Now that the season of ruining Christmas has passed, and it's still too early to start undermining Easter, Fox News Scrooges have set about using Valentine’s Day to further divide the country and ramp up hostility. The target this morning? A public school in New Jersey apparently ruining kids’ lives by making sure they all get Valentines.
Even Fox & Friends co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck seemed to think there’s nothing really wrong with a school requiring everyone in a kindergarten class gets a Valentine.
But the Fox & Friends producer knew how to make sure the message got through no matter what. During the segment, the following banners appeared on the screen:
GOOD GRIEF! RED ALERT: EVERY KID MUST GET A VALENTINE
and
CLASSROOM CODDLING: PC RUN AMOK IN OUR NATION’S SCHOOLS?
“It’s not a bad thing” for every kid to get a Valentine, guest and conservative "Mommy blogger" Elizabeth Esther said, just “a little bit unnecessary” because it’s a “one size fits all” approach. But, as she continued, she warned of grave dangers ahead:
Valentine’s Day is about expressing your unique, heartfelt feelings for your special loved one. To, like, just robotically hand out (she started pounding her fist into her hand) “Here’s your Valentine, here’s your Valentine.” Like, what are we? It totally removes the meaning, the special memory for the kids.
You can’t make life 100% fair. And why not let them experience a little bit of that, like, “Wow! OK!” while they’re young, while the stakes are low, rather than, you know, they’re 20 years old and they’re still expecting everyone to give them a Valentine’s? …I understand the intention is good but it’s impractical and it ends up blowing up.
According to Esther, kids who would not have gotten a Valentine will now get a “pity Valentine” and “that doesn’t feel any better.”
The other guest, Jessica Gottlieb disagreed. She said kids get “plenty of rejection day in and day out.”
But, Esther insisted, “You destroy it when you make it this robotic, mechanized thing.”
So who’s really spoiling Valentine’s Day? A school that wants every child to get a card or a news network using the day to score political points against a public school?
H/T Raw Story
Speaking of love lost, a Fox “News” mouthpiece is not a happy camper, to put it mildly. Seems personal family matters have gotten in the way of the happy occasion.
Let the shouting matches begin.
“The Oconee County County Sheriff’s Office announces that Valentines Day has been CANCELLED from a line North of I-16 to the Georgia/Tennessee border.
“Men who live in the designated ‘NO VALENTINES DAY ZONE’ are exempt from having to run out and buy lottery scratchers and Hershey bars from the corner stores until February 18, 2014, due to ice, snow, freezing rain.”
http://dacula.patch.com/groups/around-town/p/cold-hearted-snowstorm-cancels-valentines-day
Maybe they can get “mommy blogger” to comment on how the poor women of Oconee County will have to get by without their husbands’ and boyfriends’ “unique, heartfelt feelings” on that very special day. And by government decree no less! (And, according to this site, http://oconee.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/oconee-county-2012-election-results , the Sheriff is a REPUBLICAN!)
As far as Fox screwing up our holidays, don’t forget this Monday is President’s Day. Also known at Fox News as Ronald Reagan Appreciation Day.
It’s a freakin’ KINDERGARTEN class, you stupid cow (no insult to real cud-chewing cows intended). How many kindergarteners do you know who have “unique, heartfelt feelings” much less for a “special loved one?”
That’s the EXACT same thing I was thinking, Joseph — the only thing kindergarteners have “unique, heartfelt feelings” for are cookies (at least, that was my experience.)
But you gotta remember — given that Rush Limpballs has, on more than one occasion, shown his “unique, heartfelt feelings” for people of a younger age group, its understandable how she might think the kids feel the same way . . .
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It’s a freakin’ KINDERGARTEN class, you stupid cow (no insult to real cud-chewing cows intended). How many kindergarteners do you know who have “unique, heartfelt feelings” much less for a “special loved one?”
I’d certainly hate to be one of her kids because, according to her own words, she can’t possibly treat them ALL the same. I mean, just imagine being one of her kids. It’s your birthday and you get a one layer cake with a simple frosting and pretty much generic “Happy Birthday” message on it while your little brother’s birthday comes up and he gets a two-layer cake with fancy frosting with a special design, inspired by his favorite movie. She spends all of $50 on your gifts; she spends at least $200 on his, not including the cost of hiring the clown and magician and pony rides.
Then, at Christmas, you’ve been hinting for a new game system (the only thing you really want) and end up with $50 worth of new clothes and a cheap little card, while little bro gets every last thing on his wishlist and a card the size of a door.
And that’s all because she says, “You can’t make life 100% fair.”
(Then again, why do I get the impression she’d be the first mother to raise a fuss because her precious widdle oogums didn’t get any Valentine cards from his/her classmates?)
Probably because I wasn’t all that popular — maybe I annoyed others even way back then by speaking my mind instead of being PC (we certainly didn’t have that term, “PC,” in those days).
