The Unhinged and Dishonest Attacks on Kevin Jennings

Define conservative: Someone that preys on and inflames paranoia. Anti-gay right advances new smear that DOE official Jennings promoting "Child Porn in the Classroom"

Conservative blogs have claimed that Department of Education official Kevin Jennings is unfit as "Safe Schools Czar" because he supposedly promoted "child porn" by allowing an education organization he founded to recommend for students in grades 7-12 books that included sexually explicit content. The organization, however, specifically stated on its book list website that "some titles for adolescent readers contain mature themes" and recommended that "adults selecting books for youth review content for suitability"; further, schools regularly teach books that contain sexually explicit material.

Foaming at the mouth conservative ideologue Michelle Malkin in particular has a history of lies, distortions and exagerations that betrays an ideological agenda akin to some of history's worse propagandists.