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August 22, 2005

You've got to be carefully taught...

What's that fetid stench eminating from under the beds of good conservative boys and girls?

It's never too early to start preparing the young people of this country to hate half of their fellow citizens, eh?

A joke you say? Nope.
This adorable little tidbit of brainwashing "literature" presents two waifish, freckled brothers who open a lemonade stand. Their success is duly thwarted by the monster liberals who force them to pay taxes, take down their Jesus picture and sell broccoli.

The publisher notes are an exercise in immense conservative platitudeness:

Would you let your child read blatantly liberal stories with titles such as "King & King," "No, George, No," or "It's Just a Plant"? Unless you live in Haight-Ashbury or write for the New York Times, probably not. But with the nation’s libraries and classrooms filled with overtly liberal children’s books advocating everything from gay marriage to marijuana use, kids everywhere are being deluged with left-wing propaganda.

"Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed" is the book conservative parents have been seeking. This illustrated book — the first in the "Help! Mom!" series from Kids Ahead — is perfect for parents who seek to share their traditional values with their children, as well as adults who wish to give a humorous gift to a friend.

Hailed as "the answer to a baseball mom's prayers" by talk radio host Melanie Morgan, "Liberals Under My Bed" has already been the subject of coverage in The Wall Street Journal and Harper’s magazine. Written by a self-proclaimed "Security Mom for Bush" and featuring hilarious full-color illustrations by a Reuben Award winning artist, it is certain to be one of the most talked about children's books of the year.

Written by a security loving, baseball kvetching mom whose surely headed down to Camp Casey to spit in the face of Cindy Sheehan. As soon as Sheehan returns after caring for her ailing mother, of course.

the first in the "Help! Mom!" series from Kids Ahead — is perfect for parents who seek to share their traditional values with their children

Hate is the new conservative traditional value. And they're so proud of it that they've put it in children's book form, to make it nice and easy to swallow.

Nevermind that taxes are part of our responsibility for living in the greatest nation on earth. Nevermind that shrugging civic duty by paying them undermines our infrastructure and throws our nation into massive indebtedness. It's only duty to our country being tossed aside like shoveled dog crap....and Grover Norquist is holding the shovel.

Some of you may recognize that the title of this post is taken from You've Got To Be Carefully Taught, a song from the Rogers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific:

You've got to be taught To hate and fear, You've got to be taught From year to year, It's got to be drummed In your dear little ear You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught before it's too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You've got to be carefully taught!

And here is your very first textbook.

(From Political Wire via Shakes' Sis)

Posted by Carla at August 22, 2005 03:16 PM