Oy Vey.
President Obama can’t squeeze through a day without receiving a proverbial spanking from Fox News. The website Fox Nation ran a short announcement this morning under the headline:
“Obama Praises Indian Chief Who Killed U.S. General”
It turns out Obama’s newest anti-American crime is found in the pages of his children’s book, “Of Thee I Sing: A letter to my Daughters,” which is hitting shelves today.
What murderous Indian Chief are they referring to? The Sioux medicine man and famous badass, Sitting Bull, whose army killed General Custer at “The Battle of Little Bighorn,” also known as “Custer’s Last Stand.”
Custer, famous for his Civil War efforts with the Union Army and his aggressive mustache, spent the years following the Civil War battling the few remaining American Indians, a fight which ended violently in 1876.
Both men are controversial figures from American history, like most of our war heroes. Fox Nation’s headline is ridiculous because it implies that Sitting Bull is not American, and also because it only vaguely references the content of the story under it, which is a simple release announcement for Obama’s book.
The Washington Post published the list of Obama’s “groundbreaking Americans” in order:
Georgia O’Keeffe (“helped us see big beauty in what is small”)
Albert Einstein (“changing the world with energy and light”)
Jackie Robinson (“showed us all how to turn fear to respect”)
Sitting Bull (“a Sioux medicine man”)
Billie Holiday (“sang beautiful blues”)
Helen Keller (“taught us to look and listen to each other”)
Maya Lin (“public spaces should be filled with art, she thought”)
Jane Adams (“fed the poor”)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (“taught us unyielding compassion”)
Neil Armstrong (“first to walk on the moon”)
Cesar Chavez (“showed farmworkers their own power”)
Abraham Lincoln (“promised freedom to enslaved sisters and brothers”)
George Washington (“our first president”)
Of all the terrible accusations thrown at Obama, nobody has yet accused him of being stupid. This list of American historical figures was clearly thought through, and just like a good beer commercial, “Of Thee I Sing” covers a smorgasbord of demographics, which had to include a famous American Indian.
November 16, 2010 at 6:37 pm, JT said:
Glad he could find the time to write a book.
November 17, 2010 at 8:14 am, Neo2 said:
Leaks from the WH is that he is spending a lot of time watching supports and is detached, and his lovely racist wife Michelle hate the White House.
Idiots voted for this clown. And history will judge him quite poorly. That is if he doesn't get us all killed and in a major depression first.
November 17, 2010 at 1:29 pm, real deal said:
amen
what weak minded fools this country is educating
November 17, 2010 at 6:16 pm, bubie said:
hates america too remember comment by michelle about america
November 28, 2010 at 3:39 am, Asdf said:
this book was written before he was elected…
November 16, 2010 at 8:06 pm, Lloyd Barnhill said:
“Of all the terrible accusations thrown at Obama, nobody has yet accused him of being stupid.” I daresay sir: You've not been paying attention.
Tens of thousands, nay hundreds of thousands of voters did just that on November 2nd.
November 17, 2010 at 3:14 pm, BarbaraNJ said:
And the word stupid DEFINITELY applies to the thousands who did.
November 16, 2010 at 8:11 pm, hello said:
albert einstein was not American? Maybe he should have checked first…
And having Sitting Bull as an American is proetty provocative as well. The man faught so that he could remain non-American, and paid dearly for this.
November 17, 2010 at 3:48 am, lampetia said:
Albert Einstein became an American citizen in 1940. Maybe you should've checked first.
November 18, 2010 at 12:21 am, mleylmw said:
No, ignoramus, he was fighting for freedom, dignity, revenge, etc.
November 17, 2010 at 12:38 am, Acurrent1 said:
Obama should realize by now. You can't reason with hatred.
November 17, 2010 at 8:12 am, Neo2 said:
And many realize that because he does not hold strong American values, we can't argue with Obama's hatred of America.
