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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

What’s up at Huffington Post? � Fred Klonsky's blog

What’s up at Huffington Post? � Fred Klonsky's blog

What’s up at Huffington Post?

I know that the left-of-center web site Huffington Post includes of range of opinions. But lately it’s a cold education wind that blows from that corner of the internet, including some nasty swipes at teacher unions from Arianna herself.
On Sunday Arianna ran a post on President Obama’s speech to the Urban League. Suddenly civil rights groups and teacher unions became Arianna’s punching bag. This from a usually progressive source who reserves her criticisms for the enemies of civil rights groups and teacher unions.

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