Because, you know, the Republicans just want to preach 1) prayer 2) abstinence and 2) creationism...
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2009/09/03/03speech.h29.html?tkn=[S[F%2FucaQBHZXpUmtN0IgGsnLn%2BbVMeL5d3A
QuoteUpdated: September 4, 2009
Officials Move to Quell Furor Over Obama Speech
By Dakarai I. Aarons
Premium article access courtesy of Edweek.org.
The White House and federal education officials scrambled Thursday to reassure school leaders that President Barack Obama's national speech to schoolchildren next week will touch on important educational goals, despite criticism from some conservatives that the president is planning to use the speech to "indoctrinate" children with his political views.
"The president will challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning," the U.S. Department of Education said in an e-mail urging schools to participate in what it called a "historic moment," to be broadcast live Sept. 8 on C-SPAN and the White House's Web site.
But the planned 15- to 20-minute noontime speech—and, especially, a menu of classroom activities (for younger and older students) suggested by the White House in connection with it—continued to draw denunciations, leading some school officials to say they would let parents opt out of having their children watch.
Some districts in Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin have decided not to show the speech to students, citing the controversy and the already-packed schedule of what will be the first day of school for many.
So intense was the criticism that the White House Wednesday modified at least one recommended classroom activity, which had originally suggested that elementary-age students "write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president."
Among other suggested activities are having younger children create posters of students' goals and having older students write about people who exhibit personal responsibility, which will be a theme of Mr. Obama's speech. The full text of the speech will be posted online Monday at whitehouse.gov.
Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne minced no words in his criticism of the suggested curriculum.
"An important part of educating students is to teach them to read and listen critically. The White House materials call for a worshipful, rather than critical approach to this speech," Mr. Horne, a Republican said in a written statement.
"There is nothing in these White House materials about approaching the speech critically, or engaging in any critical thinking whatsoever, but only adopting a reverent approach to everything they are being told."
But Timothy Mitchell, the superintendent of the Chamberlain School District 7-1 in Chamberlain, S.D., said some teachers in his 950-student district were considering showing Mr. Obama's speech in the classroom—and that's fine with him.
"I think you have seen a lot of modern-day presidents during the first days of school going to address students," he said. "[Mr. Obama's] using technology to get a wider audience as leader of the free world to tell kids education is important. I think it is great coming from a leader telling that to kids."
Some parents, urged on by conservative bloggers, have said they will keep their children home from school on Tuesday.
But Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, said he's "certainly not going to advise anybody not to send their kids to school that day."
"Hearing the president speak is always a memorable moment," he said.
Mr. Perry, however, also said he understood where the criticism was coming from.
"Nobody seems to know what he's going to be talking about," he said. "Why didn't he spend more time talking to the local districts and superintendents, at least give them a heads-up about it?"
Presidential Precedent
Mr. Obama is not the first president to address schoolchildren directly—Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush made such speeches during their terms in office—nor is he the first to draw controversy.
The elder President Bush's 1991 speech set off a similar partisan war, with Democrats accusing the Republican of using children as political pawns and demanding that then-Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander—a Republican who is now a U.S. senator from Tennessee—explain why the Education Department spent more than $20,000 on the event. ("Democrats Question Use of E.D. Funds for Bush Address," October 9, 1991.)
The current controversy began online Tuesday afternoon after Florida GOP Chairman Jim Greer issued a press release headlined "Greer Condemns Obama's Attempt to Indoctrinate Students."
Mr. Greer said in the release: "As the father of four children, I am absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama's socialist ideology," and "I do not support using our children as tools to spread liberal propaganda."
By Wednesday afternoon, many bloggers were criticizing both the president's planned speech and the suggested classroom activities. Many local administrators were grappling with whether to show the speech, take part in the classroom activities, and cope with parental calls that children be allowed to opt out.
"I think it's really unfortunate that politics has been brought into this," White House Deputy Policy Director Heather Higginbottom said. "It's simply a plea to students to really take their learning seriously. Find out what they're good at. Set goals. And take the school year seriously."
