MSM assailed George H.W. Bush for talking to school children

So Democrats and liberal bloggers are calling conservatives' concerns over President Barack Obama's speech to school children nationwide as hysteria and stupidity. Interesting when the shoe is on the other foot.

In 1991, Democrats and the Washington Post called for investigations into President George H.W. Bush's administration when he addressed school chidren. Byron York at the Washington Examiner recalls:

The controversy over President Obama's speech to the nation's schoolchildren will likely be over shortly after Obama speaks today at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. But 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.

Unlike the Obama speech, in 1991 most of the controversy came after, not before, the president's school appearance. The day after Bush spoke, the Washington Post published a front-page story suggesting the speech was carefully staged for the president's political benefit.

"The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props," the Post reported.

The National Education Association denounced the speech.

A Democrat is now in the White House. Interesting how the NEA and Democrats have changed their tune.