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November 1, 2007

Stop indoctrinating the kids with compassion!

Taking their cue from an ArmyWife ToddlerMom, the the Mindless Zombies take up the war cry because Nickelodeon has the temerity to broadcast a 20 minute news documentary about activist children.

Hosted by Linda Ellerbee, it covers students in Brattleboro, Vermont trying to stop their school, then their state, from purchasing clothing made by children in sweatshops. Then there’s the Berkeley kids opposed to torture, the Seattle kids against a mandatory school testing program they consider to be racist, the Chicago kids fighting against animal abuse, and it concludes with a gal many of us have seen before, creating videos to try and stop the war in Iraq.

The documentary aired at 5 am in the morning. You know, primetime for children bound to become jihadists.

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Excerpt via Memeorandum

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According to Michelle-Who-Likes-To-Dress-Up-Like-A-High-School-Cheerleader, this is evidence that Nick at Pre-Dawn is creating children who’ll someday be feeding her dementia-ridden carcass with granola-laced Twinkies. So she launches into boycott mode.

You can contact Nickelodeon here:

Nickelodeon-East Coast
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
Phone (212)846-2543

Nickelodeon-West Coast
4040 Vineland Suite 105
Studio City, Ca 91605

ArmyWifeToddlerMom has more contact info for Viacom and Nick’s sponsors. She has already alerted Hasbro and reports that they are shocked that this was childrens programming. We will see what they do with the advertisements…”

Matt Burden at Blackfive: “Time to get into high gear on this one…To say that I’m shocked by this kind of propaganda on a children’s tv station is an understatement.

And, of course, make sure to vote with your remote and wallet.

Among her commenters:

On October 31st, 2007 at 8:59 pm, Peejz said:

I was able to watch up until the school board agreed.

How did the kids explain how these shops will make up for the lost revenue.

I am not justifying the slave labor, just looking at a reality.

Was is the cost of living like in the countries that the children objected to?

What about the kids cell phones? Computers? makeup?

BTW, when a kid demands anything from me, I walk away..

At Newsbusters.org, the first commenter proffered:

I just got hacked by a “liberal with a cause”
October 31, 2007 - 18:25 ET by Lame Cherry

I just had one of my accounts hacked by a liberal child with a malevolent cause as the world is now full of these brainiacs mixed with enough dope and tramp stamps to look like something out of Mad Max.

This liberal problem child was part of a site which hated a certain search engine for the reason they only could understand.

In any event, once the ISP reaches the FBI some parents are going to find out their rebel with a cause is going to be spanked by people who matter.

America now has 3 distinct groups of children. The liberals who you can find chewing up themselves with piercings etc waiting to self annihilate…. The Oprah heads whose main purpose in life is to mimic a turnip and lastly the “conservative” grouping which is the only thing holding this nation together as they actually work, do not take anything from the state and have morals so our wonderful police are not having to police them.

It is beyond understanding why any adult would want children so perplexed that they have to have “a cause” to vent upon. Children should instead be exposed to grounded morals, good examples and the conditioned fields where positive learning can help turn them into peaceful citizens.

Any kind of advocacy or celebrating anything else is akin to child abuse.

Uh, tramp stamps? One can only presume how righteous her anger is that certain people are permitted to eat.

Then there’s Wake Up America who goes into a long diatribe, quoting liberally from Ayn Rand and adding a sprinkling of Nikita Kruschev and Yogi Berra, concluding “Why do we do these things? Because we have become inverted. But we can not live in an inverted world.”

I’m at a loss to explain it, but I’m guessing while he was navel-gazing, he reached the shocking realization that he possessed an innie.

Ian Schwarz is a welcome model of brevity with the title that says it all: Official: Nickelodeon Hates America

The best sense of teh outrage exists at Blackfive this time, where the commenters hunker down to spare our nation from the indoctrination camps of the left that populate the globe in secret hellholes like Hollywood and Berkeley and dash off letters to inform the sixteen year old in Alabama that Iraqi children might be dead because they were killed by terrorists instead of US troops. That girl, btw, has spent the last three years ignoring death threats from all the sensibilities she’s offended.

I can reasonably assume that she understands what’s occurring and tailors her messages to achieve her goal of ending the military occupation. Condescending emails that suggest she is clueless are unlikely to be effective at deterring her or re-educating her based on things she already knows. Of course, achieving desired outcomes via effective means has never been the strong suit of War on Iraq supporters. They are content to insist that it’s a right war that must not be ended, no matter the toll, no matter the costs, no matter how many Iraqi children die.

And Linda Ellerbee carries on, destroying a generation, by denying them the critical thinking skills to choose the achy breaky goosestep normal children enjoy.

8 Responses to “Stop indoctrinating the kids with compassion!”

  1. zencomix Says:

    “According to Michelle-Who-Likes-To-Dress-Up-Like-A-High-School-Cheerleader”

    Careful, Kevin…some might say you’re calling her an Asian Whore with that comment, because, you know, there’s a stereotype out there of “Cheerleaders Are Sluts”, and she’s Asian, so you’ve obviously produced a post that would be right at home in a KKK leaflet, circa 1970s Buffalo….or something…

  2. (: Tom :) Says:

    According to Michelle-Who-Likes-To-Dress-Up-Like-A-High-School-Cheerleader

    You spelled Our Lady the Concentration Camps wrong…

    Also - I just wanted to let you know, Kevin - I resized your except via Memeorandum because it was too big and caused everything below it to be displayed below the sidebars (and a big white space showing up in the middle of the page). I could make some smart-a$$ comment about the site’s BlogFather not playing by his own rules regarding graphic sizing. But I’m not that kind of guy…

  3. Kevin Hayden Says:

    Some time ago, I noted that people using monitor resolutions of 600×800 had fallen below 10% so I adjusted mine upward to see what most folks are viewing. So the skew you see may be afflicting a few, but I still try to stay within 330 px most of the time.

    In that case, I went larger so the text would be readable, but it also - quite honestly - could reflect that my own vision’s declining, because I find myself constantly adjusting text sizes in the past two months, something I never did before.

  4. Kevin Hayden Says:

    Thanks for adjusting it, Tom.

  5. simplemuses » Stop indoctrinating the kids with compassion! Says:

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  6. Zotnix Says:

    I for one applaud Linda Ellerbee for showing that even when you are a child you can empower yourself to make a change. I note the lack of constructive criticism here. Perhaps instead of fear mongering about “children bound to become jihadists” you can ask that they give equal time to conservative child activists?

    Then again I recall a certain backlash against Democratics “pushing” for fairness doctrine over the radio slant towards conservative talk shows (which you say the market dictates, I imagine).

    The argument here is weak, at best. It is hand-waving shrillness that doesn’t further any dialog. Furthermore, I see no evidence for so-called “indoctrination camps of the left.”

    Are these the same people who critized Hillary for the equally weak “vast right wing conspiracy”?

    Shame on you.

  7. Zotnix Says:

    Clarification of the above. Stand corrected on the sarcasm for the “children bound to become jihadists.” I misread that as 5PM, not 5AM.

  8. Kevin Hayden Says:

    I’ll admit that my satire is not always lucid or effective, Zotnix, but I also applaud Ellerbee and moreso, the kids, for their efforts to create a more civil world.