The American Association of School Administrators has not issued formal guidance to its members on Mr. Obama's speech, but did communicate with all of its state-level directors to make sure they were aware of it, said spokeswoman Amy Vogt.
"The decision to air the president's speech will be a local decision, depending on individual schools' instructional demands/schedules, and our members are addressing this at the local level," she said in an e-mail Wednesday.
School leaders' responses vary.
Virginia and South Carolina, for example, have encouraged local school districts to make their own decisions on whether to let teachers show the speech.
In the 200,000-student Houston Independent School District, individual classroom teachers will decide whether to build a lesson around President Obama's speech. Teachers who do so will send home letters to parents saying students have the option to forgo the lesson and be given alternative work, said district spokesman Norm Uhl.
Such opting-out isn't unprecedented, he said, and he noted that the district has gotten calls from parents who are both supportive and not supportive of the choice.
"We had parents calling with concerns, and when parents are concerned about curriculum, just like with sex education, we like to give them a choice," Mr. Uhl said.
The 49,000-student Atlanta public school system has encouraged its teachers to show the president's address in their classes and incorporate it into social studies lessons.
Students and parents who have concerns will be free to opt out, just as students can opt out of saying the Pledge of Allegiance, said schools spokesman Keith Bromery.
"We routinely do not allow politicians during election times to come in the schools to promote themselves," he said. But Mr. Bromery also said: "This is not a campaign. This is the president addressing a segment of his population, pretty much like he does when he goes on television at 9 p.m. We don't see this in any way as being partisan or being part of the campaign."
Such an outbreak of anger about the president's speech is not surprising in the current polarized political climate, said Jeffrey Henig, a professor of political science and education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
"Most Americans, even most Republican Americans, would never have thought it was a concern for the president to talk directly to students," he said. "And they wouldn't have thought it was a concern to raise notions of civic concern and of community responsibility."
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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My kids will be hearing it in class. Our district is letting the parents know they can opt out, but they prefer them not to. The language in that PSA was...interesting, to say the least.
But still, the Reich-Wing "furor" is hilarious to me.
My wife said one of her superiors was absolutely flipping out about this. She heard him calling up the school his kid attends and threatened the principal if they showed the speech to the kiddos.
And oh, btw, Reagan addressed kids in school in 1988. But it's different when the Dear Leader of the Right does it. And I think Bush Sr. did something similar as well.
Uh, wasn't George Bush Jr famously reading "My Pet Goat" to some schoolchildren during a very important day in recent American history?
That's some major league scary indoctrination, right there.
It's such extreme LAIL, that I only mention it because it's made the EDUCATION journal circuit.
Barack Obama is the first president to address schoolchildren. Ever.
:lulz:
I for one will be livid if my child does not get to listen to the pres.
I had to sleep throughlisten to Bush1 and Reagan, it's his turn.
Florida, of course, is in an uproar about it. Women are crying. Crying, on the news.
There are not enough matches+gasoline to fix this state.
Quote from: Squid on September 06, 2009, 03:19:29 AM
Florida, of course, is in an uproar about it. Women are crying. Crying, on the news.
Remember when I said Bush's presidency was as funny as things could possibly get?
I was wrong. :lulz:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 06, 2009, 04:54:06 PM
Quote from: Squid on September 06, 2009, 03:19:29 AM
Florida, of course, is in an uproar about it. Women are crying. Crying, on the news.
Remember when I said Bush's presidency was as funny as things could possibly get?
I was wrong. :lulz:
QuoteBarack Obama is the first president to address schoolchildren. Ever.
You sure were wrong - Barak Obama is the only President EVAR and it is all HIS fault All of it
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 04, 2009, 07:46:55 PM
Barack Obama is the first president to address schoolchildren. Ever.
:lulz:
The left has never been in power before. And if they were they did a bad job and they were stealing money from you to build their solid gold hospitals.
Quote from: Squid on September 06, 2009, 03:19:29 AM
I for one will be livid if my child does not get to listen to the pres.
