We Don’t Need No Indoctrination
Via Michelle Malkin (and many others; HT to an e-mailer):
President Obama told a student report(er) last month that he would be making an address to schoolchildren on September 8.
And, unless he somehow in the next week acquires some of the “judgment to lead” that he promised to bring to the White House — something that has been notably absent since January 20 – he will indeed do that:
Here’s how the President described the speech in a recent interview with 11 year-old reporter Damon Weaver yesterday: “On Sept. 8, when young people across the country will have just started or are about to go back to school, I’m going to be making a big speech to young people all across the country about the importance of education, the importance of staying in school, how we want to improve our education system, and why it’s so important for the country. And so I hope everybody tunes in.”
The second bolded portion of the excerpt blows away any presumption of innocence. If carried out, it would represent pure politicking to a captive, impressionable audience, in more than a few cases (like this one) under immense pressure to conform. The first bolded item is the sort of insufferable, punk arrogance we’ve grown to know and despise.
Obama’s appearance is accompanied by a complete lesson propaganda plan.
Three reactions — The immediate one is to echo what David William Hedrick said in late August at about 0:35 of this YouTube video at a Washington State town hall:
Stay away from my kids!
The second reaction is to take a few liberties with Pink Floyd:
We don’t need no indoctrination,
We don’t need no thought control,
No forced intrusion into our classrooms,
Obama, leave our kids alone …..
Hey, Obama! Leave our kids alone!
All in all you’re just a guy who’s ruining it all.
All in all you’re just a guy who’s ruining it all.
My third reaction is a question: How absolutely nuts would the Left have gone if George W. Bush had tried this (even immediately after 9/11)?
Oh, I forgot, 9/11 is now National Service Adult Brainwashing Day.
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UPDATE, Sept. 8, 12:15 a.m.: Michelle Malkin, as usual, nails it –
It’s not the speech, it’s the subtext.
It’s the radical activism of the White House Teaching Fellows who designed the education guides tied to Obama’s speech.
It’s the overzealousness of public school educators who haveturned classrooms into Obama campaign offices.
It’s the influence of the left-wing social justice crusaders of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge on Team Obama.
It’s the Left’s embrace of Obama Chicago pal Bill Ayers’ pedagogical philosophy of“education as the motor-force of revolution.”
It’s the activist tradition of government schools using students as junior lobbyists to pressure legislators for higher education spending, pro-illegal immigration protests, gay marriage, environmental propaganda, and anti-war causes.
Obama is trying to destroy our country piece by piece, and the people are too stupid, or lazy, to see that the puzzle has nearly been completed. Thanks for trying MM, but we are all doomed to servitude or the gulag through totalitarianism. :(
Comment by Not Again — September 1, 2009 @ 7:18 pm
We must make a concerted effort to reduce government intrusion into every facet of our lives. As David Hedrick said so well, “Leave my kids alone!” The commitment must be to find a candidate (locally and/or nationally) whose values and principles mirror yours and get involved in his/her election (or reelection) campaign. The ballot box is our only hope.
Comment by Cindy Koz — September 2, 2009 @ 6:06 pm
If Bush had done this, we’d still be fighting WWIII against the very celebrity low-lifes in this video.
Hypocritical yahoos (and I mean that in the original “yahoo” sense).
Comment by Rose — September 2, 2009 @ 9:55 pm
these comments are the stuff of morons. listen to something other than the crazy Glen Beck before you accuse this president of doing all the things you were fine with the last president doing. Talk about ripping up the Constitution check out 8 years of Bush Cheney
Comment by mike — September 3, 2009 @ 8:12 am
I wonder if the subject of mandatory/voluntary community service of middle schoolers will come up. Of course, Obama is the perfect role model for our children to know that community organizing is the road to success. The irony is that Obama is now the establishment, so I guess the ultimate outcome of social activism is complete submission to your self-righteous leader.
Comment by Michael — September 3, 2009 @ 8:17 am
Odd he would choose September 8th that’s the same day my kids will be home sick. What a coincidence.
Comment by largebill — September 3, 2009 @ 11:19 am
#4, examples, please — with credible links. Also, really nice maturity you’ve got there. Oh, and ignorance too — I didn’t like a lot of what Bush did or tried to do or didn’t try hard enough to do.
#6, I guess it will be a case of redefined blue flu.
Comment by TBlumer — September 3, 2009 @ 1:17 pm
Mike, you are the moron. You are one of the sheep that is allowing the destruction of a great country. The communist Jones is only now being vetted and only because the people have demanded it and have put a spot light on this racist destroyer. bo will only fire him because he has been found out. This is scary!
Comment by Not Again — September 3, 2009 @ 7:37 pm
Why would obama try to influence our children? What is his plan for us, and the country that he serves?
Comment by Not Again — September 3, 2009 @ 8:55 pm
Joe Scarborough says you’re screwing the Party:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0909/Scarborough_lashes_out_at_conservative_radio.html?showall
Comment by Al on Main — September 3, 2009 @ 11:10 pm
#10, zzzzz ….. Come back when you can refer to someone I care about.
Comment by TBlumer — September 3, 2009 @ 11:59 pm
You called it, Tom. Pure propaganda highlighting his insufferable punk arrogance:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/
And no Republican president would ever get away with such a thing:
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/111488c.htm
Comment by Al on Main — September 7, 2009 @ 3:11 pm
#12, I’ll give Obama a chance to speak to anyone AFTER we know who his successor is, as is the case in what you cite about Reagan.
Your comparison is thus a complete POS (Propaganda, Obama-Sized).
And regardless of what he does or doesn’t say tomorrow, he is setting a precedent that our Dear Leader, whoever he happens to be, including himself with at least three more chances, has the right to speak to the nation’s schoolkids about anything at any time. No, he doesn’t. Obama, leave our kids alone.
Come back when you have an argument.
Comment by TBlumer — September 7, 2009 @ 6:40 pm
#11 —
Number of times the word “I” appears: about 43 (including contractions)
Number of times “me” appears: about 4
Number of times “my” appears: about 11
That’s about 58 self references in about 2400 words.
Number of times these words appear in the Reagan link (before the Q&A began, in about 2300 words): about 24 (including contractions), 5, and 6.
Additionally, most of Reagan’s I-words were not talking about his own life. Obama regales us with his.
Thanks for, as you say, “highlighting his insufferable punk arrogance.” You did good work. :–>
By the way, you owe me a retraction and an apology for wasting my time with an assertion you had to know was false:
HERE
Your ability to continue commenting here depends on my receiving both.
Comment by TBlumer — September 7, 2009 @ 8:40 pm