Triumph of the Cretins

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| Mon Nov. 15, 2010 1:42 PM PST

This is insane. James O’Keefe secretly records a New Jersey teacher in a private conversation complaining that another teacher had called a student a nigger but kept his job anyway — and the first teacher is suspended and has her pay docked.

This defies belief. O'Keefe is a cretin, but why the district superintendent and the school board caved in on this is hard to fathom. The cynicism on one side and the cowardice on the other is truly staggering.

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