Yesterday on Hardball, Barnicle spent an entire segment debating whether or not a group of elementary school kids should have been singing a song about President Obama.
Pat Buchanan was on the show. Of course. Because you can't have a debate on MSNBC without the Nazi-apologist mastermind of the Southern Strategy. Buchanan's verdict -- and Barnicle kind of agreed with him -- was that public school kids shouldn't be forced to sing about the president because it sounds like indoctrination.
Horseshit.
Here's an example of school kids singing about President Bush.
And coincidentally, I was watching a special on History Channel the other night called "Nixon: A Presidency Revealed" and was shocked to learn that when Nixon triumphantly returned from China, there was an event in the Rose Garden in which a high school glee club of some sort were singing directly to Nixon: "We love you Mr. President, oh yes we doooo. President Nixon weee love yooooou!"
Indoctrination!
Pat Buchanan, by the way, was a Nixon political adviser and speechwriter. Buchanan also accompanied Nixon on the China trip.