{"id":14094,"date":"2009-09-02T14:54:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T19:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14094"},"modified":"2009-09-02T14:58:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T19:58:55","slug":"i-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14094","title":{"rendered":"I pledge?"},"content":{"rendered":"

1stCavRVN11B sent me this link to a Michelle Malkin<\/a> post about a Utah elementary school principal who showed this video to 850 of his students;<\/p>\n

<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

According to the Deseret News<\/a>, parents were pretty upset;<\/p>\n

“I think it’s outrageous. It’s indoctrinating children in a leftist liberal political position,” Utah Eagle Forum President Gayle Ruzicka told the Deseret News Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The video called “I Pledge!” was shown at an assembly of about 850 children on Friday to kick off the school’s annual theme of service, said Davis School District spokesman Chris Williams.<\/p>\n

Parent Jennifer Cieslewicz, of Kaysville, who has a first-grader at Eagle Bay, told the Deseret News, “I am very upset, to say the least. Values are to be taught in the home \u2013 not the school. These kids are young and impressionable.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The PTA President is shocked at the reaction;<\/p>\n

Eagle Bay PTA President Jennifer Maxwell says she is shocked and surprised by people’s negative reaction to the video. “I thought it was inspirational,” Maxwell said. “It was intended to inspire kids to make a difference in the community. We weren’t trying to be political.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, I don’t have a problem with the basic content of the video – all of those things that these self-absorbed, condescending Hollywood types talk about are things I’ve been doing for decades. But why all of a sudden are we supposed to do them this year? <\/p>\n

The Right are apoplectic that this typical self-serving crap is being shown in schools. And, to a point I agree with them – but only because the Left would have been just as apoplectic if the exact same slick personality cult crap would have appeared on television last year with George W. Bush as the person we’re supposed to honor with our pledge to be better people. Of course, George Bush would never let this stuff fly related to his visage.<\/p>\n

It’s garbage like this that makes the Far Right’s irrational fears seem less irrational. The video accomplishes nothing except drive a wedge between people – it amounts to gloating over the election. Like that 52 to 48 drivel. <\/p>\n

And showing it in school? In Utah? Stupid, stupid, stupid. I’m trying to hold a moderate line here, Barrack – you’re not making it easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1stCavRVN11B sent me this link to a Michelle Malkin post about a Utah elementary school principal … I pledge?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,87,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-general-whackos","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}