Get Schooled: Nickelodeon & friends want your kids to “change the system”
Longtime readers are aware of the left-wing bent of children’s TV network Nickelodeon.
They p.c.-i-fied the Alamo in 2005.
They went moonbatty on the military and the war on terror in 2007.
And they pushed pro-illegal alien amnesty propaganda in 2008.
Well, they’re at it again, along with liberal philanthropists, bloggers, and the Viacom conglomerate — launching a new initiative in conjunction with President Obama’s education campaign:
The launch of Get Schooled, at the Paramount Pictures lot, includes a conference featuring a line-up of distinguished speakers: Bill Gates, Philippe Dauman, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education Tony Miller, filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, author and political columnist Arianna Huffington, New York City Department of Education Chancellor Joel Klein and Los Angeles-area High School Athletic Director Stephen Minix. The education conference will be attended by an audience of almost one thousand – including corporate and nonprofit partners, students, thought leaders, celebrities and other education stakeholders. Its goal is to highlight fresh perspectives on ways to dramatically increase high school graduation rates and college completion rates. The speakers will draw from their personal and professional experiences, sharing insights on how to ensure that all students receive a top-notch education and are ready to compete in a global marketplace.
The launch events on the Paramount Pictures lot also include the premiere of the Get Schooled: You Have the Right documentary featuring President Barack Obama, Kelly Clarkson and LeBron James, and three professionals who work alongside them, which will air across all of Viacom’s U.S. networks, including BET, MTV, VH1, CMT, Comedy Central, Spike TV, TV Land and Nickelodeon, at 8
p.m. Eastern/Pacific and 7 p.m. Central.
All sounds innocuous, just like Obama’s speech today.
But the supporting website has the same activist, entitlement culture-nurturing bent of the White House education guides: “I want, I want, I want.”
How about “I WANT TO MASTER CORE ACADEMIC SUBJECTS?”
As I’ve pointed out repeatedly over the last week, Obama/Ayers/Klonsky and company are not interested in imparting knowledge. They are interested in creating “social justice” activists.
Accordingly, Get Schooled features a “student bill of rights.” (Hey, how about just learning the original Bill of Rights?)
There’s a “Write your governor” action campaign for the junior lobbyists to press for more education funding and higher teacher salaries:
And look, it’s the same “revolutionary” rhetoric perfected by Obama’s education “comrade” Bill Ayers and the recently departed Van Jones:
But never mind all this. There’s no political agenda here. I’m just a silly kook. And you are, too.
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No indoctrination there. No siree!
Dang we need to stop this. This what happen when rich people get bored.
I remember a commercial that I saw (pretty sure on Nickelodeon) on how humans are polluting the Earth. One clip in their musical montage showed “pollution” coming from a nuclear reactor. Those bastards new darn well that it was steam that they were showing, or maybe I’m giving those enviro-nitwits too much credit.
Someone needs to tell them that this is not a democracy, but rather a republic.
Michelle, thanks for all the hard work you do. I saw you on Beck tonight and, as always, you’re ahead of the information curve and make the most of the few seconds you are given to respond.
Your comment about how to get people to listen is excellent–repetition of information.
Well then greetings from kook-dom!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Very well, Pres Obama’s speech was innocuous.
Maybe it was the result of him, and his team, being taken to task over the lesson plans and ridiculous original questions posted on the White House web site.
Maybe it was the result of many of us knowing our rights. Heck, knowing your rights as a citizen, or student, is a good thing, and definitely not innocuous.
Though I will add that saying ‘I want’ is meaningless unless you also say ‘I am prepared to give’, too. No one is owed anything, you have to earn it. If you want it, you will also have to work for it. My hope is that this is part of the program, too.
OMG. Why on earth would we want kids holding government officials responsible for effective and efficient spending. What an awful value to teach our kids.
To American’s children……
I’m sorry. You are being left with nothing because of my generation’s silence and lethargy.
Disney has some song they play in between shows called the Electric Car sung by They Might Be Giants. More indoctrination.
