Been watching cable? The wingnuts are going bonkers because a school in New Jersey (in video above) taught some kids to sing a little ditty praising Barack Obama.

That ain’t all. There’s a local angle. The wingnuts didn’t name-check the school very closely. In their Googling madness, they confused it with a school in Springdale, Ark., which got an earful of angry callers about its non-indoctrination.

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PS — When Gulf Coast kiddies serenaded G.W. Bush with a song of praise for his work on Katrina — Katrina! — it was just luverly.

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