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I peeked at "The Savage Nation" this afternoon and heard Michael Savage reading the story about Gerald Molen, producer of the movie Schindler's List, having a scheduled speech before a high school US government class canceled. Why? The Hollywood Reporter reports:
A high-school principal told Oscar-winner Gerald Molen he could not deliver his speech because he is a "right-wing conservative;" on Friday, a district official apologized.
Gerald Molen won a best picture Oscar for co-producing Schindlers List with Steven Spielberg and has produced such Hollywood blockbusters as the first two Jurassic Park films and Twister. Hes a former U.S. Marine and is a sought-after motivational speaker.
So hes not accustomed to being shunned.
Such was the case, though, when he was invited to speak to the graduating class at a Montana high school. But upon arriving, was told by the principal he would not be allowed to deliver the speech he had prepared.
The reason, he believes, is politics.
Molen is one of those rare conservatives in Hollywood (hes even making a documentary called 2016, based on the Dinesh DSouza book The Roots of Obamas Rage) and because of that, he says, Ronan High School principal Tom Stack decided to disinvite him -- and he didnt tell him so until after Molen made the 90-minute drive from his home in Bigfork, Mont.
Sadly, this kind of incident only confirms the right-wing narrative that public education is evil liberal anti-American indoctrination.
A local TV station also reports:
"There were some concerns about what was going to be shared with our students," Stack said. "When I found out that we didn't know the topic of the presentation, we hadn't gone to the parents and asked all asked, we like to give all the parents an opportunity to opt out and decide for themselves what's presented to their students at the school."
That side of the story from the TV station Savage did not share, of course for someone with a hot ax to grind. However, if Stack really did call Molen a conservative to Molen's face, then Stack only inflamed many in his community and nationwide without proper resolution.
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EC
(12,287 posts)there are in Montana? This guy is a true repub - sees himself as a victim all the time.
alp227
(32,006 posts)yet Savage commented (to the best I can paraphrase) that liberals from California and Oregon invaded Montana schools.
RadiationTherapy
(5,818 posts)liberalhistorian
(20,814 posts)D'Souza's college classmates nicknamed the college newspaper journalist "Distort D'Newza". And that reason becomes more and more obvious with every line he writes.