Hannity calls for school principal to be fired for "indoctrination" - mocks guest parent who doesn't agree
September 25, 2009 10:03 pm ET
From the September 25 edition Fox News' Hannity:
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He said red, yellow, black and white, all are equal in his sight
I remember it use to be in the eyes of God. I am not a religious
person, but idol worshipping is a very nasty business.
Mammon?
Yeah ... FIRE THE PRINCIPAL!!
The fact that gets under skin so much just shows your true colors.
The lyrics of this song say nothing at all about idol worship.
You must just be like the legions of Fox News fans ... any positive message about Barack Obama is equivalent to idol worship.
That's really a pretty pathetic position to take.
And before anyone asks...I wouldn't have been comfortable with kids singing about Bush, even right after 9/11
No school system should instruct our kids to be singing about any Prez currently in office.
Get over it. It was a celebration of Black History month. One and a half minute out of a two hour program.
Or we could speak in tongues like that preacher woman in the film "Jesus Camp" asking the kids to sing to a cardboard cutout of "W", the man filled with the spirit!
Amen!!
Hey Jeter, darlin'. ;-)
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(Real men of Genius!)
Today we salute you. Mr. get your knickers in a twist every time you hear that black man's name
(Mr. get your knickers in a twist every time you hear that black man's name!)
Sporting nothing but racial animosity and delusion, you're living the real American dream
Getting upset over the silliest of reasons.
(Insanity!)
Sure there's danger, democratic majority, war's end, recovery, and a public option, completely out of the question
(WATCH OUT NOW!)
Your keen instincts tells you to stick to activities that involve a lot of angry language and racist sign waving. And if that doesn't work, who cares? You're all armed.
(Lock and load!)
So crack open an ice cold Bud Light, ditto Boy. 'Cause we all know, when the the going gets tough, the tough get all lunatic.
(Mr. get your knickers in a twist every time you hear that black man's name!)
Thomas of Time magazine say,
'I mean in a way Obama's standing above the country, above -- above the world, he's sort of God.'
Believe me he is just a man, now you know where I come from.
Is it really that difficult for you to try to put yourself in that position and give a pass on this one?
Fail. Nobody said that. What I'm seeing after the black man entered the White House is the re-emergence of the racists who want their country back.
The song was about a commitment to equality and making the U.S. strong again. That's the opposite of ACORN's mission statement: to destroy the Free World via pimps and prostitutes.
I'd go either way on this one. It really is pretty harmless, IMO. I don't think it will scar or program the little tykes one way or the other. But it might be that seeing a Black President will be inspirational.
Now with dubya, whenever he posed for a photo-op with a group of school children, or a shelter for the poor or anything of that nature, watch out. Right afterwards, their funding would be gutted.
One could say the same about religious teachings. We teach our children the religion that we accept as truth. Do we then, teach them about all religions in an unopininated way and let them choose? I don't think so.
The new word of the day seems to be "indocrinate" My understanding of this word is that ANY group of people who teach their beliefs is attempting to "indocrinate" their audience. HUMMMM.
Hannity loves this word right now. Look what he is stirring up! His constant "whinny" voice is getting on my nerves, but I have to keep watching so that I know what the new word of the day is. e
And when I was in elementary school, I had sung a song about Thomas Alva Edison to the tune of Jingle Bell Rock, but my parents did not cry idol worship.
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And when I was in elementary school, I had sung a song about Thomas Alva Edison to the tune of Jingle Bell Rock, but my parents did not cry idol worship.
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Nope. You're complaining that because they used a phrase from a song about Jesus that they're making a direct comparison between Jesus and Obama. Nitwit. It's a phrase from a song. They're saying that both Obama and Jesus share a similar attitude towards colorblindness. There's no idol worship going on. We don't think that Obama is the messiah. That's an invention of Rush Limbaugh.
I'ts more about an ideal--equality--expressed by a black President of the United States during Black History Month--rather than your so-called "idol". I'm not religious either, but I bet the Bible says a leader's belief in equality is a value to be worshipped.
