NBC commentator: The biggest threat to kids from Obama’s speech is their dumb hysterical parents
posted at 4:11 pm on September 8, 2009 by Allahpundit
Via Hot Air Pundit. Remember this guy? His moment of glory came last summer, on the day Biden was picked for VP, when he hit the airwaves to assure us that Greasy Joe’s many racial gaffes were actually a strength insofar as they proved what a salt-of-the-earth chap he was. Now here he is ready to call DSS on conservative parents for not wanting a guy who built his own cult of personality addressing their kids. I don’t share their concern, but neither do I think it’s nutty to be leery of mainstreaming left-wing politics in public school classrooms. As the boss has said all along, it’s not the speech that’s the worry, it’s what teachers do with The One’s “inspiration” from here.
Exit question: Would a congressional investigation into the president’s expenditure of federal funds for this photo op also be nutty? Or is that okay because there’s a Democratic precedent for it?
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Could he go to the NBC Gift Shop and buy me and Obama t-shirt?
Cindy Munford on September 8, 2009 at 4:14 PM
You mean parents may have concerns about a politician speaking to their children? While they are at school? School being paid for by their tax dollars?
catmman on September 8, 2009 at 4:15 PM
Leave Obama alone.
He’s got a lot on his plate.
And he’s doing (a good job).
Or something.
artist on September 8, 2009 at 4:15 PM
DSS?
Django on September 8, 2009 at 4:15 PM
man oh man John Harwood is mainlining the kool aide now..tsk tsk
ginaswo on September 8, 2009 at 4:15 PM
The biggest threat to an informed public are the dumb ass, left wing commentators on NBC and MSNBC.
rplat on September 8, 2009 at 4:16 PM
Apparently, the same comment could be made about the parents who refused to allow thier kids to join the Hitler Youth, Khmer Rouge, or “Kids for Mao”.
BobMbx on September 8, 2009 at 4:16 PM
DSS?
lorien1973 on September 8, 2009 at 4:17 PM
They must be worried, they don’t like it when they are marginalized.
fourdeucer on September 8, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Department of Social Services
WashJeff on September 8, 2009 at 4:18 PM
Notice he had to throw the Race Card in there as well. These parents aren’t against this because Obama is a Marxist radical — oh no! Policy has nothing to do with it. It’s the fact that he’s our first “African-American president” that has them in a “hysterical” fit.
2Brave2Bscared on September 8, 2009 at 4:19 PM
A) I want to see the speech as it existed BEFORE the uproar.
B) Many Americans, perhaps even a plurality, do not trust a single word that comes of out of Obama’s mouth, no matter how innocuous it appears to be.
C) Americans are not wrong for wanting to control the message their children receive while they are a captive audience. If this was such an important issue for Obama, then deliver the speech in prime time and let parents decide whether or not to let their kids watch it.
BardMan on September 8, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Department of Social Services.
In my state it’s DSS that will come to your house and snatch your kids for a whole host of reasons.
I think it’s called Child Services in some states.
RagTag on September 8, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Erh….I think the dumb ass, left wing commentators on NBC and MSNBC are the greatest assets that can be brought to bear against tyranny and socialism.
The stranger these commentators (mouthpieces) get with their “analysis” of conservatives, the smaller the liberal camp becomes.
Ratings have consequences.
BobMbx on September 8, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Or is this DSS (military site)?
WashJeff on September 8, 2009 at 4:20 PM
ZJPolitical on September 8, 2009 at 4:20 PM
FatherNBC knows best!PrincipledPilgrim on September 8, 2009 at 4:21 PM
I was thinking “Dee SS”.
LibTired on September 8, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Dealing with the donk party, is like running a full time day care!
christene on September 8, 2009 at 4:22 PM
btw, Amanda Carpenter tweets this about NBC:
JiangxiDad on September 8, 2009 at 4:22 PM
The above is proof that conservatives are utter morons.
That NBC guy is %100 right about these right-wing lunatics as parents. This is just all manufactured outrage.
Norman Blizter on September 8, 2009 at 4:23 PM
The President gave a speech using conservative rhetoric…but as this explains…parents became alarmed because of the process, not the actual words the President said.
And its still propaganda, because President Obama…like in his campaign, sounded conservative…which creates a false level of trust. He is a liar and a radical.
