First of all, this is not a NEWS item, it is a blog posting. It should be in bloggers, not news/activism.
Second, this goes to a blog posting on the blog "Sad Hill News", but the entry hat-tips the blog "Weasel Zippers", which essentially has the SAME information.
Even to the point of posting the comparison between Obama's comments and the Declaration. So this blogger didn't even really do his own regurgitation of the news, he took some other blogger's regurgitation of the news.
But wait, it gets worse. Go over to Weasel Zippers, and see who THEY hat tip ---
FREE REPUBLIC. Specifically, the long discussion from yesterday on this very subject, found here: Obama Re-Writes Declaration of Independence to Leave Out "Creator">/a>
Which itself was a "vanity" of sorts, in that it cited the white house transcript of the news, but the article wasn't the transcript, but the poster's view of the transcript (thus why the headline wasn't a real headline from the white house transcript, but the posters).
So here is what we have come to: An original post of the transcript (which didn't need to be excerpted, being a public document) was instead excerpted and described by a well-meaning poster. A blogger picked it up, fleshed it out nicely by including the video of the event, and citing the declaration. That was picked up by another blogger. and then that BLOG was posted back here as news.
This is why we end up with 20 stories in one day talking about the exact same thing.
What is FR for, getting NEWS that we can discuss, or winning the award for the most threads started? It's hard to tell these days.
That is exactly the same as the distortions and circular repetitions in the Mainstream media for decades.
Do you have a point somewhere?
Charles,
Staying on top of who and who hasn’t heard about specific news can be a bit tricky.
For the record, we did not just copy and paste Weasel Zippers article. We added video, our own comments and pulled from the original source. Only the White House transcript portions are the same - and it HAS to be, since we’re quoting it.
In short, the transcript was not an interpretation, which is exactly why Sad Hill News performed additional research, then ADDED the discovered video — to debunk any possible transcript error claims. New information = news.
During searches prior to posting on Free Republic, we sometimes see articles repeated over and over and over...sometimes word-for-word. So we certainly understand your concern...just wish you hadn’t singled us out.
We work with several other news sites online, and sharing articles regularly is common practice. That’s how news gets around. We will remain careful about what we post on Free Republic.
That said, we believe the ongoing desecration of the US Charters of Freedom and attempts to remove God from our country is news. Hence the post.
We also appreciate you recognizing that we went beyond the norm and ‘flushed out the video’ to further substantiate the event.
Sad Hill
FR needs a “Like” button.