Republicans Outraged Over President Obama and Gettysburg Really Won’t Like Reading This
Republicans Outraged Over President Obama and Gettysburg Really Won’t Like Reading This
November 20, 2013 By
I love how the right-wing media blatantly treats conservative voters like idiots, knowing that they’ll eat it right up. See, while liberals like myself often call Republicans ignorant, the right-wing media seems to feel the same way. How else could they deliberately create “outrage” over events they know to be completely inaccurate?Because they know conservative voters are just dumb enough to fall for it. The right-wing media knows that they can simply make up almost anything they want, “report” it to the masses of conservatives just itching to find something new to hate President Obama for, and Republican voters will believe practically anything they say.
A few months ago it was “Umbrellagate” that caused conservatives to spit their venom toward the president. Then more recently it was Michelle Obama encouraging children to drink more water that seemed to offend conservatives to their very core. Now it’s President Obama not going to the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, and during his reading of that very same Gettysburg Address he didn’t utter the words “under God.”
First, let’s address his lack of attendance on the 150th anniversary of Gettysburg. Here’s a fun fact for conservatives: No president since William Howard Taft, who went in 1909, has attended Gettysburg on its anniversary. Not even their hero Ronald Reagan. Who, by the way, never visited Gettysburg while he was president.
Aww, too bad. So much for that pointless conspiracy the right-wing media blatantly made up and millions of ignorant conservatives took off and ran with.
Then on to an issue many conservatives have throw an even bigger fit about — President Obama reading the Gettysburg Address without saying the words “under God.”
It’s true, in Lincoln’s speech he did say the words, “under God.” But they weren’t actually written in the original speech — which is what was given to President Obama by Civil War scholar Ken Burns. Burns gave him a version of the speech called a “Nicolay Copy.” A “Nicolay Copy” is in reference to John Nicolay, the White House staffer who preserved the speech.
Darn, strike two for made up right-wing conspiracies.
But they are a perfect 2-0 in this for proving that they are absolutely terrible at knowing United States history.
Oh, and just for good measure, our Pledge of Allegiance originally never contained the words “one nation under God” either. In fact, our pledge was written by a Christian socialist and the words “under God” weren’t added until 1954.
This “outrage” has just been another perfect example of conservatives manufacturing fake stories to use in a pathetic attempt to attack President Obama. Just more of the same from the people whose careers depend on the abject stupidity of the average conservative.
About Allen CliftonAllen Clifton is from the Dallas-Fort Worth area and has a degree in Political Science. He is a co-founder of Forward Progressives, and author of the popular Right Off A Cliff column. He is also the founder of the Right Off A Cliff facebook page, on which he routinely voices his opinions and stirs the pot for the Progressive movement. Follow Allen on Twitter as well, @Allen_Clifton.
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