Fox's Crowley claims school kids video shows "indoctrination ... administration-wide attempt to get to kids early"
September 28, 2009 8:58 am ET
From the September 27 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
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Methinks Ms. Crowley has an agenda of her own, or is it her own? Who's paying your salary, Babe? (that would be Ms. Crowley).
[Note, that I REFUSED to watch GWB . . . it was part of my GWB boycott that began the first time he ran for governor of Texas!]
This being said, this whole Obama praise video has been WAY overblown, they are trying to get one teeny slight at Obama supporters but in the process they are exploiting children? That's low.
If kids are going to be taught to sing about the US, let them sing about what's great about this country AND what needs to be fixed- and what's great about the World and what needs to be fixed. Chanting the President's name and connecting it to good things he wants to get done with our help? Really doesn't sit well with me.
Might as well just go ahead and ban all singing then, no?
I do understand what you are getting at, it is a slippery slope. I don't think it's right to praise Jesus Christ in schools, because coming from an atheist heathen, there's no proof that he was the Son Of "God" or whatever. Secondly, religious icons have no place in schools.
I am a bit wishy washy about the Washington and Lincoln songs. Are they teaching them about history or praising them?
I remember singing Rufus Rustus and Chicken in school.
And THAT is exactly what is wrong with the faux outrage. None of them have any idea what's going on but are all too willing to believe and act on what the reichwing talking heads tell them.
In the context of Black History Month, I think this is completely understandable. Otherwise, it would definitely come off as political in nature, which is pretty sketchy.
Really? You think they should have refrained from mentioning during Black History month (and remember, the way they highlight info to a 2nd grade class in elementary schools is by making a song out of that info) that a Black man had just been elected?
That's ridiculous.
The song lyrics are inappropriate, they are talking about politics that children don't know about. (Economy, Equal Pay)
A little diddy to celebrate that America has elected a black President is one thing, a song praising him is another.
Mm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said that all must lend a hand
To make this country strong again
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must be fair today
Equal work means equal pay
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said that we must take a stand
To make sure everyone gets a chance
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said red, yellow, black or white
All are equal in his sight
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
Yes!
Mmm, mmm, mm
Barack Hussein Obama
Song 2:
Hello, Mr. President we honor you today!
For all your great accomplishments, we all doth say "hooray!"
Hooray, Mr. President! You're number one!
The first black American to lead this great nation!
Hooray, Mr. President we honor your great plans
To make this country's economy number one again!
Hooray Mr. President, we're really proud of you!
And we stand for all Americans under the great Red, White, and Blue!
So continue ---- Mr. President we know you'll do the trick
So here's a hearty hip-hooray ----
Hip, hip hooray!
Hip, hip hooray!
Hip, hip hooray!
I think FOX Nation would be just as offended by a ditty that celebrates the election of an unnamed black President.
I can't be bothered to find a link right now but I'm sure I read that piece of news somewhere.
White people have a problem with children singing Obama praised and it has nothing to with indoctrination (that's just silly). The song would not have gone any further than the class room if it weren’t for Fox News. (Fox News disperses this black President).
White folks have a problem with a black President and they have a problem with children looking up to him, why, because Obama does not fit white (not all) image and stereotypes of black people.
White fore-fathers have lied to their children about black people. They taught that black people were inferior, lazy, shiftless, incompetent, evil, criminals, can’t be trusted, dirty and less than human.
Obama, holding the highest office in the world, has contradicted all that is said about black people. Now the children of their forefathers are confused and angry at this black President (they should be angry at their parents).
Obama, not only beat out all white democrats (Liberals) but he beat out all Republicans (the whitest of the white, Conservatives). This is why they want Obama to fail. They want to be able to say Obama was not qualified and he was incompetent.
They want to keep the lie alive about black people.
The Republican Party will do EVERTHING conceivable to insure Obama fail. This is the reason why they complain and criticize everything Obama does.
This is the reason behind the ACORN scandal (they want to connect Obama to ACORN). This is also the reason behind the so-called indoctrination scandal (whites have a problem with their children listening to a black man).
Now they have an issue with mostly blacks ‘school children singing praise about a positive, influential back man in the “comfort” of a classroom.
This is stupid, like most of their criticism of Barack Obama, in fact, Obama had nothing to do with what went on in that classroom, but it doesn’t matter to hateful conservatives. They will grab on to anything and everything hoping something sticks to Obama. They intend on bringing down Obama.
Right now Republicans and Conservatives are using the media (for the most part) to help them scandalized Obama’s name and reputation. This is why America is getting all these ridiculously childish silly stories about indoctrination and singing children in classroom.
On top of that, the words to the songs were sent home before the event to the parents of all the kids who would be singing those particular songs, and not a single parent complained. It was then sung to the all the parents of all the 2nd graders, and no one complained to the school at that time either.
This is a non-issue made into one by the right. Someone stumbled on to that video and thought it was a big deal. Before they had all the details, they had a knee-jerk reaction to the video, and ran with that mistaken impression that there was something sinister here.
I'm not saying people of a right wing ideology are perfect, but now that you are in power do not deny that you used similar tactics. In politics no one is clean.