Mayor Apologizes For Kids’ Chanting ‘Assassinate Obama’

I posted about the story of a bus full of school kids chanting “assassinate Obama” in Idaho when it first happened a couple of weeks ago. It has gained some national attention, and now the mayor of the local town has apologized for what happened. That’s a nice gesture, but then I read further in the article what the superintendent of the school had to say:

Still, Superintendent Geoffrey Thomas blamed the media for spreading news of the chants.

“In our district there was an isolated instance of children making regrettable and unacceptable remarks in regards to harming President-elect Obama,” Thomas wrote in a letter to parents Monday. “Word of this behavior leaked out to a hyperactive media and bloggers which in turn distorted way out of proportion the comments that were made, painting the entire community with the same negative brush.”

Here we go with typical Republican strawmen. It’s the medias fault for all this! Oh yeah – and those damn bloggers! They shouldn’t talk about the schools I run raising a bunch of little hate mongers. If this town really wants to show they are sorry about what happened, a perfect gesture would be the firing of this idiot running their schools. I think the Republicans should get behind such a movement also. This is considered the “reddest part of America”. Does the GOP want to be associated with such hatred and racism?