Conservative media take a strong stand against ... learning?!?

[steven johnson]

The loony GNOP is out there inventing paranoid buzzwords and distorting the English language to mirror their transmogrified view of the world. They see gay-prochoice-antigun-socialists everywhere.

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September 03, 2009 7:56 am ET
If there is anybody out there who still doesn't believe that the conservative media will attack President Obama no matter what he does, consider this: Right-wingers are telling children to skip school as a protest against Obama's encouragement of students to stay in school.

I know, I know. You think I'm kidding. Or exaggerating. That I'm caricaturing the conservatives' position in order to make them look ridiculous.

Wrong. They defy caricature. There's nothing you can imagine that is too crazy for these people to say. They'll claim Barack Obama was secretly born in Kenya (his birth announcements in Hawaiian newspapers were just one part of an elaborate, decades-long conspiracy involving Kenyans, the media, Hawaii's Republican governor, and the Stonecutters). They'll say he has a diabolical plan to create government "death panels" to kill off the old and the young. They'll claim he is building a secret private army (consisting of -- I swear I am not making this up -- AmeriCorps and Peace Corps volunteers) that is "just as strong" as the U.S. military so that he can "seize power" and create a "thugocracy."

And when President Obama delivers the least-controversial message you could possibly imagine -- "Stay in school" -- they call it "indoctrination" and an attempt to "get 'em while they're young," warning, "They are capturing your kids" and "your republic is under attack."

http://mediamatters.org/columns/200909030002">Conservative media take a strong stand against ... learning?!?

[Jennicut]

1. Well, its distracting them from sending loonies to town halls

As a soon to be teacher I want to wring their necks.

[dflprincess]

2. There's nothing the right wing fears more than an educated populace.

edited for typo

[Lagomorph]

3. AN educated populace.

Freeper! Plant! Fed!