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Send the Kiddies Off to Vacation Bible ... err Liberty? School

Chris Rodda	print page
Thu Aug 04, 2011 at 02:48:20 PM EST

Hey, kids. Are you tired of those silly summer camps where you just act like kids and have fun? Is that week of Vacation Bible School that your parents make you go to over? Want to learn all about America's Christian history so you can hop on the computer and tell all those liberals the truth just like mom and dad? Worried that you're not that good at spelling yet and can't spell hard grown-up words like fascist and communist? Don't worry, your parents can't spell words like that either. Here at Vacation Liberty School, the week long summer day camp where you'll learn to think just like Glenn Beck, we'll teach you everything you need to know! And, we have fun, too! Think ghost stories are scary? Well, wait until you hear about Woodrow Wilson, Barack Obama, and the scariest of all, George Soros, the puppet master!

Seriously, folks, there really is a summer day camp program that teaches kids all of Glenn Beck's misguided crap. It's based on the week-long Vacation Bible School model, and called Vacation Liberty School. And, one of the authors of the curriculum for this indoctrination program, Lisa Abler, is the guest on David Barton's radio show today.

Here's Abler on Beck's show last summer telling Glenn how they explain to young children why they should be be getting right on the phone and calling Goldline as soon as they get their allowance.

I haven't had a chance to read the entire 92-page curriculum guide yet, but figured I'd post the link here so other people who like to torture themselves can read it too - http://www.ivorynotebook.com/storage/VLSFHC_EV1_1.pdf

Be sure to go to David Barton's radio show website to listen to the show (available as an mp3 download). And, don't forget that you can send Barton and his co-host Rick Green your comments on the show.

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Send the Kiddies Off to Vacation Bible ... err Liberty? School | 6 comments (6 topical, 0 hidden)

But Beck says... (5.00 / 2)

... that political camps for young people are "a little like the Hitler Youth." Strange that he would say that when he has been promoting Vacation Liberty School.

by Rachel Tabachnick on Thu Aug 04, 2011 at 03:44:57 PM EST

: What Beck says is irrelevant... (5.00 / 1)

It's what he does that counts. This story was apparently first broken by Reuters, but I heard about it through Keith Olbermann. Either way this hypocritical behavior is becoming so commonplace as to be barely noticeable. What the camps show is (hopefully) a certain measure of desperation on the part of the teavangelicals, who now have to recruit small children to their belief system. Or these groups could simply be that powerful to have a strongly political camp. My sympathies go to the poor kids. Imagine having to spend the summer constantly having bad propaganda thrown at you.

by Hirador on Thu Aug 04, 2011 at 05:48:11 PM EST
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Debbie Schlussel tops Beck (5.00 / 1)

This is vile and this woman should be an embarrassment to Jews everywhere.

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/40417/karma-norway-camp-breivik-sh ot-up-celebrated-hamas-jew-hatred/

This is so upsetting that words escape me. As Chip Berlet has pointed out, Breivik's narrative is derived from anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. Breivik's "pro-Israel" sentiment is based on his hatred of Muslims and his Christian Nationalism, and has nothing whatsoever to do with being pro-Jewish. This is the rebirth of an extreme Right in Europe that is sanitizing its hatred by waving an Israeli flag. How can Schussel be so stupid?

by Rachel Tabachnick on Thu Aug 04, 2011 at 11:06:04 PM EST

: Anti-Semitic roots of Islamophobia (none / 0)

Rachel,
Sixty years ago the American Jewish Committee commissioned a study, "Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator", analyzing the right-wing, pro-fascist, anti-Semitic demagogues of the 1930s and 40s, such as Gerald L.K. Smith and Father Charles Coughlin. The authors' typical speech of the agitator and what it means fits Beck and his ilk to a tee. See "Cultural Conservatives": Prophets of Deceit at Ecological Headstand http://ecologicalheadstand.blogspot.com/2011/08/cultural-conserva tives-prophets-of.html

by Sandwichman on Fri Aug 05, 2011 at 04:59:55 PM EST
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this was shared w/ my friends... (none / 0)

in the Bible belt. thank you!

by peg1 on Sat Aug 06, 2011 at 01:21:29 AM EST

: I'm not sure (none / 0)

If that was Brave or foolish, either way gamble on you brave person you. May the force be with you.

by Hirador on Wed Aug 10, 2011 at 01:13:49 PM EST
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Send the Kiddies Off to Vacation Bible ... err Liberty? School | 6 comments (6 topical, 0 hidden)

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