Conservative Voice on September 8, 2009 at 4:23 PM
“Why is it important to listen to our leaders , like the President, the mayor, and other elected officials (but, exclusively not your parents)?”
BobMbx on September 8, 2009 at 4:23 PM
NBC? I can’t get too worked up over people who have sold their souls for Dear Leader.
d1carter on September 8, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Stupid parents, don’t they realize their kids belong to the federal government?
NickelAndDime on September 8, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Do these guys ever get out of their own echo chamber? How many times do you have to say that the wasn’t the speech, it was the creepy lessons plans.
On another note, I just heard a local (Phoenix) radio commercial selling A/C units. The tag line was “go green without becoming a wacko environmentalist” Sweet!
azkenreid on September 8, 2009 at 4:24 PM
These pep talks are required for soft tyranny.
seven on September 8, 2009 at 4:24 PM
John Harwood is an Obama-sucking guy, if u get my drift.
JiangxiDad on September 8, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Ask Tom Broke Jaw.
thomasaur on September 8, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Lord forbid we have conservatives communicating. That has to be stopped! I have a feeling we better enjoy HA while we can.
TXMomof3 on September 8, 2009 at 4:25 PM
Just like the objections to Van Jones’ truther insanity and Rev. Wright’s g-damn Amerika, right? Oh those crackpot non-believers! How dare they not lay down before their media-chosen God!
Django on September 8, 2009 at 4:25 PM
Jeff Dunham does a better job with his dummies than the White House does with theirs.
Begs the question: Where does Obama put his hand?
HoustonRight on September 8, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Hand? How about knife as he is twisting it in the back of the victim.
upinak on September 8, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Glad you have a federal manufacturing czar union lawyer. Engineer-job creator? Not so much.
clorensen on September 8, 2009 at 4:26 PM
When I see crap like this it makes me fully understand what made Americans sign up in droves to fight in the Civil War.
I have absolutely nothing in common with media a-holes like this guy, with anyone in Obama’s White House or anyone in the Democrat Congress.
I just want to be left the hell alone by all of these people, all of their policy proposals, all of their arrogance, all of their radical chic pseudo intellectual jackassery, is that too much to ask?
NoDonkey on September 8, 2009 at 4:27 PM
No, it’s Der SS…masculine.
Sieg Heil!
Wyznowski on September 8, 2009 at 4:27 PM
Didn’t he anchor the last one? I think it was him and Matthews(or was Matthews solo?). One of them muttered “Jesus Christ” or something like that when Jindal walked out to give the GOP response.
Doughboy on September 8, 2009 at 4:28 PM
How dare these parents decide what’s right for their children. The commenters at the last place Obama-worshiping know better than they do. Imagine how brilliant they would be if they actually had an audience. /sarc
kingsjester on September 8, 2009 at 4:28 PM
Boy this GE /Obama government deal is reeeeeeeeally important to this dude, isn’t it?
I hate this word, but F*** off dude. These are MY kids, and I will teach them MY values. Not yours, not your cronies, and certainly not Obama’s. Just as I’m sure the Obama’s would resent me impuning my values, on their daughters.
capejasmine on September 8, 2009 at 4:28 PM
John Harwood- Obama’s house fly tender.
Fletch54 on September 8, 2009 at 4:28 PM
That does sound familiar. Maybe so.
JiangxiDad on September 8, 2009 at 4:29 PM
You know, the best way to encourage civil debate and convince others of your point of view is to make it clear that if they continue to disagree with you they are stupid racists. And say it condescendingly. This is also a great way to win an election.
Sefton on September 8, 2009 at 4:29 PM
He’s a real weirdo who was showing highly inappropriate bias in his CNBC reporting (an allegedly non-partisan business channel) long before the ascendance of Lord Obama.
Django on September 8, 2009 at 4:29 PM
kingsjester on September 8, 2009 at 4:28 PM
left out Cable News Network after “Obama-worshiping”. Oops.
kingsjester on September 8, 2009 at 4:29 PM
Norman Blizter on September 8, 2009 at 4:23 PM
No, it’s authentic outrage, Sport and it will result in Democrats being catapulted out of office.
