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When even Joe Scarborough is calling you out for fear mongering, you've got a problem.
From Think Progress:
Earlier today, ThinkProgress noted that conservatives are freaking out over President Obama’s upcoming speech to schoolchildren about “persisting and succeeding in school,” claiming that it is actually aimed at political indoctrination. On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, host Joe Scarborough ripped into the hyperventilating conservatives. “Seriously, why don’t we want the president of the United States, any president of the United States, delivering the message to kids: work hard, stay in school, succeed,” said Scarborough, adding, “get your ratings if you want, you’re just screwing your political party.”
Tomorrow after Joe reads his message points he'll be singing a different tune, just like Alberto did!
At least no terrorists attacked us while he was speaking to the kids.
republicanism is a mental illness!
But I really doubt it.
Lies and Fear work.
Scarborough shows me that he is not a complete wingnut, although it has been some time since I have seen and sense of rationality come from him.
I wonder what triggers these episodes of sanity?
Maybe because of Beck losing all of his sponsors?
I'm just guessing
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Is it raining frogs outside?!?
NOBODY 2012
Joe says "it's just asinine"! JOE SCARBOROUGH says this. Repugs, are you listening???
but, didn't Dubya and other presidents (Reagan?) make speeches that were 'beamed' into classrooms or at least provided on paper - to be discussed???
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
The GOP realizes that the "scary black man in the White House" refrain has legs with the American people and will use it all the way until the mid-term elections. The GOP has already proven to be a party without morals, why should anybody, anywhere expect them to have a conscience?
The one good thing that can come out of this is that many non-whites see this obvious racism and (hopefully) will remember this on Election Day.
With the numbers of non-whites growing as a percentage of the voting population (and the aging white population dying off) it's a wonder the neocons can't see this and aren't marketing themselves as anything but screaming racists.
They're not conservatives, they're regressives.
The public health system needs to find the vectors for the rapid transmission of this communication disease. How does it infect millions in a matter of hours? Is it borne electronically or is print transmission also a threat. Why does it drive its victims foaming at the mouth mad? How does it continue to mutate rapidly enough to thwart all measures to inoculate against it? Will washing our hands help protect against its spread?
They will never old enough quick enough to vote for him.
I started watching MSNBC mid-2006, and they had a fairly reasonable, Conservative host named Joe Scarborough that had no problem holding the Republican Party's feet to the fire. What ever happened to that guy?
It's so nice when republican fools call republican fools scum bags...
Even a 3-card Monte dealer will let a sap win once in awhile. All the better for the sap to double down on the next bet.
Joe gives us one once in a awhile just to keep us coming back. He did that on his SCarbourough Country show and worked into this gig replacing Imus.
I don't fall for it anymore. He's for torture. He sucks. Plus, he somehow make Mika into a pod person. She sits next to him like an abused spouse.
Give us our Mika back, you scoundrel!!!
... dealer lets the mark win to build their confidence.
It's that the game is a con from top to bottom, start to finish, and you can't even count on other people at the table not being part of the con.
For too long the president was trying to appease the crazy racists who hate him. Now that he sees that they literally are going to keep their children home from school the day he delivers his speech---as though he is planning to talk to them about porn or something, maybe just maybe he'll see they truly don't like him.
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So fear-mongering is bad NOW?
Face it, Joe - you're a scum-sucking ex-Congresscritter who is happy to play the false equivalency game. Republicans have revealed themselves as ethically, morally, and intellectually bankrupt, and you're trying to win points with the public.
F U C K Y O U.
She could speak up and set him straight on any given day. But she keeps mum. She really is an insult to all thinking women.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Oh my gosh I thought I was the only one that felt that way about Mika B. She certainly does not represent thinking women at all, she is weak and when she does happen to have a position she allows Joe to push her around and she wilts it is most sickening
You'd think she'd stand up to him and call him on his bullshit.
Cause that's all the guy says, is bullshit.
One brief moment of clarity does not cement his credibility.
More like silly putty.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
I could not have said it any better - Joe is a real piece of work
From a GOPer Prez.
OK Kids, Don't stay in school. We don't want to pay for your edumacation. We're gonna need more unskilled workers when we kick out all of them ferners.
Don't help anyone, not even old ladies. That way they'll die sooner and we won't have to take care of them when they get sick.
Forget about working.period. you ain't gonna need that one.
And we won't be helping you either,(ya lazy fucktards).
But we want you to succeed, join the Republican party. And all will be beautiful.
But if you don't, we're gonna make life rough for ya.
(Brought to you by your friendly GOP representatives)
(Donations of 1000 dollars or more will get you somewhere. Just keep sending the cash and we'll keep yer taxes low) ~~..~~
What is your conceptual, continuity?
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Did Joe jump shark?
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
not me he didn't. I'd bite his appendage off if he did. grrrrrrrrr.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
"WHAT" is Obama gonna brainwash your kid into doing? By the time the school has brainwashed them into forgetting their goals, and their desires for success, nothing Obama can say will get them over that indoctrination.
So....again....What is Obama gonna brainwash your kid into doing?
Nancy and Ronald666WilsonReagan brainwashed the entire republican party to just say...."no"....to everything.
This was about speaking in PUBLIC SCHOOLS!
Fuckem, lettum take their kids to a private school if they don't like it.
That is the CHOICE!
What is your conceptual, continuity?
That's the whole shebang.
I think it's part of their continuing attempts at public vouchers for education, by claiming their kids are being indoctrinated.
The problem with vouchers is you're only transferring the problems of the public schools to the private schools who hadn't had to deal with them in the past.
