Ethics

Dunbar Tries to Backpeddle

By Ed Brayton

Cynthia Dunbar, the nutball on the Texas State Board of Education who wrote an idiotic screed about Barack Obama at the Christian Worldview Network last week, is now scrambling to backpeddle from the things she said. The Ft. Worth Star-Telegram reports:

Cynthia Dunbar's phone hasn't stopped ringing since the presidential election, but the questions being asked of the State Board of Education representative have nothing to do with textbooks or curriculum.

Dunbar, of Richmond in Fort Bend County, posted a column titled "Freedoms Will Be At Risk Under President Obama," on the Christian Worldview Network Web site two days before the election.

The column questioned whether Obama is a U.S. citizen as well as whether his presidency might bring on a terrorist attack "by those with whom Obama truly sympathizes" and suspension of rights under martial law. It has since been pulled from the site.

"When I wrote this article, I wrote it as a private citizen," Dunbar said Wednesday. "I did not use it as a bully pulpit."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on November 18, 2008 (boomark / email).