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Monday, October 29, 2007

Quick Draw!

By Rush Limbaugh
RushLimbaugh.com


In today's update, we return to the nation's skrools -- this time to Chandler, Arizona, where a 13-year-old boy has been suspended... for a doodle. The offending sketch, according to news reports, looked like a gun.

[District] spokesman Terry Locke said that the doodle was "absolutely considered a threat," and explained that threatening words or pictures are punishable. When the boy's father, Ben Mosteller, went to the school, the administrators discussed the "seriousness" of the doodle offense, relating it to the Columbine High Skrool shootings!

The kid's parents say that the drawing didn't show any blood or bullets, depicted no injured people, nor was anybody targeted. The boy says his sketch wasn't intended as a threat to anybody. But that didn't stop administrators from suspending this kid for five days (they later chopped it down to three).

Chickified liberals are running amok, folks! (I mean, boys are going to play with guns! They make guns out of bananas, for crying out loud, when they're kids!) I wonder if these administrators have gone through every textbook, pulling out every depiction of a gun -- Revolutionary War period -- because illustrations pose a dangerous threat to the coddled, helpless, petrified junior high kids in their district.

Thank goodness the young man didn't doodle a sketch of a woman in various states of undress as some boys his age were prone to do once upon a time in America (when boys were allowed to be boys)! He could have been brought up on criminal sexual harassment charges! When this kid gets back to school, I hope he learns his lesson: he should avoid doodling inanimate objects, and only make accurate drawings of those in charge of his school -- drawing them as a bunch of jackasses.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is the kind of thing Rush should stick with. This is why I started listening to him in the first place.

Monday, October 29, 2007 4:11:00 PM  

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