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Tue Jul 29, 2025, 07:53 PM Tuesday

Maddow Blog-Oklahoma schools' chief faces investigation over adult content seen during board meeting

Ryan Walters was already controversial, but alleged images of naked women on his office television during a board meeting have made matters vastly worse.

Another religious fraud demanded bibles be placed in all classrooms in Oklahoma … while he watched porn during an online meeting.

Oklahoma schools’ chief faces investigation over adult content seen during board meeting www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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But now the radical activist is facing a different kind of problem. NBC News reported:

A sheriff’s office in Oklahoma is investigating an incident during a state Board of Education meeting last week that reportedly involved images of naked women on the state school superintendent’s office television. The images were seen during the board’s executive session, held in Superintendent Ryan Walters’ office, The Oklahoman newspaper of Oklahoma City reported, citing members Ryan Deatherage and Becky Carson, who attended the meeting.


....Indeed, Walters isn’t exactly benefiting from an outpouring of support from his fellow GOP officials. Two leading Republicans in the Legislature, including Senate President Pro Tem Lonnie Paxton, issued a statement late last week on a separate investigation into the matter.

This is a bizarre and troubling situation that raises serious questions about the events and what took place during yesterday’s executive session at the Oklahoma State Board of Education meeting,” Paxton said. Board members’ accounts, he added, “paint a strange, unsettling scene that demands clarity and transparency.”

State House Speaker Kyle Hilbert, who’s also a Republican, called the allegations “serious” and said that “an expeditious third-party review is warranted.”.....

Waters has called an Oklahoma teachers' union a “terrorist organization.” He’s partnered with a far-right propaganda outlet, bringing its materials into classrooms. He pushed a social studies curriculum guidance that directed educators to push pro-Trump conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election.

At one point last fall, as my MSNBC colleague Ja’han Jones noted, Waters even wanted to require schools to show children a video of him praying for Donald Trump — though the state attorney general’s office said that couldn’t happen.

It’s against this backdrop that the radical official is suddenly facing a new and unusual kind of mess. Watch this space.
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Maddow Blog-Oklahoma schools' chief faces investigation over adult content seen during board meeting (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Tuesday OP
An unusual kind of mess? Seems like it's all too common with the holier than thou types. tanyev Tuesday #1
Today Ryan has accused Governor Stitt of "putting the board members up to it." Beartracks Tuesday #2
Wait, now I'm confused. mwmisses4289 Tuesday #4
Porn, perverts and pedophiles...it's the Republican way! LetMyPeopleVote Tuesday #3
The main reason the Oklahoma gop is mwmisses4289 Tuesday #5

Beartracks

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2. Today Ryan has accused Governor Stitt of "putting the board members up to it."
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 08:13 PM
Tuesday

He says those board members should resign in disgrace. Sounds like projection to me.

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mwmisses4289

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4. Wait, now I'm confused.
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 08:50 PM
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Yesterday he claimed it was the media's fault that said naughty movie was on his in office t.v./computer screen/jumbotron, and today it's Gov. Stitt put these BOE members up to it.
Is his next going to be to fall back on that oh so popular gop politician canard of blaming one of his staff?

mwmisses4289

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5. The main reason the Oklahoma gop is
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 08:53 PM
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clutching their pearls and falling onto their fainting couches isn't that he was watching porn, it's that he got caught watching porn. Basically, he said the quiet part out loud.

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