Posted on 03/26/2006 12:05:23 PM PST by flixxx
The filmmaker who ate nothing but McDonald's meals for a month for his Oscar-nominated film "Super Size Me" gave a profanity-laced, politically incorrect speech at a suburban Philadelphia high school, but not everyone was lovin' it.
Speaking at Hatboro-Horsham High School's first-ever health fair, Morgan Spurlock joked about the intelligence of McDonald's employees, about "retarded kids in the back wearing helmets" and teachers smoking pot in the balcony.
The special education students in the back row were led by teachers out of the hourlong presentation.
"If you put the whole package together, the use of the F-word and poking fun at teachers and the comments about special-needs students, it just wasn't appropriate," Superintendent William Lessa said.
Most of the 700 students laughed, gave him a standing ovation and mobbed him for autographs. A speech Spurlock was to make at the school later Friday night for community members was canceled.
Spurlock said he's never had a complaint after giving similar talks at other high schools and colleges. He said he had been told shortly before his appearance not to talk about McDonald's because a board member of the Hatboro-Horsham Education Foundation, which sponsored the appearance, owns a franchise.
The association's director did not return phone calls seeking comment.
"The greatest lesson those kids learned today was the importance of free speech," Spurlock said.
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If he said the things that are reported in the article, then he should be ridiculed as it was an inappropriate venue for his speech.
Maybe he was high.
Another Lefty nut-job.
Were the children present to use the forms of speech in school that Spurlock used, they would be sumarily expelled. This guy is a doofus of the first order. Does free speech protect classlessness?
hhef@hatboro-horsham.org
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yep, it's always a sign of class and good upbringing to make fun of the disabled kids....
whatta ignorant j@ck@ss
You stand in the middle of the highway and a car hits you. Its the nature of things. The school invites a guy like Spurlock and then complains when he is himself. Hey teachers, buy a clue.
Where was the Principal or Vice-Principal? When I was in High School, we had one of those "inspirational" assemblies, one day, with some ex-wrestler who was going to "inspire" us students. This was back in 1961 or 1962.
600 kids in the gym. This guy comes out and starts using swear words in his "inspirational" talk. He got about two minutes into his program. The Principal of the high school walked up to him, shut off his microphone and frog-marched him out of the gym.
The Principal then came back, apologized to the student body, and gave his own little talk for the rest of the period.
Problem solved.
Morgan Spurlock is an #sswipe. What a ridiculous film -- eating at McD's 3x a day for a month, all supersize, will get you fat. NO FREAKING WAY! SHOCKER! Talk about a film that states the obvious and tries to take down a corporation with it -- eat any kind of big meal 3x a day for a month, don't go to a gym, you're gonna get fat.
I just thought that film was a ridiculous, immature, hatchet job. Shouldn't someone else have done a film about eating at McD's from the other side of the menu (salads, yogurts, apples, the REGULAR hamburger) and about how they lost weight?
Supersize Me just tried to take all the responsibility off the consumer in the most disingenuous of ways. And I don't own McD's stock...
And it's misuse to be used as a wedge to further divide humans from humanity
Personally i don't like McDonald's food never did but i like this gut even less he uses free speech to usurp Freedom !
The constitutionally-guaranteed right to make fun of the retarded.
Whatever, he was a one-hit wonder. Save a hairnet and a space for him by the deep fryer.
Thirty years from now, these are the idiots that will be running the country. God help us.
So are Tim Shriver and the Special Olympics folks going to castigate him for making offensive remarks about special people? Can you imagine the outrage that would have followed if some conservative speaker had said such ugly things about the mentally challenged??
So of course he tries to turn this into a free speech issue, like anyone was challenging that. Spurlock is already lucky enough to have a platform to impart his left wing propaganda to millions of people. Does he have no sense of decency though, in thinking that he should not use foul language to an underage crowd?!
Did this moron Spurlock (of whom I've never heard until now) think he was doing a gig for Comedy Central?
The principal should have stopped him after the first indecent word or the first insult to the special kids, like in the example given above by a FReeper.
I despise people who use their free speech platform to devalue and depersonalize the most vulnerable among us.
Spurlock is a Nazi.
His conclusion is a self-congratulatory delusion. . .
Sounds like these other self important lefty celebrities who scream that their free speech is being taken away while they stand in front of 800 microphones talking about how bad America and Bush are.
You know the teachers et al. consider Spurlock a liberal icon. I doubt they would have had the nerve.
"You know the teachers et al. consider Spurlock a liberal icon. I doubt they would have had the nerve."
More's the pity.
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