I had to sleep throughlisten to Bush1 and Reagan, it's his turn.
Florida, of course, is in an uproar about it. Women are crying. Crying, on the news.
There are not enough matches+gasoline to fix this state.
sorry squid I really don't understand that state
I tried... I really did....
:sad:
don't try.
it's no use.
I don't think the New Wave of Stupid is anything special to your state. It seems to be taking over the entire country. People are losing their damned minds because the President wants to deliver a generic "stay in school" message to students. I swear, I think a right-wing yahoo would assasinate President Obama at a Deli if he ordered the "wrong" sandwhich.
What I'm seeing here is that the right is far more crazy than the center. I can't recall people making this much of a fuss over little things like this during GWB's presidency, except to laugh at poor speaking skills.
Quote from: Kai on September 08, 2009, 12:35:52 PM
What I'm seeing here is that the right is far more crazy than the center. I can't recall people making this much of a fuss over little things like this during GWB's presidency, except to laugh at poor speaking skills.
And that's just it. That fucker took us to war in the wrong desert, he was viewed by many on the left to have stolen an election (some think two), he had Big Telecom bending over backwards to spy on us, all kinds of shit, and there wasn't all of the crazy shit being said about Bush. Is there even an angry left wing? If so where are they? Are they too busy yelling at their Starbuck's barista? What's up?
Quote from: Kai on September 08, 2009, 12:35:52 PM
What I'm seeing here is that the right is far more crazy than the center. I can't recall people making this much of a fuss over little things like this during GWB's presidency, except to laugh at poor speaking skills.
The left went right, and the right went insane.
I'm interested as to how all of this is going to play out. Something's gotta give, eventually.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on September 08, 2009, 01:18:03 PM
Quote from: Kai on September 08, 2009, 12:35:52 PM
What I'm seeing here is that the right is far more crazy than the center. I can't recall people making this much of a fuss over little things like this during GWB's presidency, except to laugh at poor speaking skills.
And that's just it. That fucker took us to war in the wrong desert, he was viewed by many on the left to have stolen an election (some think two), he had Big Telecom bending over backwards to spy on us, all kinds of shit, and there wasn't all of the crazy shit being said about Bush. Is there even an angry left wing? If so where are they? Are they too busy yelling at their Starbuck's barista? What's up?
They're too busy venting their anger via DailyKos and Glenn Greenwald's comments sections to do anything.
"Angry left wing"? It's more like WHINEY left wing.
Quote from: Havok on September 08, 2009, 02:18:57 PM
Something's gotta give, eventually.
If history is any indication, that something is going to be all of you.
Stay in school.
Everyone is special and has something to offer.
Protect kids from bullies.
It's ok to be different.
Uhh...I remember hearing that speech some years ago. I believe it was announced on a tv set made to look like an old brownstone and delivered by a gigantic yellow avian and his friends.
Does any of this sound familiar?
Quote from: Mangrove on September 08, 2009, 09:42:25 PM
Stay in school.
Everyone is special and has something to offer.
Protect kids from bullies.
It's ok to be different.
Uhh...I remember hearing that speech some years ago. I believe it was announced on a tv set made to look like an old brownstone and delivered by a gigantic yellow avian and his friends.
Does any of this sound familiar?
Yes! It sounds like THOSE COMMIE BASTARDS AT PBS! :tgrr:
:news:
BARACK OBAMA SEEKS ADVICE FROM GHOST OF JIM HENSON!!
PRESIDENT IN SOCIALIST PUPPET SCANDAL!
FIRST YOU'RE SHARING TOYS WITH THE KID NEXT DOOR AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, CAPITALISM HAS BEEN DISMANTLED AND REPLACED WITH A SOVIET REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE!!
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Ironically, FoxNews carried the whole speech. I was SHOCKED--SHOCKED I tell you.
There was a school district here in SD that held an emergency meeting this a.m. and refused to show it to the kids. Whereas in our district, the parents were bitching hardcore at our PTA meetings that the superintendent gave parents the CHOICE of opting out.