NoDonkey on September 8, 2009 at 4:30 PM
another example of Perfect Leftism
keep it coming, please: Keep committing potitical seppuku with your looney-toon ‘truths’ and Fabulous Insights
Janos Hunyadi on September 8, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Outraged? Nah….just smarter than your average bear, the entire population of 1930′s Germany, China, and Cuba combined.
Of course, we have an advantage they did not. We can see it coming. They pretty much just woke up one day as subserviants of communism; unless they happened to be the “manufactured” evil that was causing all the country’s problems. For Germany, it was the Jews; China had capitalists (funny, they now have them again…) and Cuba had the Imperialistic Americans.
Obama has chosen “bible and gun clingers” as his enemy, with unborn kids running a close second…sort of a “5th Column” group.
BobMbx on September 8, 2009 at 4:31 PM
What I want to know is how did anyone know that he said it? Who was watching MSNBC?
huckleberryfriend on September 8, 2009 at 4:31 PM
If the gasbags on NBC oppose me, then I know I’m doing a good job as a parent.
Thank you!
NebCon on September 8, 2009 at 4:31 PM
No kidding. You have no children, no experience rearing babies into mature and responsible adults.
maverick muse on September 8, 2009 at 4:31 PM
Remember, Harwood works for GE. GE capital is nearly bankrupt, and w/out TARP, GE would be gone. Obama owns GE. It’s a gov’t industrial/media co. That’s an example btw of how Obama is running a FASCIST gov’t. Owning other industrial co’s (like GM) and financial co’s (like Citi, AIG, etc.) are other examples. Fascism doesn’t have to have swastikas, but Harwood is a fascist tool, a la Baghdad Bob, Gibbs, etc. These are bought and paid spokesmen for the regime.
JiangxiDad on September 8, 2009 at 4:32 PM
You with your Hotair blogin’
And you skeptics always contemplatin’
How my coronation you’d like to start rearrangin’
When that’s not what you really should do
When heaven has found your children and you
Can’t you see
That it’s all wrapped up in the Messiah that’s Me
So follow Me
Come on, children
Follow Me
I’m Obama the Piper
And I’ll show you where Hope and Change is at
Come on, children
Can’t you see
I’m Obama the Piper
Trust in Me
Children
Don’t be worried about your parents payin’ big bucks to help Me move and Grove
Hey, children
What do you think I’m tryin’ to prove
It ain’t true
That My Michelle would like to punch and rob your dumb hysterical parents and you
It’s just in your mind
And that’s all that’s trickin’ you
So behind all My Media Minions step in line
Come on, children
Turn on your evil racist parents for Me
Come on, children
Trust in My Teleprompter and My Pills and My Candy and Me
Come on, children
Can’t you see
Come on, children
Follow Me
MB4 on September 8, 2009 at 4:32 PM
Apparently NBC didn’t get the (Town Hall) Memo: People do NOT trust the government.
NBC should hire Van Jones to run a day care/school for their reporters children & grandchildren. How many would sign up?
TN Mom on September 8, 2009 at 4:33 PM
So do you, douche…it’s called credibility.
HAnthonyWayne on September 8, 2009 at 4:33 PM
still Trolling Badly, Norm? Still got nothing except insults and crazy-lib talking points?
You ran away from DocZ’s Green Room thread because you got schwacked. You’ll suffer the same fate here…….
Janos Hunyadi on September 8, 2009 at 4:33 PM
muttered and then laughed derisively out loud at Jindal
maverick muse on September 8, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Just wondering…having read the text of his speech, how many people are keeping their kids home today?
Black Yoshi on September 8, 2009 at 4:34 PM
But he will, and then he’ll know why being reasonable objective and cool doesn’t enter the picture. There is one inviolable rule that all parents learn, and applies to the entire animal kingdom: Hands off my kids! Stay AWAY!
JiangxiDad on September 8, 2009 at 4:34 PM
Jugendamt.
Maquis on September 8, 2009 at 4:34 PM
I agree with this.
My son is out of school but if he had been in school, I would have used this as a teaching moment. Children need to be exposed to all ideas and then parents have the duty to help the child evaluate the idea. They will only learn to defend their position when they learn why they need to.
ladyingray on September 8, 2009 at 4:34 PM
NBC commentator: The biggest threat to kids from Obama’s speech is their dumb hysterical parents…because no body can take better care of kids than the gubmint!!!
