If you want to see a classic example of how a left leaning major market columnist shifts blame to the hated Republicans on an issue, please read Pulitzer Prize winning Houston Chronicle columnist Lisa Falkenberg’s latest screed. Titled Bathroom policy fast becoming hot-button issue for politicians, Ms. Falkenberg stretches, bends, and breaks the truth in her quest to demonize Republicans.
“The handwriting is on the bathroom wall: Stay out of the ladies’ room if you’re a man,” Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said a few weeks ago, wading into the national debate. “If it costs me an election, if it costs me a lot of grief, then so be it. If we can’t fight for something this basic, then we’ve lost our country.”
Ain’t he brave?
Well, yeah, in a way he is. He knew before he said those words that people like Ms. Falkenberg would attack, smear, and mock him. But he did it anyway because it was the right thing to do.
I know, I know. It’s a slippery-slope thing. If we allow people the freedom to use the bathroom they deem appropriate, one can only guess what would happen next!
Actually, we don’t have to guess. They’ve been doing it for decades. Without much fanfare. Until it became a handy dog-whistle issue for Republican primary voters. Now it’s the end of civilization.
She’s right. People have been doing it for decades or centuries, who knows? But isn’t that the point? No one knew – therefore, no problem. You dress like a woman, no one pays attention. But that isn’t the issue today, is it? No, the issue today is that people want the right to go into the opposite gender’s restrooms and they want to do it in your face, without regard to the privacy rights of 99.9{997ab4c1e65fa660c64e6dfea23d436a73c89d6254ad3ae72f887cf583448986} of the population as a whole.
Do you see that sentence in bold above? This one:
Until it became a handy dog-whistle issue for Republican primary voters.
That is where Ms. Falkenberg broke the truth. That is a flat out lie. The dog-whistle belongs to the LGBTABCDEFG crowd that insists that we have to “accept” whatever it is they want today. There never would be an issue if the LGBTABCDEFG crowd had not started passing laws saying that men could enter women’s restrooms, locker rooms, showers, spas, etc. No issue at all. Republican voters rightly responded to this nonsense and hopefully will keep on responding to this nonsense.
There’s no evidence that this is a public safety issue.
Another untruth, although this one could be considered an opinion, not a lie. Because there has been plenty of evidence presented that this is in fact a public safety issue. Ms. Falkenberg simply chooses to ignore it to form her opinion.
Now check this out: Ms. Falkenberg is suddenly for local control.
Back to conservative values: I thought local control was one of them.
This week, our lieutenant governor, whose office is based in Austin, called for the ouster of Fort Worth Independent School District Superintendent Kent Scribner because he approved new guidelines to accommodate transgender students in a broad array of areas from dress code to sports.
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Patrick said if parents are unhappy with the district’s decision, then it’s up to the school board and superintendent to address it. If they don’t, he said, “that’s why we have elections.” It’s up to parents and school boards to “reflect the values of that school district,” he said.
Well, the Fort Worth district has spoken on its values. And they don’t need some politician in Austin butting in.
Ha, you can’t make this stuff up. Can you imagine the outrage Ms. Falkenberg would have if a local community passed an ordinance saying that no abortions would be performed in their city? Or that illegal aliens couldn’t rent a house? Or that Muslims couldn’t bang out their obnoxious calls to prayer all day long? She’d go nuclear. And you’d better believe that she’d want “some politician” from Austin or Washington “butting in”.
She then claims any bill addressing this stupidity will have no chance in the Texas House.
At times like these, we should all bow our heads and say a prayer for Joe Straus, the Republican speaker of the Texas House, who will have to play the grownup once again next session in staving off legislation that would hurt Texans as well as the Texas economy.
The bill doesn’t have much of a chance in the House, which prompts the question: Why try?
Answer: So that a few far-right politicians can say they fought the good fight. And winning isn’t the point anyway.
“Defeat would perhaps be the desired outcome of some of these bill advocates,” says Rice University political scientist Mark Jones. “It would allow them to have their cake and eat it too.”
As a strong supporter of Speaker Straus, I can say this with confidence – he will not block a bill that addresses this. He will allow the will of the House to prevail. If enough House members want to pass this, it will pass. That is being an adult in the room. And as much as I like Mark, he is taking this issue much too lightly with a remark like that.
Incredibly, she somehow wraps this up and blames the rise of Trump on people opposing this nonsense. Talk about not understanding why Trump is where he is. It is precisely because politicians ignored idiotic policies like that that Trump is where he is.
Republicans should stand FIRM and reject this crap. And readers need to understand that columnists like Ms. Falkenberg are not trying to give them an unbiased view of the facts, they are paid to produce biased opinions that support the newspaper’s underlying philosophy. Which is to support the left’s version of “progress”. Don’t believe me? See this editorial from the Houston Chronicle, published one day after Ms. Falkenberg’s screed: Potty politics
The transgender restroom controversy is a hoax crafted by ideologues for scapegoating.
Editors reinforcing their columnist’s opinion, and reinforcing the Houston Chronicle’s left leaning philosophy.