Ethics

Children Singing Songs to Dear Leader

By Ed Brayton

I'm sure you've seen the right wing going apeshit over a bunch of elementary school kids singing a song of praise to President Obama. Guess what? They're right. Children singing songs to a political leader -- any political leader -- is downright creepy and the teachers responsible should get some serious counseling for their very poor judgment.

Of course, they've gone way over the top in their typically irrational way. In a fundraising letter, RNC chairman Michael Steele said "this is the type of propaganda you would see in Stalin's Russia or Kim Jong Il's North Korea. I never thought the day would come when I'd see it here in America." Like seemingly everything else these days, the right responds with invocations of Naziism and Communism.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 28, 2009 (boomark / email).