Like ABC and CNN on Monday morning, NBC’s Today also lauded the Obama daughters’ new Sidwell Friends school as green and compassionate, a school that "emphasizes a lot of the themes of the Obama administration." Like the other networks, NBC made no mention of the Obamas choosing a pricey private school and not considering a public school, or their opposition to school choice for children poorer than theirs. Today co-host Matt Lauer interviewed Maureen Orth of Vanity Fair magazine (Tim Russert’s widow) to get all the compassionate details:
LAUER: Yeah but, but I just want to mention, a lot of people thinking, well it's great, they're sisters, they'll have each other to lean on. But they're going to separate campuses, aren't they?
ORTH: That's right, yes. The lower school where Sasha is going is in Bethesda and that's just right outside of Washington D.C. Where Malia is going is a, the first platinum green building in Washington. And there are so many things about the school, it's a Quaker school. There are so many things about the school that, that emphasizes consensus. Lighting your light from within.You bring a vegetable on Wednesdays to cut up for the homeless shelter. There's a lot of stuff in this school that emphasizes a lot of the themes of the Obama administration.
There was no one expressing any skepticism about the echoes of limousine liberalism in a school that charges 30,000 dollars (or more) for tuition trying to balance that out with Bring a Vegetable for the Homeless Wednesday. How many vegetables could you buy the poor with 30,000 dollars? Instead, supposedly hardened NBC reporters worried about "butterflies in their tummies" when the daughters of President Global Rock Star arrive on campus:
Remember your first day at a new school? Now imagine you're about to move to the most famous address in America, your dad is about to become President and he has the global popularity of a rock star. Sasha and Malia Obama are bound to have a few butterflies in their tummies this morning.
NBC reporter Tom Costello was so compassionate he announced that NBC would leave the school scene before the Obama girls arrived:
COSTELLO: While we have video of the kids and Michelle Obama just now leaving the Hay-Adams hotel on their way here to the school, Matt, the last thing they need is for a camera crew to stand outside their school. So we are leaving, back to you.
LAUER: Not a bad idea.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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Why are these idiots trying
January 5, 2009 - 23:33 ET by thebutlerdiditWhy are these idiots trying to make us dislike the Obama girls? I genuinely don't want to, but they are making me sick of them, already. Hopefully once they get settled in to school, or at least after the 20th, we won't have to hear about them.
"There's a lot of stuff in
January 5, 2009 - 23:35 ET by HockeyKid"There's a lot of stuff in this school that emphasizes a lot of the themes of the Obama administration."
Just not public education, but so what, right?
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Well, we wouldn't want any
January 5, 2009 - 23:49 ET by SpaceManSpiffWell, we wouldn't want any overweight homeless people in DC, now would we?
Give a homeless person a veggie and they eat for a day. Have a homeless person get a job and liberals would be out of a job.
SMS, Well said. I sent my
January 5, 2009 - 23:58 ET by thebutlerdiditSMS,
Well said. I sent my kids to a school like this, but no one tried to pretend it wasn't a money-maker and that they were trying to help out the homeless. It was what it was. A school where you paid for what you got, and it was a great school. But, I think to say we are cutting up veggies for homeless people and you charge 30 thou a pop for the kids is pretty obscene.
"There's a lot of stuff in
January 5, 2009 - 23:56 ET by dark_ds"There's a lot of stuff in this school that emphasizes a lot of the themes of the Obama administration."
After this football season,
January 5, 2009 - 23:57 ET by oorampAfter this football season, I see why the refs have a police escort off the field.
So precious...so
January 5, 2009 - 23:59 ET by bigtimerSo precious...so yummy...the msm once again displaying their dining at the O trough...being the vegetables they all are.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Insanity....
January 6, 2009 - 00:16 ET by ScrapironI'll be 68 YO in a few days and there has not been another period in my life that so many certifiable insane people controlled the media and the U.S. Congress. I doubt that anyone can find a period in American history to match the insanity displayed by these fools today (and for the past 8 years). I'm waiting for them to try and switch off the insanity and the switch doesn't work. Dusty Harry Reid has proven in the past few days that his switch will never work, he is over the edge insane without a return ticket.
Old, Retired and glad of it.
Scrap... Amen friend...I
January 6, 2009 - 00:29 ET by bigtimerScrap...
Amen friend...I do know exactly what you mean, I'm with you all the way, this is beyond insanity, the likes of which I have never seen...
I am just plain weary now...tired of it all.
Hoping your birthday is a good one nevertheless...and may you have many more.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Scrapiron!!Happy Birthday!
January 6, 2009 - 07:00 ET by sentforth568? Why, yer just a puppy...Seriously, though, you have probably seen this, but in Isaiah chapter 3, I forget the verse, maybe verse 3 God says that in the last days He will send Leaders who have the hearts and minds of little children. Man! talk about prophecy coming to pass, ya can't miss that one! Never in the history of the USA have we ever had had such whiney, tit-for-tat, thumb-sucking little babies heading up our gubment. It is disgusting, but God said it would happen and so it is. Only the return of Christ will switch it off, but at least we were here to witness it!
Job Ch.40 God describes a dinosaur.