November 17, 2010 at 3:48 pm, Ammccf said:
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? HATRED??? OF AMERICA? ? ?? True.. I can plainly see YOUR RIGHT UP THERE WITH THAT COMMENT>>>>>>>>
November 17, 2010 at 6:29 pm, Live_Free_Or_Die said:
And where were you on the Bush years? Were ya saying the same about the hatred slung @ GW?
November 17, 2010 at 2:35 am, Stan Chinus said:
I'm glad to see so many ignorant redneck racists frequent this site too. The south will rise again right?
November 17, 2010 at 7:45 am, deloresfromwarren said:
It already has. Welcome to the 21st Century.
November 17, 2010 at 7:44 am, deloresfromwarren said:
Sitting Bull was NOT an American! He was Lakota.
November 17, 2010 at 4:33 pm, Brandy871 said:
arent all “indians” native AMERICANS?
November 17, 2010 at 4:39 pm, Fjrizzu said:
Delores, Sitting Bull was certainly an American! This continent we call America belonged to the Lakota and other peoples long before our ancestors got here. As they currently popular term goes, they are Native AMERICANS.
Oh, and regarding your earlier post about the south rising again: The War of Southern Treason ended over 140 years ago and your side still lost. Get over it.
November 17, 2010 at 12:30 pm, Swordsbane said:
I am glad Sitting Bull killed Custer and his men.watch the movie The Son of the Morning Star.Custer was a murderer and a god in his own eyes.A brash and merciless man who killed innocent Native American men,women & children,cut them down with his sabre like so much wheat.He was like a old time western Hitler exterminating the Jews,except they happened to be Native Americans.Of course Sitting Bull was pissed off,you'd be pissed off too if some murderer came into your neighborhood and killed your friends and family without provocation.At a sad time in history,the poor,once proud Native Americans were being herded like sheep onto piece of crap lands so the government could steal their rich-in-resourses land.For once,at Wounded Knee,the REAL good guys triumphed! And I am glad for it!
November 17, 2010 at 4:27 pm, Fjrizzu said:
You're right on about Custer and his ruthlessness and I agree with just about everything you say, except however your closing statement. The real good guys didn't triumph at Wounded Knee. The reconstituted 7th Cavalry massacred Big Foot and his people, mostly women and children, at Wounded Knee. I would hardly call them the good guys.
November 17, 2010 at 8:02 pm, Nathan said:
Hollywood is not always correct, as in that movie. Also the battle was near the little Bighorn, get your facts straight.
November 17, 2010 at 12:32 pm, Swordsbane said:
And is Obama going to sell his book on EBAY so HE can be TAXED too like they want (and ARE going to) TAX EBAY sellers now????
EBAY will be out of business soon along with their cohorts PAYPAL!
November 17, 2010 at 3:17 pm, Sparents said:
Obama is anti military and every chance he gets he slips it.
November 17, 2010 at 6:35 pm, Elizabeth J. Melton said:
That's good. Being anti-military is good thing. Having military means war. War means death. If you are pro-military you are pro death. Because even if you only want to protect your country, that means people are dieing.
November 17, 2010 at 8:00 pm, Nathan said:
If we disband our military, we will be sitting ducks. Get back to reality liberals and see that the world is not a bed of roses. Not everyone is nice and all gooey-gooey. Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Asama Bin Laden. Those kind of people would jump at the chance to take over the world, and if we disbanded our military then you wold be living under those people or be killed by them. Remember the Holocuast, it could happen again.
November 17, 2010 at 8:33 pm, MajorG1000 said:
As a retired USAF Officer, I have to disagree with your conclusion that President Obama is Anti-Military. Please show me some fact's to back up your outlandish statement.
November 17, 2010 at 3:45 pm, Ammccf said:
For the love of GOD!!!
Enough with all the BS already!!! George Armstrong Custer would have been ocurt martialed had he lived!! What hero?? He disobeyed a direct order NOT to pursue the Native Americans.. He caused the unneccesary deaths of his ENTIRE group!! WHAT HERO? ? ?
Jackass. narcissist, dumb as a post..Those are far better names.