Setting kids up for an entitlement to Obama’s own creation of a new Bill of Rights that does away with what the government isn’t allowed to do to us and replaces our Bill of Rights with what the government owes you in exchange for what the government can do to you, like control every thought your likely to ever have or say, relieve you of any need for self defense.
This is giving me a headache. We saw this coming. Now we have Hollywood helping make policy and propaganda. Oh, gee, who was to know?
Oh, and what about the children who aren’t college material? Have they failed Obie and the country already?
They got it wrong again.
This is not a Democracy
This is a Constitutional Republic and there is a very good reason for the distinction. When they teach that at school again we will be on the road back.
Viacom the wonderful corporation that brings you all the MTV trash networks. From Bi-Sex to Gay sex and any other sex and that’s before the dinner hour.
I do love watching Sponge Bob with my kids but if they start this trash, those networks just might have to be blocked.
Come on Viacom why would you alienate half your audience to promote this message. Students also have a right to Good teachers and ones who promote freedom of speech and explain all sides of history. They also have a right to attend good schools, vouchers anyone? Why did Obama kill the system that had been working so well in DC? Because the unions, that’s why? How many czars of his are still running unions? Too many to count.
Prompterbama must have threatened the Execs over at Viacom. From NBC, MSNBC, GE and now Viacom. Your roll is to entertain our kids not indoctrinate them.
Thanks for the heads up Michele!
So if children needing to be educated are able to decide just what their education should consist of and control and influence the classes/content/goals/context of that education, isn’t that the blind leading the blind?
As Craig Ferguson says, “Don’t be stupid…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFQkMAPVoIo
I await reports from classroom discussions following the champion of re-education’s speech today. Any word yet?
I know my daughter in law watches which cartoons the youngest two watch–some real BS on the tube. Shame it is.
If I have to keep kooky company I can not imagine rather where I would rather be–except on the rim. There are fish need humbling-I hope it is the fish get humbled.
Back in a week–Keep hold of the Republic for me.
Reason No. 748 why my children are homeschooled and Reason No. 276 why I don’t have CATV.
Yes, I miss about 8 channels I would love to have, but I don’t have to deal with the other 200+ I don’t want.
Time to start hitting these socialists in the pocketbook and unsubscribe from CATV.
I know that sometimes, you get the sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work — that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star, when chances are, you’re not going to be any of those things.
No kids channel is barred from leftist propaganda.
On September 8th, 2009 at 10:36 pm, TigerLady said:
D*&MN straight! Anytime ANYONE says “we live in a democracy,” smack them down! This is a constitutional republic. Was the first thing that stuck out at me when I read the post.
Democracies are mob rule, and the mob loves to vote itself the public coffers… Now that 1/2 of the electorate thinks it lives in a democracy, it thinks its entitled to those coffers…
BTW…both Kelly Clarkson and LeBron James turned down full college scholarships for “an awesome job”.
All we know when we are born is “I want”…and we have no patience, no understanding, no respect for others. Most of us grow out of that–with a big helping hand from our families.
Hmmmm, why is it that so many on the left seem to have NOT grown out of it?
Anyone who believes this was an “innocent” speech to our children is delusional!
I’m tired of my moderate friends trying to convince me that I’m teaching my sons to disrespect authority because we question Obama’s policies and the direction he’s leading our Nation.
On September 8th, 2009 at 11:08 pm, Atlanta Media Guy said:
Doubtful any threats were required, the lower echelons at those companies are very liberal, and the upper-echelons are all for socialism. They are 95% pro-pro-pro-Obama in their hearts and souls.
Socialism usually starts with big companies intertwining themselves with government in order to protect their own interests. The lower echelon idiots usually want big government to “beat up” on the big companies, not realizing that the “big companies” ARE ALSO “big government.”
Look up Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, Hugo Boss, Volkswagen, Porsche, Messershmitt, IBM…
I sent my teens armed with info today but it turns out they didn’t need it. They were both in classes with conservative teachers who thought that sticking to their subjects was more important than the Activist-in-Chief’s speech.
Nickelodeon’s not the only one. Several time on the Disney Channel there are “eco-friendly” commercials extolling the virtues of living green, and admonishing kids for things like forgetting to unplug their cell phone chargers or not having eco-friendly light bulbs.
