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.

Listening to Michael Medved yesterday, he brought to my attention two programs. I believe one of them aired last night, on HBO. I don’t get HBO, so would not have been able to catch it, even if I were at……

Nick News/WCW. Indoctrination is kewl….

jummy on October 31, 2007 at 10:42 PM

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

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.

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.

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.

jummy on October 31, 2007 at 10:42 PM

Well said

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.

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/

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.

Too bad, I used to like them.

Just one more thing to ban off my acceptable list.

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.

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.

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.