9/29/17 -8AM- Dr Seuss Controversy
Armstrong & Getty On Demand
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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2017
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's hard to think of something that on its face would be less controversial. |
| 0:29.3 | This board banal is more innocuous than the first lady given Dr. Soush books to libraries |
| 0:38.0 | to help instill the love of reading and kids. |
| 0:41.8 | You would have to try very hard to come up with something more universally acceptable. |
| 0:46.9 | Right. |
| 0:48.9 | But it like everything else in the modern world, it's become a thing. |
| 0:52.3 | It doesn't matter where, but where was this library or the librarian said no. |
| 0:55.6 | Massachusetts. |
| 0:56.6 | It doesn't matter. |
| 0:57.6 | It doesn't exist anywhere. |
| 0:58.6 | It turns out as I dig into it, it's Cambridge, Massachusetts, college town. |
| 1:04.4 | But there are all kinds of articles and books that have been written and speech is given |
| 1:11.9 | about how awful Dr. Soush and a bunch of other of our beloved childhood books and TV shows |
| 1:17.7 | are bad for kids. |
| 1:19.3 | hilarious. |
| 1:20.3 | So it's a national phenomenon. |
| 1:21.6 | So this particular library and rejected the books. |
| 1:24.0 | Now, here's the list of books just to start with. |
| 1:26.6 | Dr. Soush books, you've probably read these yourself or to your little kids. |
| 1:30.1 | I actually don't know because a little bug went couture. |
| 1:33.0 | We don't have that one. |
| 1:34.0 | That's a good one. |
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