Originally published at: TV Nudity Scandal, Impeachment Calls, a Meeting No-Show: Troubles Pile Up for Oklahoma’s MAGA Schools Chief - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The 19th. In the weeks since he was accused of showing explicit content on his office television, Oklahoma schools chief Ryan Walters has canceled a State Board of Education meeting and skipped a subsequent one on…
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Walters is not the type of asshole you want in charge of your child’s education.
He’s in it for one reason and one reason only. Himself.
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An investigation into the July incident remains ongoing. However, Oklahoma House Speaker Kyle Hilbert said in August that his preliminary findings suggested that neither Walters nor the board members had acted improperly. Nudity did appear on Walters’ office TV, Hilbert said, but only because of a “bizarre accident involving a newly installed television defaulting to a pre-programmed channel.”
Because TV manufacturers always make porn the default channel on their sets. 
And if you believe that one, I have a bridge to sell ya.
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Nudity did appear on Walters’ office TV, Hilbert said, but only because of a “bizarre accident involving a newly installed television defaulting to a pre-programmed channel.”
Boy, I hate when that happens.
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Even if that was true, wouldn’t Walters know that the TV in his office defaulted to a “Nudity” channel? Wouldn’t he, upon encountering nudity in his Christian office, change the channel? Bizarre indeed.
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A Good Christian Man can’t be sure it’s truly nudity on the first glance. He needs to spend some time to make sure that what he’s seeing is truly jiggly naughty bits. Really examine it closely. It’s the only way to be sure. /s
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Perhaps he was searching for The Mark Of The Beast. Thoroughness takes time.
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Who among us has not unintentionally played porn on our office television due to a “bizarre accident”?
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only because of a “bizarre accident involving a newly installed television defaulting to a pre-programmed channel.”
I’m considering whether to buy a new TV, and I will certainly ask the Best Buy salesperson which brands are likely to do this /s
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As a retired OK teacher, I can tell you that he has been flinging feces from the moment he was elected. After the accusations were made initially, he had a pity party of a press conference in which he bemoaned the fact that he had to explain the accusations to his children (I guess “you know that Daddy has his ‘special shows’ that he only watches when Mommy is gone” wasn’t enough). The fact that every OK teacher who has childen had needed to explain to their family why the State Superintendent kept calling them “terrorists” and “groomers” didn’t, for some reason, come up.
So far, no one has explained why he needed to have a television program on at all during a BOE meeting, since one would assume that everone in the room would be paying attention to the meeting rather than what was on television.
He unilaterally decreed that teachers from New York and California would have to pass a “woke” test before they were allowed to take a $50,000 pay cut (if you go by average salaries) and teach in Oklahoma. No one saw fit to point out that teachers construct tests as part of the job, they know how to prepare for tests, and frankly, it isn’t all that difficult to figure out how to answer the questions on the test. The test itself was quickly posted online, and those who took it discovered that it was impossible to fail, since wrong answers circled you back to the question until you got the answer that was deemed “correct”. You were also prompted to “make a donation” of $100 at the end. I’m not sure, but I bet only one question mattered, and that one involved sending them credit card info.
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But those are sooo boooring. Need to have some stimulating entertainment 
to keep the Superintendent awake.
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Yet another MAGA degenerate.
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The State Board of Education is scheduled to have its next regular meeting September 25.
Before they meet, however, the board must first decide whether they will be using the Julian or Gregorian calendar.
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It was a gift from a preacher, maybe.?
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I dunno. It seems OK would be better off if he skips all meetings. The Board could actually do something good maybe.
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Sounds like Hegspeth should be worried they’ve found his replacement…
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Getting dispatches from OK and the other ruby-red states, it sounds like they have a persistent Taliban-majority there. They will live and die with the MAGA cult, and there’s nothing we can do for them.
And I don’t recall the last time a MAGA pol ever lost office for merely throwing their taxpayers’ money into a bonfire. That seems to be a feature, not a bug. The MAGAs are unresponsive to that complaint.
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This raging, deeply disturbed m-effer needs to go. Now.
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That’s not where the mark is supposed to be.
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Wait just a minute!
I thought the whole point was that being woke was bad. Now you’re tellin’ me that the Supe needs to stay that way?
I’m so goll-darned confused.
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