Posted on 07/25/2017 5:58:21 AM PDT by Zakeet
Parents have expressed anger after President Donald Trump delivered a highly politicised speech to tens of thousands of boy scouts.
Mr Trump started by saying: "Who the hell wants to speak about politics?"
But his speech to the Jamboree in West Virginia railed against Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the "cesspool" of politics, drawing whoops and cheers.
One parent wrote: "Done with scouts after you felt the need to have my kid listen to a liar stroke his ego."
The Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America is held every four years and drew about 35,000 scouts from the ages of 12 to 18 to the latest event, held in Beaver, West Virginia, on Monday evening.
The Jamboree had issued a warning on its blog about being respectful.
It read: "Chants of certain phrases heard during the campaign (e.g. 'build the wall', 'lock her up') are considered divisive by many members of our audience, and may cause unnecessary friction."
But in a rambling 35-minute speech, Mr Trump whipped up a response of boos, cheers, chants and jeers as he lambasted fake news, Hillary Clinton's election campaign and President Obama's failure to address a Jamboree in person.
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Facts = truth.
TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.
It’s a work around until scouts are inevitably mingled with other scouting units in council-wide camping and scouting events. I know that I went to several specialty camps with scouts from other troops; there’s no way to be discriminating there. Not to mention the Order of the Arrow, which is inherently inter-troop in nature.
No Troop is an island, as much as that would help. The entire organization either has a common mission/values statement or it doesn’t, including each component unit.
Rush just spoke about this event and brought up several excellent points; primarily that the left has always despised the Scouts, and that hasn’t ever changed, even with the gayification of the entire organization.
Who wants to bet that “morally straight” WON’T be removed from the Scout Oath within a few years?
“Memory aint what it used to be”
Same here...cannot recall the year of the DEMONCRAT convention where the Scouts were SPAT upon by the Dem attendees ....
Burning at the Stake Merit Badge.”
yup, i’m afraid we’d insist on it...
a memorable trip indeed!
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