Just when you thought Democrats couldn’t find a way to be more irrelevant and tacky and immature.
Ed Morrisey:
Old and busted: Judging adults from their high-school yearbooks. New hotness: Judging adults by their elementary-school craft projects. Trump adviser Stephen Miller gets remembered by his third-grade teacher, Nikki Fiske, in a Hollywood Reporter article that might prove just how desperate some editors are for content these days.
Twenty-five years ago, we discover, Stephen Miller was eight years old and did eight-year-old things…
Writes this teacher about a child 25 years ago.
Do you remember that character in Peanuts, the one called Pig Pen, with the dust cloud and crumbs flying all around him? That was Stephen Miller at 8. I was always trying to get him to clean up his desk — he always had stuff mashed up in there. He was a strange dude. I remember he would take a bottle of glue — we didn’t have glue sticks in those days — and he would pour the glue on his arm, let it dry, peel it off and then eat it.
This is his third grade teacher, Nikki Fiske, from Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District recounting what should be confidential information about a presidential advisor and speechwriter.
Ms. Fiske should be ashamed of herself, and the parents of her students past and present should be demanding to know the policies of the school and whether Ms. Fiske will be publicly humiliating their children, too. Shame on the Hollywood Reporter most of all for giving Fiske a platform for this pointless and heartless drivel. Maybe Fiske doesn’t know any better, but they certainly do. When journalists wonder why their readers don’t trust them, they can look to this as one of many, many examples.
From now own, how about we just measure people by the work they do as adults? Or do we next need to start interviewing day-care workers and fellow enrollees when vetting people for public service?