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Fox chyron equates teaching history of labor unions to "teaching organized propaganda"

December 17, 2009 8:09 am ET by Media Matters staff

The following on-screen text aired during a debate about Wisconsin legislation requiring public schools teach the history of organized labor. From the December 17 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

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    • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (December 17, 2009 8:26 am ET)
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      Sure would rather have our kids learn how the common working man can take control of their lives, then learning the earth is 6000 years old.
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    • Author by nerzog (December 17, 2009 8:34 am ET)
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      Well, one thing FOX knows is propaganda. They've single-handedly taken a mob of selfish, ignorant Teabagging Troglodytes and given them an air of viability as a political movement.

      It's quite an accomplishment in the realm of propaganda, sickening as it is.
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    • Author by NiceguyEddie (December 17, 2009 8:54 am ET)
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      Translation: If kids have any sense of history, they'll grow up to be liberals!

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      Wouldn't want them to have any idea how the wolrd REALLY opperates after all! That would be disastrous for us!
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      • Author by epkklk851 (December 17, 2009 10:57 am ET)
           
        Actually, there's a lot of truth in that. I heard about the Triangle Fire in Junior High, it made a big impression on me. That and the "Look for the Union Label" song.
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    • Author by ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© (December 17, 2009 9:04 am ET)
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      For you, FAUX Nooze.
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    • Author by worrierking (December 17, 2009 9:13 am ET)
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      I went to school in the fifties and sixties. We were taught about the industrial revolution. We were taught about the robber barons. We were taught labor history.

      When all you know about the names Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbuilt and Astor are their philanthropy and their concert halls, something is wrong with your education.
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    • Author by The_Cat (December 17, 2009 9:24 am ET)
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      propaganda: the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person.

      Interesting. So, talking endlessly about death panels for the purpose of ending health reform is propaganda. Spreading rumors of communism-socialism-fascism in order to smear government officials is propaganda. Calling for our President's birth certificate, implying he's not a U.S. citizen? Also propaganda.

      Teaching history to kids? Well, since it's not for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person, I'm not really sure how it qualifies.

      Now, for our next word, we will consider: projection...
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    • Author by Ecotopian (December 17, 2009 9:50 am ET)
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      Well, maybe if the teachers were required to refer to union members as "thugs" and "goons," Fox News would consider it an admirable form of education.
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    • Author by historygeek001 (December 17, 2009 11:46 am ET)
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      No, no, no...we're supposed to teach children that labor unions are evil and workers have no rights, should work 18 hour days, have no holidays, no paid sick leave, no insurance, and no minimum wage. Why would we want the peons to think that they have rights?
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