OK this is getting bizarre. This mother breaks into tears when she thinks of the President of the United States speaking to her children in school. We are less than two days away from Obama’s brain-washing, soul-crushing, communist-loving subliminal-laced speech to our children. By Wednesday, our schools will be little more than communes with kids calling for redistribution of wealth and reeducation of parents.
There was a time when the lunch lady was the scariest thing at school.
I am honored to speak to the Kent Gardens Elementary School on Constitution Day and I have been looking for tips on the brainwashing techniques. (I would like my car washed everyday by zombie elementary students). I assume that the subliminal messages work something like this: “Hello children, I am the President of the United States (undervoice: “vote Democratic”). I want to speak with you about education (undervoice: “Republicans shot Bambi”) . . .”
Even some Chicago schools are refusing to air the speech. While some schools have banned the speech on the ground that they would not be able to read it, the White House always promised to release it on Monday — the day before. The speech was actually released on Sunday and it proved every bit as indoctrinating as feared. Among other things, Obama asks the children to wash their hands. What totalitarian hogwash. Then there is this frightening bit:
Every single one of you has something you’re good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That’s the opportunity an education can provide.
Everyone knows that “opportunity” is doublespeak for enslaving your parents and sacrificing them to gay socialist feminist union overlords. What is even more frightening is that Obama has already brainwashed Laura Bush, who has come out in favor of the subliminally laden speech, here.
In one Fox story, a parent explains how a president speaking to school kids is “very socialistic.” What they do not realize is that there is little to worry about. To be sent to a re-education camp, you first have to be educated. According to recent data, the schools in many of the states opposing the President’s speech have already protected against that danger.
However, as this clip shows, even our classic movies were used to shape us unconsciously through subliminal messages:
For the story, click here.
Swarthmore,
I agree with you that Obama has to stop trying to include the Republicans who refuse to bargain in good faith on any issue. It is time for the Dems to push their agenda and pressure the semi-Democrats to come along for the ride or they may have a lonely ride to reelection.
WayneJ,
I have no problem when someone is inspired by anyone. If the result is good for the party being inspired, does it really matter who did the inspiring?
I think Obama has tried to play too “nice” with the right wing republicans. There are many issues the two parties don’t agree on. One issue that comes to me is “reproductive freedom”. The republicans clearly oppose it while the dems support it for the most part. Go to one of those town hall meetings on health care and try to form a coaltion with the anti-Obama people who are angrily shouting down people with illnesses who need national health care. See how well that works.
Nope.
I am scared shitless of sheep who are “inspired” by politicians, orthodontists, and pervy clowns with wandering hands. But mainly politicians.
You should be somewhat skeptical of politicians, all politicians, but especially those that tell you they have your best interest at heart and then feel the need to emphasize that they “really mean it.”
Gyges,
I’m not ignoring that, I don’t agree with it. There is one party with two names. Individuals within the one family definitely try to knock each other out, or even poison each other. That’s interesting, but continued focus on it keeps the commoners occupied with what is essentially palace gossip/breads and circuses. Instead we should be banding together to bring about a common good.
This is a difficult, messy job. Chomsky used this quote;, “…The conversion of democracy to a performance in which the public are only spectators…” I don’t believe everything he says by any means but I think that is what has happened and is happening. We can’t be spectators. We have to act together for a common good.
excuse me: “People whose”
Wayne,
You mean you’re scared that people who’s careers are based on their ability to communicate effectively and inspire an emotional response in others can be successful in inspiring others?
I get very afraid when somebody finds a Monet painting beautiful.
Jill,
You’re ignoring one simple part of the equation: the two parties both want to be in power.
Look at it this way, you’ve got two powerful noble families vying for the King’s favor. Sometimes it is in both families interest to “play nice” and work towards a common goal. The occasional cooperation doesn’t mean they’re not both trying everything they can to discredit and obliterate the rival family.
