Yet Another School Video: Let’s Do the Health Reform Rag!

posted at 3:52 pm on October 8, 2009 by
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Okay, this is getting pretty creepy now. Students from the Ron Clark Academy, a private Atlanta middle school, appeared live on CNN on Monday to perform the following . . . er — “song” in support of ObamaCare. (All I can say is Franz Schubert and Gustav Mahler, move over!)

The video was made public by Noel Sheppard of NewsBusters.org (h/t James Taranto at BOTWT), who was good enough to provide the lyrics, which are reprinted below:

Got paged in the morning at 5 am
Time to go into work again.
Welcome to the world of medicine,
Whoa, here we go again.
The hospital’s packed with people in a long line
Agitated cause we’ve waited for a long time.
This is all so crazy, too many missing coverage lately

My tummy’s turning and I’m feeling kinda sickly
My hip’s bad and I feel weak
And the prices are always raising up.
Conservatives and liberals say
To reform healthcare today
But they can’t seem to find a way.

So we throw our hands up for healthcare reform
Make your choice today.
Private and public care
Will a marketplace treat us fair?

So we throw our hands up for healthcare reform
Make your choice today.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It’s a problem in the USA.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It’s a problem in the USA.

Obama says everyone needs
Health coverage in America now.
We need to insure those 47 million
But the government doesn’t know how.
Deductibles getting higher every day
I got my bill and I’m thinking NO way.
And what about my brother?
He’s hurt and can’t get covered.

My tummy’s turning and I’m feeling kinda worried
Capricious coverage is killing me.
That’s when a doctor said, “You’ll have to go.”
Bipartisan support was tried so we wouldn’t be denied
But Joe Wilson yelled, “You lie!”

So we throw our hands up for healthcare reform
Make your choice today.
Private and public care
Will a marketplace treat us fair?

So we throw our hands up for healthcare reform
Make your choice today.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It’s a problem in the USA.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It’s a problem in the USA.

As Taranto notes, this is the same CNN that saw fit to “fact check” an SNL comedy skit about Obama. Gee, I wonder whose side they’re on?

I close with Taranto’s closing observation:

If a group of young children were paraded out to sing in support of a conservative president’s popular initiative–say, the liberation of Iraq in 2002–it would be just as objectionable. One suspects that in that case, even CNN would have recognized the problem.

Cross-posted at Zombie Contentions

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Yeah, I can see how the press would be perfectly happy if they sang this, instead:

Bush says everyone needs
Guns in America now.
We need to ensure those 300 million
Are safe and we know how
The country’s getting more dangerous every day
I got my gun and I’m thinking NO way.
And what about my brother?
He’s got a gun so he’s covered.

Daggett on October 8, 2009 at 4:06 PM

if they sang this, instead

ten year old kids singing about guns… endearing. only a conservative would come up with something this moronic.

sesquipedalian on October 8, 2009 at 4:52 PM

ten year old kids singing about health care… endearing. only a liberal would come up with something this moronic.

Howard Portnoy on October 8, 2009 at 5:03 PM

Students from the Ron Clark Academy, a private Atlanta middle school…

It’s a private school. So what’s the big deal? I’m more upset that CNN hosted a private school in this matter in an attempt to show, something about kids I guess.

This video is far less offensive than the others because of the public vs private school issue.

Private schools can do whatever they want.

However, CNN is still retarded.

uknowmorethanme on October 8, 2009 at 7:24 PM

Private schools can do whatever they want.

Not so sure about that, uknowmorethanme. They, too, have charters that constrain them and are under the purview of their state board of ed.

But the larger point is whether any schools should encourage, let alone tolerate, indoctrination. The answer to that is obvious.

Howard Portnoy on October 8, 2009 at 7:30 PM

I made my song about guns to make a point…

However, it’s interesting that just today in Texas someone defended himself against an intruder by shooting the intruder. The intruder later died. Nobody is expecting that the person who defended himself will be charged with any crime.

I don’t own a gun but I may buy one after hearing that story.

Daggett on October 8, 2009 at 10:23 PM

But the larger point is whether any schools should encourage, let alone tolerate, indoctrination. The answer to that is obvious.

I could not agree with you more.

I can just imagine the liberal outrage if kids from a Catholic school were on CNN singing about the abortion debate.

uknowmorethanme on October 9, 2009 at 12:18 AM

I don’t own a gun but I may buy one after hearing that story.

Happens every day.

uknowmorethanme on October 9, 2009 at 12:19 AM

Students from the Ron Clark Academy, a private Atlanta middle school…

It’s a private school. So what’s the big deal? I’m more upset that CNN hosted a private school in this matter in an attempt to show, something about kids I guess.

This video is far less offensive than the others because of the public vs private school issue.

Private schools can do whatever they want.

However, CNN is still retarded.

uknowmorethanme on October 8, 2009 at 7:24 PM

I agree, private schools can and should teach what they want. I also agree that this performance isn’t really news. I am greatly comforted that their are school children who can use the word “capricious” in a sentence. Another great arguement for school vouchers and private schools.

kringeesmom on October 9, 2009 at 8:33 AM