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'Expert' Barton Brings Religio-Historical Road Show To TX Board Of Ed Hearing
Justin Elliott | September 17, 2009, 2:56PM
From display by David Barton, Texas board of education hearing room
David Barton, who critics call a "Christian nationalist history revisionist," comes off more as smooth-talking history buff than fiery evangelist.
Among the panel of experts appointed to guide the Texas textbook standards writing process, Barton is probably the most committed right-wing activist. He served as vice-chair of the Texas GOP for many years. He was responsible for the uproar over deletion of a reference to Christmas that the chair of the board of education tried to tamp down first thing this morning.
And when his turn to speak came at the hearing on new history textbook standards in Austin today, Barton was the only expert to bring along a slideshow.
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David Bradley
Texan Critic Of Obama's 'Indoctrination' Speech Backs Actual Indoctrination In Textbooks
Justin Elliott | September 7, 2009, 5:46PM
Newt Gingrich and Phyllis Schlafly
Conservatives have spent the last week whipping themselves into a frenzy over President Obama's speech tomorrow in which he will indoctrinate the nation's schoolchildren using the instruments of mass media.
As it turns out, Obama's speech will be pretty anodyne. But one vocal critic of Obama's plans, has long been involved in an effort to actually indoctrinate students -- through the state-sanctioned textbooks they study all year.
Meet David Bradley, Republican member of the Texas State Board of Education from Beaumont.
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