Limbaugh defends parents who kept kids out of school because they wouldn't let "some socialist radical have at 'em"
September 08, 2009 2:57 pm ET
From the September 8th edition of Premiere Radio Network's The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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Oops, sorry, looks like it was the right doing it. Never mind...
Here's why. It was not mandatory (but as anyone who has ever played sports before, when the coach says it's "not" mandatory, that pretty much means that it is).
The school wasn't involved (except for the use of the bus).
And they did pay for their own gas costs.
So, on the one hand, it is a thing about coaches having great sway over their student athletes, enough so that, maybe, some of the players thought voluntary meant mandatory, and that they had no choice really.
It's just weird to me though. Team building in church? I'm sure they were more lured in by the free steak dinner than the church part.
Truancy is any intentional unauthorized absence from compulsory schooling. The term typically describes absences caused by students of their own free will, and usually does not refer to legitimate "excused" absences, such as ones related to medical conditions. ...
Parents of course can control what their kids do, but there are also laws to protect the children, such as truancy laws, child abuse laws, and things like that.
Are you trying to say that parents can do with their kids whatever they want to do? Becausse, they can't.
And it's not the school board exercising that "control", it's the law.
Dear Mrs. Crabtree:
Little Johnny had to miss school yesterday because I don't trust our president talking to our kids. ALso, he's black, and I can't allow my Johnny to be exposed to that.
Sincerely,
Racist Mother/Father
Lol. I almost thought that "Racist Mother/Father" at the end said "Racist Motherf***er" for a second.
So if a parent keeps a kid home due to a parent's disagreement with the government's directions, even if the kid wants to go to school to learn or hang with friends or listen to the President, THAT isn't indoctrination?
nice. keep digging your hole.
Former juvenile probation department employee here.
WOW! And, don't tell me it was a "typo." You misspelled the word EVERY time you posted it.
but to keep them out of school because you bought into some bull crap about indoctrination is just plain crazy.
especially since the entire text was released on what he would say.
wow i bet that was some indoctrination.
its not about government control. its about respect for the office that barack obama currently resides in.
which you obviously have no respect for the man, and especially for the office because of the man that sits in it. well done.
Yeah, I'm with Puff. No more mandatory school! No more government programs! ANARCHY! ANARCHY! Anything less than anarchy is Hugo Chavez!
- P. Floyd
Guess Texas is one of those gosh-darned socialist states.
Not only do I blame dumb-ass people, but I blame the media for giving this ridiculous "story" some legitimacy.
I'll just assume that you can't, or won't.
No, you use it. You made the claim, back it up.
Prove it that Obama doesn't address it.
You made the statement, back it up, hick.
Well played.
were you home schooled?
if not the you yourself are one of those "drones"
take a look in the mirror and see if you like what you see
Intelligence is inherent. Your daughter was inherently intelligent.
teachers will be screened for their political affiliation?
Be afraid, be very afraid, the boogieman eats puppies.
And please, enough of your piddling around today. Go hump Rushs' leg.
Priceless.
Followed by:
Comical.
Please do not share with us what you do with your parents behind closed doors, hick.
and as for juvenile insults what was this?
"I gotta hunch you didn't graduate, recieve public assistance and live with your 'uncle' at budget suites. Hey princiepoo, the people's court is on!"
yeah that was real mature.
P.S. My uncle owns a few hotels, grew up in poverty, his mother collected welfare checks before getting two(2) jobs so that he could go to college(that is education past the 5th, way past the 5th grade).
Graduate, the government paid for my education upon my safe return from protecting your butt. I guess that is public assistance..and thank for berating everyone who earned the right to use GI Bill.
I only have one question my fine Piddling friend, what channel is People's Court on??
the president is so offensive to you!
you have just proven you can't be taken seriously. i hope that you get banned from this site.
Get over it. People like you make me sick. I was not an Obama supporter, but the nonsense that you parrot from your heroes on Fox and hate talk radio makes me support him more and more every day.
That is the rallying cry of every Right-Wing Resident.
Turning the First Black President into a Sub-Human is their Ultimate Goal.
It certainly helps to have Conservative Congressman & Senators in their Neo-Conservative Foal.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
How many of the duped parents feel like total fools now?
Good god... just how stupid does one have to be to have kept their children home today?
Pathetic!
Because guys like Rush and Beck will claim the speech was changed. They will make up things that were never in the speech and say that they were and that the only reason they were taken out was because of all the parents who kept their kids out. The WH then realizes the indoctrination wouldnt work so they changed the speech, but it was too late the American Parent had spoken.
So sadly these poor folls who just turned their kids into poor fools will instead believe they are patriots not fools.
If I would of have in charge of babysitting them I would have made them write a copy of the constitution.
Also I heard that the Republican response that was broadcast to those children immediately after the President spoke to them, it reminded those young students that the benefits of school and education were vastly over-rated, and that family wealth and political connections (and bribery too) were far better and surer means of success in life, than sweating it out in school, getting all that book learning.
The point? Most of our behavior is learned at home, not in school. A twenty minute speech by the President may have some tiny impact, but it will leave most students completely unfazed. My own son came home, and all he had to say about it from the depths of his own kindergarten experience was, "The President talked to us at school today!"
It was, is, and ever shall be a nonstory for nonthinking dunderheads. That Rush Limbaugh is their pied piper just makes it that much less important.