Foxnews.com, please define "captured." Or, why are patriotic school kids the enemy?
September 24, 2009 1:42 pm ET by Eric Boehlert
Check out this demented, train-wreck headline and sub-head:
Elementary School Students Reportedly Taught Songs Praising President Obama: Nearly 20 young children are captured in an online video as they sing songs that overflow with campaign slogans and praise for "Barack Hussein Obama," as they repeatedly chant the president's name and celebrate his accomplishments.
Yes, it's funny in a depressing kind of way if you simply remove Obama's name from the headline and read the hysterical report which sounds alarms because small American school children are singing the praise of the American president.
Hmm, I'm sorry, but wouldn't the pseudo-scandal be if they were singing the praise of another country's president? But in the loopy world or right-wing media, it's disgusting and disgraceful that kids today honor the President of the United States.
Welcome to Bizarro World, where patriotic school kids are now the enemy.
But back to this "captured" nonsense, which Foxnews.com uses in its headline in a desperate attempt to attach some drama to a story about kids singing nice things about the president. (Again, the angle is...what?) Captured. It has such a awesome, gotcha feel to it. Like, these elementary school were trying to pull a fast one but the news hounds at Fox busted them good!
Captured.
The comedy is that by "captured," Fox actually means some parent/teacher taped the kids and put it on YouTube, like four months ago. But that sounds so lame and boring. And where's the hysteria in that narrative?
So in the hands of Fox, the kids have been captured. That'll teach `em!!
UPDATED: Love the "nearly 20" phrase in the headline as well. Nobody at Foxnews.com can, y'know, actually count the kids in the clip, so they go with the more ominous sound "nearly 20." Brilliant!
Scoop: The magic number of "captured" kids is 18.
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Can we just start this civil war already. Or maybe just say the heck with it, declare Faux part of the axis of evil and shut them down.
I've had enough of these clowns and their totally removed from facts conspiracy theories.
"Ohhh- Baaa-Maaaa.... Ohhhh-Baaaa-Maaaaa..... Must obey Ohhh-Baaa-Maaa!"
Blow conservative heads, blow up over this.
Sooner or later you'll have let out enough rope that you can be convicted of inciting violence.
"constantly verbally attacked any opposition"
An example, please? And then another, and another. And then several hundred more. It takes a lot to be considered "constant."
Speaking for myself, no I wouldn't. Frankly, it wouldn't be at all interesting to me.
By the way, this means you're wrong. And that holds for much of the rest of your post, as well.
point the second, there is nothing patriotic about this song; it's a goddamn paean, and paeans are the norm for north korean 'leaders', not democratically-elected presidents of a confederated republic (particularly while said individual still sits occupies the office).
point the third, "equal work means equal pay"? who penned this, upton f_cking sinclair?
point the fourth, stop using foxnews as a whipping boy for 'contra' points, it makes for weak argument -- straight juvenalia... and THAT'S maddow and olbermann's domain.
And wasn't it Hannity that had to be all dramatic and say that these children were "forced" to sing the president's praises? Someone said it over there on some Fox show. :p I heard it, but they all say the same things all the time it's hard to look back and remember who said what sometimes. Either way, with the emphasis he used on the word "forced" he made it sound like someone had a gun to their heads.
Seriously, why is this news, anyway? :p