Where will the transgenders go? Today's news for February 23rd

CNN:

Trump administration withdraws federal protections for transgender students

The Trump administration on Wednesday night withdrew Obama-era protections for transgender students in public schools that let them use bathrooms and facilities corresponding with their gender identity.

The announcement is a significant victory for opponents of the Obama administration's guidelines who believe the federal government never should have gotten involved in the issue.

Civil rights groups, meanwhile, denounced the withdrawal as a politically motivated attack that will endanger transgender children and sow confusion over the federal government's role in enforcing civil rights.

Last May, the departments of Education and Justice issued joint guidance directing schools to let transgender students use facilities that correspond with their gender identity. The "Dear Colleague" letter, addressed to school districts and colleges that receive federal funding, was based on the Obama administration's interpretation of Title IX, the federal law that bans sex discrimination in schools, to include gender identity.

There may come a point in the future where our culture doesn't place so much value in sexual identity. However, in an age where pedophilia is one of our biggest concerns, how do you justify allowing grown men dressed as women into bathrooms with little girls?

If ever you needed a reason why the federal government should not be involved in public education, this issue certainly proves why.

In other news...

Grabien News:

BRZEZINSKI: ‘OUR JOB’ IS TO CONTROL ‘EXACTLY WHAT PEOPLE THINK’

Controlling "exactly what people think" is the job of the media, MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski boldly declared Wednesday morning.

While discussing President Trump's entreaties to the American people to remain skeptical of the press, Bzezinski worried that if the economy turns south, Americans may end up trusting him over the media... 

SCARBOROUGH: "Exactly. That is exactly what I hear. What Yamiche said is what I hear from all the Trump supporters that I talk to who were Trump voters and are still Trump supporters. They go, 'Yeah you guys are going crazy. He's doing -- what are you so surprised about? He is doing exactly what he said he is going to do.'"
BRZEZINSKI: "Well, I think that the dangerous, you know, edges here are that he is trying to undermine the media and trying to make up his own facts. And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that, that is our job." 

Don't you love it when media people accidentally speak the truth? Or at least what they consider the truth to be?

If ever you wonder how somebody as scary as Trump got elected president, just take a look at this statement, and remember how common this idea is on the Left. A bad president can be controlled (see Obama's 8 years for an example), but a bad ideology cannot.

Speaking of the Left...

Zero Hedge:

Is James O'Keefe About To Smoke CNN? Tells Hannity He's Set To Release 

"Hundreds of Hours" Of Newsroom Footage "Wikileaks Style"

James O'Keefe of Project Veritas is set to unleash holy hell Thursday on #FakeNews network CNN. Well, he didn't exactly say it was CNN, but it was heavily implied. Apparently the network has a mole... 

...Yesterday, O'Keefe was interviewed on Sean Hannity's radio show where he revealed that a major network has been "stung"

O'Keefe: In the next 48 hours, Project Veritas, like Wikileaks, will be releasing hundreds of hours of tape from within the establishment media. Our next target is in fact, the media.
Hannity: How long have you been working on this?
O'Keefe: We've had people on the inside come to us. Just like Julian Assange has people come to him, we've had people, sources come to us and give us information, and we're going to be releasing it "Wikileaks Style" this w

Later in the same interview;

Hannity: Can you give us a hint what organizations are going to be impacted by this?
O'Keefe: It's one that Trump has really been talking about, you can probably use your imagination.
Hannity: So, it's CNN...

Fortunately, CNN gave us the final details:

CNN:

Conservative provocateur targets CNN with secret recordings

O'Keefe said in a telephone interview with CNN on Wednesday that he has "a few hundred hours" of "secretly recorded material" from inside the network. "We're calling it CNN Leaks," he said, drawing inspiration from WikiLeaks' document dumps.

He said "part one" would be published Thursday at about 10 a.m. ET. "This is all legally recorded information," he said, declining to be more specific.

Thus ended the objectivity of this "news" article. the rest is blatant vitriol:

O'Keefe, who uses undercover stings to trap his targets, has a reputation for shady tactics and exaggerated statements.

Some of his so-called exposés have relied on misleading editing techniques. And an incident in 2010 landed him in legal trouble. After he was arrested at Senator Mary Landrieu's office, O'Keefe pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for entering federal property under false pretenses. He was sentenced to three years of probation, plus community service and a fine.

Given his track record, many consider O'Keefe discredited, and not a serious journalist.

In the phone interview on Wednesday, he said that characterization is "very false and very inappropriate."

At least they let him have a few words in his own defense.

O'Keefe has done some unethical things, including his questionable editing on an NPR investigation video. But he has also revealed some things which the Left didn't like, such as illegal practices at ACORN, and unethical practices at Planned Parenthood.

Like any other news source, O'Keefe has to be viewed with a discriminating eye. But when he does things right, his exposés can be eye-opening.