FOX news must have been embarrassed about how successful they were at stoking up red staters hatred of an elected president as the article states "Some parents in a New Jersey school district are up in arms after a class of elementary school students was videotaped singing the praises of President Obama, an activity that has been criticized as "indoctrination."
The tension at B. Bernice Young Elementary School escalated to such a degree Thursday that the school was placed temporarily on lockdown after its principal received death threats over a YouTube video that showed nearly 20 children being taught songs lauding the president, though back-to-school night events continuing as planned Thursday night at the school."
The GOP has many practiced lines that they repeat repetitively. It is almost like they have pollster testing what works.
The article "GOP pollster won't admit role in stoking right-wing anger" at
http://rawstory.com/2009/09/luntz-anger-role/
states "Republican pollster Frank Luntz got an earful of criticism from CNN's John Roberts on Sunday's Reliable Sources. The CNN host took the political consultant to task over a memo he wrote to Republicans, urging them to use what Roberts described as "charged language" to scuttle health reform efforts.
Discussing what Luntz sees as an unprecedented level of anger among the American electorate, Roberts asked: "You wrote a memo to the Republican Party, giving them suggestions on how to oppose the health care plan, suggested that they use phrases like "it's a bailout of the insurance industry,' "
Luntz has a history of this-starting in 1994, and the GOP isn't reining him in.
The article states "Luntz' research has come in for criticism in the past. In 1997, he was reprimanded by the American Association for Public Opinion Research over his polling in the 1994 mid-term elections, which saw the Republicans gain control of Congress."
He also gained notoriety for politicizing 9/11.
Just how desperate is the GOP? The article "Washington Times and Fox News now unleashing mobs on private citizens (including kids)" at
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print/24101/
states "Last week, a Washington Times blogger posted a call to arms beseeching readers to help the newspaper dig up more information regarding a long list of arts organization representatives who took part in a conference call with the White House on August 10. The call was part of a National Endowment for the Arts initiative, and it's a conference call that was secretly taped and has been wildly overhyped in conservative media circles as some sort of linchpin in a larger criminal enterprise being run out of the White House to politicize the arts. (There's no evidence the August 10 conference call broke any laws.)"
The GOP wanted information about common citizens as the article states "But The Washington Times' disturbing call to arms? The paper wanted its readers to find out all they could about private citizens who work at little-known arts organizations and whose only connection to the spotlight was that they were invited to dial in to a conference call.
Times blogger Kerry Picket assured readers, "The people on the call didn't necessarily do anything controversial or wrong." Yet look at the kind of dirt Times readers were urged to dig up about the arts reps. Had they:
Been active in Democratic politics?
Made any campaign donations recently?
Blogged for The Huffington Post?
Believed in the 9-11 "Truther" conspiracy theory?
The obvious odor of Red Scare-era snitching that hung over the Times' wrongheaded project was too much to take even for some loyal conservative readers."
Who were the people doing this Red Scare-era snitching other than the fruitcakes who went to the town hall meetings with weapons? The article states "The reason the Times' crowdsourcing bulletin was so misguided, and possibly even dangerous, was that the people the newspaper was urging to go digging for dirt were, by and large, the same type of people who are packing pistols at anti-Obama rallies, parading around with Hitler posters, and claiming the POTUS wasn't born in America. Meaning the right-wing mob, which suddenly decided last week that the NEA represented all that is evil in the world, is not all that stable and should not be setting its crooked sights on private citizens."
The GOP can't control their extremists so they should keep them calm. These fools are even going after kids as the article states "The growing obsession with singling out children for mob ridicule is especially troubling. Recall in early August, it was an 11-year-old girl who became the object of right-wing taunts after she had the audacity to stand up at an Obama town hall and ask the president a question. Busted! The kid wasn't participating in public democracy. Instead, the mob called her out as a shifty, "in-the-tank questioner."
Obama's team is fighting the GOP loonies as the article "White House lashes out at Glenn Beck, Fox News' lies'" at
http://rawstory.com/2009/09/white-house-glenn-beck-lies/
states "In another sign that the Obama administration is increasingly willing to take on its media critics directly, the White House blog has published a comparison of Fox News "rhetoric" versus "reality" on the issue of President Obama's support for Chicago's Olympic bid.
The statement went so far as to use the expression "Fox lies."
