VIDEO: Idaho elementary school kids chant "assassinate Obama" on school bus

By GottaLaff

This video is from KIDK 2 News, broadcast Nov. 11, 2008.
The full KIDK story can be read here.

Gee, now where in the world did the kiddies pick this little phrase up, hmmm?

Matthew Whoolery told KIKD News he found out about the chanting from his second and third graders, who had no idea what the word "assassinate" meant. [...]

Whoolery, a psychology professor at Brigham Young University in Rexburg, is not an Obama supporter, but he was shocked that any public official would be threatened in that way. "I don't think that the majority of people in Rexburg have extreme ideas like that, but we were just surprised that it would go that far," Whoolery told KIKD.

The Madison County School District has sent out an email saying that students are to be told this sort of behavior is unacceptable. [...]

The population of Madison County is not only heavily Republican but also 97.7% white. One of Rexburg's lone Democrats, a professor at the university, told Salon that "she remembers the time when a group of classmates followed her third-grader home, shouting out 'baby-killer' all along the way. She took it up with the teacher, who didn't seem to mind."

Appalled doesn't even begin to say it. They're what, eight?

Per the article, "In the 2004 presidential election, 93 percent of Madison County's votes went to George W. Bush or minor-party conservative candidates -- arguably the reddest result of any county in the entire country."

"Red" doesn't have to mean "bigoted". How sad that they're becoming synonymous.