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Nickelodeon website shills for … World Can’t Wait

posted at 5:34 pm on October 31, 2007 by Allahpundit
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World Can’t Wait being, of course, a communist front group even by the lights of the rabid conservatives at the San Francisco Chronicle. I’m trying to think of a right-wing analog to WCW to communicate the absurdity of seeing this on kids’ TV. The Birchers? Maybe Vlaams Belang? You wouldn’t even need to go extreme to get the left in a froth about political indoctrination of kids. Try running a three-minute segment of Rush Limbaugh or Bill O’Reilly talking about open borders and see what happens. You’d have to duck and cover from the blast.

You’re looking for the “Rebels With a Cause” clip at the top and skipping ahead to 16:45. Behold, the nutroots JV team in early formation. Click the image to watch.

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Pffft. This is nothing new. I remember when I was younger and “Nick News” started showing up. Talked about how great Clinton was, how bad republicans are, how global warming was going to kill us all, and how socialism was always the best way. That indoctrination has been creeping for years, and this is just the point where they don’t care anymore.

That said, do kids even watch Nickelodeon anymore? Apart from Spongebob Squarepants, what notable shows have they had in the last 10 years?

MadisonConservative on October 31, 2007 at 5:39 PM

Brought to you by Bee Movie. Is there anything that isn’t brought to you by Bee Movie? Besides laughter.

Jim Treacher on October 31, 2007 at 5:42 PM

Fairly Oddparents is good but has waned as of late.

Damian G. on October 31, 2007 at 5:42 PM

Linda Ellerbee is still alive?

Love the kid in his Club Gitmo gear.

JammieWearingFool on October 31, 2007 at 5:43 PM

That said, do kids even watch Nickelodeon anymore? Apart from Spongebob Squarepants, what notable shows have they had in the last 10 years?

I have to admit, I’m a sucker for two or three of their shows. All cartoons of course, and the best of the lot is AVATAR, the Last Airbender.

eclark1849 on October 31, 2007 at 5:44 PM

Micah from Berzerkeley has a future as an annoying ACLU twit.

JammieWearingFool on October 31, 2007 at 5:46 PM

Good grief, is nothing sacred?

Bad Candy on October 31, 2007 at 5:48 PM

“Real kids tackle important international issues”?????

WTF????

No, real kids are supposed to do their homework, learn how to spell, and play soccer after school.

More left wing exploitation/indoctrination of kids.

At least parents have the V-Chip option to shut off this kind of tripe.

Always Right on October 31, 2007 at 5:52 PM

I liked how he was outraged for being kicked out of the Powell street mall in San Francisco. “Corporations!!!”

jayj on October 31, 2007 at 5:54 PM

The video doesn’t work.

You must be lying, Allah.

Dirt-sniffer.

see-dubya on October 31, 2007 at 5:56 PM

Works for me. You need to click the video at the top to make it play.

Allahpundit on October 31, 2007 at 5:57 PM

yeah, you Goblin, you.

Mike D. on October 31, 2007 at 6:02 PM

I tried to find a contact phone or Email address to ask them when they had decided to join the communist party but I could find nothing.

Just like a lib to push their lies and provide no means to rebut or complain about their propaganda.

CloneTrooper on October 31, 2007 at 6:05 PM

Believe it or not I watched the whole thing almost the whole thing… I will say that I support the animal rights kid, he sees it’s a real problem, and I have to agree that we must speak for those who can’t speak for themselves: animals. So kudos to him.

But Good God, the “Jesus loves me” girl? Someone show her videos of the women in Saudi Arabia for heaven’s sake, and quick, before all that passion dies out!!

Califemme on October 31, 2007 at 6:06 PM

I remember the old adverts tellilng me to take short showers and to conserve water in other ways. Because otherwise we’d run out.

Needless to say until the sixth grade I was frightened that we may RUN OUT OF WATER.

Keljeck on October 31, 2007 at 6:07 PM

To me, a story such as “Nickelodeon Shills For Communist Front Group” just goes into the “YEAH, NO-F***IN’-S**T” file…

Republicans can NEVER stop this crap until they spend their own money to produce and distribute their own video content.

ScottMcC on October 31, 2007 at 6:09 PM

Good grief, is nothing sacred?

Bad Candy on October 31, 2007 at 5:48 PM

It goes much deeper than that. Their TV for preschoolers, which I loved for my 4 y.o goes right into their Nick Jr. which he starts watching at this age. And apparently that leads to Nickolodeon where they are taught the greater purpose. This really does feel like a bad (great) South Park episode, but there is no denying those videos. They will hear from me, and other parents will hear about it from me. I can accept them selling crap cereal or disgusting gooey candy, but when they go there the TV goes off.

sweeper on October 31, 2007 at 6:11 PM

Tried that and still got nothin’. Oh well.

