By Dave Andrusko

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Over the years I have learned that there is great truth behind the off-hand observation that "you can't make this stuff up." By that I mean people will say and do things that can convinced you they must be spoofing the audience--and then you realize they are deadly serious.

Just checking my e-mail today when I ran across a story from today's Salt Lake Tribune headlined, "Parents upset over 'leftist propaganda' video: Principal Apologies for showing 'I Pledge' to students." (The headline is intended to marginalize the parents, but what else is new?)

Maybe lots of people have seen the 4 minute, 18 second, "I Pledge" video put together by Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, but I hadn't. Looking online, I guess it first popped up in January.

And if it were being shown to adults, that's fine. Presumably they would have chosen to watch the video whose theme is "service."

We're told in the story that's why the local PTA chose the video to show at an assembly--in their minds it harmonized with the school's theme for the year--even though the elementary school principal hadn't seen it, according to the school district's spokesman.

Along with stuff no one could possibly object to, like feeding the hungry, the video is larded with the usual PC drivel. But, again, that's fine if we aren't talking about indoctrinating six-year-olds into pledging "to advance stem cell research" and to "be of service to Barack Obama," and (in case we missed it the first time), "I pledge to be a servant to our president and all mankind."

I won't make the obvious point about how much huffing and puffing there would have been had the objection of this fawning adoration been President George W. Bush. "Yes, we can show the video to tiny tots" would quickly have become, "Are you kidding me?"

No earth shattering moral except to be aware. The more difficult times become for our pro-abortion President, the more likely we are to be told, "How dare you?!"

Part Two