Quote from: Jenne on September 09, 2009, 04:12:16 AM
Ironically, FoxNews carried the whole speech. I was SHOCKED--SHOCKED I tell you.
There was a school district here in SD that held an emergency meeting this a.m. and refused to show it to the kids. Whereas in our district, the parents were bitching hardcore at our PTA meetings that the superintendent gave parents the CHOICE of opting out.
I don't remember being given the chance to "opt out" when Reagan addressed us when I was in school.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 09, 2009, 04:22:12 AM
Quote from: Jenne on September 09, 2009, 04:12:16 AM
Ironically, FoxNews carried the whole speech. I was SHOCKED--SHOCKED I tell you.
There was a school district here in SD that held an emergency meeting this a.m. and refused to show it to the kids. Whereas in our district, the parents were bitching hardcore at our PTA meetings that the superintendent gave parents the CHOICE of opting out.
I don't remember being given the chance to "opt out" when Reagan addressed us when I was in school.
Reagan was GOOD PEOPLE, Rog. He was IN DA MOVIES. Which made him non pareil and good for building strong teeth and bones.
Reagan was MILK FROM MAMA'S TITTIES!
/hyperbole schtick I heard as a kid about that old crank
Quote from: Jenne on September 09, 2009, 04:23:43 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 09, 2009, 04:22:12 AM
Quote from: Jenne on September 09, 2009, 04:12:16 AM
Ironically, FoxNews carried the whole speech. I was SHOCKED--SHOCKED I tell you.
There was a school district here in SD that held an emergency meeting this a.m. and refused to show it to the kids. Whereas in our district, the parents were bitching hardcore at our PTA meetings that the superintendent gave parents the CHOICE of opting out.
I don't remember being given the chance to "opt out" when Reagan addressed us when I was in school.
Reagan was GOOD PEOPLE, Rog. He was IN DA MOVIES. Which made him non pareil and good for building strong teeth and bones.
Reagan was MILK FROM MAMA'S TITTIES!
/hyperbole schtick I heard as a kid about that old crank
Well, what it really is, is the dems being too spineless to publicly laugh at GOP hysterics.
Not fucking kidding. The dems should just shoot their fucking selves, and spare us the frustration of watching them act like classic battered wives.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 08, 2009, 06:55:35 PM
Quote from: Havok on September 08, 2009, 02:18:57 PM
Something's gotta give, eventually.
If history is any indication, that something is going to be all of you.
That's the nice thing about Canada: we're not a very good target for nukes or other things like that. For just a little bit more fuel, you can bomb the US instead.
USA: Canada's meatshield since 1776.
Quote from: Havok on September 09, 2009, 04:54:23 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 08, 2009, 06:55:35 PM
Quote from: Havok on September 08, 2009, 02:18:57 PM
Something's gotta give, eventually.
If history is any indication, that something is going to be all of you.
That's the nice thing about Canada: we're not a very good target for nukes or other things like that. For just a little bit more fuel, you can bomb the US instead.
USA: Canada's meatshield since 1776.
Oops. I didn't know you were a Canuckistani.
Should I type slower or something?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 09, 2009, 04:59:39 AM
Quote from: Havok on September 09, 2009, 04:54:23 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 08, 2009, 06:55:35 PM
Quote from: Havok on September 08, 2009, 02:18:57 PM
Something's gotta give, eventually.
If history is any indication, that something is going to be all of you.
That's the nice thing about Canada: we're not a very good target for nukes or other things like that. For just a little bit more fuel, you can bomb the US instead.
USA: Canada's meatshield since 1776.
Oops. I didn't know you were a Canuckistani.
Should I type slower or something?
You might have to, I think most of the PD regulars are Americans.
Seriously you stupid coffee flinging minimum wage piece of crap. Do you know the difference between cappuccino and latte? Are you even trying? Did you drop out of school or something? I'm calling corporate.
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Quote from: fomenter on September 09, 2009, 02:01:01 AM
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oooooooooh. that made me sad.
i like jim henson
and my baristas.
