Catholic Ragemonkey

Main Stream Media (MSM) must be stopped!
I was innocently enjoying some coffee this morning with the Today show on television. I know. Mistake number one: I had the Today show on. Oh well. I usually have it on only to hear the top of the hour national news briefs. Here is a synopsis of what was reported this morning which sent me into a rage, requiring a phone call to Fr. Tharp.

The following was reported: (Again, this is a paraphrase). Anne Curry: And finally this morning, a teenage boy is claiming he was humiliated by his teacher in class for wearing a Denver Broncos jersey to school. On Friday, two days before the Broncos game versus the Pittsburgh Steelers, the 17 year old boy wore the jersey to school. He claims the teacher instructed students to throw wadded up pieces of paper at him and that he was made to sit on the floor while taking his mid-term exam. The teacher claims it was just good-natured fun and he can't believe the student is making such claims about the episode.

Sounds rather inappropriate of the alleged teacher, huh? Well, at this point, Ms. Curry, having finished the news desk update, turned back to Matt Lauer and Campbell Brown (filling in for Katie Couric). Matt said, What do you think about that story? I can see how the event would make the kid feel humiliated. Anne then added, Well, apparently it was a class on ethnicity and the teacher was trying to help the kids understand what it is like to feel ostracized.

This is where I went nuts. WHAT!? Okay, does anyone at NBC think this information might have been helpful with the story as it was originally presented? Why is this information coming out as an aside via banter between MSM bimbos and bozos (though Fr. Tharp claims Lauer qualifies as a bimbo too)? First of all, this isn't news and our time ought not have been wasted with it. But, since the MSM decided to report it, why was this later information not given in the original report? So, let me get this straight. And, yes, I was screaming this observation this morning in the rectory as I described what happened over the phone to Fr. Tharp.

A teacher has a class about ethnicity in which he is trying to make students aware of what it feels like to be ostracized. He directs this lesson at a student, properly enrolled in said class on ethnicity (we can presume), by making fun of his Denver Broncos jersey. AND IT IS LEGITIMATE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT BEING HUMILIATED WHEN YOU ARE IN THE CLASS TO BEGIN WITH????!!!! YOU KNOW WHAT NBC, ONCE YOU TELL ME ALL THE INFORMATION -- GOSH -- NOW THE EPISODE SEEMS TO MAKE SENSE TO ME!!!!!! AND IF ANY OF THIS IS TRUE, WHAT IS THE NOISE ABOUT? WHO CARES? THE CLASS ON ETHNICITY DEMONSTRATES ONE OF THE PROBLEMS WITH MODERN "EDUCATION" WHICH OUGHT TO ALARM US, BUT IF THE BOY DOESN'T WANT TO FEEL OSTRACIZED, THEN HE OUGHT GET OUT OF A CLASS WHOSE OBJECTIVE IS TO TEACH THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING OSTRACIZED. BUT AS LONG AS HE IS ENROLLED, HE HAS NO REASONABLE GROUNDS FOR COMPLAINT.

Aaaagggggggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My coffee was so good up until that point. And the day pretty much went down hill after that. But I'm feeling much better now.