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Hippocratic Oath Hypocritic Oath   "first, do no harm" "first, harm the Republicans" Washington Post staff writer and columnist Howard Kurtz was online Tuesday, Sept. 8, at Noon ET to take your questions and comments about the media and and press coverage of the news. “   Hartford, Conn.: Howard Have we really come to such a partisanship that a President telling kids to stay in school is now socialism? I just saw this on TV last night and could not believe that people are aguing over this with all the issues going on. Howard Kurtz: One of the great bogus controversies. In fact, the Florida GOP official who warned that this smelled like socialism now says the speech was fine and he'd let his kids watch it. Never mind. Some Republicans - Newt Gingrich, Lamar Alexander - refused to jump on the Obama-is-brainwashing-our-students bandwagon. But now that the president has spoken, it's clear that this was, as the White House said all along, a nonpartisan, stay-in-school speech. [Howard Kurtz Discusses the Media and Press Coverage of the News, September 8, 2009] ” Yup, them Repwicans are too wascally for your eyes.  But wait!  Through the magic of recorded history  ... “ ... when President George H.W. Bush delivered a similar speech on October 1, 1991, from Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington DC, the controversy was just beginning. Democrats, then the majority party in Congress, not only denounced Bush's speech -- they also ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate its production and later summoned top Bush administration officials to Capitol Hill for an extensive hearing on the issue.[When Bush spoke to students, Democrats investigated, held hearings] ”