This in interesting. The Democrat Congressman in charge of the House Education and Labor Committee has ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate the cost and indeed, the very legality of the President's speech to schoolchildren.And then the House Majority Leader jumped in, "The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students. And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.'"
Over at the Washington Post, there's a front-page story criticizing the President for engaging in manipulation and political propaganda. The President, the newspaper fumed, has turned a "classroom into a television studio and its students into props."
Next up -- Congress will hold public hearings on the legality of the speech...not that there's much hope to find the President actually guilty of anything but certainly to harass and embarrass him. Says House Education and Labor Committee Chairman, "As the chairman of the committee charged with the authorization and implementation of education programs, I am very much interested in the justification, rationale for giving the White House scarce education funds to produce a media event."
And let's not forget the National Education Association. It too strongly denounced the speech.
But wait a sec. Denny, are you making this up? Is this some kind of gag? Surely, these things haven't really happened in the wake of President Obama's school speech yesterday, have they?
No.
They happened when President George H. W. Bush spoke at a D.C. school in 1991. And his speech wasn't broadcast all around the country as was Obama's.
But that stuff about an uneven playing field, the media's leftist bias and the Democrat's sense of unfairness. C'mon; that's all a myth.