Never mind Sitting BUll……Was he just supposed to roll over and play dead because the white man wanted more land.. We have it ALL NOW & look what we're doing to it..YEAH!! Right!!
November 17, 2010 at 3:46 pm, Jharephila said:
i have no idea how you equate fox news with a blog, i think your fear of fox news is showing through, if someone from fox news made a comment that stupid you should give us his name, and what show he is on. if you can't please try and come a little closer to the middle, i pay a subscribtion fee for this.
November 17, 2010 at 3:49 pm, Copleyec said:
I am Oglala and proud. It is about time that the original peoples of this land were mentioned in a book of great people and not just as savages or killers. How may peoples lives did Custer order taken before he was killled. Have any of you ever considered that. What threat could women.children and elderly people have to you. Custer should have been presented as the evil person that he was and Sitting Bull a man who cared enough to fight to end the slaughter of his people.
November 17, 2010 at 8:21 pm, glenn113 said:
I Agree 100%. The American Indian was here before anyone and they end up getting the short end of the stick and put on reservations.
November 17, 2010 at 5:20 pm, Iluvdiamonds777 said:
Obama is not only anti military, you are so right on , the people responding with true facts, like he is so Anti-American, its sad, but I sleep well at night, I DIDNT VOTE FOR HIM, But in the recent Election, I think and I quote from Obama himself::THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN” And hopefully we will get him out of office and let an American run this country and do it right.
November 17, 2010 at 5:34 pm, Anonamous said:
Sitting bull was one of the ORIGINAL AMERICANS !!!! So shut up and teach your thoughts to your own children . If you can , write your own book .
November 17, 2010 at 5:40 pm, Paulao96 said:
Boy this guy will do any thing to get his rock star face in the news, shoulden't he be minding the store while he's drawing a pay check made out by the American Public. Oh that's right he has people that do that for him, what a waste of a lot of red faced folk's votes. He sure had you all fooled and here you thought he was doing the Gov. business and instead he's writing children.s book's, oh well he knows that his career is about over, might as well hit the road running for his next career. Oh wait a minute he already did that once with our whole country, I think he will fail at this next career as well. Oh well at least it won't be on our total dime. The sooner this experiment is over the better
November 17, 2010 at 6:11 pm, bubie said:
no truer words were spoken he sees fault with every one else but himself
November 17, 2010 at 5:52 pm, Susan D. said:
SO WHOSE “AMERICA” WAS IT TO BEGIN WITH? THE WHITE SETTLERS CAME WITHOUT AN INVITATION, TOOK WHAT THEY WANTED, KILLED THE NATIVE AMERICANS WHOLESALE, AND THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE HEROES???
November 17, 2010 at 7:04 pm, D2176 said:
amen! people tend to forget that the real American's are the Indian. everyone else is immigrants. get over it , Obama cannot ever be right.
November 17, 2010 at 7:16 pm, Ho-fi-we pe-wa se said:
that is so very well put!
November 17, 2010 at 6:04 pm, bubie said:
as far as iam concerned he is anti usa he did the same thing over seas called our country at fault what othert president ever did that.
November 18, 2010 at 8:26 pm, Erlynn60 said:
A civilized country does that; a narcissistic and imperialistic country (which is what we were called during the Bush years) never admits to any problems or errors. Do we wish to be another Russia or North Korea, because that is what you are hinting at.
