North Carolina High School Teacher Tells Students That They May Not Criticize President Obama, Because It Is a Crime

Happy Monday! Here is some audio of a high school teacher in North Carolina telling her students that it is illegal to criticize President Obama: 

Some transcription, via the Salisbury Post:

One student asks, "Didn't Obama bully someone though?"

The teacher responds: "Not to my knowledge."

In response to the Romney story, conservatives have recently been pointing to a passage in Obama's book, "Dreams from My Father," in which the president writes that while in grade school he shoved a little girl, the only other black student in his grade, after other students called him her boyfriend.

When the student tells the teacher that Obama admitted to bullying a girl in school, the teacher goes on the defensive.

"Stop, no, because there is no comparison," she says. Romney, she says, is "running for president. Obama is the president."

When the student says they're both "just men," the teacher continues to argue that Romney, as a candidate for president, is not to be afforded the same respect as the president.

The teacher tells the class Obama is "due the respect that every other president is due."

"Listen, let me tell you something, you will not disrespect the president of the United States in this classroom," she says.

The student replies that he'll say what he wants.

"Not about him you won't," the teacher says.

Later in the conversation, the teacher tells the class it's criminal to slander a president.

"Do you realize that people were arrested for saying things bad about Bush?" she says of former President Bush. "Do you realize you are not supposed to slander the president?"