And this is why Dan Quigley had to go

gentleman dan. “it’s not whether we win or lose, it’s how we play the game”

Project Veritas exposed the rotten core of our educational system here in town, and former Republican Town Committee Chairman Dan Quigley is concerned that James O’Keefe didn’t play fair.

“The Moral and Ethical Dilemma of Gotcha Journalism”

The recent video of the Cos Cob School assistant principal went viral, made national newscasts, and places our school system in an unfortunate light. There is widespread acknowledgement that Mr. Boland’s comments displayed a lack of judgement

“Lack of judgment” ? Meaning stupidly confessing to what was going on? Where are the nice, soothing platitudes and lies, you mean? The duplicity that allows us all to just get along?

The discriminatory nature of his remarks is unacceptable to us all and the resulting anger is justified. However, just as important, and equally disturbing but lost in the focus on the content, is how this information was obtained in the first place.

The systematic indoctrination of our children is “disturbing” to Quigley, but no more so than that the method used to expose it was rude: the reporter should have simply asked Mr. Borland whether he was doing anything parents might want to know about, and accepted his answer as true.

……[W]hatever one’s opinion about the content exposed in this video, real journalists do not “set up” people to lure unsuspecting subjects into agreeing to meet, whereupon that person is unknowingly taped, and the content of that conversation made public for all the world to see. Unfortunately, in the case of Project Veritas, the means are irrelevant if they achieve the desired result.  

“Real journalists” like those employed by Hearst and mainstream media lob softball questions to their favorites and then dutifully accept the lies fed back to them. Anything else would be rude. Or, as Dan might put it, “truth must always yield to good manners.”

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…. Mr. O’Keefe pointed to a group of local media and said, “if all of you guys were doing your jobs, there wouldn’t be a need for people like me.” So, is Project Veritas “real journalism” as Mr. O’Keefe suggests, or is it simply a predatory exercise whose methods and practices are justified if they result in some level of confirmation of a political position.

“Some level”? “Of a political position”? I’d put it, “rock-solid confirmation of what the school administrators and teachers have been denying for so long, a program of indoctrination and propagandizing that’s now part of the education system’s DNA”.

[I]rrespective of one’s political leanings, it is equally important that the source of that confirmation should be above reproach.

Quigley and his crowd were content to sit by idly for years while a woke curriculum metastasized through our schools, older teachers were mysteriously weeded out and replaced by new, malleable teachers college graduates, and parental concerns and complaints were ignored.

Quigley’s cohort accepted bland, duplicitous promises of an apolitical approach to learning by a succession of left-wing school superintendents and administrators, and now, after the truth has been exposed, claim that it is “equally important” that we treat these enemies of the Republic, these crypto-communists, as people of good will, deserving of all the courtesies we would extend to our friends.

That’s a naivety that has allowed these people to exist and flourish for over 100 years. Quigley and his Grantland Rice philosophy have become an unaffordable luxury in this battle for the nation’s soul, and had to be jettisoned if the Republican Party was to avoid being steamrollered by the Democrats. I’m sure Quigley is a very nice gentleman, and, were we to sit down over coffee, we’d probably find that we agreed on 90% of our respective political philosophies, but to quote another sports figure, “nice guys finish last”.