Baby's First Propaganda: Tea Party Coloring Books Help You Start ‘Em Young

[TexasTowelie]

Do you possess a small child? Do you wish your small child would color things to develop hand-eye coordination and patience or whatever it is that kids are supposed to learn from coloring? So maybe you’ll buy the little tot that brain coloring book or a Barbie book or something.

Unless you’re a weird demagogue of a parent, in which case you’ll buy little Johnnie or Joanie the Tea Party Coloring Book, because it is never too young to start indoctrinating. And if Wayne Bell, the publisher of these childhood classics, has his way, you’ll soon have your schools ramming this down kids throats as well.

“Our products are very accurate and very pure. We want to be included in the daily lives of children across America,” says Bell, who tells Daily RFT he’s petitioning the Missouri Department of Education to include his books as standard texts in official school curricula.

It’s not just Missouri that Bell is trying to convince: He’s sent boxes of coloring books to all 50 states’ Departments of Education, the U.S. Department of Education and, according to a press release, the ACLU, the Anti-Defamation League, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other civil rights groups.

Are there generally coloring books in official school curricula? We could look that up, but nah.

We’d like to say that we don’t really think there’s a shot that these books would make it into any schools, but then we remember that there is Texas and they’ve probably already commissioned a hagiographic George W. Bush book that is just 48 pages of his bulging crotch in full airman gear and the “Mission Accomplished” banner, so we shouldn’t be blithe about this possibility.

Read more at http://wonkette.com/550167/tea-party-coloring-books-help-you-start-em-young#MwMTWorCtg9sq4MY.99

[TDale313]

1. That is just so wrong on every level.

[struggle4progress]

2. I'd recommend "Dinosaurs with Jobs" instead

http://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-With-Jobs-celebrating-old-school/dp/1492849286/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y

[DetlefK]

3. "Today's debate topic: Why Obama is a Kenyan and/or Muslim."

[doxydad]

4. JOKE? NOPE!

The Tea-Hadist down the street, yes, the SAME one who has 10 gallon buckets of grain delivered because 'The end is near'...the same one who has no money in any financial institution, but plenty of guns 'n ammo....actually showed me this for his 4 year old camo clad grandson.