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Related: About this forumSchool officials threatened to be ‘lined up and shot’ after Fox News ‘misreporting’
By David Edwards
Thursday, November 21, 2013 16:11 EST
A school board member in South Dakota is calling on Fox News to apologize because he says an erroneous report led to threats that officials be lined up and shot over the Pledge of Allegiance.
Sioux Falls School Board member Kent Alberty told KSFY that Fox News picked up the story after a local television station reported that the board had defied a group of veterans and dropped the pledge at high schools.
A school board there has decided theres just no time in the day to recite the Pledge of Allegiance despite a desperate request from a local vets group to keep the pledge, Fox News host Megyn Kelly told viewers on Nov. 14.
The veterans, by the way, say they are not giving up, reporter Trace Gallagher noted. They say they will continue fighting to see if they can get the pledge reinstated.
In fact, the board had sided with the veterans and voted unanimously to expand the use of the pledge for middle school students, elementary school students and at high school assemblies.
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/21/school-officials-threatened-to-be-lined-up-and-shot-after-fox-news-misreporting/
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... and put their lives in danger. Megyn, you're a piece of shit, apologies to shit.
Laf.La.Dem.
(2,936 posts)FOX news never lies
riversedge
(69,724 posts)it was folks in the community that got all riled up. Seems to me there is blame on both sides. I have nothing as evidence but these locals-making the threatening comments-- seem like tea party folks IMHO.
....After receiving a number of threatening emails and phone calls, board members reported the threats to the Sioux Falls Police Department. All personal information about the members has been removed from the School Board website.
The one that I guess got my attention the most was that this person feels that all five of us should be lined up and shot, he recalled. ....