Christina Jeffery was once fired by Newt Gingrich

[sofia]

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[sofia]

i remember this ADL generated "scandal"....


,,,,Newt folded like a cheap camera and sold his former colleague out...

Excerpted from NEW YORK TIMES NEWS Jan 10, 1995
GINGRICH FIRES NEWLY APPOINTED HOUSE HISTORIAN
By STEPHEN LABATON

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WASHINGTON - Speaker Newt Gingrich on Monday night dismissed
the historian of the House of Representatives ... after learning
that she had once helped to deny federal financing of an
educational program about the Holocaust on the ground that it did
not present the views of the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan.
Gingrich made the announcement on Monday evening after he
learned of the evaluation by Christina Jeffrey, which had
outraged many Jewish groups when it became public in 1988. He
acted on Monday evening after House Democrats called upon him to
dismiss her....
On Monday afternoon, as Democrats learned of her past, they
sharply criticized the appointment. ``It's just appalling,''
said Rep. Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts. ``He ought to
get rid of her. This is outrageous.'' Professor Jeffrey ... was
an associate professor at Kennesaw State College in Marietta,
Ga. She teaches public administration and American government.
At the time she evaluated the Holocaust program in 1986, her
name was Christina Price. ``It wasn't the kind of thing I would
have said if I had known it was going to be in The New York
Times,'' she said earlier in the day on Capitol Hill. ``It has
never been my position that you ought to be going out and finding
the KKK and bringing them into middle-school classrooms.''
Professor Jeffrey's evaluation of the
``Facing History and
Ourselves'' project for the Education Department appeared in a
record of a 1988 congressional subcommittee hearing. She wrote:
``The program gives no evidence of balance or objectivity. The
Nazi point of view, however unpopular, is still a point of view
and is not presented, nor is that of the Ku Klux Klan.''
``The selection of only two problem areas, Germany and Armenia,
leaves out many of which are more recent. I'm thinking of the
U.S.S.R., Afghanistan, Cambodia and Ethiopia, among others. My
impression is that the program, based as it is on the resource
book `The Holocaust and Human Behavior,' may be appropriate for a
limited religious audience but not for wider distribution.''
The program, Facing History and Ourselves, is a training
program for high school teachers and their students and is about
morality and society and the citizen's role in preventing
tyranny. It included an examination of the genocide of Jews and
Armenians in this century.
About the program, she wrote: ``It is a paradoxical and
strange aspect of this program and the methods used to change the
thinking of students is the same that Hitler and Goebbels used to
propagandize the German people. This re-education method was
perfected by Chairman Mao and now is being foisted on American
children under the guise of `understanding history.'''
An initial review of the educational program in the early
1980s called it ``exemplary,'' and Holocaust scholars said on
Monday that it is not ideological or religious, but teaches
students about how ordinary citizens can get swept up into
tyrannical and genocidal movements.
``It tries to teach about evil in the 20th century, looking at
genocide and the dehumanization of people in various places
around the world,'' said Prof. Sol Gittleman, the provost and a
scholar of German studies at Tufts University, and a member of
the board of the ``Facing History'' program.
At various points during the 1980s the program was denied
funding, although it had been accredited by the Education
Department and is now widely taught. It was heavily criticized by
conservative critic Phyllis Schlafly, who asked the Education
Department to reject the grant application and accused the
program of ``psychological manipulation, induced behavioral
change and privacy-invading treatment.''
Professor Jeffrey said she was chosen for the evaluation
because ``they assumed I would oppose that, because I was at Troy
(State University in Alabama) which had a conservative
reputation. I didn't know anything about the Holocaust.''
Jewish groups and scholars of the Holocaust on Monday praised
the program and denounced Professor Jeffrey's evaluation.
``Calling for equal time to present Hitler's point of view is
outrageous and bizarre,'' said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and
founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. ``To come
out against the program on the ground that the Nazis were not
given their due, if we used that standard on all educational
grants, we'd probably have to cut out all grants.''
The program, which is accredited by the Education Department,
receives private and public financing and is widely taught in
high schools.