BARRY NOBAMBA USED HIS SPEECH TO STRIKE A BLOW AGAINST FACEBOOK
[LINK] http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/09/obama_warns_students_about_pos.html
FACEBOOK: OWNED BY THE SAME GUY WHO INVENTED PAYPAL.
PAYPAL: A VENTURE CAPITALIST SCHEME, WHEREBY FUNDS CAN BE DEPOSITED AND TRANSFERRED ANYWAY IN THE WORLD, ALLOWING GLORIOUS CAPITALISTIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS TO DEPRIVE WOULD-BE REVOLUTIONARY COMMIE SOCIALIST FASCIST LIBERAL MUSLIM GOVERNMENTS OF STATE FUNDS, SHOULD THEY COME TO POWER VIA A "REVOLUTION", A POINT MADE CLEAR BY ITS FOUNDER.
OBAMA: OPENING FIRE ON FACEBOOK TO DEPRIVE IT OF POPULARITY, CAUSING THE COMPANY TO TANK, ALLOWING HIS COMMIE SOCIALIST FASCIST LIBERAL MUSLIM MINIONS ON WALL STREET TO BUY UP THE COMPANY AND THUS STEAL GLORIOUS CAPITALIST FREEDOM FIGHTERS OF THEIR MONEY.
Christ, it took me, like, 10 seconds to think of that. Why hasn't Adam Yoshida, Red State, Malkin's screeching monkeys or Wingnut Daily said something similar yet?
Quote from: Mangrove on September 08, 2009, 09:42:25 PM
Stay in school.
Everyone is special and has something to offer.
Protect kids from bullies.
It's ok to be different.
Uhh...I remember hearing that speech some years ago. I believe it was announced on a tv set made to look like an old brownstone and delivered by a gigantic yellow avian and his friends.
Does any of this sound familiar?
Yeah, I heard it was very non-political and the sort of thing kids should hear from their president. Whowuddathunk it would be this and not some commiefascistmooslim brainwashing session?
My kid's school didn't show it. Now Imma gonna find out who made that decision and why.
has anybody noticed that they have tons of conservative black commentators on Fox News these days?
the other night I saw this guy talking about how he objected to the speech
- not because there's anything wrong with it
but because he felt he had to make a token objection against Obama. He later recanted, saying that this speech actually reenforces a lot of conservative core values. But the name of the game is token opposition.
BRIANWASHING
/
:nigel:
I have a theory. Correct me if I'm wrong.
These people don't believe what they're saying. By these people I mean fox and Hannity, Rush, that Orly Taint bitch, Bachmann, you know, these guys http://www.reportercaps.com/Home_Fox/fox.htm.
I think they just do this shit for the paychecks.
Hear me out.
You know how there's always an opposition or adversary to every fucking thing there is? Jesus and the devil, black and white, negative and positive, dark and light, whatever.
Well these people are paid to be the adversary of the Obama administration. They take everything they hear and twist it into an argument (not a very good or valid one) and just throw it out there for the angry right who's pissed that the republican card house took a tumble.
They don't actually believe what they're saying, hell it doesn't even make sense, how can they. They just say it to get their paychecks. As long as some fool watches and shakes his/her cane at the tv, they get paid right?
I just refuse to believe (and this is the FLORIDIAN talking here) that these people are stupid enough to actually believe the crap they're telling people. I do believe, however, that people (like a typical floridian.. ehem my DAD) are stupid enough to believe what these people say, but I honestly think they spew this garbage and laugh all the way to the bank.
THEY JUST CAN'T BE THIS STUPID! THEY CAN'T!
I refuse to believe it.
Quote from: Squid on September 09, 2009, 03:59:16 PM
I have a theory. Correct me if I'm wrong.
These people don't believe what they're saying. By these people I mean fox and Hannity, Rush, that Orly Taint bitch, Bachmann, you know, these guys http://www.reportercaps.com/Home_Fox/fox.htm.
I think they just do this shit for the paychecks.
Hear me out.
You know how there's always an opposition or adversary to every fucking thing there is? Jesus and the devil, black and white, negative and positive, dark and light, whatever.
