Ah, Campbell Brown, we hardly knew ye!
Brown blazed across the Deform firmament like a shooting star, fighting sexual predators in the classroom, unions, tenure, and all other things that crossed her fevered brow.
She raised millions, and now she’s off to a new life at Facebook.
Gone and forgotten.
Mercedes Schneider tells the story here.
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Instant experts, fleeting pundits, handed a Broadie playbook and a big bag of money.
great description, happening over and over across the nation as the punitive testing game demands so many sudden “accountability” positions: INSTANT EXPERTS
well now i can go back to looking at campbell brown as an attractive news woman instead of hating her cause she hates public ed
pretty is as pretty does.
I’ve posted elsewhere about this in detail, but it bears repeating, if only for the staggering contradictions and hypocrisy.
In Fall 2014, Campbell Brown went on a PEJ media tour to promote her tenure-busting lawsuits in various states. She always led with these bogus statistics and anecdotes about how sexual predator teachers were running amuck in NYC schools, and that’s why this lawsuit was needed.
Her partner in these media appearances was fellow PEJ Board member and their lead lawyer David Boies. He would echo Campbell’s disgust at sexual molestor teachers on the loose, and talk about how he was making it his mission to protect children from them by joining the PEJ board, and doing PEJ’s legal work for free … you know… for the children past, present and future.
Uh huh. Whatever you say, David.
I never forgot that douchebag’s name, and doing so paid off three years later.
About a year and a half ago (October 2017), the whole Harvey Weinstein story — led by artiicles in THE NEW YORKER by Ronan Farrow, and another series by two other reporters n THE NEW YORK TIMES — broke wide with Weinstein credibly accused of all kinds of sexual predation, up to and including out-and-out rape (GOOGLE “Annabella Sciorra” for an example of that.)
Ronan Farrow’s articles named Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer over the years, the shyster who was being paid millions to protect Weinstein and attack Weinstein’s accusers .
He turned out to be … wait for it … David “freakin'” Boies!!!!!
Boies didn’t just threaten lawsuits against the accusers, and successfully silencing them in the process, To make this happen, he also hired former Israeli Mossad (Israieli Secret Service) agents to dig up dirt, pose as Feiminists interested in helping those victims, and in general, harass and terrorize Weinstein’s victims into silence.
Boies had these Mossad agents do the same thing to reporters covering the Weinstein story.
Now, here’s where it gets even more interesting.
For years, THE NEW YORK TIMES had hired Boies and his firm to do all of the legal work for the magazine, only to discover that Boies was simultaneously — through Boies’ contracted Mossad ageints — harassing and terrorizing TIMES reporters covering Weinstein into dropping the story, or writing the story in a way that exhonerates Weinstein.
The mind boggles.
When this was uncovered by Farrow, the leaders over at THE NEW YO9RK TIMES threw a total conniption fit and fired Boies and his firm, putting out a blistering statement about how Boies is The Scum of the Earth (my words, not theirs… I have to go teach, so I don’t have time to find this exact quote.)
As I recall, Boies tried to play dumb about the dirty work that his hired Mossad agents were doing. “Really … I had no idea … we just hired them, and didn’t pay attention to what they were doing … blah-blah-blah … ”
My favorite moment in the Brown-Boies media tour was when the two of them went on CBS THIS MORNING, and Boies gushed about how he’s always having Teach for America teachers over at his house on weekends for backyard barbecues, and how wonderful they are.
The interviewer asked why there was such criticism being lodged against Teach for America, and Boies did not disappoint. He regurgitated the TFA party line about how regular teachers were so inferior to TFA, and they were threatened by TFA teachers brilliance, and that’s why veteran teachers were talking against TFA.
It’s still on YouTube, I believe, if someone wants to go find that.
Gotta go to work!
Wait the show that had the TFA conversation was not CBS This Morning, It was MORNING JOE.
It might still be on Youtube.
When Ed Reform by BillGates was all the rage, Morning Joe invited all the Reform stars on the show. I was never invited to dispute their “schools-are-Failing-try-anything” narrative.
and this is still the formula on most media outlets: endlessly invite the pro-reformers, simply ignore the fact that there might be ANTI-reform voices
“Reformers” do not want to hear from anyone that actually knows something. They prefer to fool themselves inside their echo chamber.
lordy lordy
Thanks, Jack.
