Christien Chalfant
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Did you find it on O'Reilly or Fox's website? I know O'Reilly has his own site and then a little part of Fox's site as well.
Oh yeah. I remember during the Baby Bush/Kerry election what happened. I was in my 5th grade classes and both homeroom teachers talked about why Kerry was better than Bush and even tried to get a class discussion on why Kerry was better! Now, I mean, we were freaking little kids!
My Science and Math teacher held me back during recess once so I could "work on a project" that was due at the end of the year, and she talked to me while I did my work about why Kerry's views on Foreign, Domestic, policy were better than Bush's.
I can't remember the exact words of the time because it's been so long. But I can remember just saying to her, "well I think people choose candidates that they think will be the best for the country at a certain point in time," and she just said something about Kerry being the President we needed.
My other homeroom teacher was the one who tried to get a classroom discussion going. She brought up why she thought Kerry was better and then asked the students to say why they thought Kerry was better and then mentioned Baby Bush as a side thought. All the kids who raised their hands and said something were basically just reiterating things they heard their parents say (I know this because they would say "well my mom/dad said..."
wink or they would agree with something that our teacher said.
I've been in a very liberal learning environment since as long as I can remember. When I was in 3rd grade and 9/11 happened my teacher and student teacher wanted to talk about why it happened and how Bush failed us and a lot of things like that.
I found the link on Fox New's site. O'Reilly only had a summary with a few quotes on his site.
Jesse Watters took his crew to spring break in Florida, where he asked some sun-drenched young folks about liberal indoctrination at their colleges. Some of the responses: "I had a professor freshman year who introduced himself as the most raging liberal you'll ever meet" ... "Rick Santorum came to speak at our school and our professor ripped him apart in class" ... "Our professor passed around voter registration cards" ... "At the United States Air Force Academy there are still very many liberal individuals who get offended when you're conservative" ... "They tried to convert the entire class to the Muslim religion." Jesse also ran into one student, presumably not an Ivy Leaguer, who posed this pithy question: "What does liberal mean?"
http://www.billoreilly.com/show?action=latestTVShow&noPlaceholder=true#6
I'd like to examine these quotes. I can believe the first three, but I don't see what's wrong with them.
1. A professor claiming to be a raging liberal is nothing bad.
2. There were conservatives who also spoke out against Santorum so I don't see how a college professor doing the same is anything surprising.
3. Passing out voter registration cards? Is that not a good thing? At my school we had both political sides doing that at the center of the campus.
4. How exactly do people get offended by someone being conservative/liberal. The guy who said that didn't make any sense to me.
5. Converting the entire class to the Muslim religion...really...? This is the claim I doubt the most. My guess is he took a religion class and thought the teacher was "forcing" him to accept Islam when they covered that unit.
6. I pity the girl who didn't know what liberal meant but not everyone cares about politics...
Your experience at school is interesting. Never heard anything quite like it. I actually recall having "elections" in school for the 2004 and 2008 elections. If you ask me, I thought they were pointless since most, if not all, of the younger kids voted for whoever their parents liked.