Charlie Sykes: Conservatives must stand up to crackpots

[hue]

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/writers/jack_craver/charlie-sykes-conservatives-must-stand-up-to-crackpots/article_d38a0308-b11f-11e2-a86b-001a4bcf887a.html

Who would have thought that a call for conservatives to shun extremism is coming from the talk radio circuit?

Charlie Sykes, the longtime afternoon host on WTMJ/AM-620 in Milwaukee tells fellow conservatives in a recent article for the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute to “stand up to crackpots” on the right.

Who or what qualifies as a crackpot to Sykes?

Apparently it includes the nine GOP legislators who signed a tea party petition calling for the arrest of federal officials who implement Obamacare as well as the right of states to “nullify” federal laws — a notion that most federal jurists believe was put to rest by the Civil War.

Like many other conservative pundits, Sykes also bemoans the GOP candidates across the country who lost races after making tactless or ignorant comments about rape.

He thus concludes: “(N)o more talk about rape, nullification, birth certificates, Kwanzaa or secession. Ever.”

[hue]

1. Haha! Too funny/ironic!!

[Scuba]

2. Charlie, you are the crackpots source of crackpotiness!

[dembotoz]

3. so is he now a member of the lamestream media?

[Viking12]

4. So, does Charlie have to stand up to a mirror?

[alp227]

6. Yes, see my reply #5 n/t

[alp227]

5. His show is actually in late mornings after "Wisconsin's Morning News".

I'm not a Wisconsinite but have heard of him because of this viral email with a speech mistakenly attributed to Bill Gates, "Rules Kids Won't Learn in School". Sykes has written some books attacking education, such as Profscam in '89 or so, and more recently in '07 or so 50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School: Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education. (Those "rules" in that viral email were from his 1996 book Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, or Add.)

Sykes is also in this right wing WI think tank too. He's part of this right wing industry complaining about public education and the "self esteem movement" whatever that is, blaming the left for why schools aren't good, consider the subtitles of his books like "Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, or Add" and "Real-World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education". I hear right wingers say "education doesn't prepare kids for the real world" all the time and that is why they oppose anti-bullying initiatives or ANYTHING that DARES make a child feel happy at school.

[yourout]

7. To be a crackpot even to the right of Sykes take some doing.

If they move any farther right they will be coming back around to the far left.

[mysuzuki2]

8. Pot meet kettle.