DeVos’ allies…Robert Kraft, who spent big to expand charters in Massachusetts and allegedly, who paid a pittance to be party to the degradation of Chinese women in a Florida “spa”.
He was also the lawyer for Theranos ( and apparently not a very good one!)
https://abovethelaw.com/2018/09/david-boiess-fall-from-grace/
One has to wonder if any of the cases he won were due to competence or just intimidation.
Brown has been the “hit woman” of the right wing for some time. Her story reads like the tale of a malcontent dilettante. She finally found a home screening content at Facebook where she can police the interactions.
And, to advance Z-berg and Sandberg’s ‘s goals which are right wing.
Oh, what is the valediction I want to use here…oh, yes:
Good riddance!
My favorite part of Brown & Boies’ MORNING JOE segment is when Boies — who’s supposedly all about attracting high quality teachers, and getting rid of the bad and/or child-molesting ones — sings the praises of schools hiring untrained Teacher for America Corps Members who’ve never set foot in to a classroom before teaching a class (???!!!)
Why, Boies says that he even has TFA CM’s over at his house for weekend barbecue picnics!!!
Hear him tell THAT story.
( 5:21 – )
DAVID BOIES: “Every summer, we have Teach for America for a picnic, and they’re just great! They’re enthusiastic, and yet some people want to keep Teach for America out of New York City Schools. It doesn’t make any sense if what you want volunteers to do– ”
MORNING JOE: “Why do they want to keep them out?”
(Oh gee … I don’t know. Maybe it’s because they’ve never taught a day in their lives, are totally untrained, and that 90% quit within two or three years, JACK)
DAVID BOIES: “Because they (veteran unionized teachers) view them as competition for people who are already teaching there. I think that maybe they’re disruptive in the sense that they have new ideas and enthusiasm, and that’s what teaching is about!”
Yeah, right, David. Veteran teachers are jealous of and intimidated by TFA’s “new ides and enthusiasm” and the resulting “competition.”
Here’s a better link to the MORNING JOE:
Watching Boies recount how TFA CM’s are chillin’ and hangin’ with Boies at one of his backyard barbecues conjures up an image and possible scenario: — one that brings out the irony and hypocrisy inherent in this fiasco:
IMAGINED SCENARIO:
In his luxurious backyard, Boies is wearing an apron, and one of those mushroom-shaped chef’s hats while flipping steaks and lobsters at on one of those weekend barbecues in his backyard — where he’s again entertaining TFA teachers — acting friendly to the visiting TFA CM’s at one turn.
BOIES: (quiet, genial .. to TFA teachers) “Hey Seth and Caitlin. It’s ‘surf-‘n-turf’ time. How’d you like your filet mignons and lobsters done? … You know I really love you TFA teachers and your Ivy League enthusiasm, and all those new ideas that you guys bring to education. It’s just too bad that those evil teacher union members can’t handle the competition you TFA youngsters are bringing to reforming our schools.
“Also, it’s too bad that teacher unions are protecting those sexual predator teachers, and attacking heroic people such as Campbell and me, who are trying to get them out of the classroom.”
… then enraged at another turn …
… as Boies is repeatedly interrupted on his cellphone by ex-Mossad spooks who are giving him the latest Harvey victim intel and/or asking for Boies’ instructions on how to obliterate or intimidate the latest complaining Hollywood actress who has spilt the beans on Harvey, or is about to spill the beans on Harvey:
BOIES: (answering, then screaming into his cell phone) “I need DIRT!!! Ya hear me?! Dirt!! Drug use! Abortions! Nude photos! Sex tapes from vindictive ex-boyfriends! Whatever you can dig up! And then use it to nail that b—h and shut her the-f–k-up! She’s gonna find that getting raped on Harvey’s casting couch is nothing compared to what WE are gonna do to her! And tell those NEW YORK TIMES’ reporters we’re going to cut off their heads and bury ’em in Central Park if they don’t lay off Harvey!!! *
*”YOU GOT IT??!!”
Okay, that’s just a parody, and a little extreme, but you get my point.
LMAO. That’s hilarious, Jack. Thanks for the good laugh.
Dr. Schneider keeps confusing the opposition with facts.