I Elvised my old TV when we moved, and I’m glad.

see-dubya on October 31, 2007 at 6:11 PM

The “kids” have always been the target of the Communists - The Young Pioneers. The Nazis targeted them, too - The Hitler Youth.

It’s only fitting that the Communist indoctrination of American “kids” is open, notorious and on television. There’s a reason for it, too. The one-parent “families” - the family, also, being a Communist target - like to use cartoons to babysit.

The American Communists know what they’re doing.

OhEssYouCowboys on October 31, 2007 at 6:13 PM

Just so everyone is clear. They are owned by Viacom. As for the “evil corporation” this is the standard.

sweeper on October 31, 2007 at 6:15 PM

Also, so everyone is clear when they support this company tonight, here is a list of their assets
http://www.viacom.com/OUR%20BRANDS/MEDIA%20NETWORKS/default.aspx

Pretty disturbing.

sweeper on October 31, 2007 at 6:20 PM

This is painful.

The network that brought me my favorite television shows of my early years now stabs me in the back.

I realize that Nick News has been liberal since the beginning, and I was not yet knowlegdeable enough as a kid in politics to see it.

But this is beyond the pale.

Now they’ve decided to take out my childhood.

What a shame.

It’s pretty much over. When I become a parent, I simply will not trust the television in the hands of my children alone. When a kid’s network does this, it’s game over.

Hawkins1701 on October 31, 2007 at 6:27 PM

I doubt many kids even watch the Kids News portion of Nickleodeon. I don’t even remember that show as a kid, but it may have been somewhere in between “You Can’t Do That On Television” and “Today’s Special”.

Its Tommy on October 31, 2007 at 7:01 PM

No, real kids are supposed to do their homework, learn how to spell, and play soccer after school.

Well said!

The first group in the clip is from Vermont, nuff said. Weren’t they supposed to be succeeding from the U.S.?

I wanna see Micah do his little demonstration at any military base in the country. Maybe that’ll change his mind.

Lessee, Vermont, Berzerkeley, Seattle, Nick owned by Viacom, why am I surprised?

RMCS_USN on October 31, 2007 at 7:01 PM

Its Tommy on October 31, 2007 at 7:01 PM

I remember both of those shows. The “green slime” thing on the former was stupid as heck.

I haven’t been able to raise the clip from here or Nickelodeon’s web site though, because the page sits at “TurboNick: Loading…” forever.

Ryan Gandy on October 31, 2007 at 7:10 PM

Small point, but what’s with Linda Ellerbee’s half-lotus position? (Both knees are supposed to be near the ground.)

thuja on October 31, 2007 at 7:11 PM

To me, a story such as “Nickelodeon Shills For Communist Front Group” just goes into the “YEAH, NO-F***IN’-S**T” file…

Republicans can NEVER stop this crap until they spend their own money to produce and distribute their own video content.

ScottMcC on October 31, 2007 at 6:09 PM

True.

Bad Candy on October 31, 2007 at 7:35 PM

This really does feel like a bad (great) South Park episode, but there is no denying those videos.

That reminds me: tonight is the final episode of the Imaginationland trilogy on Southpark!!! YESSSSS!

NTWR on October 31, 2007 at 7:37 PM

Never mind, I had to use IE7 to view it.

Quite honestly, I’m sorry I did. Between shots of PETA placards, the girl talking about the Iraq War, and the abovesaid ‘tweens dancing around in black hoods, this is a gold mine of radical activism. Thank you Nickelodeon, for making part of my lunch come back up into my mouth.

If anyone is interested in emailing them, Blackfive has a few contact links for Nick and Viacom.

Califemme on October 31, 2007 at 6:06 PM

Amen.

I wonder if she’s ever seen any of the Farfour cartoons telling little Arab kids to kill Jews.

Ryan Gandy on October 31, 2007 at 7:41 PM

“Corporations!!!”

Yeah, like someone else already noted, big evil corporations like, um, VIACOM: owner of Nickelodeon, Paramount, MTV, VH1, BET, Dreamworks, Comedy Central, etc.

I’ve been following Nick for a long time on my blog. They tagged SONY CORP.’s John Mellencamp of George Soros’ Vote for Change Tour to host a songwriting contest about “What freedom means to you.” Yes, the same Johnny Cougar who wrote a song calling Bush a Texas Bandito and “just another cheap thug who sacrifices our young.”

And of course, Rosie was host of their Kids’ Choice awards, where they award blimps for Best Male Singer to Chingy:

The type of girl that’ll get ya up and go make ya grind,
I’m thinking ’bout snatching her up dirty, making her mine,
Look at her hips, butt, look at her legs,
ain’t she stacked?

And they can’t flush enough money away on Whoopi Goldberg: Whoopi’s Littleburg and Just for Kicks.

