Tiffany Justice and Tina Deskovich, co-founders of Moms for Liberty and former Florida school commissioners, told “60 Minutes” host Scott Pelley in October 2023 to strengthen parental rights and protect schools. He spoke about organizations and their efforts to protect children from exposure to pornography. Struggling with school and classroom grooming efforts.
The interview was eventually packaged into a hit piece and released on Sunday. When it aired, the MFL duo realized something was missing.
Parents’ rights groups say key details and comments they allegedly shared with Perry and the producers – insights that could have justified their efforts in the court of public opinion – were omitted from the final product. It pointed out.
“60 Minutes” removes obscene books from special program
according to Parent Parenthood, its co-founders provided “60 Minutes” with an extensive list of books reported in schools. ”[n]as well as local libraries and retail stores,” contains obscene, indecent, or pornographic material.
Among the titles they allegedly brought to the attention of Perry and his producers was Juno Dawson’s This Book is Gay. It contains Next entry: “Blow With: Oral sex is having another man’s penis in your mouth, or really putting your penis inside him. When it comes to blowjobs, there are strict rules. There’s only one thing: Take care of your teeth. Lips and tongue, yes.”; Teeth, no. ”
Parents’ rights groups have previously issued warnings about American schools, but cited several other damning books that 60 Minutes didn’t bother to mention, including Erica Moen and Matthew Nolan’s 『So let’s talk about it” includes a detailed diagram on how to self-stimulate in the section titled “Things to Try.”
MFL I have written on X, “Is exposing underage children to these sexual images and texts by people who are not their parents constitute grooming? It is certainly not educational. So why? Did @60 minutes censor this content from tonight’s production?
Justice wrote, “We read graphic sexual material on camera to @ScottPelley from books in public school libraries across the country. Do you think @60 Minutes will air that footage? We I have obtained the transcript and video of the interview.” ”
“60 Minutes” ignored the details of these titles and MFL’s specific concerns about them, but the show Featured a supposedly “banned” title Tackling anti-Semitism in imperial Russia. However, according to CBS News, own admissionThe title was not actually banned, but was held up for review due to parental concerns about its adult subject matter.
Revisionist history and imaginary injunctions
Critics suggested that the special was misleading from the beginning.When introducing this topic, Perry said“Moms was founded as a response to COVID-19 mandates.”
Deskovich referred to a transcript of the conversation and said he made it clear to the “60 Minutes” host that this was not true.
“Moms, at first, they were like, well, yeah. [M]oms began as a movement to protest mask restrictions in schools due to the coronavirus. So how did you get the book? ” Perry said. according to In a transcript shared online by the interviewee.
“First of all, I want to say that we did not start protesting against masks. Moms for Liberty’s mission is to unite parents at all levels of government to protect parental rights,” Deskovich said. , educate and empower.” . ”
Deskovich said that during the pandemic, she and her co-founders began to see parents “coming to school board meetings and speaking more than ever before in our position,” Deskovich said, according to records. But they didn’t really know what they were doing.” They were panicking and said they would report the school board to the county commission, which has no authority in the state of Florida. They didn’t understand processes, policies, how to change policies and how to be effective. . ”
“And at the end of our term, we formed Moms for Liberty to enable parents in any situation to effectively influence their government on matters for their children,” Deskovic added. Ta.
“60 Minutes” is apparently providing an alternate history for the group, as well as misrepresenting the facts surrounding the book’s banning. that special and in it Corresponding social media communications.
For the special “60 Minutes” tweeted“Last year, more than 3,000 books were banned in U.S. schools. This increase was inspired in part by the conservative group Moms for Liberty. ”
“This is an important step forward for students,” said Jay Green, Ph.D., senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Education Policy Center. was suggested This claim is “completely false, even if one accepts the ban’s loose definition of ‘no longer available in school libraries.'”
“60 Minutes” appears to be regurgitating debunked stories advanced Created by an organization called PEN America.
Green, Max Eden, Madison Marino I got it. Last year’s report said it reviewed PEN’s 2022 banned book list of 2,532 books. After determining that 1,868 books were actually in school districts with public card catalogs, the researchers found that “Books listed as available in libraries in districts that PEN announced they had banned were The number of books was 1,378, or 74%.” Of the 1,261 books labeled by PEN as “banned — under investigation,” 1,015 books, or 80%, were in school libraries. ”
The report found that only 113 “among more than 10,000 school districts successfully completed the challenge in a calendar year,” excluding 203 in Texas and 174 in Florida.
According to the report, the 10 most “actually banned” books include “sexual content, if not outright pornography, that few reasonable people would argue should be in school libraries.” The documents were found to contain sexually explicit texts.
Blaze News reached out to “60 Minutes” for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.
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