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So how did An Inconvenient Truth become required classroom viewing?
National Post/Live Daily ^
| 5-19-2007
| Kevin Libin
Posted on 05/26/2007 6:39:53 AM PDT by JillValentine
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To: JillValentine
I honestly would have no problem with my son being shown the film as long as the class did an honest, in-depth analysis of the facts to determine if the film was correct or simple propoganda.
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posted on
05/26/2007 6:42:02 AM PDT
by
gitmo
(From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
To: JillValentine
Do you have a working link?
To: Sidebar Moderator
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posted on
05/26/2007 6:51:08 AM PDT
by
JillValentine
(Being a feminist is all about being a victim. Being an armed woman is all about not being a victim.)
To: JillValentine
The film should not be shown in science classes because it's not in any way a objective look at the issue and half of the film is a hagiography of Al Gore.
It would be like showing Michael Moore's film Sicko in health classes - has that happened yet? It certainly would not surprise me!
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posted on
05/26/2007 6:52:49 AM PDT
by
rockprof
To: JillValentine
The school announced it will soon be teaching the children with “Triumph of the Will”, “Birth of a Nation” and “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”.
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posted on
05/26/2007 6:53:11 AM PDT
by
Lawgvr1955
(You can never have too much cowbell !!)
To: rockprof
I was required to watch Michael Moore’s BS pile “Roger And Me” in a college geography class, of all places. “Sicko” wouldn’t surprise me either.
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posted on
05/26/2007 6:55:45 AM PDT
by
JillValentine
(Being a feminist is all about being a victim. Being an armed woman is all about not being a victim.)
To: JillValentine
My son came home from
parochial school the other day with his head full of lies from this film. It took a little deprogramming to assure him we were not all going to be cooked alive. The principal has been informed of my displeasure.
-ccm
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posted on
05/26/2007 6:56:23 AM PDT
by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order.)
To: JillValentine
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posted on
05/26/2007 6:57:12 AM PDT
by
Clinging Bitterly
(Oregon - a pro-militia and firearms state that looks just like Afghanistan .)
To: JillValentine
First it was his world history class. Then he saw it in his economics class. And his world issues class. And his environment class
Pretty ridiculous but what I find interesting is the courses. I went to high school a long time ago but I don’t recall high school being a time to study such subject (except as part of a larger course such as history). We were so busy with learning basics such as science, math, English, etc. that our electives were pretty much limited to foreign languages, advanced math or English, debate, business courses (i.e. typing or shorthand), shop or home economics. How do they have time to cover environment, economics or world issues as separate courses? Is this why our kids can’t spell or write worth a hoot?
Signed, me, an old coot.
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posted on
05/26/2007 7:00:20 AM PDT
by
caseinpoint
(Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
To: Dave in Eugene of all places
I did a search for Gore and Inconvenient Truth and didn’t find anything. Guess I should have searched for Algore as a keyword instead of Gore.
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posted on
05/26/2007 7:00:38 AM PDT
by
JillValentine
(Being a feminist is all about being a victim. Being an armed woman is all about not being a victim.)
To: JillValentine
The NEA is probably behind all of this. Parents need to stand up and tell those schools what they think of this kind of stuff. They are the ones paying the taxes to support the schools.
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posted on
05/26/2007 7:03:18 AM PDT
by
Piquaboy
(22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
To: gitmo
“I honestly would have no problem with my son being shown the film as long as the class did an honest, in-depth analysis of the facts to determine if the film was correct or simple propoganda.”
Oh, never fear, leftists are famous for doing comprehensive and in-depth critical analysis of their own propaganda.
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posted on
05/26/2007 7:04:40 AM PDT
by
vetsvette
(Bring Him Back)
To: ccmay
Does the principal even care?
Bet ya this film becomes a required viewing for the young kids in our schools.
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posted on
05/26/2007 7:08:58 AM PDT
by
fhlh
(Liberal (noun): A person so open minded, their brains have fallen out of their head.)
To: gitmo
That would be a good lesson in critical thinking for the young to take what they have already learned and use it to prove or disprove junk science.
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posted on
05/26/2007 7:10:25 AM PDT
by
WorkerbeeCitizen
(I Relieve Myself In Islam's General Direction While I Deny Global Warming.)
To: JillValentine
1. The idea itself is sacrosanct to the liberals
2. Liberals believe that Americans are sagacious as a populace and that only they have the right of sovereignty
The entire book/PowerPoint/Movie/speech whatever of Al Gore and the enviro postate is a slumgullion of falsitudes presented as a gospel
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posted on
05/26/2007 7:17:15 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: JillValentine
If they try that here, my kids would “conveniently” be absent that day.
“Oh, must have been the flu or something.”
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posted on
05/26/2007 7:18:16 AM PDT
by
TheRobb7
(The welfare state needs a customer base--ILLEGAL aliens!)
To: gitmo
It should be exposed as propaganda as The Eternal Jew, Triumph of the Will, and other films are.
The “Oscar” award for this film is a disgrace, as was the Academy’s celebration of Leni Reifentstahl the year she died.
If someone did “great” work for Fred Phelps we all know they would not and should not be celebrated.
Leni may have made other films but she was Hitler’s lover and “those films” are the ones that are shown in every filmmaking class. Her Nazi work is the reason she is known today.
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posted on
05/26/2007 7:23:02 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
To: rockprof
Sicko hasn’t been released yet (although he released bootlegs of F911 to the internet and even Cuban television WITHOUT trying to shut down the providers).
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posted on
05/26/2007 7:25:25 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
To: caseinpoint
Ever notice how many Marxists teach Economics?
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posted on
05/26/2007 7:27:54 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
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