Hatboro Horsham Not Lovin’ It

Remember Morgan Spurlock? He was the guy who made Super Size Me, the funny 2004 documentary that looked at America’s obesity problem.

In the movie, he ate McDonald’s at every meal for a month and encountered serious health problems due to it. (Remember those annoying people who then did it, but ate like, small McDonald’s portions and were like “You stupid liberal!” or something. They were way more annoying than he could ever be.) Since then, he had a TV show, a book and has been going on speaking engagements.

Friday, he spoke at Hatboro Horsham High School and caused a bit of a stir. He got a standing ovation after his speech, but some school officials didn’t like it because of his profanity and his line about teachers smoking marijuana in the balcony.

Oh, yeah, and he also joked about the low IQ of McDonald’s employees and made a comment about “retarded kids in the back wearing helmets.” There were several mentally challenged — insert your own PC term if that one’s not good enough for you — kids in the back, and since they weren’t really offended according to any news reports, school officials got upset for them and cancelled a later speech Spurlock was slated to give that night.

“If you put the whole package together, the use of the F-word and poking fun at teachers and the comments about special-needs students, it just wasn’t appropriate,” Superintendent William Lessa told the Associated Press, but Spurlock retorted with “The greatest lesson those kids learned today was the importance of free speech.”

Indeed! I think that’s actually in the first amendment: “You have the right to make fun of retarded kids at a high school.”

Update: Morgan Spurlock responds to the event on — where else — his blog.

Spurlock Lecture Causes Stir at Pa. School [AP/ABCNews.com]