Will Fox News rescue the right-wing's latest (and limp) children-are-being-indoctrinated campaign?
November 04, 2009 3:12 pm ET by Eric Boehlert
Because right now, the smear effort, launched by Big Hollywood, doesn't seem to be going anywhere. And the hysterical claims being made about children being brainwashed because they sing songs in school honoring the president of the United States (how dare they?) certainly doesn't mirror the manufactured controversy the GOP Noise Machine was able to kick up in back September.
It's true that the Drudge Report has hyped the latest Big Hollywood report, which touts how the site "uncovered" videos of students singing Obama songs. Where, exactly, did the Big Hollywood sleuths "uncover" the clips? On that super-secret site, YouTube, of course.
But I think the only way this thing generates even respectable attention is if Fox News goes all in. So far though, even FNC seems reluctant to tout the idiocy. Gee, wonder why.
From Big Hollywood:
Young captive minds, easily influenced, eager for direction, enlisted into a cult of personality focused on an individual who, other than being the first black president, has yet to accomplish anything of significance.
Question for Big Hollywood: Why do you hate American school children?
UPDATED: Here's a sample of the "creepy" and "troubling" song lyrics being mocked by conservatives today:
Barack Obama is our new President
Barack Obama is the leader of our landOn November 4, 2008
All the Americans voted
In each and every stateBarack Obama is our new President
Barack Obama is the leader of our land
UPDATED: Big Hollywood claims the 11 clips it found of school kids represents an "epidemic" of...patriotism? I'm still not actually sure what crime is being committed here is, but Big Hollywood claims it's everywhere.
Anyone want to take a guess in terms of how many public schools there are in America, in order to put those 11 clips in context? Anyone, Bueller?
Answer: 63,000.
So much for the epidemic.
Of course, Republicans would NEVER worship any political leader!
... like Ronnie Reagan, perhaps ???
I haven't seen any lyrics yet that were indoctrinating in any way. Everything said about Obama was truthful and realistic. There's no worship going on!
These people wouldn't know a patriotic way to behave if it were written down and sung to them.
Oh, and I'm sure you'd be OK with our school kids singing praise to Bush, huh?
At least DD is good for a few laughs every day.
Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm.