What do you expect from Fox News?

The flap going around, pushed mostly by Fox News, was that Obama recently said that if you are a small business owner you didn’t build that business by yourself. Fox News jumped all over this and ran 42 segments running over two hours of air time pushing this blatant lie. Here’s what Obama said exactly -

"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."

In reading this and hearing how Fox News distorted it two things came to mind. One, they used something benign and used it to push their dislike for Obama. Remember Fox News is not a news organization. They are really a front for the political right. But secondly maybe they are just plain dumb and flunked out of English classes in school. The phrase “you didn’t build that”, obvious to anyone with any sort of grasp of the English language, refers to the previous sentence about “roads and bridges.”

But then again considering the viewing audience for Fox News, we can’t expect them to understand all this stuff about English. They are too busy stockpiling their guns before Obama takes them away!