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[Vessol]

If she's not good enough for Gingrich, she's great for me! :D

I also agree with her. I don't agree with the Nazi's point of view, nor the KKK's, but on issues they should at least be presented without bias. Not that we should even have government funded public schools in the first place, but that's another issue entirely.

[BlackTerrel]

``The program gives no evidence of balance or objectivity. The
Nazi point of view, however unpopular, is still a point of view
and is not presented, nor is that of the Ku Klux Klan.''

Yeah the biggest problem with US schools is that they do not represent the views of the KKK :rolleyes:

Sofia I know in your constituency this might be galvanize the people but bringing this more attention won't be doing this woman any good in her attempt to be elected.


I also agree with her. I don't agree with the Nazi's point of view, nor the KKK's, but on issues they should at least be presented without bias.

Why? Should the views of the flat earthers also be presented?

[Vessol]

If you read into it more instead of scanning it you'd see that she was trying to make a point in her actions. Her point was that our children are only taught one side of the story in all history classes, even if both are major sides. Having a PhD in Political Sciences, I believe she understands this very much and this was her intention.

Don't be a tool and just scan over stuff like the mainsteam media wants you to. That's how journalism is designed. Have an eye catching title, a misrepresented first 1-2 paragraphs then go into the meat that no one reads after that.

[catdd]

Sounds like she was trying to be fair and balanced and we all know you can't do that in this country without getting kicked in the teeth.
FOX knows damn well you can't but it makes a good window dressing.

[Imaginos]

People need to wake up to reality sooner or later.
Nazi administration is alive is well in 2010.
They are currently running a country in the Middle East and they are not Muslims.
They do practice eugenics program and follow most of original Nazi's racist agenda.
Go figure.
:rolleyes:

[sofia]

Yeah the biggest problem with US schools is that they do not represent the views of the KKK :rolleyes:

Sofia I know in your constituency this might be galvanize the people but bringing this more attention won't be doing this woman any good in her attempt to be elected.


Why? Should the views of the flat earthers also be presented?

The "flat earth" anology is almost as cliched, over-used, and as useless as the "nazis" anology...

The original KKK (not to be confused with today's dozen or so klansmen) was formed by the respected General Nathan Bedford Forest because northern carpet baggers were raping the southern economy during the post war occupation.

They were promising the ex slaves "40 acres and a mule" if they would vote for certain candidates. Southerners were suffering from the massive taxation.

How is that not a legitimate point of view?

[BlackTerrel]

If you read into it more instead of scanning it you'd see that she was trying to make a point in her actions. Her point was that our children are only taught one side of the story in all history classes, even if both are major sides. Having a PhD in Political Sciences, I believe she understands this very much and this was her intention.

Don't be a tool and just scan over stuff like the mainsteam media wants you to. That's how journalism is designed. Have an eye catching title, a misrepresented first 1-2 paragraphs then go into the meat that no one reads after that.

Is the Mainstream media bringing attention to this topic at all? Or is this something that happened in 1995 that Sofia is drudging up?


The "flat earth" anology is almost as cliched, over-used, and as useless as the "nazis" anology...

The original KKK (not to be confused with today's dozen or so klansmen) was formed by the respected General Nathan Bedford Forest because northern carpet baggers were raping the southern economy during the post war occupation.

They were promising the ex slaves "40 acres and a mule" if they would vote for certain candidates. Southerners were suffering from the massive taxation.

How is that not a legitimate point of view?

Spare me. I'm not going to debate the merits of the KKK with you.

[Vessol]

No, but I imagine that this will be used against Christina Jeffrey in her local district by her opponent. And they'll use headlines like "CHRISTINA JEFFERY IS A NEO-NAZI AND A KKK SUPPORTER" or many other bogus stuff.