And yes, Linda Ellerbee’s “news” show is indoctrination central.

saint kansas on October 31, 2007 at 7:41 PM

Send a message to NICK :
http://www.nick.com/mynick/write_nick/mail.jhtml

commonsensehoosier on October 31, 2007 at 7:45 PM

World Can’t Wait being, of course, a communist front group

P.S. Lest anyone think that this is “right wing hate speech,” no: World Can’t Wait is very much a communist front group. Just check out their “advisory board,” if you can stomach their website.

Michael Medved interviewed one of the founding members on his radio show, a young girl (20 or so) who said she was a proud communist and considered China under Mao to be the pinnacle of human achievement.

Allen Lang, National Student and Youth Coordinator for The World Can’t Wait! Drive Out The Bush Regime: “As a member of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, he led student walkouts and demonstrations protesting the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and was part of shutting down a military recruitment center during the March 5th 2003 Moratorium to Stop the War.”

saint kansas on October 31, 2007 at 7:51 PM

that was a thousand times worse than you portrayed it. don’t skip ahead. please watch the entire thing with its segments promoting peta and opposing minimum educational assessment tests, all presented by ellerby in the sport of tone one uses to explain that a stovetop is hot to a three year old.

this lone segement is more disgusting than the entire run of captain planet.

jummy on October 31, 2007 at 8:25 PM

His main goal is to remove Bush from power… If his wonderful educators had enlightened him on the specifics of the Constitution of the United States of America, he would realize the clock is going to do that for him…

Little bastard obviously has no parents in the traditional sense of the word.

JEFF_IN_NC on October 31, 2007 at 8:59 PM

As the father of a 13 year old who has trusted Nick for over a decade I am infuriated beyond words.

JEFF_IN_NC on October 31, 2007 at 9:05 PM

Wow.

If anybody asks you the difference between the modern Right and Left, point to the above story, and then to this one. Perfect contrast in microcosm.

Well-Armed Lamb on October 31, 2007 at 9:19 PM

I’m glad I cancelled cable a month ago. PBS isn’t a whole lot better, but at least it’s unwatchable for any kid over the age of 3 (unless they’re being raised by liberals, which bumps the age to 12). If PBS ever gets entertaining, I’ll have to check it out more closely.

reaganaut on October 31, 2007 at 9:36 PM

the black hoods they wear are “often associated with acts of torture…” i think the black hoods are worn shortly before a rabid, venomous zealot takes a dull knife and saws the head off a helpless victim.

doesnt sound anything like what our military is doing. what happened to the good ol’ days when the torture victims were forced to put underwear on their heads. lets see those kids run around in public like that.

palefaced on October 31, 2007 at 10:16 PM

Oooo…they’re sooorebellious.

Far as I’m concerned, being a kid “rebel” these days means respecting authority, maintaining your virginity, wearing pants above your asscrack, avoiding tattoos & piercings and minding your parents.

The Ugly American on October 31, 2007 at 10:39 PM

my letter:

I’m not one who typically does either of these two things:

1) follows links from political blogs to the comments page of one organization or another at the center of the “crisis” du jour.

2) grouses to media organizations about their “lack of ballance”; percieved or real, slight or eggregious.

The reasons for this are simple. If the “crisis” turns out to be mere empty alarmism, it’s obviously not worth my time. And even if it turns out that the alarm has been raised in response to a real, percievable bias, what’s a letter to the editor supposed to accomplish? It’s their bias and their platform. Real action would consist of building and supporting alternatives, right?

However, Linda Ellerby’s NickNews segment titled, “Rebels With a Cause” was astonishing. If it merely lacked ballance, that would be one thing. Here we have a peice of pedagogy in radical leftwing adgitation.

The worst of this was Ellerby’s promotion of a group called “the World Can’t Wait” (WCW). WCW is a Maoist group created by the Revolutionary Workers Party (RCP). The RCP is not pascifist, it is dedicated to “overthrow and thoroughly smash and dismantle the bourgeois state. And that requires war.” Nor is it kind in its militancy. The RCP is the sister organization to the infamous Weather Underground Terrorist group of the 70’s, both having broken with the “moderate” practices of the Progressive Labor Party. The RCP avowedly supports The Shining Path and the Nepalese Maoist militias, has collaborated with the former and RCP members have been implicated in the activities of the German Red Army Faction.

These facts hardly comprise a full accounting of WCW’s ideological corruptness. For instance, I would imagine that even most who would consider themselves radical would be disgusted to learn that the RCP’s Draft Programme identifies homosexuality as a sickness engendered by “late-capitalism”, prescribing that gays and lesbians be “re-educated” after the revolution.

