Fox News Turns Obama's Kid Book Into Anti-American War Epic

[meegbear]

When news aggregation goes wrong: Fox News republished a USA Today article called "Obama Shares Dreams for His Kids in Book About 13 Americans." Fox News' headline? "Obama Praises Indian Chief Who Killed U.S. General."

The chief in question is Sitting Bull, whom Obama calls "a Sioux medicine man who healed broken hearts and broken proimses" in his book. Here's a comparison between USA Today's article and Fox News' article, the latter of which is exactly the same as the former, but with a different headline and one paragraph in bold:



C'mon, guys, if you're going to write a divisive, overblown headline, at least insert a self-referential joke and a hasty photoshop job with yellow arrows, or something.

Obama is donating all of his royalties from the book to a scholarship fund for children of disabled and fallen American soldiers. Basically, this picture book is his jihad. You heard it hear first: The natives are restless, and they are teaming up with our Taliban Muslim Illegally Elected President.

http://gawker.com/5690436/fox-news-turns-obamas-kid-book-into-anti+american-war-epic

[marmar]

1. And how many Native Americans did the general kill?

I bet Faux omits that bit.

[mediaman007]

4. Not only that, but Buffalo Bill (America's first Madison Avenue star?) included Sitting Bull in his

Wild West Show!

[Ian David]

6. Why did Buffalo Bill Cody hate America? n/t

[Posteritatis]

2. ...Wow. (nt)

[Bigmack]

3. Why not go after them...?

What would happen if Pres. Obama made this article the focus of his next weekend address?

"My fellow Americans... THIS is what's wrong in America today. Mindless, partisan divisiveness. Fox has taken a simple story and spun it into a twisted tale representing how much they hate me.

I recognize that hatred ... THEY are what's wrong with our political discourse in this country today... and I stand on the side of an America without hate."

If they answer and want to play... step it up a notch.

People who took on FDR.. or (pre-Vietnam) LBJ... learned to their dismay that if you fuck with the bull, you get the horns.

My point... why continue to ignore that which is poisoning our country.

[sufrommich]

5. Good Lord. The sheer stupidity is mindblowing. nt

[dawg]

7. It is *our* stupidity that is mindblowing.

Knowing that we are up against a massive network of corporate funded propagandists, and our response is to mumble about "bipartisanship" and "compromise".

We keep bringing a knife to a gunfight, and then we wonder why we aren't getting better results.

[baldguy]

8. Well, everyone knows Native Americans aren't *REAL* Americans.

:sarcasm:

[gratuitous]

9. Obama's donating the royalties

Is Shrub personally profiting off the memoir of his criminal activities? And isn't there a law in Texas prohibiting that? Does the criminal actually have to have been convicted?

Hell, if President Obama walked on water, the Fox headline would be something racist about how blacks can't swim.

[damntexdem]

10. Sitting Bull is the true American hero.

Not some racist general who engaged in genocide.

[Demoiselle]

11. Well, yeah!

Fox has really hit bottom if it thinks it can make Custer a hero.

[CatWoman]

13. Custer was an incompetent, self-serving, egomaniac

[CatWoman]

12. actually, the fight at the Little Big Horn

was the NATIVE'S "last stand".....

[amb123]

14. What really happened.

From Wikipedia:

Sitting Bull returned to the Standing Rock Agency in South Dakota after 4 months in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. In 1890 James McLaughlin, the U.S. Indian Agent at Fort Yates on Standing Rock Agency, feared that the Lakota leader was about to flee the reservation with the Ghost Dancers, so he ordered the police to arrest Sitting Bull. On 14 December 1890, McLaughlin drafted a letter to Lt. Bullhead that included instructions and an outlined plan to capture the chief. The plan called for the attack to happen during dawn on December 15, and also advised the use of a light spring wagon to facilitate the chief's removal before his followers could rally. Lt. Bullhead decided, however, not to use the wagon. Instead, the police officers would force Sitting Bull to mount a horse as soon as the arrest was made.

Around 5:30 a.m. on December 15, 1890, 39 police officers and 4 volunteers approached Sitting Bull's house. They surrounded the house, knocked and entered. Lt. Bullhead told Sitting Bull that he was under arrest and led him outside. The camp awakened and men converged at the house of their chief. As Lt. Bullhead ordered Sitting Bull to mount a horse, he explained that the Indian affairs agent needed to see him and then he could return to his house. However, Sitting Bull refused to comply with orders and the police used force on him. The Sioux in the village were enraged. A Sioux man known as Catch-the-Bear shouldered his rifle and shot Lt. Bullhead who, in return, fired his revolver into the chest of Sitting Bull. Another police officer, Red Tomahawk, shot Sitting Bull in the head and the chief dropped to the ground.

A terrible close-quarters fight erupted, and within minutes several men were dead. Six policemen were killed immediately and two more died shortly after the fight. Sitting Bull and seven of his supporters lay dead, along with two horses.

Sitting Bull's body was taken to Fort Yates to be placed in a coffin (made by the Army carpenter) and for burial. It is possible that in 1953 his remains were exhumed and reburied near Mobridge, South Dakota by Lakota family members who wanted his body to be nearer to his birthplace. Some Sioux and historians dispute this claim and believe that any remains moved were not those of Sitting Bull.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting_Bull

[struggle4progress]

15. Mr Murdoch is maybe making some progress on his stack of unread newspapers?

George Armstrong Custer and the Little Big Horn was a while ago. I'm pretty sure most folk have more or less forgotten about it

[clu]

16. this isn't from their news desk

this is an just an editorial :eyes:

[Uncle Joe]

18. That's hard to tell for a couple of reasons.

The yellow highlighted above the FOX version says "Breaking News" and secondly there really isn't any editorial difference than what USA Today covers in their story, other than the headline.

[Supersedeas]

19. they went to Court to obtain judicial authority to lie to the public in "News" casts

[southernyankeebelle]

17. I just ordered the book on amazon for my grandson for christmas. I read that early and

now am pleased that I bought it because if Fox doesn't like it I am sure it will be a hit. Everyone buy it for christmas for your child or grandchild. It will show Fox and the idiots on the right we aren't afraid of Obama's book.