Late last week, the right-wing propaganda media mill went full red alert when Libs of TikTok informed them that Shane Brent Murnan – a principal at John Glenn Elementary in the maligned Western Heights School District – not only moonlights as a Drag Queen named Shantel Mandalay, but was arrested on child porn charges over 20 years ago.
Once he found out about the news, Oklahoma State School Superintendent Ryan Walters – the guy who certified Murnan/Mandalay’s teaching credentials – did a couple of backflips, ran out to his SUV, and filled it with some sort of hazy fume. He then filmed a video about it.
Instead of examining or explaining how and why a person with a child pornography arrest on his record rose through the ranks of Oklahoma’s education system to become an elementary school principal, Ryan stayed true to brand and did a grandstanding routine on made-up anti-trans culture war issues.