Fox Nation Strikes Yet Again

Not surprisingly, Fox Nation strikes yet again with their combination of misleading headlines and idiotic commentors. On this occasion, Fox Nation was linking a blurb from Real Clear Politics, whose comments section also joined in the brainless rants and which also uses the comment platform system/community that Fox Nation uses: DISQUS.

The blurb was nothing more than less than a minute of video and a quote from a speech President Obama gave at a recent political fundraiser.

“No matter who you are. No matter where you can came from. No matter what you look like. No matter whether your ancestors landed here on Ellis Island or came here on slave ships or came across the Rio Grande, we are all connected. We will rise and fall together. That’s the vision of America I’ve got, that’s the idea of the heart of America,” President Obama said at a fundraiser in San Francisco.

“That’s the idea of the heart of our campaign,” Obama added.

The quote is simple, mildly inspiring but also, at least to me, cliche. It seems to be a given that with the United States, a nation of so many different groups forming one people, we are all connected. It seems so obvious to me that I assume everyone must think this way except for maybe crazy people who regret the South losing the Civil War or the passage of the Civil Rights Act. The Fox Nation and Real Clear Politics commenting community seem to be out to destroy the last of my optimism.

The original Real Clear Politics headline reads:
Obama: “We Are All Connected” Whether You Crossed Rio Grande Or Landed on Ellis Island

Why out of the whole speech they chose to blurb only part of it I don’t know, but they are accurate in their headline. It doesn’t matter where you came from, we are all Americans etc. What makes me angry and confuses me to no end is how Fox Nation can take this and create the following headline:

Obama Hails People Who ‘Crossed the Rio Grande’

WHAT???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With no context or information, this is open to to many interpretations, specifically the pessimistic conservative interpretation that the President randomly hailed some Central American family that just yesterday swam across the Rio Grande. Nevertheless, Fox Nation’s loon bait headline did lead to a page that included the above text, so no one would leave any horrible comments right?

Wrong.

gorkey: He Defies our American laws and the Constitution by not securing the border and defends the illegals!

desolationrow:
My grandparents came from Italy.. were quarantined at Ellis Island… settled in NY, then NJ and worked hard, learned English, studied to become Americans and finally did so.
When NOBAMA praises those “who crossed the Rio Grande” – he is mocking my relatives as well as yours.
He is no president (small ‘p’ intended).
He is no leader.
He is not an American.
He is EVIL.

psalm43verse1: W T F? A fundraiser in San Francisco? Who’s hand is in who’s pocket there?

ubeturbipy: I’d also hail each and everyone crossing the river if only they were headed south bound. Headed north they are simply illegals worthy of being arrested in sheriff Joe’s fabulous motels.

savage_eagle: I would rather award those who put this moron in the river……….with an anchor tied to him!

marqedman: I thought those people were called wetbacks?

Betsy+Ross:
Landing here on Ellis Island – LEGAL
Coming here on a slave ship – LEGAL
Crossing the Rio Grande – ILLEGAL……ILLEGAL….ILLEGAL….
….what part of this picture does he not see? geezz….

Grrrrr… I guess I’m lucky being from New Mexico where I know Hispanics and not just the ones I see on Fox News. It vexes me that people can’t wrap their heads around the FACT that a large portion of this nation’s population is made up of people of Mexican and Central American decent who have been here for generations, some even before the United States existed. The President said, “No matter whether your ancestors landed here on Ellis Island or came here on slave ships or came across the Rio Grande.” Notice the word ancestors? I guess everyone at Fox Nation didn’t, or they assume that everyone who is not white is either black, a terrorist, an illegal alien or…gasp… all three.

P.S. Normally something like the last sentence would be going over board, but you seriously have to read these comments. I didn’t even get to mentioning all the really bad ones.