Teabaggers are behind boycotting President's speech to kids

[DesertRat]

I was wondering why so many school districts (mine included) were offering "alternative activities" to watching President Obama's speech about education to children on Tuesday. It's an organized right wing effort:

The National Tea Party Coalition announces “Hall Pass on That,” the alternative to President Barack Obama’s September 8th address to school children across the nation.
“We are suggesting several action steps parents can take if they do not approve of their children participating in a partisan presentation conducted without their consent.”

(snip)

"The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition cannot afford to extend this administration the courtesy of any doubt when it comes to the education of our children and our schools are not the place to present one-sided agendas, especially without parental consent."

:eyes:

http://www.hallpassonthat.com/

[intheflow]

1. these people won't be happy until we forbid teaching anything.

All they want is their god-given right to choose ignorance, and then force that ignorance on everyone else.

[Historic NY]

2. Tell your district they should be thinking about alternative funds if the FED's refuse to fund them.

[grace0418]

3. The same people, I'm sure, who told anyone protesting Bush's policies to sit down and shut up.

Funny how suddenly protest is patriotic again for them. Except we were protesting against illegal wars and they don't even fucking understand what they're protesting because they are too fucking stupid.

[Phx_Dem]

4. Maybe they'll stand in a circle and

shoot each other with their assault rifles.

One can hope.

[cheapdate]

7. Something about this story stands out as especially infuriating...

vile, and loathsome. I can't figure out why it is that, of all the despicable spew that comes from the the tea baggers, for some reason this story about right-wing assholes taking an asinine stand against the President talking to school kids about the importance of good grades is particularly infuriating to me.

(no offense, but I wouldn't go so far as to suggest that death should come to them. It's too Ted Nugenty a sentiment.)

[Blue Gardener]

11. I agree

I have been extremely pissed off all day. I think I need to write an LTTE tomorrow.
And welcome to DU.

[DesertRat]

12. It reeks of racism to me.

:grr:

[bleever]

5. "...hostility towards the very tenants of our republic..."

I believe the word they were looking for was "tenets".

But hey: they're the edumacators.

[bleever]

6. And who proofread that final sentence?

"The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition cannot afford to extend this administration the courtesy of any doubt when it comes to the education of our children and our schools are not the place to present one-sided agendas, especially without parental consent."


"...the courtesy of any doubt..."? And these people want to pretend to present educational materials?

[Historic NY]

8. some teabag a--hole

[LynnTheDem]

9. "our schools are not the place to present one-sided agendas", unless it's a REPUBLICAN

president, of course.

Then it's ok.

[DesertRat]

10. Exactly!

:mad:

[KingFlorez]

13. I hope the security at schools that show the speech is going to be extra cautious

I honestly think these teabaggers are capable of doing anything against schools they crazily think are in on some secret agenda to indoctrinate children.

[Puzzler]

14. Now that's a surprise!

The tea-baggers' and the right's strategy is clear now:

Hysterically oppose Obama on every last little thing he does or says... nothing is to trivial, nothing too small to oppose (even oppose him on stuff he has never said or done). Then as the ever-eager "librul" media reports the faux "controversies", the significant middle-of-the-road, generally politically disinterested voters will think: "Gee, I dunno, where's there's smoke there's gotta be fire, right? Obama must really be a bad guy".

Mission accomplished... but only with the willing help of the "librul" media.

[Colobo]

15. Cavemen.