Where's the Patriotism? - Progress Pond

I don’t know whether to be more disturbed that Sasha and Malia’s elitist Quaker school served them Teriyaki Marinated Chicken Strips on Pearl Harbor Day, or that they think it’s appropriate to feed Garlic Roasted Edamame to red-blooded Americans. Either way, these Quakers are a menace. People spend good money to send their kids to Sidwell Friends School, and this is the unpatriotic, fifth-column, sissified thanks that they get?

I’m just grateful that there are vigilant reporters who make sure to check Sidwell’s menu on all important anniversaries so that this kind of treasonous indoctrination doesn’t pass unnoticed.

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ejmw on December 7, 2011 at 7:42 pm

Obviously they should have just renamed a few of the menu items to avoid this manufactured controversy (and possibly start another).

Asian Mushroom Cloud Soup
Vegetable Blast Fried Rice
Ill Fortune Cookies

etc.

Lodus on December 7, 2011 at 7:53 pm

From that news site’s “About” page:

On January 16, 1949, Channel 9, then a new CBS network affiliate station, began its first official broadcast. Four days later, President Harry S Truman made history as the first American president to give a live, televised inaugural address. Of course, that speech was carried by WOIC-TV, Channel 9.

Since that time much has changed. We’ve had several sets of call letters (WOIC, WTOP, WDVM, and today, WUSA) and Washington has grown from a small television market to one of the top ten markets in the country. Some of the most revered names in the business have shared desks here at Channel 9 – Walter Cronkite, Sam Donaldson, Arthur Godfrey, Max Robinson, Eric Sevareid, Howard K. Smith and Lowell Thomas. WUSA 9 is now part of Gannett, Inc., an internationally diverse news and information company.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

Geov Parrish on December 7, 2011 at 10:58 pm

I’ll bet all those revered names honed their investigative journalism chops doing stories exactly like this one.

I’d also bet a lot this “scoop” came about because someone on the air staff at WUSA sends their kid(s) to Sidwell. And I will say, they know their audience. The comments are truly depressing.
- Phil Perspective on December 8, 2011 at 1:39 am
  
  Have you ever seen the comment section on most news sites? They are fetid swamps. Drudgico was the worst of the worse before they made you comment using Facebook.

mainsailset on December 7, 2011 at 10:05 pm

Oh I don’t know, maybe Trump is the right one to moderate a Rep debate.

Geov Parrish on December 7, 2011 at 10:59 pm

They should have served them pizza. It’s a vegetable. And besides, the Italians were on our side in WWII, right?

BooMan on December 7, 2011 at 11:06 pm

Well, yes. Actually, the Italians were on our side in World War Two. But only after we kicked their asses and people like Bob Dole were heinously injured.

Lucidamente on December 8, 2011 at 12:47 am

You know what’s next: James O’Keefe goes to Sidwell Friends posing as a caterer.

Phil Perspective on December 8, 2011 at 1:40 am

Well .. one of his minions visited Eric Boehlert the other day dressed as a Verizon repair man.

Where’s the Patriotism?

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