Not only is CNSNews.com obsessed with counting President Obama’s words, it obsesses over single words Obama says or doesn’t say.
A Sept. 27 CNS article by Terry Jeffrey asserts: “Just seven days after he sparked controversy by omitting the word ‘Creator’ when he closely paraphrased the passage from the Declaration of Independence that says all men ‘are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights,’ President Barack Obama again omitted the Creator when speaking about the ‘inalienable rights’ that ‘everybody is endowed with.'” Of course, Obama didn’t “spark the controversy”; right-wing websites sparked it. And Jeffrey doesn’t note that conservatives have omitted it as well.
Jeffrey followed up with a Sept. 29 article that got even more picky:
President Barack Obama referred to illegal aliens in the United States as “us” on Tuesday while renewing his call for giving them a “pathway to citizenship”—an amnesty–and castigating opponents of such an amnesty as demagogues.
Jeffrey doesn’t explain why “illegal aliens” are not “us” — presumably, he think they are a “them.” If he can’t explain the difference, there isn’t one.
Further, as we’ve detailed, Obama’s proposed “pathway to citizenship” is not “an amnesty,” and Jeffrey doesn’t explain why Obama’s pathway conditions of paying fines and back taxes, learning English and not having a criminal record constitute “amnesty.” CNS has previously claimed that “amnesty” is a term used by “critics” and “opponents” of comprehensive immigration reform.