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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Jersey Jazzman: Reformy Astroturf

Jersey Jazzman: Reformy Astroturf:

Reformy Astroturf

Time for another edition of "Spot The Pattern"! Can you find the pattern in these reformy stories?

Chicago:

I can't embed the video (click the link to watch it), but protesters, shipped in by bus, are paid to demand a "failing" public school in the Windy City be closed. The protesters wind up being bussed back to a church center run by a pastor. As they disembark, the reporter asks several to name the school; they can't.

New York:
9th and 10th graders at Renaissance Charter High School made the following video as an