CNSNews.com apparently doesn’t want to explain to its readers why its attack on Michelle Obama mysteriously disappeared, but it’s more than happy to fall into its old pattern of obsessing over specific words President Obama says or doesn’t say.
A June 20 CNS article by Jerad McHenry carries the headline “Obama Omits ‘Creator’ When Citing ‘Inalienable Rights’ of LGBTs”:
In a statement released Friday, President Barack Obama declared that “LGBT persons are endowed with” what he called “inalienble rights,” but ommited the word “Creator” from what clearly was an allusion to the famous language of the Declaration of Independence.
The president’s June 17 statement was in response to a U.N. resolution on human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity.
“(T)his marks a significant milestone in the long struggle for equality, and the beginning of a universal recognition that LGBT persons are endowed with the same inalienable rights — and entitled to the same protections — as all human beings,” the statement said.
The Declaration of Independence reads: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” (Bolding added).
Yes, CNS this this omission is such an important issue that it has devoted an entire article to it. But CNS joins its Media Research Center brethren at NewsBusters in its silence on Fox’s editing of a “Fox News Sunday” interview with Jon Stewart to remove criticism of Fox News.