news.

Thanks to Elizabeth Moon for the heads up.

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