Robert Bobb Responds To Shepard Smith’s Stupid Comment About Detroit

Robert Bobb, the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools had this to say about reckless comments made by Fox News commentator Shepard Smith, who said “If my kid were in Detroit, I’d try to burn the place down,” during a discussion about the school district’s poor academic record illustrated by a recent report.

BOBB: To hell with him. Who the hell does he think he is? There’s nothing wrong with these kids’ minds. Maybe something’s wrong with the adults.

Here is another excerpt:

Bobb says “there’s nothing wrong” with the minds of Detroit students. Bobb has been in charge of district finances since March. He recently asked state lawmakers to also give him control over academics.

Smith made those idiotic comments and showed just how increasingly reckless commentators are getting as the line between news and scarcely considered opinion is now barely visible.

MLive:
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/12/robert_bobb_responds_to_fox_ne.html

Some Of These Far-Right Nutty Parents Are Pitiful

Some of these far-right nuts, who find a comforting environment at Fox News, on right-wing programs like the dreadful Fox and Friends. Media Matters for America has a clip of a parent or parents wanting to keep their kids home from school so they will not hear President Obama’s Stay-In-School speech that some of these individuals feel is a form of “indoctrination.” It’s amazing to see how some of these men and women on the extreme right have lost their minds in just a few months of President Obama’s administration and have begun to tag him with labels such as communist, Marxist, socialist, radical, racist, a hater of America, a person who wasn’t born in America and so on and so forth. Now, the president is working to encourage young people to stay in school and prejudiced individuals don’t even like that from Barack Obama.

Here is the headline from Media Matters:

Fox & Friendshosts parent who plans to “keep kids home” from Obama stay-in-school “indoctrination” speech

The one-sided video and Fox’s right-wing lean (not even disguised) is pathetic. As one commenter said, it wouldn’t have mattered if it had been run past the board. If the board had passed it then the cry would have been something along the lines of “the liberal board of education caves into liberal, socialist, Marxist, communist, America-hating, non-American, radical, black, white-people-hating President Obama.”

Media Matters for America:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909030011