Mespo: Lighten up, Francis. I get that you were trying to draw an analogy, it’s just that your choice analogy was sort of humorous (for those of us that have a sense of humor) in the context of this thread.
And we still seem to be talking past each other. There is no battle of “who is more inspirational.” (But for the record people who find **politicians** “inspirational” scare the living shit out of me.)
The whole point of diocese stating that the speech’s topics were in line with the things that the schools already teach was not to imply that therefore Obama’s speech had no added value to the students. The point was to imply that because the children hear these messages every day there was probably no problem showing the speech.
I just don’t get what the big deal is. The diocese hasn’t forbidden the speech. They just want to take a deeper dive. What’s wrong with that?
Are you really advocating that every student must sit captive in class and be INSPIRED by our DEAR LEADER. And any schools that don’t immediately fall in line without any further investigation are fanatics?
If so, you have a point.
(It’s just not a very persuasive point.)
mespo,
I have friends in those quarters and believe me, they not only voted for Obama, they helped finance his campaign. I believe GS was his single largest donor.
gyges,
Read this and see what you think:
“Soon after the election, the Administration began corralling the big liberal DC interest groups into a variety of organizations and communication networks through which they telegraphed their wishes — into a virtual veal pen. The 8:45 am morning call co-hosted by the “liberal” Center for American Progress, Unity 09, and Common Purpose are just a few of the overt ways that the White House controls its left flank and maintains discipline.
My own experience with the Veal Pen came indirectly, when some of them had the temerity to launch a campaign against Blue Dogs. They were rebuked and humiliated in front of their peers as a lesson to them all at a Common Purpose meeting, which is run by lobbyist Erik Smith. White House communications director Ellen Moran attends. It isn’t an arms-length relationship between these groups and the administration.
A few weeks ago, Rahm Emanuel showed up at a Common Purpose meeting and called these liberal groups “fucking stupid” for going after Blue Dogs on health care and ordered them not to do so any more. Since that time, to the best of my knowledge, none of them have.
These organizations may kid themselves that they’re doing no harm, but that’s not true. They are the institutional liberal validators who telegraph to liberals that there are problems, that things are happening that are not good for them. They are trusted to decode the byzantine rituals of government and let the public know when their interests are not being served, that it’s time to pay attention and start making a racket. When they fail to perform that task, the public is left with a vague feeling of anxiety, intuitively understanding that something is wrong but not knowing who or what to blame.
When the White House met with bankers after the AIG scandal and they said they didn’t want to be criticized for getting huge bonuses paid for by taxpayers, the White House complied and “cooled their rhetoric.” The President told the public that Timothy Geithner had been instructed to do everything in his power to claw back those bonuses, and the House passed a bill doing just that. But it died in the Senate.
You remember all those campaigns by the unions, by the online groups, by liberal economics and finance organizations pushing the Senate to take it up?
Yeah, me either.
Which means that the teabaggers were in perfect position to harvest all of the discontent over the bank bailout, and no coherent liberal critique was offered. I heard it over and over again — if you wanted to criticize the White House on financial issues, your institutional funding would dry up instantly. The Obama campaign successfully telegraphed to donors that they should cut off Fund for America, which famously led to its demise. It wasn’t the last time something like that happened — just ask those who were receiving institutional money who criticized the White House and saw their funding cut, at the specific request of liberal institutional leaders who now principally occupy their time by brown nosing friends and former co-workers in the White House.
And so the groups in the DC veal pen stay silent. They leadership gets gets bought off by cocktail parties at the White House while the interests of their members get sold out. How many have openly pushed back against the Administration on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell or DOMA? Well, not many. Most tried to satisfy their LGBT members by outsourcing activism to other organizations, or proving their bona fides by getting involved in the Prop 8 battle that is not directly toxic to the White House. It’s a chickenshit sidestep that betrays their members in the interest of personal gain, which they justify with feeble self-serving palliatives about the importance of “maintaining a seat at the table.”
