over the country coming under pressure not to show the speech to students, from irate parents like james noack>> any time a politician or anyone is going to be addressing your child i think you have a right to know what is going to be said before they're subjected to it. >> class, we are honored today to have a very special guest. >> when president george h.w. bush spoke to students in 1991, he said many of the same things that president obama echoed today. >> take control. don't say school is boring and blame it on your teachers. >> there was some controversy over that speech, but it was nothing compared to the preemptive and fierce nature of this one. the conservative echo chamber is not new, but this white house is operating in a vastly accelerated media environment. where you no longer need to be in the presence of reporters to make news. >> today, you can arrange that protest yourself, photograph wit a handheld cell phone, post that on youtube and if you can then generate enough views of that video on youtube you can make something into national news. >> that's because the mainstream medi