Ready to skip school?
If there is anybody out there who still doesn't believe that the conservative media will attack President Obama no matter what he does, consider this: Right-wingers are telling children to skip school as a protest against Obama's encouragement of students to stay in school.
I know, I know. You think I'm kidding. Or exaggerating. That I'm caricaturing the conservatives' position in order to make them look ridiculous.
Wrong. They defy caricature. There's nothing you can imagine that is too crazy for these people to say. They'll claim Barack Obama was secretly born in Kenya (his birth announcements in Hawaiian newspapers were just one part of an elaborate, decades-long conspiracy involving Kenyans, the media, Hawaii's Republican governor, and the Stonecutters). They'll say he has a diabolical plan to create government "death panels" to kill off the old and the young. They'll claim he is building a secret private army (consisting of -- I swear I am not making this up -- AmeriCorps and Peace Corps volunteers) that is "just as strong" as the U.S. military so that he can "seize power" and create a "thugocracy."
And when President Obama delivers the least-controversial message you could possibly imagine -- "Stay in school" -- they call it "indoctrination" and an attempt to "get 'em while they're young," warning, "They are capturing your kids" and "your republic is under attack."
That's right: "Your republic is under attack," and Barack Obama is "capturing your kids." By urging them to stay in school and ... learn. As Education Secretary Arne Duncan explained in a letter to schools:
In a recent interview with student reporter, Damon Weaver, President Obama announced that on September 8 -- the first day of school for many children across America -- he will deliver a national address directly to students on the importance of education. The President will challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning. He will also call for a shared responsibility and commitment on the part of students, parents and educators to ensure that every child in every school receives the best education possible so they can compete in the global economy for good jobs and live rewarding and productive lives as American citizens.
Well, clearly, no red-blooded American would stand idly by as the president of the United States urges children to work hard in school. That's something Adolf Hitler would do! (Oops -- I keep forgetting: Conservatives can't seem to come to a consensus about whether Hitler was bad.)So Glenn Beck and his fellow tinfoil hat-wearers sprang into action. Beck went off on his "indoctrination" rant, warning of secret private armies (no, he isn't worried about Blackwater -- it's the thought of English majors signing up to help teach people how to read that keeps him up at night).
WorldNetDaily said Obama's planned speech "raises the specter of the Civilian National Security Force" and promoted comparisons to Hitler's youth brigade. Mark Steyn said the speech is part of a "cult of personality," though he did admit it isn't on the scale of Saddam Hussein's.
NewsBusters' Mark Finkelstein alerted his followers to the striking similarity between President Obama's plan to encourage students to work hard and Chairman Mao's leadership of China. Because, you know, one day you're urging kids to get good grades, and the next you're ordering mass executions. Duh.
(Incidentally, while I know of no evidence Chairman Mao spoke to China's schoolchildren via television, we know then-President George H. W. Bush did so in 1991. Somehow, Poppy Bush's pep talk didn't result in the rise of a Hitler Youth-style paramilitary organization.)
Some conservative media didn't simply complain about Obama's dastardly efforts to promote hard work and learning among America's schoolchildren. No, they came up with a solution: Children should stay home from school.
Radio host Tammy Bruce asked "TownHall Patriots" to help organize "PASS Day Picnics" -- that's "Parentally Approved Skip School Day," for the uninitiated. In a blog post under a close-up photo her hand holding a gun, Bruce added that "Urkel" -- that's her pet name for Obama; get it? -- is going to "make[] a grab for your kids" and that he is "setting us on fire."
Newsmax writer Pam Geller agreed that the last place kids should be next Tuesday is school, urging parents to keep their kids home lest they be "brainwash[ed]" by the "fascist in chief."
What's the lesson in all of this? That we shouldn't ever take anything the conservative media say seriously? Well, sure. That's a start. But -- and maybe it's just me -- I think there's a real opportunity here. If the conservative media show such knee-jerk opposition to anything Barack Obama says that they'll urge schoolchildren to skip class so they don't have to hear the president poison their minds with a bunch of nonsense about studying and working hard, Obama should use it to his advantage. Just think how vigorously Fox News will promote health care reform -- if President Obama comes out against it.
--Jamison Foser
Seriously. What a bunch of fucking morons.
I'm staying out of this thread because my head will explode if anyone defends this bullshit.
I'll defend it!
so one radio host and a "NewsMax?" reporter that no one ever heard of said this and suddenly it's all right-wingers everywhere saying it?
Well yaaaaah, if everyone gets an education there won't be as many kids willing to die in a pickle suit when we movie in on Iran for teh oils, duh.
Also, the radio right-wingers here had a big fit over it, going on these tirades about how the colleges are working for Obama, brainwashing the young and innocent into reforming to "there ways" (the left way). It sounds like they should've been joking but they seriously meant it. It was super stuff.
they can all go nuts about it and whatnot, (who cares and what would you expect about that,) but it's just two nobodies that are the only ones saying to stay out of school, right? Maybe I skimmed it too much and missed something.
