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I get that Salon and Strong American Schools are trying to do something gimmicky about students from other nations outperforming ours. Could be, though I highly doubt, on a per capita basis, that’s happening either in the People’s Republic or India. Finland, OK, maybe. But which semi-literate ignoramus came up with this bright idea for an ad that ignores normal flag protocol in about the most insulting way possible, stringing national flags on top of each other and putting the flag of a corrupt, authoritarian despotocracy on top?
Bad news, the art grab failed, and Salon’s rotated its ad. Bummer. You’ll have to take my word for it. You can click on the American flag icon at the following link for another version of the ad. The version at Strong American Schools has a different vertical string of flags of 20 countries that reportedly outperform the United States in science education. The PRC flag doesn’t appear to be among them.
Strong American Schools says it’s non-partisan and wants a bi-partisan dialogue to strengthen American schools. That’s great. It’s a short conversation: vote for high standards, testing and competition, and vote to curb teachers’ unions that are more interested in limiting workloads and protecting the rights of incompetents than in educating children. In other words, vote Republican. Also, make sure all American kids know how to fly their flags respectfully and what commies are really like, when they aren’t staging the Olympics … heck, even when they are staging the Olympics. It’s a back-to-basics kind of thing.
Also at Salon, the sockpuppet thinks there’s a vast rightwing conspiracy controlling all those slavish Bush administration organs. You know, MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post. And Sarah Palin is a moose-flogging dominatrix.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:26 pm on Monday, September 8, 2008
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