As we've noted at NewsBusters before, it's perfectly sporting to liberal reporters to scoff at conservative activism by college-aged Republicans. Just the same, the left-wing activists of kids not old enough to drive is enough to make journalists warm and gushy inside.
Take Linda Ellerbee, formerly of NBC and CNN, who has a new Nick News special on kids engaging in political activism, and yes, it's heavy on left-wing action items from protesting alleged "torture" sanctioned by the Bush administration, to decrying standardized testing in Seattle, Washington, as racist, to aiding PETA in protesting the use of circus animals. (h/t Blackfive)
The 22-minute Ellerbee report, "Rebels with a Cause," can be found at the Nickelodeon Web site.
Here's the condescending patter with which Ellerbee opened her program:
You wouldn't believe the number of grown-ups who seem to think kids today are apathetic. "You're not the rebels we were back then," they say. "You're lazy, self-centered, you don't care." However, our experience in Nick News tells us that to be young is to be a natural rebel. And that many of you are rebels with a cause. Committed to challenging that which you believe needs challenging. Therefore, this show is about kids today who aren't afraid to rock the boat.
Of course, rocking the boat isn't always a left-wing exercise -- just ask any young conservative student in a sea of liberalism in academia -- but child activists pressing conservative issues were not featured. No pro-life students who march in the annual March for Life, for example, were profiled.
Ellerbee closed her program with a thinly-veiled call for liberal activism:
Margaret Mead, a woman who spent her life studying human behavior would have approved of them. After all, it was she who said, "Never doubt that a handful of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
And, I point out, Ms. Mead did not say, "Wait until you're grown to start." I'm Linda Ellerbee. Goodbye, for Nick News.
—Ken Shepherd is Managing Editor of NewsBusters
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Geez, Linda. I guess it's
Wed, 10/31/2007 - 17:12 ET by fitzfongGeez, Linda. I guess it's never too early to start brainwashing the kids at the ol' Pinko factory.
I just got hacked by a "liberal with a cause"
Wed, 10/31/2007 - 17:25 ET by Lame CherryI 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.
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Nickelodeon!!!
Wed, 10/31/2007 - 17:52 ET by redinbluestateNickolodeon!! what has this world come to? I remember shows like Hey Arnold and All That. What has this world come to?
send the kids at nick a little note!
Wed, 10/31/2007 - 19:16 ET by timzankhttp://www.nick.com/mynick/write_nick/mail.jhtml
And yet conservatives are
Wed, 10/31/2007 - 19:23 ET by bretzysdudeAnd yet conservatives are accused for child indoctrination... yet the libs? Scot-free!
MTV Prep School
Wed, 10/31/2007 - 20:50 ET by acumenThe Democrat(ic) version of No Child Left Behind.
Rebel?
Thu, 11/01/2007 - 11:30 ET by misterbee241"You're not the rebels we were back then,"
Rebel - is that another word for pot smoking trifling hippie?
I have nothing for contempt for these people and what they are doing to our country and our future. The marching hippies are now in the halls of power and influence.