November 17, 2010 at 6:06 pm, BredAMarine1991 said:
I think that people are taking this way out of proportion, I don't agree with what Custer did. But I also do not think he was the only bad guy. The reason the Military was sent after Native Americans was because they were attacking and slaughtering the settlers that tried to move out west. And I don't agree with a whole lot of what Obama says and does, I think it is great that all the earnings of this book are to go towards the children of our fallen Military men and woman who have made the greatest sacrifice for their country to preserve our freedoms and the way of life that we have. But I don't think that Obama should praise anyone for killing Americans, and I don't agree with the people that are saying that Sitting Bull was an American, or that any native was an American, they don't want to be known as Americans, they want to be known for what they really are because they are a damn proud people, and are damn proud of who they are and what they came from. And I think that everyone here is throwing everything out of proportion and skewing it to something it's not. Before you criticize me know that I am a full blooded American, born and raised, and I am Damn proud to be. I wouldn't want to be anything else, and if you read this carefully you would know that I did NOT say anything bad about anyone in this entire thing till now, I don't agree with Obama, and what he does, I think he is an inexperienced Politician who is in way over his head, who is totally Anti American and Anti everything this Nation was founded on, I also think that he is doing this as a Publicity stunt, much like Oprah. I think there are greater Americans that he could have listed above than the ones that he did, Real American Heroes. Thats all I really have to say. Thanks.
November 17, 2010 at 7:33 pm, Absentee Shawnee Girl said:
OMG…attacking the settlers….well gee I believe they were staling land that was by Treaty with the US supposed to be theirs as long as the wind blew and the rivers flowed. The “sanitized” history you learned was full of sugar and lies. There was an american holocaust that killed more Indigenous people on this continent that even Hitler envied and used and a system for his genocide. Please get your history correct. Check out youtube “The Canary Effect” read Custer Died For Your Sins by Vine Deloria. Research further before you make statement regarding how the Indigenous people of this country “wronged” the white settlers.
November 17, 2010 at 6:20 pm, Volleywitme said:
I will be the first to admit that I don't always agree with President Obama and although, I listen to FOX news, I don't always agree with them either…But good grief!! What a waste of time and hot air.
November 17, 2010 at 6:21 pm, P.Joyce holcey said:
when will american own up to the deeds that they have done to the true americans, africans (slaves) and other minorities in this country?
Hats off to President Obama for his choice, someone who fought for rights of his people. The truth is not always something that is easy to take..
November 17, 2010 at 6:26 pm, BredAMarine1991 said:
Its his duty as President of the United States Of America to fight for the rights of EVERY American Citizen, not incriminate our country every chance he gets, and incriminate our Ancestors for doing what they thought was right. He is EVERY bit as Racist as the KKK was in the late 1800's and the early 1900's, but everyone thinks that anyone that isn't white cant be racist.
November 17, 2010 at 6:30 pm, Live_Free_Or_Die said:
It's a frigging kids book! Jeesh!
November 17, 2010 at 6:32 pm, BredAMarine1991 said:
I don't think its right that he is making a Political Children's book to impose his beliefs. Don't you agree?
November 17, 2010 at 6:36 pm, Live_Free_Or_Die said:
Personally, I think Obama-Kazi is the biggest empty suit every elected to office. I know it is a kids book but seriously should he (or any POTUS) be releasing a book as a sitting President? With unemployment @ almost 10% and people just sending a HUGE message on November 2nd the last thing he should be doing is writing ANY book.
I will add though that he is donating to a great cause yet I stand on the fact he shouldn't be releasing any book. I read also that it was written between elections in 2008 to January of 2009. If that is the case he should have waited until after his presidency is over.
November 17, 2010 at 6:41 pm, BredAMarine1991 said:
I totally agree with that, I think that he was the biggest mistake this country ever voted into office. I agree that on November 2nd that this country sent him a huge message saying that we gave you a chance, you messed up, we want it back to how it was. I think that if he is going top write a book, it should be how he failed as a President.
November 17, 2010 at 6:47 pm, Live_Free_Or_Die said:
It cracks me up that Christine O'Donnell was vetted more than Obama-Kazi!
November 17, 2010 at 6:46 pm, BredAMarine1991 said:
If you read what I posted about 40 minutes ago I agree with what he is donating to, to the children and families of our Fallen Military Men and Women
November 17, 2010 at 7:24 pm, absentee shawnee girl said:
ok then…how about these stats….unemployment 85%, suicide 10 times higher than the national average, alcoholism and depression higher than anywhere else in the world…sound like a 3rd world nation…well it is, this is Indian Country here with in our borders and because its the American Shame its swept away and if we don't look at it, it doesn't exist. The American Holocaust will someday be in our history books so Americans can see how this country was built on lies, murder and greed. Hitler has nothing on the 9 to 12 million Native Americans the US slaughtered.
