Dad (Brett)
Mom (Erin)
Aeriana ('Wacko', 'Princess')
Zoe Jean ('Stinker', 'Cutie')
Breaking the (Scout) Law
A little background:Recently the Boy Scouts of America celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding with a special Jamboree. President Obama was invited to speak at the event, however he decided that appearing on The View was more important. Understandably, and thankfully, Obama has suffered quite a bit of backlash because of that decision.
What ended up happening at the Jamboree was that they played a pre-recorded message by the President to the Jamboree attendees - at which point there's video showing the Boy Scouts in attendance loudly booing him throughout his message. When I heard about this I was deeply disappointed. I don't care much for what President Obama is doing for (or is that 'to') this country, but he's still the President of the United States and therefore I feel that the Boy Scouts have a certain responsibility to show respect.
"A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent."
Somehow those who booed the President's message momentarily forgot about 'courteous', 'kind' and 'reverent', and I'd assume in cases where some joined in due to peer pressure, 'brave' was also temporarily forgotten. (Though in all fairness, I could do better in fully keeping the scout law in my own life.)
Anyway, I often read the Glenn Beck newsletter which highlights some of the things he mentions on the radio and today there was a blurb mentioning that he talked about the Boy Scouts incident (including the video clip below). Inwardly I groaned; Beck is well known for being ready to criticize the President... but I checked out the video anyway and was pleasantly surprised that Beck was also disappointed with the Boy Scouts.
That's one of the things I like about Beck; though he sometimes goes a bit overboard and though the fact that he's on the air for 4+ hours a day sometimes gets him in trouble, he truly seems to have respect for the offices of these people he so vehemently disagrees with.
That and he can be really freakin' hilarious.
posted by Brett at
8:40 PM
7 Comments:
I agree!! JJ and I were watching the AllStars MLB game a week or two back and as they are introducing the teams, about half the players got booed... Loudly!!! I mean come on. I understand if you are going to cheer loudly for your team, but to boo people? Its a little rediculous. I can't think of a time it is a good idea to boo someone. Tacky people, tacky!!
I agree with Glenn. Glad my son wasn't a part of this.
Sad, isn't it? Why do people think that tearing someone else down can build anyone up?
Thanks for the interesting and very enlightening blog - I don't keep up on the news enough and I'm so glad when you do and I learn from you.
AND I 2nd what Aunt Jenny said.
Look at you be all edgy and current...I think I'm stuck some where in the early 2000's..;) I love a good controversy!
Amen Glenn. Thanks for posting this Brett...i too usually learn something new from looking at your families blog!
It's a shame the President didn't want to speak at such a big event but regardless booing is out of line and very disrespectful. Not that I wouldn't have been tempted.
Post a Comment
<< Home