My kids are too young to know, but I will make sure they understand the agendas or they won’t be watching Nickelodeon or Disney.
I remember when Nick was fun. Anyone here watch “You Can’t Do That On Television”?
Check out their People I Admire page.
LMAO!!!
GOD!!!!
ENOUGH! ENOUGH ALREADY of BOBO the Clown and his f***ing change.
I can’t take this anymore. My kids won’t be watching Nick anymore. There has been less and less on that stupid station I have been willing to let them watch. I’ve never been more ready to kill my television.
Too bad kids today don’t realize their futures will be a lifetime of slavery paying off BOBO’s debt burden.
MY kids know, but America’s children are in for a rude awakening someday.
Can’t blame this sh!t on Bush.
Nothing Obama is innocent or benign. Just because he didn’t pass out brown shirts at his first intrusion into local education doesn’t mean they are not on order.
Spouting an hour of cliches may be rationalized as innocuous but the real significance is the presence of Obama as idol. Somebody counted the “I”s and “me”s in his “innocent” lecture.
Get real, people, this man is evil; bent on establishing a socialist dictatorship and well on his way in usurping constitutional restraints on nationalism of commerce and appointment of non-vetted “czars” to replace cabinet officials.
How about changing the system by not buying what is advertised on Nickelodeon? Is advertising one of the systems they want changed?
Just block it on your cable box. Tell your friends. It’s no big deal – just spread the word and let the market do its thing.
Under the “Know Your Rights” section it states that you have the “right” to financial aid. Then it exhorts these newly empowered youngsters to fill out an application to see how much aid you are “entitled to from the government.”
Sad to see how almost everything is considered a “right” by some, especially when its something they expect the government to provide.
And, hey, doesn’t Angelina Jolie have the same tattoo – “Know Your Rights” – on her shoulders?
The term “Get Schooled”, which is the name of this program, has nothing to do with going to school and learning in the typical sense. It is a street Basketball/Thug term, which Nickelodeon is using to appear “cool” and “trendy” among the youth by using their “lingo-fringo” (Note how I abandon any attempt at being cool myself in accordance with the adamant dictates of my teen-aged daugther…)
“Get Schooled” means “Be Humiliated”. As in “That lesser individual got totally schooled by me and my superior basketball skill and abilities” or “He got schooled by my snappy repartee, which revealed his deep seated insecurities”.
“Get Schooled” means to be shown up by ones superiors, almost exclusively in a public context. It is an integral part of the setting of the social pecking order. Who “schools” whom defines the Alpha and the Beta (and the Gamma, and so on down the line). It is, by it’s very nature, crude showmanship and denigration.
In this context, we are all to “Get Schooled” by Obama, and to recognize that he is our general all-around superior. We are to accept humiliation at his hands in order to estabish the social hirearchy.
These people reveal themselves, I think…
A little Haiku…
If You have a Right
To the service I provide,
I must be a Slave.
Maybe they could track dollar for dollar where the $100 billion stimulus CAME FROM, before they start demanding their “right” to it.
I certainly agree that kids should receive the best education possible. This includes getting an “F” when they don’t know their butt from a hole in the ground. This includes staying in whatever grade until & IF they master what’s offered there. This includes holding parents responsible for being a major part of their child’s education. This includes throwing out the clowns and thugs, whether they be in a classroom, or government position. This includes allowing qualified teachers to teach their subject, & not being held responsible for raising little Johnny or Jemal’s self esteem. This includes recognizing that education cannot be shoveled into an unreceptive brain. This includes recogizing that education is actually important. And despite what many people have posted here,(often with good reason) being an Educator is one of the most important jobs in America, and Educators should be paid well, and held in high esteem.
Hey, let me help you out with that!
Whoever is writing this stuff needs to be schooled.
We are not a democracy.
We are a democratic Republic.
The speech I read was not “benign” and am sorry some Fox friends saw it that way. Glad to see our MM on Beck – just wish she were given more time…a lot more time.
These kids cannot vote, so please explain to me how will they hold government officials responsible? Those of us who can and do vote currently have our hands filled with trying to keep government officials in check or have you not noticed this?