November 17, 2010 at 7:46 pm, Live_Free_Or_Die said:
Again, blame American's for it. How about the parents of those having kids show them how to get out of their dismal situation? What do you want to be done???? You got a solution or rather just keep talking about how bad it is?
December 29, 2011 at 12:46 pm, Micahmoo1996 said:
When are we going to live for the future instead of the past. EVERYONE should be teaching their children to get an education, pick themselves up, dust themselves off and get started improving their way-of- life instead of depending on the government. I can’t help what happened long ago but, I can help what happens now. I can’t believe that children are still being raised to have a chip on their shoulders and being taught that they are owed everything. I refuse to feel responsible for the actions of other people in a past time. To all of you who hate another race because of past injustices……..grow up! Read some history on what your races did to others!!! Learn to know someone before you hate them.
November 18, 2010 at 8:32 pm, Erlynn60 said:
Wow, let me see, empty suit over the empty head we had the previous 8 years. Now that is a no-brainer. At least he could write a book that people could read, albeit a children's book. Our former Prez could not even formulate a complete sentence and also led us into this economic downfall. As far as that HUGE message, we will see a time goes by whether things turn around or not and how much they are willing to work to make things better or worse. There is an old saying “an empty wagon makes a lot of noise,” and I have been hearing a lot of it lately.
November 18, 2010 at 11:34 pm, Live_Free_Or_Die said:
There is also the old saying a broken clock is right twice a day. If Obama is such a great communicator why couldn't he get support for his biggest legislation (Obamacare??)???? George Bush is gone, he just put out a book (after his presidency too!), so please find someone else to go after. Obama cannot walk on water, he cannot part the seas and he is not above anyone else. He reads the hell out of a teleprompter and don't think he hasn't ever flubbed up… Have you ever been to all 57 states???
November 18, 2010 at 8:27 pm, Erlynn60 said:
It is not political to state who has influenced your life…….
November 17, 2010 at 6:52 pm, Rmdesign0 said:
I am confused. Wasn't Sitting Bull an American????????
November 17, 2010 at 6:58 pm, Msmith said:
First off he's not my President(I didn't vote for him) But he is his girls Dad so
get off his back for writing something to his kids that man has got a tough job and givin the same responsiblities I would do the same for my girls.
I believe this is writin with a Dads love.
November 17, 2010 at 7:00 pm, Lonewlf99 said:
Custer attacked the Natives Americans. They did not attack Custer. Custer started the fight, and my Ceyenne people helped to finish the fight. Sitting Bull, Gall, Crazy Horse and many others are American heroes. Custer was quite stupid that last day of his life! If whites can't accept the truth, too bad!
Ken Lonewolf / Shawnee Native American
November 17, 2010 at 7:15 pm, ho-fi-we pe-wa-se said:
Ok…now Native American Indians are anti-american? Holy moly…all this time I believed they were the first Americans and that our constitution was fashioned after Native American ideas. I think if people still think Manifest Destiny and colonialism is working, check out the Canary Effect and read a bit of Vine Delorias work and heck take and American Indian and Indigenous Studies course at a local college and get back to us. We are still here, growing and educating our selves. Indians are not extinct. Someday the American Holocaust will be in all our history book so we understand how this country was built on murder, lies and greed.
November 17, 2010 at 7:18 pm, Lonewlf99 said:
Our Shawnee War Chief, Tecumseh, fighting in the east, is also a hero among many Native American heroes across America! History books and bad movies have always done our people an injustice, but we know the truth!
My Shawnee 4x great-grandfather, Willenawah (Great Eagle) fought in many battles of the French and Indian War in order to hold onto our ancient homelands and to keep the whites from killing all of us.
We were not “the bad guys”, but we know who actually were! And Lt. Col. Custer was one of them, along with the U.S. Cavalry.
