Spurlock opens mouth, inserts foot
posted Monday, March 27, 2006 :: 7:17 AM
Okay, the documentary filmmaker for Super Size Me, about the evils of eating at McDonald’s, has been going
around the country to high schools, giving talks to educate high
schoolers about the dangers of fast food, as part of health fairs and
the like. No problem. Here are the bits that caught my eye: (hat tip: Michelle Malkin.)
“On Friday afternoon at Hatboro-Horsham High
School in eastern Montgomery County, administrators say he put his foot
in his mouth during an entertaining and humorous but profanity-laced,
politically incorrect address to about 700 students.”
By “profanity-laced,” they mean the show would have had to air on HBO
if the exact same program was on television. By “politically
incorrect,” they mean that his numerous slurs against special education
students (who were in attendance at the event) and immigrants working
the counter at McDonald’s (hey, it’s an entry- level job; no one denies
that) were, um, offensive and tasteless. Thus the controversy. A few
people at this school were offended, that is the good news! But the bad
news continues:
“Spurlock defended himself, saying he has given similar talks at other high schools and at colleges, and never had a problem.”
Oh, dear.
“In preparation for his appearance, students
watched Super Size Me and calculated calories in math class.”
This was a high school. A high school. And they are spending their
class time watching this stuff and calculating calories, a 6th grade
level skill at best?
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