2nd grade propaganda your child hopefully never finds...

[CanOfWhoopAss]

My daughter just brought home a book from the elementary school library. The book, If the Walls Could Talk "Family Life at the White House", by Jane O'Connor, is the most partisan peace of sh!t spin I've ever read from and elementary school library. Actually I only skimmed through it due to a sudden onset of nausea.

From the book:

"At Abraham Lincoln's funeral, souvenir hunters cut off pieces of the curtains, stole silverware, and spit tobacco juice on the rugs. The White House was in disrepair, and there were rats all over the place."

Andrew Johnson had the house cleaned and wanted to fix up the place. But Congress wouldn't give him the money to do so. Rather than remove the rats, Congress tried to remove Johnson from office. He remained though and so did the rats.

Despite personal scandals and an impeachment trial, Bill Clinton was a popular president. He liked to jog and had a running track set up on the White House grounds.

Jimmy Carter's young daughter, Amy, had a tree house were she could find peace and privacy. At times Carter probably wanted to join her there to escape from economic and foreign policy problems that troubled his presidency.

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Needless to say it shines Ford, Reagan, Bush I & II in a shining light. Nixon gets a little nudge for Watergate but if I was stuck in the woods with no sh!t paper I still wouldn't use a page from this book for fear of getting a rash.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. That is shameful

[FreedomAngel82]

2. It is

And another disgusting book I saw a week or so ago was at "Target" and it was this big book that had a blue background and picture of Bush praying on the front and said his name and how he was a great leader. :eyes: Barfing. That book is disgusting indeed.

[Craig3410]

3. This one? (NSFL, wait 30 minutes after eating before looking)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/141430983X/qid=1133401761/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-2560551-2220120?n=507846&s=books&v=glance


My college bookstore advertising it; I'm not bothered about it; I imagine that it's from the "Humor" section.

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. Once again....

the "My Pet Goat" folks have found it and are making sure that no one can take it seriously.

Read the comments. They are classic!

I love these people.
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[ktowntennesseedem]

8. My favorite comment (so far, anyway; haven't finished them all) is:

"'W' is our glorious leader and he can do no wrong, but I think the best photo of him is holding hands with a member of Saudi Arabian Royalty. This single picture shows where his loyalty lies and it certainly has more to do with oil than caring about the welfare of the United States of America. Has any other American leader had to kiss someone elses buttocks for a photo op? "

Taking sarcasm to a whole new level!!!

[EstimatedProphet]

11. Really? I saw a bunch of Bushbots

Lots of reviews about what a great strong leader Bush is. Clearly schizophrenics off their meds.

[fudge stripe cookays]

25. Probably freeps read my comment...

and decided to remedy the situation, since their leader couldn't pull in any positive reviews of his own. Because the hilarious reviews were all on the front page.

:eyes:

[LibDemAlways]

21. That one is hysterical. Hope it's properly filed

under "Fiction." I would imagine many thousands of unsold copies are already cluttering up the bargain bins of bookstores nationwide.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. It is?

What am I missing?

It sounds like a book for kids about the presidents. What is the shameful part?

I'm not trying to be difficult here; I honestly don't understand the problem.

[CanOfWhoopAss]

18. That's all it says about each president. Nothing else.

How does that benefit a child's education?

[proud2BlibKansan]

24. How much more do you want it to say?

They are kids! Do you think it should say "Pres. Clinton had sex with an intern. Pres. Reagan was senile." ???

[CanOfWhoopAss]

33. No but why give a bad review for Dem/ Progressive Presidents only

Repug/Conservative presidents come away untouched. Why touch on the scandals of Dem administrations only?? Why touch on them at all at this age what will a 2nd grader understand about an impeachment? Assuming the kid can even spell the word.

[proud2BlibKansan]

35. Because Clinton WAS troubled by personal scandals

while he was in office. Why be less than honest with kids?

[CanOfWhoopAss]

37. And Nixon resigned under threat of impeachment. Why not mention

this to kids if they should know of Clinton's troubles. Why not mention Iran Contra and Guatemalan death squads in the Reagan/Bush years since honesty with kids is everything?

