Right News Outlets Cherry Picking Obama Speech

True to their mission, Fox News distorts Obama's speech in in Roanoke, VA.


To be clear, let's look at what President Obama actually said;

OBAMA: [L]ook, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. You didn't get there on your own. I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don't do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires. So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together. That's how we funded the GI Bill. That's how we created the middle class. That's how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam. That's how we invented the Internet. That's how we sent a man to the moon. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that's the reason I'm running for President -- because I still believe in that idea. You're not on your own, we're in this together.

Yet "fair and balanced" Fox and Friends chooses to deliberately take statements out of context and give them an entirely different meaning. Fox later runs the headline, “Obama Insults Small Business Owners,”. Redstate follows suit with a 12 second video claiming The Denigration Of Honest Hard Work. Right wing blogs quickly picked up on the edited version. It’s pretty sophomoric but when the well of rational arguments and intellectual honesty runs dry, I guess that’s all you have left. When you can’t find something with an iota of credence to it, just make something up.