This bit of hypocrisy shouldn’t surprise anyone:
A Texas school which refused to air President Barack Obama’s live classroom address is planning to bus students to see the president.
Did school officials reverse course after realizing Obama’s speech wasn’t political, as conservatives had claimed?
Nope. They’re sending fifth graders to see another president: former President George W. Bush, and his wife, Laura. Bush is speaking alongside several Dallas Cowboys players and prominent Texas business leaders.
The people who pushed to censor President Obama’s speech, and who habitually call him a Communist or Socialist (and who call the public option "communism") are not only the same ones who approve of Bush and Reagan speaking to our kids, they (or their parents) were running around in the 1960s calling Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a Commie, and holding up signs at anti-civil-rights protests that read "RACE MIXING IS COMMUNISM".
Oh, you say, that was forty-plus years ago! Surely nobody exists today who believes that?!
Why, yes they do, and as Lean Left points out, they write for "respectable" conservative magazines like the National Review, and emit (as Lisa Schiffren did back in 2008) things like this concerning President Obama’s white mother and black father:
… Political correctness was invented precisely to prevent the mainstream liberal media from persuing the questions which might arise about how Senator Obama’s mother, from Kansas, came to marry an African graduate student. Love? Sure, why not? But what else was going on around them that made it feasible? Before readers level cheap accusations of racism — let’s recall that the very question of interracial marriage only became a big issue later in the 1960s. The notion of a large group of mixed race Americans became an issue during and after the Vietnam War. Even the civil-rights movement kept this culturally explosive matter at arm’s distance.
It was, of course, an explicit tactic of the Communist party to stir up discontent among American blacks, with an eye toward using them as the leading edge of the revolution.
Bear this in mind whenever you see somebody like Glenn Beck — the man who was the front operator for the oil-lobbyist-funded campaign to snuff African-American environmentalist Van Jones — spouting off about Obama and Communism. Or when you see somebody like Michael Barone try to pretend that birthers – people who refuse to admit that Obama is a US citizen and thus eligible to be president – are a harmless minority in the Republican Party, when in fact they are a majority of Republicans, including elected ones.
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Rewriting it a bit, aren’t they?
Wasn’t it invented to keep liberals from calling out conservatives on their BS? That seems to have been the main use for political correctness, in my memory.
The argument unravels at the first mention of the mythical “mainstream liberal media” straw man.
It was possible at that time only because it happened in Honolulu, which has a long history of tolerance for interracial relationship. When I was a middle school student, my best friend was a black student. I’m caucasian. We were both haoles (even though I was born there!).
Nobody worried about that stuff. I had a tough adjusting to the racial attitudes of the Central Valley of California when my parents moved to Bakersfield a couple of years later.
I went to graduate school in Kansas in the late 70s, early 80s. Interracial couples were barely tolerated there, 20 years later. It couldn’t have happened in Kansas in the 1960s.
Exactly. What other explanation can you come up with to explain how 50 advertisers have pulled ads from a show and the personality doesn’t get the ax. Or how the MSM can knowingly spew misinformation on a daily basis with no consequence.
PW – historical intellectual honesty, is not for me, but for thee, duh, you silly librul!
The fact that you were able to spell “intellectual” proves that you are just another ivory tower elitist. Whatsa matter, home schoolin’ not good enough for ya?
“Give to everyone who asks from you.” –Jesus.
Problem is they didn’t pull their ads from the network, so no real loss of revenue.
Is this verbatim? “persuing?” Not only is her understanding of the phrase “political correctness” far off the mark, she can’t even spell a simple 6th grade word.
Besides, (1), nobody had to “stir up” American blacks over injustice – laughable idea, and
(2) One reason so many Americans, black and white, joined the Communist Party in the 20’s and early 30’s was that the Party was the only institution in the country avowedly in favor of civil rights for black people, and actively working for them.
When one group is alone working for your people, that’s a powerful draw. It could have been counteracted simply by some other group, like, say, a US political party, taking up the issues.
Ignorant twits.
btw – link is broken or something – anyway, I couldn’t get page to load.
Isn’t political indoctrination or teaching race discrimination to school children by their teachers against the law?
I didn’t know that. What does it say for the corporate owners? They cry about Olberman, can you imagine what they would do if we had a limpballs equivalent?
OK, you caught me out. You win!