[AmandaRuth]

4. Sneaky how they get the propaganda in

I remember a few years ago looking at a Better Homes and Garden big coffee table decorating book. There was a beautiful double page spread of a wonderfully decorated room, and what was casually poised on the nearest table but a book with the spine clearly turned to the camera, the name of the book was Monicas Story. Nothing else in the book even remotely suggested politics, as it should be, in a decorating book. I emailed the publishers and told them, that yeah I get it, I won't be buying Better Homes products again.

[CanOfWhoopAss]

7. Better Homes and Garden just lost me too.

well... actually they never had me... you just sealed the deal.

[fudge stripe cookays]

10. I did that a few years ago...

when I received my July issue, and the person "most Americans" wanted to have at the 4th of July Barbeques was pResident Bush. I almost puked in the car while I was reading.

Any magazine that claimed that many brainless Stepford Wife morans in their readership didn't need my money. They kept sending me renewal notices-- all of which I promptly tossed in the trash.

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[ComerPerro]

5. President George W Bush is rarely at the White House

as he has spent a record amount of time vacationing. And when he's not drunk off his ass at Camp David or his "ranch" in Texas, he is campaigning on taxpayer dollars.

[AX10]

9. How the hell did this crap get into a public school?

:wtf:

What state are you in?

[CanOfWhoopAss]

19. That's an easy question. I'm a NY transplant in Georgia.

[ucmike]

26. somebody probably donated it to the school

and it made its way onto the shelves....i hope.

[TankLV]

13. If that is all it said, it sound pretty innocuous/harmless to me.

They are all true.

Am I misssing something?

[Toothpick]

14. Jimmy Carter hiding out in his daughter's tree house

Oh, and those Congressional rats keeping Andrew Johnson down. Really creative imagery that kids will remember, isn't it?

[CanOfWhoopAss]

15. The book has illustrations complete with images of

rats playing through out the white house. It also insinuates thst Teddy Roosevelts 6 kids regularly ransacked the White House and were given free reign to trash the place. How all off this is educational is beyond me.

[CanOfWhoopAss]

16. It's not a side note. Basically all that is said about each president.

Can you explain how this is beneficial to a child's education?

[GrpCaptMandrake]

17. I just heard tonight

from a caller to the show that "My Weekly Reader" recently featured a photo of Sammy "BadBreath" Alito on its cover.

My Weekly Reader. Really.

We're screwed.

And so are our kids.

[tx_dem41]

23. Ummm...what's wrong with that?

They might have actually been covering his nomination which IS news. Do you not want kids to even hear his name or see his face??

The OP seems to be complaining about the shallowness of the information and now you seem to be complaining because Weekly Reader might be covering an actual news event!!

My head hurts.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

27. Unless they were explaining to the 2d Graders

that Sammy BadBreath believes in strip-searching ten year olds w/o a warrant (which in itself is going to be pretty complicated for said 2d grader), I see little to be gained in praising a freeper to a child.

[tx_dem41]

28. Do you know they were "praising a freeper"? n/t

[GrpCaptMandrake]

31. There were positive remarks about

both Sammy BadBreath Alito and Harriet Meyers.

[Toothpick]

20. Tell the school to take this trash off the shelves

[sandnsea]

22. 2nd grade???

This is completely inappropriate for a small child, barely appropriate for high school. It sounds like somebody's attempt at humor, not material for serious study. I'd be raising the roof.

[stop the bleeding]

29. what about if you need it to start a fire in the woods?

[CanOfWhoopAss]

34. The book would polute the environment worse than the minds of readers.

I may have to chance it though.

[FlaGranny]

30. Now that's just dumb.

Even for a second grader. Dumb AND useless.

[Shadowen]

32. Re: Lincoln's White House in disrepair

He had just taken the nation through years of Civil War. I don't consider it a blemish that he didn't spend taxpayers' money to keep his house spotless. If anything, it just makes me admire him more--likely, it had all been put into the war effort and Reconstruction.

Duh.

[MisterP]

36. didn't Johnson feed the rodents he found?

people with margarine in their heads shouldn't write books