Having a school bus full of children chanting “assasinate Obama.” to some people in Madison County Idaho. After all, they brag about being the “reddest county in America.” Even the apologies from the area ring hollow. According to the AP (emphasis added):

Rexburg Mayor Shawn Larsen wrote in a guest editorial sent Tuesday to local newspapers that he was saddened by the notoriety his community had received over the incident, both across the United States and abroad.

See? Not sad that these children are being raised to be racists. Not upset that it helps feed into the already bad reputation has of being a White Supremacist State and home to “Aryan Nations.” But I guess some apology is better than nothing, which is what you get from the Superintendent of the school district that would rather blame the media for reporting on it.

“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.”

Yes, that is it. It is OK to be racists as long as that “hyperactive media” or those pesky bloggers know about it and call them out for their actions. Because it is not the “whole community” that is at fault… it was only an entire bus load of children. Naturally, you know kids these days, they just say the wackiest things, it is not like they learned such hatred at home now is it? Of course not, I am sure they are all just downloading lying hate mongers like Sean Hannity onto their iPods and learning it there without their parent’s knowledge.

Now understand, I realize there are good and bad people everywhere, and that just because somebody is from Idaho doesn’t automatically make them a racist or a hateful person. But when there is a bus load of children doing this, there is evidence that there certainly is a problem, and that problem isn’t that some asshat blogger called you on it.

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