[fumbles about for some absinthe…and some Yeats]
The school my children attend in Central California was NOT allowed to watch the presidential address yesterday because the principal decided against it. My children came home asking me if the principal hated the POTUS. We had to have the talk about politics. My children are 8.
They claim Ed Schultz is our Limpballs equivalent. Not even close, though.
Yeah, boy, that demonstrates how choosing not to show it was the neutral, non-partisan thing to do.
Glad to hear you’re raising intelligent young’uns.
That too. But they’ll never admit that the media aren’t liberal.
Haven’t you heard that stuff is bad for you? Probably ought to avoid the absinthe too.
Heading out, have a splendid evening.
Please tell me it wasn’t the Bakersfield City School District…
Good night, Ratfood.
We had at least one school district here in Nevada choose the “opt-in” method (only those with written parental permission could watch the speech).
And now they’re going to the “Well, Democrats investigated when Bush gave his speech in 1991.” You know, ignoring the fact that no prominent Democratic lawmaker ever went on TV and told parents to keep their kids home from school that day.
Geebus, no contest. I could do much better.
Clovis Unified School District
‘Night RF! Dang wish I had more compatible thread times with you, you nut! Sleep well….
Pheeewwwwww.
I am soooo pissed that the trigger is Obama’s weasel words on the ‘Public Option’… I wanted to hear how robust it would be… WTF…!!! 8-(
Btw, Aloha Ya’ll from Keck Observatory…!
If the whole of Texas doesn’t have the fricken cojones to secede, can they at least break a chunk off with all the loonies to live in some sort of No Man’s Land slash conservolibertarian paradise between Dallas and the Rio Grande? Then they won’t have to worry about a Kenyan Communist president and we won’t have to worry about batshit crazy people ruining our public discourse.
Obviously the Civil War was a huge mistake. We should have just let them secede and deal with the slave rebellions on their own. Thanks a lot, Lincoln.
How are things atop Mauna Kea?
And are you looking at anything cool through the world’s largest binoculars?
After Van Gogh died from the effects of absinthe. It was wormwood that caused it. France outlawed this drink and the locals developed Pastis or Pernod.
It is a lighter anise flavored rockgut hard liquor
Keck II’s dome is open but,the sun’s still up so no real observing happening for a bit…!
Obama was great tonite, but, I didn’t like what he was saying… However, I did like the phrase… “…the term Pre-Existing Condition will be a thing of the past…” That was about it tho….! 8-(
Tained Obama love upstairs…
Well, the onliest thing he could say that would make me happy would have been all the good stuff about the moral imperatives involved and followed it with, “And therefore, pass HR 676 and send it to my desk.”
Dallas wasn’t this bad when I left in May. I feel like this is blowback from the WH Triangulation strategy.
Apparently the demagogues have removed the taboo from racism (couched as big scary “socialism”). The representatives are even role modeling the bad behavior.
The Frankenstein mob has clearly taken on it’s own life, and this is not going to end well.
I hope these state education boards do something about this. Clearly they are not capable of making critical decisions in order to impart the agreed upon enlightened values of our society to our children of whom they are entrusted.
communism? you mean democrat fascist islamo-communist nazism with socialist and homosexual characteristics, right? ;-)
Thank you! Yes, it’s an odd experience to visit the Civil Rights Museum in Montgomery, AL, read the press clippings from those days, and recognize the EXACT SAME talking points were in use fifty years ago. I recently created my first YouTube video examining the lineage of the rhetoric we saw in August town hall protests; the GOP has effectively raised the spirit of Jim Crow from the dead.
If anyone wonders where the knuckle-draggers get their “inspiration” for their rasict p.o.v.’s, here’s a hint: Gone With the Wind and Birth of A Nation — and, no, I’m not making that up.
I’m white, and was born and raised in the Jim Crow South of the 1950s, and we were taught that the WORST thing in the world, was whites and blacks having sex together — it “diluted” us pure, white folks. Next, on the ladder of racial “atrosities,” was listening to Elvis Presley — who was condemned as a communist! tool, out to subvert all the “good” white American teenagers and turn us into n-ger-loving socialist slaves.
GWTW and BofAN elaborated and reinforced this mindset, that black men were only interested in impregnating white women — and which, by extention, would lead to the end of the white race — and black women were only good for maids and street walkers.
Unfortunately, many, many places in the South still hold and believe these warped ideas. The weepublican Party is evidence of this.