This is BS and Hannity knows it, but as long as he's got people like you believe it, he's got his ratings.
Also for a class project right after the 2004 election my son's class wrote letters to Bush. If Kerry would had won- they would of written letters to him. It was all about being a proud American no matter who won the election
Reagan was also the name of the little girl in "The Exorcist," yeah? ;0)
But even if you did, he was a famous General - was the school named after him as President, or after him as a war hero?
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I've never seen a group of people who could make a conspiracy out of everything. Frankly, I hope the "regular" American's tire of their objection to anyone agreeing with our President and stop being an audience to fear mongering.
I am proud to be an American now and when Bush was in office and I have no problem with my kids hearing both sides of the argument.
Professional victims.
There is no way to appease these conservatives and they'll never stop.
The next thing you know, they'll be asking for me to be fired from my job because I dared to say something nice about Pres Obama.
As for what you say about being fired, as a side note, I thought this might be entertaining...
At my work place I was going around doing my business, when a coworker out of uniform came up to me talking about what he saw on Glenn Beck. A customer turned around and asked if he was going to "follow around employees all day and discuss Republican strategies"... she had then gone to complain to the manager. I did not agree with my coworker, but I find it amazing. I told my coworker that everything he said was wrong but because of that customer acting the way they did, it kind of discounts any argument I may make.
"He said we all must lend a hand to make this country strong again."
Wow, Sean. That sure sounds like some evil propaganda there. You sure nailed it!
"Equal work means equal pay."
How dare the schools indoctrinate our children into such a horrible belief!?
Beck is bad. But when I watch or listen to Glenn Beck I get the sneaking suspicion that even he doesn't believe half of the crap he spews, but he's getting paid big money to say it.
Hannity looks and sounds as if he actually believes all the crap he spews.
A school has a picture of the President hanging in classrooms. So. Many do. Last year they probably had pictures of pres Bush hanging there. Where was Hannity's outrage then?
If you wanna see a frightening video of children being indoctrinated check out the "Jesus Camp" video which I found while watching Bill Maher videos on the internet.
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What a bunch of idiots.
Oh BTW, will Hannity be able to talk without a pen in his slimy hand?
But you are absolutely right about everything else - this is a non-issue and the right-wingers are trying to make it into another wedge-issue to steer the news away from the actual important issues. Just like ACORN, it's part of the pattern where right-wingers attack the least powerful, for their own selfish needs.
“Our country’s stood beside us
People have sent us aid.
Katrina could not stop us, our hopes will never fade.
Congress, Bush and FEMA
People across our land
Together have come to rebuild us and we join them hand-in-hand!”
Hannity should be fired for BS hyping!
Also why is Huckabee talking about it? He is a dunce himself. A protege of a kook named James Robison.
Sadly the parent on the show is just being used a bait to further justify the right-wing's retardation.
We don't need cults of personality in politics. We need kids to learn about how government should work, not about following orders.
"History," as it's taught in primary schools across the country, is nothing but. There are no more dangerous memes rattling around in the cavernous vaults of tea-baggers' skulls all over America than the fetishist figures of the Founding Fathers as they never were in life. George Washington probably told a lie, or two. Ben Franklin was a dedicated poon-hound. Patrick Henry was a fundamentalist whack-job. Thomas Jefferson raped a slave woman. A lot. Governeur Morris wrote the Preamble, and most people don't even know who he was. All told, America was founded by a bunch of rogues and scalliwags, kids. Get used to it.
Oh, and almost none of them were Christian. They were Deists. Suck on that.
But I would not have called for any resignations, firings, or made a big deal about it.
I would have had an intelligent discussion at the dinner table with my children about the role of the government, the President, about how all humans are flawed yet we can still try to do our best, etc etc.
Indeed, a "teachable moment".
Oh ... THAT's what the Reich-wingers all missed! They didn't have enougth teachable moments. Explains their ignorance!