FontanaConservative on September 8, 2009 at 4:35 PM
Don’t ignore the playground banter.
maverick muse on September 8, 2009 at 4:36 PM
No.
Oldnuke on September 8, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Why is Harwood so intolerant?
Dusty on September 8, 2009 at 4:37 PM
No, but your comment is proof that you’re an intellectual light-weight, to lazy to do anything but take one comment and pretend it represents an entire group.
So the parents who did the same and worse in the 90s, that’s OK? Can you really be this hypocritical?
Esthier on September 8, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Tell ‘em how it is, Baby!
TXMomof3 on September 8, 2009 at 4:37 PM
In other words, kids tell your parents to go pound sand and stop having your own opinion. Obama will raise us.
Wade on September 8, 2009 at 4:38 PM
By all means! Our young patriots should denounce any counter revolutionaries lurking in their homes and schools! Young Patriots on the march! Yes we can! (stay up late and eat whatever we want)
ronsfi on September 8, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Just wondering…what happened to Obama’s original curriculum? What happened to the orig. speech. Why was it replaced with a speech, correctly described by a sane voice on twitter this way:
My kids went to school, but the school decided to pass on this speech. The kids were too busy working to interrupt them with this community-organizing pap.
JiangxiDad on September 8, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Did Obama’s girls see this message in their $28K per year private school that the riff-raff are prohibited from attending?
“Work hard kidlings and you’ll be able to extort enough bribes and kickbacks that your offspring will be able to escape our crappy public schools!”
NoDonkey on September 8, 2009 at 4:40 PM
If calling Obama an incompetent, lying communist makes me a racist, well, then I’m all that and more, and I’m not alone.
More racism needed.
Cybergeezer on September 8, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Dumb hysterical parents are the backbone of the American left. We on the right are just dumb, but never hysterical.
Limerick on September 8, 2009 at 4:41 PM
Just because Obama supports child brainwashing totalitarians like Chavez and Castro against democratic Honduras, that’s no reason for parents to be concerned about what he says to their kids. And anyone who disagrees with that is a retarded sh*t-eating hillbilly. It’s all very logical, you see.
Django on September 8, 2009 at 4:42 PM
My kids turned out beautifully. They think Obama is a d*ckhead, just like me.
No, wait a minute. The syntax got messed up there. That sentence is supposed to convey the idea that I, too, as do my children, think Obama is a d*ckhead, not that I stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Obama as a fellow d*ckhead. I absolutely do not stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Obama.
FlameWarrior on September 8, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Sven the younger saw the speech, I wanted to see if they went with the DoE full monty….they didn’t….
he asked on the way home today….
“why did Barack interrupt math to tell me to do math?”
and
“the class looked like the kids from Reno 911! when the cops speak….”
I love my son.
sven10077 on September 8, 2009 at 4:43 PM
MSNBC: We’re here to bring you daily reminders that you shouldn’t be listening to the talking and flashing box in your living room.
MadisonConservative on September 8, 2009 at 4:44 PM
This dumb bunch of news “reporters” are living in some alternate universe; How can they be so far out of touch with reality?
Cybergeezer on September 8, 2009 at 4:44 PM
in a perfect world the media would try to understand the concerns of the parents, oh well.
rob verdi on September 8, 2009 at 4:45 PM
Let Obama eat his waffles!
SouthernGent on September 8, 2009 at 4:46 PM
These people are ensconced in their religion and nothing will deter them from idolizing, protecting and defending the prophets of their belief system.
This guy is a true believer. Anyone that believes differently than him is clearly an idiot.
watson007 on September 8, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Smart parents were right to be skeptical of a speech given to their childern by a president who staged his own town hall meetings, operated Snitch Central, obtained private emails, hired tax cheats, appointed a communist – marcist- racist (Van Jones) without proper vetting, refuses to release his own personal records…
TN Mom on September 8, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Norm, both that guy and you are 100% wrong. I am not a lunatic. I simply do not trust anyone who surrounds themselves with unsavory characters having “conversations” with my kids; I don’t care if he’s simply talking about how good vanilla ice cream tastes. Maybe you’d like to quit with the third grade name calling and discuss issues like an adult?
jimmy2shoes on September 8, 2009 at 4:47 PM
So are you a d*ckhead or not?
thomasaur on September 8, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Do you think O will count that as a created job?
