This article linked by Juan Cole ( I heard him on Al Franken yesterday– here’s the link to AirAmericaPlace mp3 of this show (the Cole interview starts about 38:00), which archived the shows in mp3 format)

ABC News: School Talent Show Draws Secret Service

“These kids are being used to promote an extreme leftist point of view on the taxpayers’ dime,” Boulder resident James Lemons told KMGH.

This quote is something that irks me to no end. The “taxpayer’s dime” is precisely to support the system’s ideals, one of the most prominent being: Free Speech. In that is implied, that both extreme left and extreme right and everything in between is allowed, and is , as a whole, appreciated and celebrated.