God forbid that while talking to 60,000 public school students, the President should appear smart

Okay, the 'Obama speaks to schoolchildren, conservatives inexplicably threatened' thing. I haven't had anything to say about this yet because all I could think of was the above quote from the sadly fictitious President Bartlet in The West Wing. I figured I've been to that well at least one time too many.

Oh, that, and the obvious explanation for conservatives feeling threated (racism) but that was, well, obvious.

But then I found this piece by Jason Linkins on Huffington Post.

It starts:

Yesterday, I noted that Florida's GOP Chair Jim Greer had heard about President Barack Obama's intention to address the schoolchildren of America on the occasion of the start of a new school year, and went quite mental, warning darkly that the address was nothing more than a dastardly inculcation into socialism and a viral spread of liberal propaganda. Naively, I imagined this would be a derangement confined to a few weird nobodies, but, duh, I forgot: everyone is crazy now.

--which of course made me think of the songtitle "Mama Weer All Crazee Now." But this is the 'graph that made my brain light up:

Oh, and there are also examples of fringey types equating the outreach effort to the Civilian National Security Force and "Hitler youth brigades" and admonishing, "Leave our kids alone!" It's like the right wing blogosphere went home, dosed themselves with mescaline and sat around watching History Channel reruns on mute while Pink Floyd's The Wall played in the background.

Emphasis mine. Gotta admit, that would explain a lot...