Comments on: A Powerful And Obnoxious Odor Of Mendacity http://www.edwize.org/a-powerful-and-obnoxious-odor-of-mendacity Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Glenorchy http://www.edwize.org/a-powerful-and-obnoxious-odor-of-mendacity/comment-page-1#comment-67581 Glenorchy Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:50:04 +0000 http://www.edwize.org/?p=6086#comment-67581 "Menacity" quotation is from CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, not STREETCAR. “Menacity” quotation is from CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, not STREETCAR.

]]> By: Arthur Goldstein http://www.edwize.org/a-powerful-and-obnoxious-odor-of-mendacity/comment-page-1#comment-66792 Arthur Goldstein Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:06:59 +0000 http://www.edwize.org/?p=6086#comment-66792 That was also a rather remarkable headline. You'd think they'd at least pretend it was news, rather than posting their opinion in the headline--an opinion that was disputed later in the story, in case any New York Post readers got that far. An important omission was the fact that legislators demanded parents get a say in whether or not schools their children attend get converted into charters. That's a reasonable demand, and we ought to support it--and not via some kangaroo court process in which folks like John White ignore parents, teachers, students, clerics, and absolutely anyone who veers one iota from Mayor Bloomberg's utter indifference to neighborhood schools. What a scam this hearing process was. Tweed got the facts wrong? The data is flawed? You can prove it? We don't care, and we'll continue to shout our boldfaced lies to the rooftops--or at least in the op-ed pages of every piece of newsprint in the city, including the New York Times. Unconscionable. That was also a rather remarkable headline. You’d think they’d at least pretend it was news, rather than posting their opinion in the headline–an opinion that was disputed later in the story, in case any New York Post readers got that far.

An important omission was the fact that legislators demanded parents get a say in whether or not schools their children attend get converted into charters. That’s a reasonable demand, and we ought to support it–and not via some kangaroo court process in which folks like John White ignore parents, teachers, students, clerics, and absolutely anyone who veers one iota from Mayor Bloomberg’s utter indifference to neighborhood schools.

What a scam this hearing process was. Tweed got the facts wrong? The data is flawed? You can prove it? We don’t care, and we’ll continue to shout our boldfaced lies to the rooftops–or at least in the op-ed pages of every piece of newsprint in the city, including the New York Times.

Unconscionable.

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