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Steyn on Obama's stay-in-school speech: Based on view that education exists to make kids "good subjects" of big gov't

September 02, 2009 2:01 pm ET

From the September 2 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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Conservatives on Obama's stay-in-school speech: "Indoctrination," "brainwashing," Communist China, Hitler Youth

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    • Author by IRONY 101 (September 02, 2009 2:05 pm ET)
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      Surprise, surprise...! According to wikipedia, Mark Steyn left school at age 18 to become a disc jockey. Seems to be a pattern here with these uneducated right wing know-it-alls...

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Steyn
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      • Author by raine315 (September 02, 2009 2:15 pm ET)
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        I was just remembering how back in the 1980's-early 1990's being a republican also meant showing pride in ones EDUCATIONAL background.

        They all strived to be "Yale Men" like the fictional characters Alex P. Keaton(Family Ties) and Carlton Banks(Fresh Prince of Bel Air)LOL

        But WTH happened this year- now they all take pride in being uneducated and stupid- holding up Sarah Palin as their idol
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        • Author by mjh (September 02, 2009 4:57 pm ET)
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          "They all strived to be "Yale Men" like the fictional characters Alex P. Keaton(Family Ties) and Carlton Banks(Fresh Prince of Bel Air)LOL

          But WTH happened this year-"



          Just a guess, but I'm thinking part of it could be the fact that being a "Yale Man" lost a bit of its cachet when Yale Man George W. Bush got in the WH and started opening his mouth . . .

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        • Author by blk-in-alabam (September 02, 2009 5:11 pm ET)
             
          The people today calling them selves republican to day can't afford to go to yale and won't admit it.They also won't admit jewish neocons,like Mark Levin who writes a lot of the republican propergander,they so faithfully listen to and believe don't believe they are of the right blood line.This would be nearly all of the southern majority of the republican party.
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      • Author by shaggles (September 02, 2009 2:45 pm ET)
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        Who needs school when you can read minds?
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      • Author by scubcap647 (September 02, 2009 3:24 pm ET)
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        I guess 5+ years of education, and degrees can't hold a candle to the real world experience of being a radio host. Who knew. I guess I just waisted my time trying to further my education and working through school. I wish I got paid to talk sh*t 5 days a week. Because I do it well.
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    • Author by The_Cat (September 02, 2009 2:15 pm ET)
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      You're correct, Mr. Steyn. There is definitely something not quite Right about it. That's because it's been the Left, traditionally, that has been concerned about education. That whole idea about the Pentagon holding a bake sale while your local elementary school has everything on it's wish list granted? That was not a Republican joke, it was a joke about Republicans. This is a very center-to-Left idea, that education is good.

      'College educated elitist', Mr. Steyn. This is one of the slurs that the Right, and especially the wingnut Right, is fond of. Education? Being learned on a subject? Not so much.
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    • Author by Indy (September 02, 2009 2:33 pm ET)
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      It's becoming clearer by the day that all these hyper hate shock jock right wingers want is revenge. Not rational pros and cons debate. And if they take the country down with it so be it. I think they're currently dragging whats left of the William Buckley era Conservative party down with them instead.
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      • Author by mjh (September 02, 2009 4:54 pm ET)
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        "It's becoming clearer by the day that all these hyper hate shock jock right wingers want is revenge."


        But, of course.

        Political revenge is the prime motivator for these wingnuts -- the good of the country be damned.

        Just as they desired revenge for the Nixon resignation: they had to wait 20+ years, and it took ten years of investigations and $70 million in taxpayer money, but they FINALLY found something they could impeach Clinton on . . .

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    • Author by ConJob (September 02, 2009 2:37 pm ET)
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      Ever notice how people without advanced degrees get so defensive and up in arms about education? All they are doing is projecting their own pitiful failures on everyone else.
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      • Author by IRONY 101 (September 02, 2009 3:39 pm ET)
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        Their kids don't need no book learnin'...that'll just put ideas in their heads.
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    • Author by phredicles (September 02, 2009 3:29 pm ET)
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      So is "IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH" now and official reich-wing core principle?
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    • Author by manofmystique (September 02, 2009 4:09 pm ET)
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      These hateful Republicans are out of their cotton-picking minds. What they are doing is inciting people or a person to act on their hate. It is clear they want someone, anyone to assassinate this president. This explains why they are not willing to wait for the next election. They want Obama out NOW. Have you ever heard of anyone treating a president as though he can't do anything right, even though he won the election by a wide margin? These Republicans talking heads are irresponsible and dangerous.
      God forbid, if something were to happen to Obama, all of these imbeciles will act like they don't know why anyone would want to hurt Obama.

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    • Author by mjh (September 02, 2009 5:09 pm ET)
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      Steyn on Obama's stay-in-school speech: Based on view that education exists to make kids "good subjects" of big gov't



      For perhaps the first -- and likely only -- time in his life, Steyn is RIGHT.

      Education does exist to make kids better and more informed students of their gov't -- so that someday, should one of them run for the Vice Presidency, even if they're female and from a remote area of the US, they'll actually have a clue what the Vice President does . . .
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