I'm not going to school!!
This is a revolution against the revolucion!
Fuck Obama! I'm not going to school either!
I'm going to hair school, actually. I thought I'd announce that in here because...why not?
You missed something.
I lied about staying out of this thread. My head is still intact, though.
I need to call my dad because I'm curious about his take on this...he's the biggest Cheney cheering neo con I know, but he will tell you that a good education is where it's at.
You missed something.
okay, i went back and read it pretty carefully and I'm still not seeing where anyone else was calling for them to not go to school.
It's not flat out said, it's real hushy hush. You know how they are..
You missed something.
okay, i went back and read it pretty carefully and I'm still not seeing where anyone else was calling for them to not go to school.
OK, sorry, you're right, it's not specifically stated in this one article that anyone other than those personalities were calling for people to keep their kids out of school.
But if you google it and see the thousands of results, you'll see how on board a lot of people are with this.
Personally, I don't teach my kids to stick their heads in the sand when they might hear something the President says that doesn't gel with my own political opinions. Why would I teach them that? These people are ridiculous.
And really, what it all boils down to, is all you ever hear out of this new generation of "conservatives" is an assload of WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
Retards need to be shot. Not mentally handicapped people who have a deficiency from birth.
Retards.
Need to die.
Or get smart. Coz I'm tired of having to defend my countries reputation because of fuckwad asswipes like this.
Seriously, it makes me so angry. They bitch and moan all day about outsourcing, but want our kids to get a poor education to make a political statement. No wonder our country is ranked so low in education. We should be first.
Fuck. I skipped school today. I hope nobody gets the wrong idea.
this is communication.
Why is that?
Why is that?
Because we saved your asses from Vietnam in DubyaDubya Two!
but then we go back to how retarded we are by spelling out letters/acronyms and continue to write sentences like this one that really have no beginning or end or proper grammar whatsoever
oh yeah and we cancel reading rainbow...it's because he's a left winger trying to indoctrinate kids through books and educational television.
next thing you know kids are gonna become strippers instead of enrolling to elementary school because their parents never got to watch sesame street and didn't learn their numbers in spanish so they got screwed over in being able to work in which the mexicans have taken over the work force !!!!
next thing you know kids are gonna become strippers instead of enrolling to elementary school because their parents never got to watch sesame street and didn't learn their numbers in spanish so they got screwed over in being able to work in which the mexicans have taken over the work force !!!!
The next thing you know they'll start marketing a stripper doll to kids to get them to think it's an okay career choice! Madness!
you fuckin' neo-con basterd!
next thing you know kids are gonna become strippers instead of enrolling to elementary school because their parents never got to watch sesame street and didn't learn their numbers in spanish so they got screwed over in being able to work in which the mexicans have taken over the work force !!!!
The next thing you know they'll start marketing a stripper doll to kids to get them to think it's an okay career choice! Madness!
Hoho! It's funny because they already do!
you fuckin' neo-con basterd!
I awoke this morning feeling distinctly different. My reflexes are faster. My muscles stronger. My hair thinner. My internet IQ scores are higher. My 'which of the seven dwarves are you?' quiz results have changed. I am no longer Dopey. I am Doc. I am empowered. I am an American. I feel an unstoppable force coursing through my veins.
It's all thanks to PASS day. (I retroactively got my mother's approval.)
please help me.
this is communication.
next thing you know miley cyrus will be on a strippers pole!!!
I just want to say... I hope the republican party dies. They are choking themselves! And the true republicans are getting a bad rap because of, as they say "the SILENT majority' being all dumb and crazy. I don't see how they can fix this.
Obama deserves it for being such a pussy and trying to cater to these nutbags for the past 6 months. He keeps bending over backwards (just like Clinton did) to try and placate the right - to the point of letting Congress destroy any chance at health care reform - and everytime he does they just get a little bit crazier and more hateful than they were before (just like they did with Clinton, imagine that) because YOU CAN'T REASON WITH PSYCHOS.
RUN-ON SENTENCES TO THE XTREME!!!!!!!!!!1111
It's not easy having a good time.
Even smiling makes my face ache.
Why is that?
America, despite what everyone around the world seems to think, and despite our own failings, truly has the potential to live up to the idea of being the greatest in the world. People come here for the 'American Dream', and while that is not as prevalent anymore, the drive that people have to make it, should be the same drive that is used to educate our children. The same drive to actually get things done, rather than sit on our asses and argue about which color is better, blue or red.
It's not about entitlement, if that's how it came across, it's because we have the potential to do amazingly great things. Far greater than we've done so far at such a level of mediocrity.
Every time I skipped government school, I had a generally more educational and entertaining day. I'm all for skipping school, just for the right reasons. ('Right' reasons, lolz...no pun intended).
I gotta say it seems the 'left' is loving the hatred of Obama. Not that I'm defending the statements of the 'right', but when Bush went after people who said bad things about him, it was done in secret (service). Now it's on the news!
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
Fucking morons.