Heh, can't resist this:
January 6, 2009 - 00:21 ET by Cortillaen"a school that "emphasizes a lot of the themes of the Obama administration.""
"This week's theme will be "Vagueness", children. Knowing what two plus two equals isn't as important as convincing people to hope that you might be able to figure it out and deign to inform them at some unforeseeable point in the future."
www.daybydaycartoon.... Proving that conservative comedy is very real.
"With your mind as high as Mt. Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things near to you." - Miyamoto Musashi
ok, ok, ok… if Sidwell
January 6, 2009 - 00:45 ET by maggieqpublicok, ok, ok… if Sidwell Friends students are well-educated, I really do think that’s great.
But when I picture the self-satisfied parents nodding approval as their offspring hop out of the limo with a ‘Wednesday vegetable’…..
The only vegetables in this
January 6, 2009 - 01:05 ET by jdhawkThe only vegetables in this story are the ones telling it.
Meanwhile, "57 states" is finally doing something for his brother in Africa. Now, all the brother has to do is get a passport, a ticket to Washington, D.C. and find the homeless shelter for some free veggies.
Nevertheless, his brother is going to be pissed when he finds out that homeless people in D.C. only seem to get fed on Wednesdays.
Another story about nothing brought to you by the drive by media . . .
The only vegetables in this
January 6, 2009 - 01:32 ET by maggieqpublicThe only vegetables in this story are the ones telling it.
Hope to stop laughing soon so I can read the rest of your comment.
Sidwell Friends should develope a course on ...
January 6, 2009 - 06:10 ET by Jayke... how to use lawyers and a lot of money to KEEP from having to show your BIRTH CERTIFICATE. This issue is scheduled to come before the SCOTUS on Friday. I'm just trying to keep this in the public eye.
Yer on the money, Jayke
January 6, 2009 - 07:05 ET by sentforth5Why won't our "heroes" Rush, Laura, Hannity, et al discuss this? We have an alien usurper trouncing the Constitution and flippin America the bird, and we don't hear a peep!
Job Ch.40 God describes a dinosaur.
Everybody get in line now...
January 6, 2009 - 06:45 ET by BLTicklemonsterBeen reading Harry Potter books of late, and can't help but see a correlation between the Daily Prophet (under Cornelius Fudge, OOTP) and the Main Stream Media. Anyone else notice this?
Yes I have noticed the same
January 6, 2009 - 07:34 ET by eaglewingz08Yes I have noticed the same psychophancy. I just know all those libs who claim no liberal bias, would celebrate Piper's going to school with identical breathless stories, had Sarah Palin been elected VP, right? Or would you be seeing, drop out stories about Bristol? Or would you see stories in the lib media about how you could barely see Piper's head in the bus, because she's shamed by the fact that her older sister gave birth to a child out of marriage.
Yep, there'd so many pro republican stories in the press were the shoe on the other foot because the press is objective and unbiased.
BTW will the two vegetables the Obama kids bring to Veggie Thursdays, this week be named Harry Byrd and Ted Kennedy?
That would really show their dedication to the poor, wouldn't it?
I wonder if their also
January 6, 2009 - 07:35 ET by the strugglerI wonder if their also bringing in muffin "stumps"
I don't blame the Obama girls
January 6, 2009 - 08:02 ET by moderncommentaries83They can't help who their parents are. Maybe one day they'll grow up and be conservatives!
Funny, thought, this school brings vegetable to the homeless (a noble cause, to be sure), but how about providing an opportunity for middle class and poor kids to attend their school? The wealthy don't have a lock on smart, you know.
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam
a school that "emphasizes a
January 6, 2009 - 08:12 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsa school that "emphasizes a lot of the themes of the Obama administration."
Hmmm, some other themes:
Thumbsucking
Whining
Onanism
Gimme (along with 'It's Mine!)
I Want
Hugz not Slugz
D
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The things you learn
January 6, 2009 - 08:25 ET by AuH2oBums eat vegetables? Who knew.
Wonder if they can trade their veggies for a bottle of Night Train or a pack of smokes?
Tomatoes are fetching a good price these days, probably get a whole carton of smokes for some decent tomatoes.
Freebies
January 6, 2009 - 08:40 ET by DanoI'm going to Washington tomorrow to score some free veggies! Compared to the Obamas I'm poor.
Hey Brother, can you spare a zucchini?
January 6, 2009 - 08:56 ET by SickofLibsJust saying, but I don't think bums are that big on vegetables.
I think they'd much prefer donuts. Unless there is some type of social re-engineering underway here.
The unsaid thing of course...
January 6, 2009 - 09:16 ET by Prester John....is the fact that the parents of these children could write a checks that, if combined, would take care of all the homeless and hungry in DC for an entire year.
But that would detract from the story, wouldn't it?
As much as I might dislike Obama
January 6, 2009 - 09:27 ET by katiejaneI wish the MSM would just stop this whole fascination with his children. On one hand they tell us that we should just leave the children alone but then drool and fawn over ever snippet of information about them.
I agree that seems hypocritical for him to send his girls to a private school while he denies that same choice to the parents of the average child but I completely understand why he did it. Who among us would willingly inflict the DC schools sytem on our own children if we could chose somewhere else?