Angry parents pull their kids from Boy Scouts after Trumps vindictive, creepy speech

[L. Coyote]

http://shareblue.com/angry-parents-pull-their-kids-from-boy-scouts-after-trumps-vindictive-creepy-speech/
By Eric Boehlert | July 25, 2017

Trump trampled an American tradition by giving a creepy, ego-stroking speech to the Boy Scouts. Now angry parents are demanding an apology from the group — or else.

Boy Scouts parents are expressing their shock and disgust in the wake of Donald Trump’s rambling, weirdly incoherent and divisive speech Monday night at the group’s annual National Boy Scout Jamboree.

By tradition, U.S. presidents are invited to address the boyhood gathering. But obviously none have used that occasion to wallow in ego-stroking and score-settling the way Trump did.

During his unseemly 35-minute speech, Trump attacked former President Barack Obama (whom many Boy Scouts booed), mocked Hillary Clinton, and threatened to fire Human Services Secretary Tom Price if he doesn’t deliver votes for the Republican Party’s health care bill. He also railed against “fake news” and all the “dishonest people” in the media.

In response, the Boy Scouts of America released a bland statement about how it remains a “wholly non-partisan” organization. Not surprisingly, that slight response has done nothing to quell the massive blowback ..............

[vlyons]

1. The head of BSA is also

CEO and chairman of the board of AT&T, which is seeking to accomplish a big mega-merger,

Need I say more?

[BigmanPigman]

3. I read that too.

No conflict of interests here. He should be fired or resign immediately. If not then every parent and company should withdraw their kids and money from the organization and give it to a more honorable one instead.

[meow2u3]

2. The head of the BSA is a BSA, all right nt

[Not Ruth]

4. Why did they let their kids become Brown Shirts to begin with?

[angstlessk]

5. They weren't 'brown shirts' when Obama was president?

[Not Ruth]

6. They were more nuanced about it, but yes they were

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-greenberg/why-i-still-wont-put-my-s_b_7963582.html

[montana_hazeleyes]

7. Why did they boo President Obama?

Why? Not saying you know, but I keep thinking what is in the minds/hearts of those boy scouts to boo him.

[world wide wally]

9. Because they are impressionable young people being egged on by a bully

who claims the title is of "president" of the USA.
Have you read the book "Lord of the Flies"... Trump was their leader who convinced them to kill and eat each other.

[defacto7]

8. Has anyone thought there may have been people

or even kids planted or encouraged to mock at the right moment to start a gang reaction? Kids are vulnerable to peer reactions. WV would be an easy place to find Trump extremists to pull off such a thing. Of course they'd have to be tipped off that it was coming, but that's how that game is played.