November 10, 2009
My Apologies

A while ago I cited this: “Only one in four Oklahoma public high school students can name the first President of the United States, according to a survey released today.”

It now turns out that the survey was a phony pumped out by a notorious conservative propaganda outfit. FiveThirtyEight has the details. I could have figured this out myself with a little Googling, but didn’t. Sorry.

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Posted by Jerome Doolittle at November 10, 2009 10:32 AM
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Wow! That is so hilarious! What have they got against Oklahoma?

Posted by: karen marie on November 10, 2009 7:38 PM

Nothing against Oklahoma. The enemy is public schools. Public bad, private good. As in homeschooling, charter schools, religious schools, etc. In a perfect world the funds that now go to the hopelessly incompetent (see how dumb their students are?) public schools, full of unions and liberals atheists and secular humanists, would be shifted over to these private types of schooling.

Posted by: on November 10, 2009 10:10 PM

Well, I don't know about all Oklahomans, but if Oklahoma wasn't good enough for Woody Guthrie, then I don't know who it's good enough for.

But in deference to Benjamin Franklin Bache and to fill the minds of the students in Oklahoma schools and everywhere else with the proper methodology of thinking through this question, I would remind them that John Hanson was the First President of the United States Government. George actually came in eighth. You can Google George Hanson's name if you like to verify this statement, although beware of Wikipeida - it claims that this little known fact is only claimed by "amateur historians". So kids, if your teacher challenges you on this answer , you can:


A: mutter something about Howard Zinn
b: buy her a copy of the book our man in San Francisco recommends called "Lies my Teacher Told Me" or
c: buy her an apple

Although eating the apple yourself is the healthiest but occasionally less satisfying option according to my sources on apples.

So Jerry, I think you made you point correctly although the number is surely closer to one in a hundred or a thousand using the proper Bad Attitudes method of analyzing the question presented.

But who asked my opinion anyway, right?

Posted by: Buck on November 11, 2009 5:45 AM
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