Media Matters: RW Advocates Truancy To Keep Kids From Hearing Pres. Obama's Stay In School Speech

The right wing is reacting to President Obama's stay in school speech by encouraging truancy. The right wing is reaching increasinly frightening levels of craziness.

http://mediamatters.org/research/200909020012

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Conservatives: "Keep your kids home" from "brainwashing"

Pamela Geller: "Keep Your Kids Home from School."

In a September 1 post on her blog, Newsmax.com contributor Pamela Geller encouraged parents to keep their kids home because the "fascist in chief" will "brainwash" their children. From her blog post:

The fascist in chief is taking his special brand of brainwashing to the classroom. Keep your kids home. I think this man is a threat to our basic unalienable rights. I don't want him indoctrinating my children. Seriously.

Ask your school what their participation is in this leftist indoctrination outrage. Keep politics out of the classroom. Keep communists and their propagandists away from small children.

Bryan Fischer: "Parents: Opt-out of Obama speech?"

American Family Association radio host and conservative activist Bryan Fischer wrote in a September 1 column that Obama's speech "is likely to be an exercise in nation-wide indoctrination ... The capacity for mischief here is enormous. The president will have moldable minds, being led by enraptured teacher-acolytes, at his disposal. What better time to urge them to tell their folks to support health care reform, or his cap and trade taxapalooza?" Fischer later suggested that parents should opt their children out of the speech:

Unless we get public assurances from the White House that the president won't address health care or global warming or the homosexual agenda (under the color of "human rights for people different than us") this might be a great time for parents to exercise their opt-out authority and give their students a biography of George Washington to read while the President turns the minds of an entire generation to mush.

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education. My parents were staunch Democrats, but I was taught to respect the president. I wonder if these people know what they are doing to their children.

We detested Bush. Except for his appearances before congress, I ignored his attempts to give speeches mostly because his grammar, pronunciation and lack of speaking ability were embarrassing. But, I would never have told my children not to listen to his speeches at school. Fortunately, my children were out of college by 2000. But still.

When my oldest daughter was in school in a German-speaking country in Europe, President Reagan spoke at Bitburg, Germany. I strongly objected to his giving a speech in that location because of its ties to Hitler's Germany and the message it sent about WWII and the NAZIs. My daughter was told about the speech at school and heard parts of it. I used the opportunity to discuss WWII with her.

If people don't like Obama, they should listen to his speech and discuss it rationally with their children. To prohibit them from hearing it is stupid. Obama has children of his own. He is not going to try to brainwash anyone.

Since Obama is telling the kids to study hard and stay in school, what are they saying?

HUGH MORANS!

public schools on that date. I'm thinking most of the folks who will act on this piece of advice are already homeschooling. Negligable effect?

sounds like most of the right-wing media and their followers.

This is how it's going to be for 4 long years, folks. Every single thing Obama does, whether it's speaking to schoolchildren about staying in school or putting mustard on a hamburger, will be turned into a right-wing-wacko screamfest about socialism, fascism, communism, terrorism, brainwashing, and anything else they can think of that sounds bad to them.

It is simply stunning to watch as America's least educated, least informed, and least intelligent citizens, a minority of about 28%, continue to completely, totally dominate the political "discourse" in this god-forsaken country. We have talked for months about "death panels" that don't exist. We have talked for months about a birth certificate that does exist. How do these things help America move forward?

In my 59 short years, I have watched America go from a great country to a right-wing hellhole. My observation is that the worst of it came in with that awful Reagan. The Me Decade, Greed Is Good, Government is a dirty word, remember? Other countries have their problems, but how many of them have problems because they have allowed themselves to be controlled and dominated by right-wing idiots and, yes, assholes?

I weep for the future.

If President Obama gave a speech about not running around with scissors, the right wing would start running around drunk with live chain saws.

I don't even know her anymore. She's become a RW fundamentalist whack-job ever since she married into a family of them. She sends snippy little emails to me girlfriend asking how she could possible live with a horrible man like me because I won't live by the word of God. All kinds of bullshit. Is there a way to legally disown a family member?

Perhaps she should just home-school them to get them ready for the great theocracy. They will need skills like mopping and sweeping, and cleaning the homes of rich CEO's.

If their children were to hear it, the kids would notice that it was a sane and rational person talking to them. The parents are afraid of their children finding out that the president is a reasonable human being.

Is that President Obama will be speaking to children on the value of a good education.

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good health care and a healthy diet. Listen SCE if they receive a decent education, a healthy diet and good health care they will no longer be sheeple.
They must be dumber than Michelle Bachman or Sarah Palin - continuity must be preserved.

Ignorance rules - how dare you try to change the gawd ordained order of things.

Fourgive. :rofl:


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I worry this is just going to give a pass for teachers to talk about their politics and I have no idea what those are.

What if the teacher decides to give an "opposing" view?


note:obviously teachers don't have to tell their political views to us parents or employers