When critics lashed out at President Obama for scheduling a speech to public school students this month, accusing him of wanting to indoctrinate children to his politics, his advisers quickly scrubbed his planned comments for potentially problematic wording. They then reached out to progressive Web sites such as the Huffington Post, liberal bloggers and Democratic pundits to make their case to a friendly audience.The Anchoress: “That’s one thing that struck me about Obama’s speech to the school children: how nothing he said seemed to bear any direct relation to the problematic teaching materials which had been released in anticipation of the event. I suspected, then, that the speech had been re-written into utter banality in order to make the conservatives who objected to the speech seem like paranoid nutters. This seems to confirm that. And it’s a brilliant tactic; were I in the WH, I’d have done the same thing.”
It worked. John Harwood at MSNBC even said that most of the people who objected to the President's speech to their kids were a danger to their children because they were too stupid to raise them well. Bringing America together.
Interestingly, NPR did a more balanced report on this issue. Maybe they're starting to come around. Interesting also that the Washington Post also published the new information above. Maybe they're trying to increase the trust level of their readers. They're losing money.
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