{"id":1102,"date":"2008-09-10T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2008-09-10T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T13:49:00","slug":"more-on-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/09\/10\/more-on-context\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McCain has <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uVLQhRiEXZs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen title=\"Education\"><\/iframe> out, saying that Obama&#8217;s only accomplishment on education was a bill to teach sex ed in kindergarten. This sounds preposterous.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it is. The law Obama supported (in the Illinois state senate) was to teach kids &#8220;age appropriate&#8221; information about avoiding sexual abuse and sexual predators. It&#8217;s not teaching kindergartners how to have sex, or even what it is\u2014it was a bill to teach kindergartners that it was okay for them to stand up to people trying to grope them.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama campaign responded quickly, <a href=\"http:\/\/thepage.time.com\/obama-camp-response-to-mccain-ad-education\/\">saying<\/a>, &#8220;It is shameful and downright perverse for the McCain campaign to use a bill that was written to protect young children from sexual predators as a recycled and discredited political attack against a father of two young girls&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They got in a jab of their own, too: &#8220;Last week, John McCain told Time magazine he couldn\u2019t define what honor was.\u00a0 Now we know why,\u201d said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton.&#8221; It&#8217;s referencing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/politics\/article\/0,8599,1836909,00.html\">his bizarre interview with Time Magazine<\/a>, which Time describes as &#8220;prickly.&#8221; (That might be putting it lightly.)<\/p>\n<p>Vote for who you will, but for the love of God, don&#8217;t fall for the &#8220;Obama wants to teach sex to kindergartners&#8221; line.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/elections-2008\/off_base_on_sex_ed.html\">FactCheck has it debunked<\/a>, too. It seems the ad was even more <a href=\"http:\/\/failblog.org\/\">full of fail<\/a> than I assumed&#8230; Obama didn&#8217;t even cosponsor the bill (which didn&#8217;t even institute &#8220;sex ed&#8221; in kindergarten); he merely voted for it. Obama <em>did<\/em> sponsor\/cosponsor bills to actually improve schools, but McCain&#8217;s ad doesn&#8217;t mention those. And the quotes bashing Obama? All three are &#8216;technically accurate&#8217; quotes, but two are from articles that actually painted Obama more positively than McCain.<\/p>\n<p>The third, the Chicago Tribune editorial? It apparently <em>wasn&#8217;t<\/em> a Chicago Tribune editorial, and was written by a conservative journalist. And what does the conservative columnist think of his piece being used in the ad? Much like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogher.com\/video-paris-hilton-responds-john-mccain-who-used-her-image-ad\">Paris Hilton<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/articles\/1594443\/20080909\/heart.jhtml\">Heart<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/law\/2008\/08\/15\/browne-v-mccain-political-rocker-sues-politico-over-running-on-empty\/\">Jackson Browne<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/newsblogs.chicagotribune.com\/steve_chapman\/2008\/09\/mccains-educati.html\">he&#8217;s not terribly happy about it<\/a>: &#8220;But really, I don&#8217;t mind at all when McCain cites something I wrote praising him&#8230; But the ad itself&#8230; insults our intelligence by expecting us to believe that Obama thinks kindergarteners should be taught how to use condoms before they&#8217;re taught to read&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And he ends, as I will, by adding, &#8220;This commercial doesn&#8217;t tell us much about Obama. But it sure provides an education about McCain.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCain has out, saying that Obama&#8217;s only accomplishment on education was a bill to teach sex ed in kindergarten. This sounds preposterous. Well, it is. The law Obama supported (in the Illinois state senate) was to teach kids &#8220;age appropriate&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/09\/10\/more-on-context\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}