Right flubs Gettysburg story – twice


I can not care at all about Fox. They are always twisting the truth the way the tornadoes twisted their ways through the midwest. Our President does look up to Lincoln and Lincoln was a human being who would find no fault with President Obama.

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On the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, conservative media launched a bizarre new smear of President Obama.

It’s not exactly a secret that President Obama looks to Abraham Lincoln as a political hero. When Obama was inaugurated, he used Lincoln’s Bible, and when it came time to place items of significance in the Oval Office, Obama chose a Lincoln bust and the Emancipation Proclamation.
With this in mind, on the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, the right has chosen an odd story to complain about.
Fox News is manufacturing outrage over Obama’s decision not to attend the commemoration ceremony for the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address and baselessly speculating that Obama’s resentment over the nation’s unfinished business “in bringing the country and its races together” may be the cause. […]
Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade discussed with Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger whether it…

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