A bit of patriotism and a bit of fun

Earlier today, Big E posted the text of the Declaration of Independence. It was common in the early days of the republic for Independence Day celebrations to include a reading of the Declaration, perhaps reflecting a time when many more people were illiterate, and when oratory was an admired skill rather than one of those signals of liberal elite untrustworthiness. NPR has an annual tradition of having their staff read it during Morning Edition, and here is this year's. Or here is this year's:

That's the patriotism, and now here's the fun: one of dumber right wing lies disintegrating quickly, not that being shown blatantly false is likely to stop them from repeating it. Guess where Obama spent Independence Day?
Would you believe he spent it in France attending a fundraiser? You wouldn't? Good for you, but the conservative media believed it, or at least got a kick out of passing it on.

Obama had to be somewhere though, right? Right: in America, presiding over a naturalization ceremony for active duty military personnel.

Here's Ezra Klein reporting on the decision of conservative media to report but not check, in which Klein shows his sources, and below is the actual ceremony in case anyone holds out hope Klein was lying.

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