Additionally, what of the misinformation regarding this being a democracy? Either they know that we have a representative republic and are distorting the truth or they do not know that this is a representative republic. Either way, these people should not be educating our kids.
It is clear to you now as to why they keep spouting off that this is a democracy?
I don’t really care about basic conservation messages. Remember the PSA back in the 70s/80s with the Indian crying? Those are basically harmless compared to these that encourage kids to demand their student rights and “change the system” (who is it that’s all about change?).
How about a program explaining that kids need to stay in school so they can afford to pay back the $56,000 they owe for Porkulus. Foghat’s Live Now, Pay Later could be the theme song.
WHy wouldnt the press want to encourage kids to change the system? Polls have shown thats why most journalists go into journalism…not to do their job and report the facts, but to “change the system”
Where in all of this does President Obama suggest that students have the right to join the workforce and be well paid for their awesome jobs without being demonized for capitalist greed?
Oh, sure. Nowhere.
Learn, baby, learn. Don’t you dare earn, baby, don’t you dare earn.
Silly rabbit! Trix are for kids!
Let me get this straight. “Get Schooled” is a government program instructing kids to write the government demanding more government spending?
And some people DON’T see a problem with this.
Does anybody recall the colloquial meaning of “getting schooled?” I guess the joke is on us…
Liberals seek a permanent pipeline into anything and everything they think will move their agenda forward, which is to change the culture and marginalize average, normal Americans with freedoms and personal responsibility. They want our kids, and they won’t stop with just a couple of generations.
The more you rail against this, the more you look like anti-education fools.
First a reminder: education is provided to our children because the free citizens of the United States agree that freedom can only be maintained by an educated populace. Moreover, only an educated populace can provide the labor that our economy needs. At the same time, yes, this translated to opportunity – but that’s not the driving reason for public education.
And it was never given to provide you, personally, with a way to get Jr. into the College of their dreams.
The “Get Schooled” program, as written, aligns almost perfectly with the reasons education is given. It talks about freedom, democracy, and opportunity.
Why are you fighting it? Because you know the “ulterior motives?” Do you really think that you can sell that?
You are rising to the liberal’s bait. They are looking to paint you like cranky, selfish, anti-education fools – and they are succeeding.
The right approach here is to take the high ground. State “not only do we agree, but we can do it BETTER.
WE can do it without breaking the budget. We can do it faster.”
Vouchers. Charter schools, properly supported and funded – perhaps matrixed into home-schoolers. Etc.
We have the answers. The right approach is to broadcast them, instead of pointing out the “secret messages and agendas” that the liberals are pushing.
Don’t play into your adversary’s hands.
Are you suggesting we turn on the lights and make the cockroaches scatter?
Let’s start here. Can you spell hypocrisy kids? H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-S-Y Do you know what it means? A good example is every time the issue of merit pay, which means paying good teachers more money then poor performing ones is introduced anywhere in the country the teachers union immediately swings into action and bully lawmakers to drop it. You see in a union you are payed based on performance but rather on how long you hold onto a job. So even if you are the hardest working person there you can’t get a raise or promotion until someone who has been there longer does. Teachers refer to this as tenure. Tenure means you can never be fired like those teachers in New York who still get paid even though they don’t set foot in a classroom.
As for the stimulus money, they need you to track it because the government accounting office has lost control of where the money is going and they feel that bringing in some 10 to 12 year olds, who they don’t have to pay, will be able to figure it out.
Make sure to ask your teacher about our word of the day.
Michelle,
You don’t understand.
Students of today can tell you all about the earth, all about how to fight to save the earth and even create beautiful visuals of the earth.
Just don’t ask them to spell the word “earth”.
Learn the rules.
So is it official now that the left admidts they want to control what we think?
My kids school did not show the speech. As one of my sons teachers said to me, “We have better thing to do, like teaching the kids to read and write, then to have them sit around and listen to a bunch of empty rhetoric. They will have plenty of time to hear that once the become adults.”
Same thing in Congress. Same program, developed by the same people.
Fifty years ago – Earn your respect.
Today – Demand your rights.