The promotion of this group to nine, ten, elleven, twelve and thirteen year-olds as something to get involved in could hardly be more disturbing than if the peice featured instead David Duke’s “anti-war” group, “No War For Israel”. One could speculate that a version of “Rebels With a Cause” which turned around that axis would have Linda Ellerby seeking out the youngest members of White Supremacist groups to expound on otherwise legitimate issues such as immigration reform. Perhaps it would begin with a segment about “young Rebels” petitioning their school board to boycott foods bearing the symbol of the so-called “Kosher Tax”. Ellerby would present this a model activity for tweens without even the consideration towards aknowleging the terrorism suppporting such activism.

Worst of all, Ellerby would present this to your child audience in the tone a caring adult uses to teach a child that stovetops are hot, which would be, as in the case of the version you did choose to broadcast, utterly revolting.

jummy on October 31, 2007 at 10:42 PM

AP, I’ve got a comment stuck in the moderation queue again. sorry.

jummy on October 31, 2007 at 10:47 PM

tnks

jummy on October 31, 2007 at 10:49 PM

Looks like Nick jumped off the deep end.

Too bad, I used to like them.

Just one more thing to ban off my acceptable list.

BKennedy on October 31, 2007 at 10:50 PM

Republicans can NEVER stop this crap until they spend their own money to produce and distribute their own video content.

ScottMcC on October 31, 2007 at 6:09 PM

Hopefully, if the Republicans ever decide to put money into video, they’ll leave the kids out of it. This Nick stuff looks bad, even if I were a Dem I’d have a hard time listening to it.

4shoes on October 31, 2007 at 10:58 PM

Doesn’t Rosie O’s lezbo lover run Nick as its president or something like that? If so, then that’s all you need to know about how bad things are there.

kevcad on October 31, 2007 at 11:14 PM

Folks, this is HUGE and something needs to be done. I’m really disappointed now that Malkin has cut ties with O’Reilly. I hope he still gets wind of this.

At any rate, Malkin and ArmyWifeToddlerMom have contact info (including sponsors’ contact info)

http://armywifetoddlermom.blogspot.com/2007/10/nickelodeon-is-trying-to-brainwash-your.html

http://michellemalkin.com/2007/10/31/nickelodeon-goes-moonbatty/

RightWinged on October 31, 2007 at 11:52 PM

Repeat the password now. Repeat the password now. Bush sucks! Go after Hasbro first.

To counteract the Commies, Conservatives need to have counter demonstrations that are also “really powerful” which show women in black Burkas being stoned. We could throw Sponge Bob sponges at them instead of stones. When the women are “dead” they can lie down on the sidewalk and block access to Nickelodeon’s headquarters.

Next, someone like O’Reilly should send some reporters to that Brattleboro H.S. and ask the kids what they are doing to help the sweat shop kids. They’ve stopped buying from that supplier. Now what? Are the kids any better off?

Kinda like when Mrs. Mark Steyn asked someone with a “Free Tibet” bumper sticker on their car what they had actually done to free Tibet.

Buy Danish on November 1, 2007 at 12:34 AM

Man, it would have been nice if they’d offered an opposing viewpoint. Just once. Yeah.

Sean M. on November 1, 2007 at 6:35 AM

Big surprise that Linda Ellerbee is a socialist. My kids never watched Nickleodeon once she became part of the network.

roux on November 1, 2007 at 9:16 AM

jummy on October 31, 2007 at 10:42 PM

Well said

sweeper on November 1, 2007 at 9:43 AM

I will say that I support the animal rights kid, he sees it’s a real problem, and I have to agree that we must speak for those who can’t speak for themselves: animals.

Califemme on October 31, 2007 at 6:06 PM

Disgusting. All “animal rights” arguments inevitably devolve into outright hatred of humanity. All of them.

Loundry on November 1, 2007 at 1:38 PM

Disgusting. All “animal rights” arguments inevitably devolve into outright hatred of humanity. All of them.

True enough.

@jummy: Nice letter, I’ve got to remember that part about the Revolutionary Worker’s Party.

Ryan Gandy on November 1, 2007 at 2:34 PM

sweeper on November 1, 2007 at 9:43 AM

thanks!

Ryan Gandy on November 1, 2007 at 2:34 PM

it goes on and gets worse. there is, for instance, a reasonal basis to say that the l.a. riots stemmed from the rcp’s work; specificly RCPer, carl dix’s work organizing within the crips and bloods.

jummy on November 1, 2007 at 3:14 PM

Will somebody please think of the children!!!???

jummy on October 31, 2007 at 10:42 PM

Shouldn’t people spell check their letters before sending them off to Nickelodeon?

Nonfactor on November 1, 2007 at 3:36 PM

What kind of a parent would let their children behave in such a manner? I wonder when Linda Ellerbee will feature kids who do good things for our Troops…oops, never!

Shelly on November 2, 2007 at 10:43 AM

Nonfactor on November 1, 2007 at 3:36 PM

i did. what was misspelled by your reconing? “blog”? that was the only word spellcheck.com flagged.

jummy on November 2, 2007 at 1:01 PM


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