Witness this incoherent mess of reasoning from a guest on MSNBC:
Nancy: Have you changed your mind since hearing the president today?
Teabagger: No I haven’t. I thought the speech was OK, we never really had a problem with the content of the speech. It was always about the lesson plans.
Nancy: And what’s the problem with the lesson plans, that the idea is to stay in school and do your work and not let adversity keep you down?
Teabagger: Well, actually the lesson plans as they’re presented are actually illegal under the protection of People’s Rights
Nancy: But what’s your problem with the message?
Teabagger: Well like I said, there is no problem with the message it’s the lessons plans that encourages students to reveal personal information about themselves by participating in the lessons that the teachers are putting forth for them and that’s illegal….
Nancy: But I’m not sure I understand what you’re talking about. No one asked for personal information as far as I understand and the lesson plans really went along with the bulk of the speech.
Teabagger: When the teachers ask in a questionnaires or they encourage the students to reveal information about their goals that delves into the psyche of the children and under code 34 of the federal regulations that’s illegal.
Nancy: You must be kidding me. Do you not want kids to be talking about what they want to be when they grow up?
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Whatever argument you had, you lost me when you referred to your political opponents as teabaggers. Have fun with your obscure blog. Don’t let the echo’s of your supplicants drive you madder.
“incoherent mess of reasoning”
Yeah. Starting with the dishonest questions by “Nancy,” who misrepresented the original government-issued “study guide.”
As long as you keep throwing that down the Memory Hole, Doug, I’m going to keep reminding you about it.
James,
The misrepresentation started with people like Jim Greer who called that lesson plan indoctrination.
Face it, if this had been a Republican President under the exact same circumstances you wouldn’t be complaining at all.
Except that it wasn’t a Republican President whose Education Department issued a cult-of-personality lesson plan.
If you can’t see it, Doug, you are less historically informed than you pretend to be.
And calling it a “cult of personality lesson plan” is nothing more than partisan bullshit.
If you think that stunts like pulling kids out of school because you’re afraid they’ll hear the President talk actually accomplishes anything, you’re kidding yourself.
I live in a neighborhood filled with families with kids in public school, and I have yet to meet an average, non-political, American with children who doesn’t think the whole controversy was much ado about nothing.