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Hook ‘em young

Wednesday 10 October 2007, 9:24 pm

Bridgit Gread

Categories: Education, Literature, Politics, Premature induction

Tags: Books, kids, propaganda

Sick of boring old Dick and Jane readers? Stuck for Christmas stocking-fillers? Fed up with the fascist media / Maoist teachers? Why not try some ‘political education texts for kids’. Reminiscent of those What’s Happening to Me? sex-ed books we sniggered at back in the 80s, all are cute, informative and (of course) thoroughly objective. There’s wonderful titles such as Why Mommy is a Democrat, Why War is a never a Good Idea and The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming.

Our conservative friends shouldn’t feel left out. Also available is Help Mom! There are Liberals under My Bed (a possible crossover into the horror genre Down Under). For Bolt and Blair, there’s The Sky is Not Falling: Why it’s OK to chill about Global Warming (it’s blurb claims to give “kids the scoop, not just about global warming, but the real-world consequences of the Left’s responses to it”). At least we now know what’s on the coffee table at AWH headquarters.

The children of Australia are missing out and need their own titles, like Mummy, When’s the Election? and Why Kevin says Executing People is Wrong, except in Other Countries, Unless they are Australians. Suggestions?

7 Comments

Mikey (Wednesday 10 October 2007, 10:26 pm) #

What the? Now they’re lifting stories from the Daily Show!

(Check out last week - see John Oliver)
The Editor (Wednesday 10 October 2007, 11:12 pm) #

If I won a million dollars in Tatts Lotto I’d spend it on… a day’s worth of Liberal Party propaganda!
[Some idiot pretending to be] MrLefty (Thursday 11 October 2007, 10:46 am) #

Zigzactly, Mikey.

Link.
Jeremy (Thursday 11 October 2007, 2:47 pm) #

Er, actually, that was me. The people pretending to be me tend not to just be linking to the Daily Show.
The Editor (Thursday 11 October 2007, 3:14 pm) #

Oh, okay. What’s with the different IP and the flip-flopping between “MrLefty” and “Jeremy”?
Jeremy (Thursday 11 October 2007, 4:32 pm) #

Sometimes I’m on the home computer, sometimes I’m taking a break in chambers.
Goobermetrics (Thursday 11 October 2007, 7:11 pm) #

He’s an enigma wrapped in a riddle, you see….