Correction, my Shiela (Cheyenne) people helped the Lakotas and other Native American nations to defeat the attack by Custer.
Custer paid for his arrogance and brashness. Sadly, he took good soldiers with him!
Ken Lonewolf
November 17, 2010 at 7:27 pm, Lonewlf99 said:
I agree tha war should be kept out of children's books. There are really no winners in war, just losers. People die and are scarred for life. And for generations.
God knows, all American children of all ethnic groups are facing a tough future. They have many problems to solve.
Let them learn the true history of America when they are mature enough to handle it.
Ken Lonewolf
November 17, 2010 at 8:18 pm, glenn113 said:
Are you guys for real?
November 17, 2010 at 8:24 pm, glenn113 said:
This just shows that Fox is making a desperate attempt to be called a legitimate news organization. More and more of the public has caught on to what Fox's motives are and they know it. They have been caught too many times.
November 17, 2010 at 8:48 pm, William Fish said:
I agree with Ho-fi-we pe-wa se so much! Native American's were put onto a reservation to die, not to live. Why do you think unemployment, alcoholism, drug addiction, and so many other social problems are rampid on the reservation? Prolly because the reservation of today was the US form of concentration camps of the 1800's, and those like Sitting Bull KNEW it. They fought for us not to live on the reservations because they knew it was certain death. The people who agree and think that Custer was slaughtered, he was an idiot, he was given orders to wait. These Lakotas and Cheyenne's were out hunting, not looking for a fight.
In the end I'm really disappointed that people would look at it this way after all the US did to ALL Native people…….shame on you!
William Fish, Dakota Sioux Tribal Member
December 29, 2011 at 12:57 pm, Micahmoo1996 said:
I believe Custer got what he deserved!!! This is 2011. Get off the reservations by getting an education and not listening to parents who don’t want to rid themselves of the chip on their shoulder. A good education and hard work is the key to success. The education should start at home. Try not to raise more racists.
November 18, 2010 at 10:37 pm, Lakpolmit said:
I am very put off by all this negetive talk about Sitting Bull. What were the Native Americans supposed to do? The treaties they signed with the US Government were all broken. The Indian nations were all analiated and then what people were left were gathered up and herded onto the worst lands the Government could find. So a US General was killed in a schermish that never should have taken place.
November 19, 2010 at 6:12 pm, Godless Criminal said:
And just how many Native Americans were killed by Custer – not to mention all the other atrocities against them by the government as a whole? If this were to happen today, the U.S. would be accused of genocide. Don't they have a single person at Fox who has studied American History and knows how to do research? Oh, yeah. Research is like science and we know that's practiced by godless criminals and homosexuals.
November 19, 2010 at 7:07 pm, Scubadoogary said:
Thank you for speaking the truth Copleyec. FOX News wouldn't know the truth if it walked up and bit them on the ass. Custer was a megalomaniac who sent his troopers to not only murder braves defending their homes but women children and the elderly. Custer deserved to get his ass kicked.
November 19, 2010 at 9:14 pm, Phyllisandrews said:
President Obama's book comes out just in time for Christmas. Buy it along with another new book, “Who Am I? The Story of Barack Obama,” which is a biography of Barack Obama for elementary school children. Using color photographs and text, it tells how Obama struggled to define himself as a black child in a white world. It can be read by children as young as seven but is appreciated as a photo biography by children in the upper elementary grades. The actual reading level is grade 3-4. This book can be found in more than 600 schools in the US. You can find information about both books on amazon.com.
December 01, 2010 at 7:24 pm, This Guy said:
Sad to say, but Custer had it coming. The reason he died to Sitting Bull was because he saw some Indians and grossly underestimated their numbers, thinking they could wipe them out without a problem and be on their merry way. There is no heroism in what he did. My political views are irrelevant to this discussion, but this is an absurd accusation.
January 27, 2011 at 2:18 am, wandalh said:
General Custer deserved to be KILLED. He was a blood thirsty fool. I hate him. He is the most disgusting US General to ever walk this earth. So there, Fox News.