Well these people are paid to be the adversary of the Obama administration. They take everything they hear and twist it into an argument (not a very good or valid one) and just throw it out there for the angry right who's pissed that the republican card house took a tumble.
They don't actually believe what they're saying, hell it doesn't even make sense, how can they. They just say it to get their paychecks. As long as some fool watches and shakes his/her cane at the tv, they get paid right?
I just refuse to believe (and this is the FLORIDIAN talking here) that these people are stupid enough to actually believe the crap they're telling people. I do believe, however, that people (like a typical floridian.. ehem my DAD) are stupid enough to believe what these people say, but I honestly think they spew this garbage and laugh all the way to the bank.
THEY JUST CAN'T BE THIS STUPID! THEY CAN'T!
I refuse to believe it.
As sad as it is, people really
are this stupid. The truth hurts.
Also, I've always suspected that Satan is actually a willing agent of God. The two of them are pulling a good-cop bad-cop routine on the entire damn universe :argh!:
Quote from: Havok on September 09, 2009, 04:38:06 PM
As sad as it is, people really are this stupid. The truth hurts.
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Quote from: Havok on September 09, 2009, 05:16:28 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 09, 2009, 04:59:39 AM
Quote from: Havok on September 09, 2009, 04:54:23 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 08, 2009, 06:55:35 PM
Quote from: Havok on September 08, 2009, 02:18:57 PM
Something's gotta give, eventually.
If history is any indication, that something is going to be all of you.
That's the nice thing about Canada: we're not a very good target for nukes or other things like that. For just a little bit more fuel, you can bomb the US instead.
USA: Canada's meatshield since 1776.
Oops. I didn't know you were a Canuckistani.
Should I type slower or something?
You might have to, I think most of the PD regulars are Americans.
No, most of them are Eurotards. Like Canadians, they lack the glands and essential essenses to have a good time in a nation with a truly fucked up government, which is why they wuss out and go with governments that usually treat them like human beings instead of chattel. Sure, life is easier, but you'll never truly understand how to laugh until your guts bleed.
It builds character AND ulcers.
And then it blows up the character and ulcers, and gives out no-bid contracts to political cronies to rebuild them.
Quote from: Cramulus on September 09, 2009, 02:22:37 PM
has anybody noticed that they have tons of conservative black commentators on Fox News these days?
Yeah. :lulz:
It's like they're cloning Armstrong Williams.
Quote from: Squid on September 09, 2009, 03:59:16 PM
I have a theory. Correct me if I'm wrong.
These people don't believe what they're saying. By these people I mean fox and Hannity, Rush, that Orly Taint bitch, Bachmann, you know, these guys http://www.reportercaps.com/Home_Fox/fox.htm.
I think they just do this shit for the paychecks.
Hear me out.
You know how there's always an opposition or adversary to every fucking thing there is? Jesus and the devil, black and white, negative and positive, dark and light, whatever.
Well these people are paid to be the adversary of the Obama administration. They take everything they hear and twist it into an argument (not a very good or valid one) and just throw it out there for the angry right who's pissed that the republican card house took a tumble.
They don't actually believe what they're saying, hell it doesn't even make sense, how can they. They just say it to get their paychecks. As long as some fool watches and shakes his/her cane at the tv, they get paid right?
I just refuse to believe (and this is the FLORIDIAN talking here) that these people are stupid enough to actually believe the crap they're telling people. I do believe, however, that people (like a typical floridian.. ehem my DAD) are stupid enough to believe what these people say, but I honestly think they spew this garbage and laugh all the way to the bank.
THEY JUST CAN'T BE THIS STUPID! THEY CAN'T!
I refuse to believe it.
I was discussing a very similar idea with Step Mang #3 last night over dinner.
It seems that the conservatives are willing to say anything no matter how retarded just because they can. For instance I've seen '1.20.13' stickers on a couple of cars here. Well, when all the anti-Bush peoples had '1.20.09' stickers, the joke actually made sense because it was guaranteed, regardless of the election outcome, that he'd be going back to Texas. But '1.20.13' doesn't make any sense because the career of Barack Obama and his presidential successor are entirely unknown.