And like colleges they'll dumb down their curriculum, since no one wants the rep of being the school that flunks out the most students. And they'll choose children of alumni first, jocks second, and everyone else competes for the crumbs that are left.
And like ray gunn's infamous block grants to states, will be opening up the opportunity for massive fraud because of lack of accountability.
God I'm boring.
Oops...was that a school prayer?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Nope, ain't gonna go for that one.
That's why they call them private.
Unless, for every religious org, there's an alternate perspective.
For every political org in the school, there's an opposing side.
Teach reproductive rights and choices.
An up to date sex education course.
Evolution.
Then, maybe I'll think about it.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lau_ROXbog&fe...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
And equal funding for the Arts.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
That's exactly what I say. It is PUBLIC SCHOOL! What part of PUBLIC do they not understand. eff-fin idiots.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Well in England they call private schools public schools, because they're financed by publicly traded stocks.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
None of their zombie freakazoid brats go to public schools anyway. What the hell do they care?
Obama will be converting the little Xtian's into Muslims. . .
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Xetians?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
At least you called them out. My beer tonight? Flying Fish Oktoberfish. Delicious.
The parents keeping their kids at home that day would themselves have been school age when Reagan gave his address.
How's that for "indoctrination"?
http://the-billablog.blogspot.com/
Not like Obama sat in a classroom reading an upside down book for 13 minutes while the country was allegedly under attack and his presence there made the kids a collateral target too. The wingnuts have short memories.
Their body language says "Yes, yes, yes".
This?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJQp-q1Y1s
That might explain their smell.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
She's leaning into Joe's shoulder and how come we never see her left hand?
Enquiring minds are in the gutter alright!
Quick, switch to the under-the-table cam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atr4yRv27IQ
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
From the youtube comments:
Beaver's mom was a MILF who banged boots with Eddie?
Munster?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
My vote is yes.
Seriously, what other function does she serve on that panel? You could put a fucking blonde bobblehead doll next to The Scar that would accomplish the same as she contributes.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
hey kids...we are in a recession
so when you get home...go to mommys purse and pull out a dollar.....
... on a thread about Joe Scarborough. But, if it hasn't been mentioned already:
Joe, is there a dead intern in your office?
Corruption favors the wealthy.
...that the Republicans DON'T want children to stay in school and succeed? If kids start going to and graduating from college, corporations lose their cheap labor force.
Educated people tend to question authority more, think for themselves, and tend to be more liberal.
All these things would be terrible for an already shrinking Republican Party. They need to keep the masses uneducated, uninformed, and gullible.
One thing that's so sad about this is that the Republican leadership and their strategist know good and well this is a political stunt- stir up the masses of right wing knuckle dragging morons by scaring them into believing the president has some ulterior sinister motive. It's so cynical and dishonest it's truly unbelievable. Well, it works both ways, we can be sure that future presidents of ANY political persuasion will NOT be allowed to address school children. For that matter, we may need to ban any elected political official who identifies with a particular party from ever addressing school children. Is this really the road these people want to take? Let's really divide the country.
Tweety let the cat out of the bag last week. Scarborough thinks that since the field is clear, he might just have a shot.
If he could be some semi-rational alternative to Palin, Huckabee, et.al.....
The President to speak to encourage Goals, determination, success, just look to the REPUBLICAN LOSER PARTY (RNC) RACIST NAZI CHRISTIAN) that's right how many children are in the United States being encouraged to participate in the government process MILLIONS and the PARTY of NO in AFRAID very AFRAID, that is FREE THJOUGHT, that is CRITICAL THINKING, that is ACTING THINKING and TAKING ACTION with out PARTY CONTROL. These Nazi's' never ever give up. As was stated and UNANSWERED by the RACIST from FLORISA is he going to boycott and PROTEST every elected official talking to the children of Americas Future. Notice typical RNC (RACIST NAZI CHRISTIAN) reply do not answer, talk around it DUH! I don't recall.
It's like KISSING BABIES. IT'S what politicians do.
http://www.dailykostv.com/w/002099/
On eve of 1992 campaign, Bush 41 pitches education plan in televised classroom speech
Posted Sep 3, 2009, 11:26 AM PT by Jed Lewison • First broadcast: Oct 1, 1991
On October 1, 1991, George H. W. Bush pitches his education plan in a speech broadcast to school classrooms nationwide:
And there was Ronald Reagan:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909030020
Conservative media take note: Reagan preached tax cut gospel to America’s students
September 03, 2009 1:09 pm ET by Matt Gertz
Before that "POLITICAL VISIT BY A PRESIDENT".... THERE WAS REAGAN: The RR Library says:
Public Progams
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library sponsors school programs and public events throughout the year, such as 4th of July, Presidents' Day and Colonial America.
For Educators
Lesson plans, curriculum guides and educator workshop materials including the Great Communicator Files and Picturing the Presidency: President Reagan and the Cold War.
Education Workshops
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library offers educational workshops for teachers and students on the Great Communicator Files, Picturing the Presidency, and From the Source, an archives workshop.
To be perfectly fair, President Clinton did it too. Here's an example:
U.S. Newswire
Article: Transcript of Clinton Remarks to Glen Forest Elementary Community
U.S. Newswire ; October 31, 1998 ; 700+ words ... U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a transcript of remarks by President Clinton today to the Glen Forest Elementary School community: Glen Forest Elementary School Falls Church, Virginia 10:45 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Good morning. First ...
In fact if you Google the two terms President and Classrooms, you get presidents from all over the world visiting classrooms.
Obama's indoctrination speech to schools results in many children now claiming: "Communism is the best!!"
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