Rob, I disagree with you. Frankly, I don’t care how I sound when I stand up for my beliefs. I think we’ve cowered enough to the people who would silence us with condemnation through ridicule and name calling.
Look at how the bullying by Madeleine O’Hare, resulted in the removal from prayer and any spiritual observance in public school. How far we’ve come from that to now where we are fighting to keep our early elementary children from learning about the gay lifestyle, transgender and masturbation.
And you say we look like anti-education fools?
TigerLady,
So fight – but fight by being PRO education. Talk about how you can provide more for America, and not “what a jerk Madeleine O’Hare is…”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-in-Discussion-with-9th-Graders-Wakefield-High-School/
his speech to the students yesterday HAPPENED to include a little healthcare reform talk, go figure. and I have a 9th grader. He and virtually all of his friends are vaguely aware of healthcare issues, they certainly do not know how many countries have universal healthcare. Sounds to me like a Liberal teacher at work, planting proposed questions in little Sean’s mouth. Would be interesting to see how these kids were selected for the meet n greet. And how much money their parents donated to his campaign.
Anything to boost those sagging poll numbers coming on the eve of today’s non-Healthcare debacle screech.
Rob, you’re missing my point. I don’t talk about O’Hare or any of the ilk in her cesspool. I am saying that we need to be as vocal as our opposition.
You call it pro education, I call it pointing out lies and hypocrisy as JustAGrunt posted.
On September 9th, 2009 at 9:34 am, RobM1981 said:
No, it is not the government’s job to “provide” better education, jobs, housing, health care, whatever. The government’s job is defense of liberty, and that’s about it.
You are advocating a marketing strategy that encourages the public’s “pig-at-trough” mentality.
That mentality has nearly destroyed our republic.
They know kids can’t vote. Their aim is to have the kids bug their parents and try to influence them. They also have a longer vision than 4 yrs. from now. They are starting the indoctrination process early so that when these kids are of voting age they will, hopefully vote for them.
They probably think they sound “fly” by using the term schooled out of it’s current slang meaning.
Such a groovy bunch.
“You have the right…”
“You have the right…”
“You have the right…”
I’m sure further down on the sign are all the many lines beginning:
“You have the responsibility…”
FIFY
Subtext: you have a right to a college education
(with a federal college loan, just as soon as we take over the college loan business. We already have the bill on the House floor and we’re ramping up to making that front and center just as soon as we need to make you forget about Healthcare and Cap’n-Trade. Our bill will outlaw private corporations from offering college loans, but since we’re big hearted those companies will be able to manage the backoffice. And since it’ll be a Federal Program, wait until you see the mischief we can do with favored borrowers, favored institutions and limits on tuition charges. Woowee, fun times!)
How about this question, if government run health care is so great, why is the health care *run by the government* on reservations so bad? Is this the same type of care we are going to get?
First fix it and then work on the rest.
Education is a privilege everyone should take advantage of not necessarily a right. I wonder when did everything become a right??? Did I miss that being passed into law?
What kind of useful Idiot Obamabot fed this kid the talking point that we should be emulating Iraq and Afghanistan – one of the most impoverished nations on the planet, with a 40% unemployment rate, an appalling infant mortality rate, and a life expectancy of 44?
I’ve become increasingly convinced that people think the purpose of government is to “do good”. I find no-where that “doing good” is actually a function of government
Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one. Thomas Paine: Common Sense.
Obama: This students liberal indoctrination is progressing well but could be improved upon. The question should be as follows:
STUDENT: Hi, my name is Moonbeam. And my question is that there are over 100 countries where the people live off the land happily in mud huts without pollution from cars and all those ugly malls everywhere. Why can’t we stop being so greedy and go back to living in peaceful, prosperous tribal communities, just like Afghanistan?
This “eugenics” movement is being driven from outside of the states.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/6161742/Contraception-cheapest-way-to-combat-climate-change.html
Thank you Michelle–and thanks to all who recognized my hereditary rights to my position of Queen Kook.
Oh, and a special thanks to John Deaux ’cause he brought da Foghat–oh yeah!
