You have to be kidding? Now they are attacking education.
So the latest meme in wingnut-ville is Obama’s stay-in-school speech = indoctrination = Hitler’s youth = what ever other negative imagery they can heap upon the Obama administration’s actions. Seriously, wtf?
According to Media Matters, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sent a letter to schools on August 26th that described the focus of Obama’s upcoming September 8th speech to kids on education as “the importance of education and persisting and succeeding in school.” Sounds docile enough, right? I mean, pretty much every adult and family member tells kids the same exact thing during the school years!
But, if you expected no one to pick up on this mundane sounding speech, you’d be wrong. No such thing as rational thought from the likes of Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, and other conservative commentators.
Beck on his radio show presented this as more proof that Obama is indoctrinating our youth:
Gang, you have a system that is wildly, wildly out of control, and they are capturing your kids. As [special adviser for green jobs] Van Jones himself has said, the earlier we get the kids, the earlier we make this adjustment with the youth, the easier this transition is going to be. Stand guard America. Your republic is under attack.
And there are ton more in the Media Matters article linked above, as well as this more recent post.
So what’s their “call to arms” on this issue?
To encourage parents to let their children skip school that day.
From Pamela Geller, contributor at Newsmax.com, on her blog:
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.
Since when is getting an education politics? Oh yeah, wait, if these kids actually complete college and get an education, they’d be less likely to believe this wacko B.S. – that’s got to be the reason, right?
(And, as before, there are many more examples in both articles linked above.)
These wingnuts hate Obama. It’s going to be a long four (or more) years. Seriously.
