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News The Morning News: Sanitizing Snow White, Sarkozy's Shit Talk, and the LaRouchie Basher of Edmonds
Posted by Eli Sanders on Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:00 AM
Sanitizing Snow White: Kirkland elementary school removes references to dimness, stupidity, senility, craziness, orphans, female curvature, and short people.
Tea Party: Not sanitized, and opening in Nashville.
National jobless rate falls: To 9.7 percent.
Seattle home prices: Rising.
Financial reform: At... wait for it... an impasse in Congress.
Blanket hold: On Obama's nominees, by one Richard Shelby, Republican of Alabama.
Did Michelle Obama just call her daughters fat? People are outraged.
Sarkozy: Once a suck up, now a trash talker.
A little remodeling: At the space station.
Guilty plea: By the 71-year-old Edmonds man who assaulted two LaRouchies over their Obama-as-Hitler poster.
And the blogs, as always, must be crazy:
1
The Larouchies in downtown all carry cameras now. I walk up and down first avenue near pike place every day for lunch and they are often on a street corner nearby. I have seen people heckle them and every single one of them takes out a digital camera and taunts people to hit them. One guy literally was asking people to hit him. They love the media attention, on a personal level and organizational. They don't deserve the disdain they get.
4
Loved the Snow White story, especially the line about the "wussification of America." Seriously, what's next? Are they going to change the name to "Snow White and the Seven Vertically-Challenged People?"
5
@4, as usual, this bit of local "news" reporting is a sensationalized bit of nonsense. As with any story involving some supposed, anti common sense-sounding school administration decision, there's more to the story than the low wattage reporter bothered to find out.
Ask yourself, when you hear a story like this, what's more likely? That school administrators decided to arbitrarily censor a beloved children's classic story, or that maybe this story is misconstrued from something more?
In this case, the play wasn't the Disney version of Snow White, nor the original Grimm Fairy Tale; it's a "wacky" 1969 musical adaptation by June Walker Rogers written for middle school and high school age kids. The Elementary School decided to tone down some of the humor aimed at teens for their production, because it was being performed by young children and therefore may have seemed a bit creepy.
Don't let that stop you from calling AM radio shows to complain about dreaded Political Correctness, or from posting retarded comments to blogs about Those Darn Lib'ruls, though.
Ask yourself, when you hear a story like this, what's more likely? That school administrators decided to arbitrarily censor a beloved children's classic story, or that maybe this story is misconstrued from something more?
In this case, the play wasn't the Disney version of Snow White, nor the original Grimm Fairy Tale; it's a "wacky" 1969 musical adaptation by June Walker Rogers written for middle school and high school age kids. The Elementary School decided to tone down some of the humor aimed at teens for their production, because it was being performed by young children and therefore may have seemed a bit creepy.
Don't let that stop you from calling AM radio shows to complain about dreaded Political Correctness, or from posting retarded comments to blogs about Those Darn Lib'ruls, though.
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8.4 Million Unemployed since Obama took office.
His administration says the stimulus kept another million off that list.
$800 Billion borrowed for stimulus.
1 million jobs.
$800,000 per 'saved' job....
Obamanomics.
America can't afford it.
His administration says the stimulus kept another million off that list.
$800 Billion borrowed for stimulus.
1 million jobs.
$800,000 per 'saved' job....
Obamanomics.
America can't afford it.
9
My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins. Unless you are a sackless LaRouchebag. Then you got it comin'.
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