Where are they on health care? Why aren’t they running ads against the AMA, the hospitals, the insurance industry barons who have $700 million in stock options, PhRMA, the device manufacturers and the White House for doing back room deals with all of the above?
Why are they not calling for the White House to release the details of those secret deals?
Because they are participating in those deals, instead of trying to destroy them. Well, that and funneling millions of dollars in pass-throughs to their consultant friends that they are supposed to be spending on the health care fight.”
http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/09/06/van-jones-a-moment-of-truth-for-liberal-institutions-in-the-veal-pen/
Flower:
““Real power is wrested away at the ballot box in this country, thank God.” And delivered into the hands of the Men of Gold, I suppose? C’mon, Mespo.”
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Really think your local stock broker or industrialist voted for Obama? Come on, indeed.
rafflaw writes: You are right, but it is sad that these parents can’t see beyond their nose for what is best for their children. The children will suffer, but what the heck, their pastor can’t be wrong.
these parents really believe they are right. they believe that blacks and jews and asians and hispanics are not really, fully human. they believe that men are the heads of households and women should not wear pants (literally) or seek high paying careers, think for themselves or use birth control.
they believe that only christian prayer is valid and their brand of prayer is what god loves and wants most.
this is what happens when religion promises superiority. that’s what I think and these kids? they are being inculcated too and the way they see it? what’s wrong with something that makes them feel superior to others?
rafflaw:
“There are Dems who are in the health care industry’s pocket, but you have read about them and the Left has “outed” them.” Does this mean That Max Bacchus will lose his chairmanship?
Concerning Dawn Johnsen: Obama could have put her in as a recess appointment, but didn’t.
My “good cop/bad cop” analogy stands.
GWMOm,
You are right, but it is sad that these parents can’t see beyond their nose for what is best for their children. The children will suffer, but what the heck, their pastor can’t be wrong.
Mespo:
“Real power is wrested away at the ballot box in this country, thank God.” And delivered into the hands of the Men of Gold, I suppose? C’mon, Mespo.
are these parents racist? acting from racial fear? afraid their children will really be brainwashed?
are these the same parents who don’t want their children educated on human growth and development? evolution? a woman’s right to choose? gays in the military? who want christian prayer in public schools? from something i saw on Fox early this morning, a barely literate mother and daughter, I have to think that these are the same people who don’t get that there is a remedy to all their complaints:
if they don’t like what public education has to offer they are welcome to enroll their children in christian schools or educate them at home.
I wish they would. I think they need to be reminded that these options are available to them and they might consider them seriously instead of wasting their time bitching on the tv news machine. either way, their children will not be prepared to lead, excel or accomplish much and will have little to contribute to society in general.
this is sad. it is a waste. but someone has to be on the bottom if others are to be on the top and why not these kids? it seems that this is the road their parents are choosing for them.
Flowerchild,
There are Dems who are in the health care industry’s pocket, but you have read about them and the Left has “outed” them. The Republicans are in their pocket and they will work to stop any bill the Dems propose. Not just the health care bill. Look at the the “holds” the Republican Senators have on Obama nominations, like Dawn Johnsen for OLC.
The Democrats & the Republicans are running down a “good cop/bad cop” routine on the citizenry. You have to keep your eye on the ball: both the “good cop” & the “bad cop” are on the same police force.
Flower:
Everything you said is true (save your conclusion) and has ever been true. All a communitarian movement does is make the participants feel better, and accomplish some laudable, though incidental, good works. Real power is wrested away at the ballot box in this country, thank God.
So we’ve got a bunch of people claiming the speech is going to be brainwashing, no proof, just a claim…
We’ve also got the text of the speech.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/
Looks like brain washing to me.
I have no doubt that this is a manufacture controversy, but to go from “This is manufactured” to “this is a tool by those on BOTH sides to keep us from looking at our real problems” is a huge stretch, and one lacking any proof.
rafflaw:
Neither the Republicans or the Democrats are working for the common good. Take the health care issue: with the exception of only a few national players, both parties are working for the health care industry.