Lady Gaga Heads to The White House to Fight Bullying
We learned yesterday how Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer should be banned because it teaches kids how to bully deer…I mean other kids. Bullying deer is unacceptable too, so remember hunters not to hurt any feelings while sitting in stands this hunting season.
The latest person to make a full-frontal assault on bullies is Lady Gaga. And believe me, Lady Gaga knows just about everything there is to know about full-frontal. It seems that the pop-diva will meet with Obama Administration officials today to discuss how to prevent bullying. We are happy to learn that the White House is making good use of its time with the nation in the grips of a deep recession.
Obama is on the job of fixing the economy, however, and won’t be on-hand to meet with Lady Gaga. He will be speaking in Kansas in an effort to bully Republicans into passing tax increases.
In honor of Lady Gaga, I think its fitting to offer Weird Al Yankovic’s parody of her, “I Perform This Way”.
I hope that this video isn’t considered bullying or Weird Al could be in trouble when Obama gets back from Kansas and takes a break from playing golf.
I can honestly say I have never been more turned off by an article. There are kids all of the United States that come home every day that get picked on and constantly abused. They spend their childhood being tortured and bullied and when people finally take notice you decide to write a column and bash the movement. No kid should have to suffer like this. To feel that their only option is suicide is horrific and wrong.
And while yes Mr. Bonnette, I do agree with you that President Obama is doing a poor job with our economy, but that is not his only job. He is the head of our country and oversees several matters. Maybe to you bullying might seem like a small issue and apparently even a laughable but it wasn’t just a small issue to a kid like Jamey Rodemeyer, a 14 year old who committed suicide in Septemeber or the countless other kids. If you would just stop and look at the issue at hand maybe you will see that this has nothing to do with President Obama or Lady Gaga. This is way bigger than them. It’s about the kids not just Jamey but even others like a kid a few years younger than me from my own high school that tried to kill himself. So please go back to bashing President Obama for the war and the economy but do not bring down the anti bullying movement just because a president you dislike is for it.
How did we survive as a nation for more than 200 years without an “anti-bullying movement”? Oh yeah, we had parents. Parents who taught kids right from wrong, how to treat other people, how to be polite.
Now we don’t. Now most kids are lucky to have one parent, much less two, and they are very unlikely to have a parent waiting for them at home when school is over, whom they could talk to about their problems.
Nor do we have a shared moral framework derived from a Christian heritage. Kids all used to learn the golden rule at home and at Sunday school—now, that percentage is much smaller.
None of that will get fixed in any way by the government. The “anti-violence movement” ended up with lots of innocent kids getting expelled from school when they accidentally brought plastic knives in their lunchboxes. The “anti-bullying movement” will end up doing similar things. Your “movement” will simply give government (government schools, in this case) more control over kids lives while doing nothing to address its moral decay.