Fox News Blames President Obama For A Posting On OFA Referencing 9/11

[TomCADem]

The RNC, of course, actively uses 9/11 imagery in its campaign commercials. However, if some individual posts an event on Organizing for America that makes reference to 9/11, then President Obama should be held responsible. I guess under this logic, Fox News is taking responsibility for all the kooky postings on its website.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/03/notice-obama-advocacy-site-pulls-sept-attacks-health-care-debate/

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President Obama's grassroots advocacy group is coming under fire for a supporter who pulled the Sept. 11 attacks into the health care debate.

The controversy stems from a notice on the Organizing for America Web site urging reform advocates to use the anniversary of the terror attacks to call on lawmakers to pass health care reform.

"All 50 states are coordinating in this -- as we fight back against our own Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists who are subverting the American Democratic process, whipped to a frenzy by their Fox Propaganda Network ceaselessly re-seizing power for their treacherous leaders," the notice said in part. It has since been scrubbed from the Organizing for America site.

Following criticism from the conservative Heritage Foundation, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee told FOX News in a statement that anyone can post on the site and condemned the language.

"We certainly don't agree with these comments, nor do we condone them, just as I'm sure the Heritage Foundation or FOX don't agree or condone some of the things posted in sections of their Web site," the statement said.

But the Heritage Foundation's Rory Cooper said the call to action was actively distributed.

"This was distributed to people in Illinois, Michigan and North Carolina. So yeah, the original posting was just an independent person who went too far. But when Organizing for America took the next step and invited people to the event, they became complicit in the language," Cooper said.

Cooper criticized Obama for pushing his message through both the official White House Web site and Organizing for America's BarackObama.com.

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[Bluzmann57]

1. Obama is responsible for everything

Everything bad that is happening in the world now, or last year, or ten years ago, is all Obama's fault. He is just an eveil bad guy. At least according to fox noise.

[TomCADem]

3. It Is Ironic That Fox News Is Arguing That OFA Is Responsible For The Content Of A 3rd Party's Post

Have they bothered to read the posts on their own website?

[Historic NY]

2. Where was the asshat Cooper when Rove & the minions were using RNC Blackberry' s

and sending e-mails outside the WH channels-

[subterranean]

4. Fox News is just looking for shit to stir up.

I have no doubt they have a staff dedicated to searching for anything--anything--they can use to manufacture the next "controversy."