For months now, NBC News has been assailing the concerned parents of Southlake, Texas because they’ve been standing up to the tide of critical race theory being crammed down the throats of their children. And on Thursday, despite new details in the already outrageous Loudoun County high school rapes story, NBC Nightly News continued their assault on the community that has had enough of liberal propaganda. They even deceptively edited audio to make it seem as though the parents were support of the Holocaust.
Continuing their smears suggesting the town was made up of rabid racists looking to drive minorities out of their community, anchor Lester “fairness is overrated” Holt chided the town for being the “center of a firestorm over diversity and inclusion efforts. Now, secretly recorded comments from a top administrator about books on the Holocaust are sparking new outrage.”
That’s right. NBC wanted to claim the town was now either made up of Holocaust deniers or Nazi sympathizers.
“The district already in the spotlight after parents clashed over its diversity plan,” declared correspondent Antonia Hylton without any context. “Now facing new pushback over which books are allowed in their libraries. With some teachers placing caution tape over bookshelves, calling the move censorship.”
She failed to mention that concerned parents had swept the radical race baiters out of the school board in an election and took their place earlier this year. And it’s worth noting that at no point in this series has the network objectively sat down to speak with and show the side of those concerned parents. NBC has largely attacked their character.
Hylton huffed about a parent who opposed an “anti-racism” book (aka CRT propaganda) being given to her child. “The district sent educators new guidance to vet all books, instructing them to not allow singular perspectives that could be ‘considered offensive,’” she whined. “This coming after Texas passed a law banning the teaching of concepts that could make individuals feel ‘guilt or anguish’ due to their race.”
As part of this training, they were told to balance perspectives. And this is when the edited audio came into play:
HYLTON: The director of curriculum, Gina Peddy offers an example for teachers: balance books about the Holocaust with an opposing view.
PEDDY: Make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust, make sure that you have one that has other perspectives
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: How do you oppose the Holocaust?
HYLTON: Gina Peddy did not respond to messages requesting comment.
Notice where NBC and Hylton decided to cut off the audio. In a more complete, but still highly-edited version on their website, Peddy responded by saying, “[B]elieve me, that’s come up.” But who’s bringing that up? The audio ended without an answer but it seemed as though it was a question brought up in an attempt to sink opposition to critical race theory.
Earlier this year, NewsBusters has caught NBC deceptively editing 911 audio to make a police officer look like a murderer.
Hylton also spoke with two teachers, whose identities they obscured, who claimed the school district was trying to shut down libraries and lashed out at parents (click “expand”):
HYLTON: The district says they have not told teachers to ban books, to completely shut down libraries. What are you seeing?
UNIDENTIFIED TEACHER 2: That's a lie. That is a flat-out lie. How could you even make that statement?
HYLTON: What do you think is at stake here?
UNIDENTIFIED TEACHER 1: In books, children see what the world can be, and to have that taken away because we're afraid of a few parents getting upset about a word or two or an idea that they’ve imagined in a book is unthinkable
NBC spent three minutes and 12 seconds on this nonsense while continuing to ignore new evidence that the radically liberal Loudoun County School Board was breaking the law by not recording sexual assaults.
According to Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak, “Loudoun County Public Schools did not record multiple known incidents of alleged sexual assault in schools dating back several years, despite a law that requires statistics about school safety incidents to be reported to the public and which includes provisions holding school superintendents personally liable for violations, a Daily Wire review of public records found.”
And while they weren’t reporting sexual assaults that happened on their campuses, the district did report on how they needed to call the cops on the father of a victim who was upset with the school over the incident.
That report came two days after Rosiak blew the lid off of how the school board tried to cover up the rape of a 14-year-old girl by a “gender-fluid” boy in a skirt in order to pass a transgendered bathroom policy.
In addition to NBC's omission of the Loudoun County school rapes, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and the Spanish-language networks Telemundo and Univision continued their blackout.
NBC’s vile smears of parents opposed to the poison of Critical Race Theory and their omission of the Loudoun County rapes were made possible because lucrative sponsorships from Dawn and Liberty Mutual. Their contact information is linked so you can tell them about the biased news they fund.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
NBC Nightly News
October 14, 2021
7:14:27 p.m. EasternLESTER HOLT: Now, to our NBC News exclusive, the new report in our series on a Texas school district at the center of a firestorm over diversity and inclusion efforts. Now, secretly recorded comments from a top administrator about books on the Holocaust are sparking new outrage. Antonia Hylton takes us back to Southlake.
[Cuts to video]
ANTONIA HYLTON: Wes Frierson, a parent of two daughters in Southlake is uncertain about his kid’s education.
WES FRIERSON: With, some of the local politics right now, I'm not sure that the teachers feel supported.
HYLTON: The district already in the spotlight after parents clashed over its diversity plan. Now facing new pushback over which books are allowed in their libraries. With some teachers placing caution tape over bookshelves, calling the move censorship. It all started when a fourth grade teacher was reprimanded after a parent complained about her having a book about anti-racism.
FRIORSON: I couldn't believe it. She's the kind of teacher that we would hope the district would be trying to attract.
HYLTON: The district sent educators new guidance to vet all books, instructing them to not allow singular perspectives that could be “considered offensive.” This coming after Texas passed a law banning the teaching of concepts that could make individuals feel “guilt or anguish” due to their race.
NBC News obtained exclusive, secretly obtained audio of a school training.
GINA PEDDY: We are in the middle of a political mess.
HYLTON: The director of curriculum, Gina Peddy offers an example for teacher: balance books about the Holocaust with an opposing view.
PEDDY: Make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust, make sure that you have one that has other perspectives
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: How do you oppose the Holocaust?
HYLTON: Gina Peddy did not respond to messages requesting comment. I met with two concerned teachers in Southlake. We obscured their identities because they feared speaking out could cost them their jobs.
UNIDENTIFIED TEACHER 1: I was in such shock when I heard these words.
UNIDENTIFIED TEACHER 2: We felt this was necessary because we felt like no one was going to listen until a teacher spoke up.
HYLTON: And it's not just in Southlake. Across the country, educators are facing new policies restricting how they can educate students about race from Tennessee to Pennsylvania. Southlake School District told NBC News they were helping teachers comply with Texas law and the “district has not and will not mandate books being moved.”
The district says they have not told teachers to ban books, to completely shut down libraries. What are you seeing?
UNIDENTIFIED TEACHER 2: That's a lie. That is a flat-out lie. How could you even make that statement?
HYLTON: What do you think is at stake here?
UNIDENTIFIED TEACHER 1: In books, children see what the world can be and to have that taken away because we're afraid of a few parents getting upset about a word or two or an idea that they’ve imagined in a book is unthinkable.
HYLTON: Wes Frierson says his daughters see what's happening.
FRIERSON: And unfortunately for kids that are at the age of mine, I think the last -- as they become aware of the world, I think they just see the world as very highly politicized.
HYLTON: But parents hope that politics find a way out of public schools. Antonia Hylton, NBC News Southlake.
