Posted on 09/24/2011 10:17:19 AM PDT by ColdOne
The first family stopped watching children’s TV shows for three hours Saturday to “encourage kids to go outside and play and to celebrate the success” of the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award, according to a White House press release.
Saturday is Nickelodeon’s “worldwide day of play,” a longstanding campaign in which the kids network shuts down its TV programming and websites for three hours in a bid to encourage children to play outside.
“I’m so proud of all the kids and families who rose to the challenge and got active this year,” said First Lady Michelle Obama.
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I wish FLOTUS would lower her profile. She is a real distraction.
More likely, most kids will probably pick up a video game, watch a movie, or start fighting with their siblings.
Nick kept saying that it was “live” from DC, but if you check the weather, it’s cloudy and rainy in DC, while their ‘live’ shots show it sunny. It was all prerecorded, so they are lying to our kids.
Guess they figure it’s okay to get them used to being lied to.
Well, we know Barry’s taking it to heart....
So does her husband, for people like me anyway; not quite ready to collect Social Security, but also not ready to grovel for some Union job.
ML/NJ
She will give them condoms and ban them from buying french fries. Lefty priorties are messed up.
“Blackie O” aka “Fat Ass” needs to take her own advice and start eating healthy and exercising instead of taking lavish vacations with our money.
Her idiotic husband has been playing around in The White House for three years.
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