Texan Critic Of Obama's 'Indoctrination' Speech Backs Actual Indoctrination In Textbooks

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Texan Critic Of Obama's 'Indoctrination' Speech Backs Actual Indoctrination In Textbooks
Justin Elliott | September 7, 2009, 5:46PM


Conservatives have spent the last week whipping themselves into a frenzy over President Obama's speech tomorrow in which he will indoctrinate the nation's schoolchildren using the instruments of mass media.

As it turns out, Obama's speech will be pretty anodyne. But one vocal critic of Obama's plans, has long been involved in an effort to actually indoctrinate students -- through the state-sanctioned textbooks they study all year.

Meet David Bradley, Republican member of the Texas State Board of Education from Beaumont.

Bradley is "one of the ring leaders" of the GOP-controlled board's large and activist social conservative bloc, says Dan Quinn of the Texas Freedom Network, which describes itself as committed to fighting the religious right. And Bradley will undoubtedly vote for the skewed history textbook standards we told you about last week that focus on Reaganomics, Newt Gingrich, and Phyllis Schlafly, Quinn says. ... http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/texas_official_suggesting_kids_stay_home_for_obama.php

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1. So what else is new? I grew up being taught the white version of American history in the 50s & 60s

it's all propaganda.