Today’s the day President Obama gave a brief speech to America’s schoolkids. Sources said he would urge them to join his newly formed Lil’ Commies Club, turn in their parents for watching FoxNews, and generally help him wipe out America faster. Oops, sorry, wrong sources — that was a paranoid fantasy version of Obama’s speech, spread by right-wing nutcases.
You have to give them credit, though – today’s conservatives, i.e., remnants of the formerly respectable conservative movement, have quite an active imagination. In, ahem, honor of the right’s capacity to believe nearly anything bad about Obama, Alternet today offers a warped “Top 10” story, detailing the right’s “Most Obscenely Stupid Conspiracy Theories and Attacks Against the President.” Personal favorites are the claim that Obama will require that all U.S. males be circumcised, and Rep. Michelle Bachmann’s charge that by expanding the Peace Corps and AmeriCorps, Obama wants to herd children into Khmer Rouge-style re-education camps. Enjoy the article, but do yourselves a favor: when the kids come home from school today, check their eyes for a vague, blank, robotic look – and check their necks for microchip implants.
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This article appears in Sep 8-15, 2009.
My goodness conservatives are so upset about government indoctrination happening at the government indoctrination centers called public schools. Horrors!
Where you’re taught that: Govt is god, the constitution doesnt exist, states’ rights are wrong, the civil war was necessary, abe lincoln was great, fdr saved us from the great depression, the civil rights act was necessary, min wage laws are good and other blithering nonsense.
Thank God for private schools!