People who are angry at Katharine DeBrecht can rejoice today with scheudenfrueden because she totally lied.
She claimed in a press release picked up on by about six right-wing blogs that the Liberal Los Angeles teachers and principals engaged in a conspiracy to use the kids as "political props" for "democratic causes" by putting 800 of them on buses and sending them to an anti-Bush rally. The right-wing blogs totally jumped on this as proof of the liberal bias in education. There were also vengeful calls for all these LA educators to be fired!
The thing is it never happened! I have uncovered an inter-office memo from the LA unified School District as well as a story by a local NBC affiliate proving Katharine DeBrecht is a dirty liar. Reports from the student organizers in LA show the truth is quite the opposite actually, the teachers and police tried very hard to prevent the walk-out to the rally, many students are facing suspenion. One pro-torture conservative blog has retracted the story, but I demand an apology from Katharine DeBrecht!
Read all about it (with priceless wingnut quotes) at Resignbush.us