Around our neighbourhood, some enterprising individual made an aerosol stencil of the word 'Bush' and then appended it to stop signs around the locale. Within days of Obama getting in, someone added a 'Comrade Obama' sticker to one of our local stop signs. For added yuks, the 'C' of comrade was fashioned from a little hammer & sickle. So...umm...yeah....not very original or hilarious.
The one that did crack me up was the guy with the 'Ron Paul was right' sticker on his car. That caught my eye and made me laugh, but what sent me over the edge was his license plate: AYN RAND. (And just in case you were wondering, he was from Florida.)
What the conservatives are missing in their attempts at satire is that they're making gags out of things that Obama hasn't actually done. Whereas, many comics and comedy writers were kept busy 24/7 because of things Bush & co really did or said.
So Squid, you may have a point. Perhaps a lot of the response to a Democrat president is simply saying dumb shit, for it's own sake in order to get a pay check. I don't get the sense any of them are trying very hard. I mean, if you're going to rip on the guy, at least have some worthy, original material based on a something more substantial than 'nyah nyah na na nyah'.
Of course they don't believe it. I mean, this shit is ridiculous.
They're getting paid. And I bet they laugh at their listeners for eating that shit up, and they probably wonder how far they can push it.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 09, 2009, 09:23:41 PM
Of course they don't believe it. I mean, this shit is ridiculous.
They're getting paid. And I bet they laugh at their listeners for eating that shit up, and they probably wonder how far they can push it.
Like Glen Beck with 'Obama is a racist with a deeply seated hatred for white people' for instance?
The best is when they get CALLED on how idiotic they sound through newsclippage of their soundbites on the "funny shows." Colbert, Stewart and Maher seem to gather them like the nuts they are from under the most bountiful of trees and display then for all the world to see what crackheads are talking on the teevee these days.
*sniff* I am having severe Comedy Central Newz withdrawals.
Quote from: Mangrove on September 09, 2009, 09:26:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 09, 2009, 09:23:41 PM
Of course they don't believe it. I mean, this shit is ridiculous.
They're getting paid. And I bet they laugh at their listeners for eating that shit up, and they probably wonder how far they can push it.
Like Glen Beck with 'Obama is a racist with a deeply seated hatred for white people' for instance?
*Cha-ching!*
Quote from: Jenne on September 09, 2009, 09:33:40 PM
The best is when they get CALLED on how idiotic they sound through newsclippage of their soundbites on the "funny shows." Colbert, Stewart and Maher seem to gather them like the nuts they are from under the most bountiful of trees and display then for all the world to see what crackheads are talking on the teevee these days.
*sniff* I am having severe Comedy Central Newz withdrawals.
I think Bill O'Rielly is the one true believer.
AND Pat Buchanan.
Quote from: Jenne on September 09, 2009, 09:41:34 PM
AND Pat Buchanan.
Point. But he wasn't always just a pundit.
No, but now he's a matched set with sister Gaye, and he's where he belongs. With the other crackpot talking bobbleheads.
Quote from: Jenne on September 09, 2009, 09:43:41 PM
No, but now he's a matched set with sister Gaye, and he's where he belongs. With the other crackpot talking bobbleheads.
But you have to look back to his glory days, when he left a trail of slime everywhere he went, and Nixon and Reagan both admired him for the artfully tasteful way in which he cleaned their prostates with his tongue.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 09, 2009, 09:45:14 PM
Quote from: Jenne on September 09, 2009, 09:43:41 PM
No, but now he's a matched set with sister Gaye, and he's where he belongs. With the other crackpot talking bobbleheads.
But you have to look back to his glory days, when he left a trail of slime everywhere he went, and Nixon and Reagan both admired him for the artfully tasteful way in which he cleaned their prostates with his tongue.
:vom:~~> reaction besides :argh!: that I have to all things Buchanan.
The guy's a fucking parody of himself.