Follow-up: MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell Aggressively Defends Video

The liberal MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell's take on the video of school children singing an "anthem" in praise of "Barack Hussein Obama":

MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell Aggressively Defends Video of Kids Singing to Obama

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Friday September 25, 2009 @ 10:03 AM EDT]

View the Video Here [see below] MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell on Thursday appeared mystified as to why anyone would have a problem with New Jersey school children being led in a song praising Barack Obama. The February 2009 video contained these lyrics: "He said we must be fair today! Equal work means equal pay! Barack Hussein Obama! He said, red yellow, black or white, all are equal in his sight! Barack Hussein Obama!"

She complained to conservative columnist Tim Carney, "I mean, this is children. They're singing a song...If you can make your point again about why this is indoctrination, political indoctrination to praise your President." The MSNBC News Live guest host also dismissed, "I remember certainly in elementary school when Ronald Reagan was President and we sent him jelly beans." Carney quickly quipped "Did you sing a song praising the 1981 Kemp/Roth tax cuts? ‘Cause we sure didn't."

After Carney pointed out that the line about equal pay for equal work is a specific policy endorsement, O’Donnell attacked, "Oh, you don't believe in equal pay for equal work?" The quick-on-his-feet Carney again shot back, "I believe in equal pay. I would love to make equal pay to you ladies, but I don't."

O’Donnell later spun fair pay legislation, which was signed by Obama early in 2009, this way: "Tim, that was passed overwhelmingly, too. There were a number of Republicans that voted for that." So, if something is popular, it’s okay to encourage children to sing about it? Would O’Donnell be happy if video surfaced of teachers in the spring of 2003 leading songs about the glories of toppling Saddam Hussein? Or would she find that to be propagandistic?

Also participating in the discussion was Mike Stark, a reporter for the liberal web page FireDogLake.com. (Of course, Ms. O’Donnell didn’t mention the hard-left bent of the site.) After Stark dismissed the song controversy as nothing more than "tea baggers" getting in "high dudgeon. . . ."