Unraveling the Right's false attacks on Kevin Jennings
Media Matters for America examines and debunks the wide array of falsehoods and distortions the right-wing media have used in their attempts to smear and discredit Department of Education official Kevin Jennings and the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which Jennings founded and previously served as executive director.If conservatives - a synonym for unhinged - were a baseball team they'd be 0 for seventeen attempts at bat. They cannot seem to get a single fact straight. Though let's not be nieve, it is not as though the attacks on Jennings are born of honor and values. Theses attacks are pure deranged hatred.
....3) SMEAR: Jennings failed to report "statutory rape" of student
4) SMEAR: Jennings "urged" student to "further the relationship" with "older man ... forcing his way" on him and to "keep quiet"
5) SMEAR: Jennings advocated for or supports NAMBLA
6) SMEAR: Jennings' ties to anti-AIDS group disqualify him from public service
7) SMEAR: Jennings is linked to an "Anti-Christian Art Porn Exhibit"
8) SMEAR: Jennings promoted "Child Porn in the Classroom"
9) SMEAR: Jennings is "linked to shocking teen sex talk"
10) SMEAR: Jennings knew the content of "sex talk" workshop in advance
11) SMEAR: High school students received "fisting kits" at 2001 GLSEN conference
12) SMEAR: GLSEN handed out explicit safe-sex booklet to children
13) SMEAR: GLSEN gave teens "directories to gay 'leather' bars" in Chicago