You left out that back in 2002 (I read about it on Townhall) they did a GLADD produced 30 minute “news program” (at least that’s how it was listed in the guide) in which they had about 15 kids, mostly of gay parents, Rosie O’Donnell, a gay columnist and a school administrator who we find out late in the program is also gay. The whole thing was hosted by Linda Ellerby. The subject was harrassment of the children of gay parents. The three religious kids expressed the opinion that their religion teaches that homosexuality is wrong, but also that you don’t harrass the kids. The were called closed-minded by the other children. Jerry Falwell had a pre-recorded message in it, but it was chopped up and a GLADD spokeswoman would make a rebuttal, which is NOT how it was pitched to Falwell. He tried to get his part removed but couldn’t. I used to have a tape of the program but I don’t know where it is anymore. I’m sure it exists out there somewhere.
It was obvious it was pushing gay acceptance, which would fine if they admitted that was the actual topic and gave parents some warning. There was a warning at the beginning but how many parents had to have an sensitive conversation with children they may have felt were not ready for it?
OH I almost forgot. I went on Nickelodeon’s website and posted a comment asking if anyone heard anything about the content of the program and it was deleted in less than an hour.
Anybody, Democrat or Republican, who still has Nick on their dial after the put Paris Hilton in front of the mic at the Kid’s Choice Awards the same year her porn movie came out is borderline retarded IMHO. I see that Miley Cyrus treated her young fans to a pole dance this year.
We missed that.
I will confess that we watch SpongeBob on DVD though.
dr walter williams asked a very pertinent question to this whole debate last week. he said “one way i decide if i own something is if i can sell it.” he was speaking of his organs, and how the gubmint had confiscated them because he couldn’t sell them here. but the same question needs to be asked about lots of our possessions. if we can’t sell our house before we install insullation, is it really ours. if we have a right to healthcare, can we opt out of it? do we have a right to food? do we have a right to shoes? do we have a right to succeed in life? you may own property, but if you can’t build upon it because the gubmint has decided a snail darder is more important than houses, do you own it? how about if you burn every inch of that property? if you pave it? i think we have lost so much of our property rights, our freedoms, that this is no longer america.
FilmLadd,
To put it mildly: you are wrong.
Education is a public good *only* because of the reasons I’ve given above. It is not designed to provide kids with opportunity, although it does – it is designed to equip the nation with the tools it needs to thrive. Specifically:
An educated populace will be better citizens. More knowledgable about freedom and liberty, and how to maintain those (tell me we haven’t failed, abjectly, there). This is where the “defense of liberty” comes in. We agree, just like we agree to fund a military, that our children need to be educated *specifically* to propagate and sustain the republic.
This message is largely how the Nickelodeon propaganda reads.
All I’m saying is “to oppose it makes people sound stupid.” Who is against more freedom, etc.?
We know that this is propaganda. The way to take the fight is to take the topic. Show the public that the only way to accomplish these goals are through Conservative Principals.
Any other approach is a fool’s errand.
How many times must I say it? State run education is unconstitutional (just like basically every crap program coming out of D.C.). Get your kids out now!
My kids have never spent a day in public schools. However, your comment is a little confusing. State-run, public education is hardly unconstitutional even though in its present form it is highly undesirable.
Remember that the US Constitution enumerates the powers of the Federal Government. The powers of the individual states are enumerated in the various state constitutions. Article VIII of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia certainly gives the state the authority to operate a public education system.
Therefore, state-run, public education is not unconstitutional. Federal intrusion into state-run, public education may well be. 90% of what comes out of Washington, DC is probably unconstitutional. But the Federal Government does not run public education in America. At least not yet.
But, if your kids are in a state-run, public school you should remove them immediately! If conservatives pulled their kids out of public schools tomorrow we would make a huge step toward reclaiming our republic.
What are we changing again? I thought education in the US was doing pretty good. It seems to have worked for me and many others I went to “school” with as well as my children and their schoolmates, etc.
One dufus does not a whole make.
T-Bone,
My home schooled kids are performing 4 to 6 years ahead of their public schooled peers. We spend about $12,000 less per child than the county does while providing a better education. A significant percentage of public schooled kids I know are functionally illiterate in several skill sets.
Do you REALLY think public schools are “doing pretty good?” Seriously…