Beaglemom on September 8, 2009 at 4:47 PM
You wanted to say, “they think Obama’s a d*ckhead just like I do.”
Or maybe you didn’t. Your second paragraph was hilarious and would have been lost with my revision.
Esthier on September 8, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Brace yourselves, because as Obama and support for his policies sink lower and lower in the polls, the shriller and more vitriolic partisan tools like Harwood are going to become. Expect the attacks on their opposition to become more insulting and personal, as well. It’s the Alinsky Way! (patent pending!)
cynccook on September 8, 2009 at 4:48 PM
MEMO TO ALL NBC EMPLOYEES AND JOURNALIST
FU*K every one of you dumb lying SOB’s
bluegrass on September 8, 2009 at 4:51 PM
NBC i8s just playing to it’s pitiful base and viewer numbers.
GE won’t be happy until NBC is toast. Maybe Murdoch can buy NBC out of bankruptcy.
Jeff from WI on September 8, 2009 at 4:52 PM
LOL..wait until BECK put some people in jail…that ought to help “Shines” numbers.
Jeff from WI on September 8, 2009 at 4:54 PM
I saw this live. Even I was stunned.
faraway on September 8, 2009 at 4:54 PM
What happened to my old GE?
faraway on September 8, 2009 at 4:54 PM
We call it CPS (Child Protective Services) here in MD and DE I think.
Joe Caps on September 8, 2009 at 4:57 PM
bluegrass on September 8, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Can I second that emotion?
Right down to the janitors who empty the NBC trashcans. Every last one of them.
NoDonkey on September 8, 2009 at 4:58 PM
The Democrats wasted much more money investigating GHB’s giving of the speech than GHB spent giving the speech. I’m sure the electorate noticed that little fact and acted upon it.
Obama’s speech was not offensive to conservative viewpoints, and, in fact, was a conservative viewpoint — each person is responsible for their own actions, and the student’s success in school will occur to the extent that the student exerts him/herself to learn at or beyond what the school has to offer.
As I’ve stated in other comments, Obama needs to put the money where his mouth is — his crew has killed the successful DC Voucher program solely because of teachers’ union politics. No expensive study by the Republicans on the Hill is needed to confirm this — just observation of the news over the past few months.
unclesmrgol on September 8, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Jack Welch left. That is what happened. Jeff Imelt is a bleeding heart liberal.
I worked for Jack Welch.
“Mr. Imelt – you sir are no Jack Welch.”
I would keep my kids from the Obama speech and from watching any CNN,MCNBC, NBC or CNBC.
Its pretty much like state run televison.
ObamatheMessiah on September 8, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Oh, NOW they’re worried about “echo chambers” keeping people agitated against a President.
Wasn’t such a problem when THEY were that echo chamber, now was it?
Personally, I didn’t give a tinker’s damn about the speech, it was fine – quite good and inspiring, even. It was the NEA’s original published “teaching aids”, combined with the rabid type of libtard schoolteacher like the one who nearly brought a girl to tears because she favored McCain last year that worried me. I would have kept them home and let them watch the speech here, because I didn’t want the willing minions to twist the meaning of what was overall a fine speech, but my kids’ school in SE Virginia didn’t show the speech anyway, or at least my 3 kids’s classes in K, 3rd, and 4th grade didn’t.
JeffWeimer on September 8, 2009 at 5:00 PM
WHO WATCHES NBC????
SDarchitect on September 8, 2009 at 5:00 PM
The speech that “The One” ended up giving was probably OK, but we have to remember that it was watered down after he, and the Department of Education, got called on it.
My kids are both adults, and fortunately, smart enough to see what our president is all about. If this was a “normal” president, from either side of the aisle, I probably wouldn’t mind a talk to the kids, but this is far from a “normal” president.
Who he associates with, and who he places in positions of trust, should tell you that this guy is bad news, and probably should stay away from your kids. And we still have three and a half years to go.
kam582 on September 8, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Shhh, thom. Be vewwy, vewwy qwiet, You’ll give away the game with a question like that. I’m trying to lure troll-king Norman Biltzer out into the open so I can cut him off at his knees.
FlameWarrior on September 8, 2009 at 5:01 PM
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