Even in red Idaho, woke media propaganda is alive and well |
Even in red Idaho, woke media propaganda is alive and well
Ask any major political figure from twenty or thirty years ago about the need for legislation to keep men out of women’s bathrooms, and they would have thought you were crazy. John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, or even Idaho’s own Sen. Frank Church (D) would surely have consigned such talk to the same realm as UFOs.
Yet the 21st century has been a strange time. In recent years, Idaho Republicans have had to pass legislation prohibiting doctors from using drugs and surgeries to “transition” children. They led the nation in passing a law protecting women’s sports from biologically male athletes. Now they have passed a bill that keeps men out of women’s restrooms.
This latest so-called “bathroom bill” — actually the second of its kind in Idaho law — came on the heels of a high-profile incident currently the subject of a lawsuit. A local high school allowed a gender-confused boy to use the girls’ restroom, only for a girl to walk in and hear him allegedly masturbating in one of the stalls. The girl and her parents had their objections brushed off — essentially treated by the school district as if they were the problem.
This is Idaho — certainly a more conservative place than the median American state. Yet if you read our local print news media, you’d think it was the Republican lawmakers who are the crazy ones.
Following a sit-in protest in Republican Gov. Brad Little’s office that resulted in nine arrests, the Idaho Capital Sun — the local affiliate of the overtly leftist States Newsroom organization — published a lengthy and very biased........