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Sources Say: Obama bans mids' swords at graduation - not!

Published 06/26/09

Bloggers - and their followers - who hate President Barack Obama are not letting facts stand in the way of a good story.

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These folks saw a conspiracy when the Obama White House ordered graduating midshipmen not to wear ceremonial swords at the Naval Academy commissioning ceremony on May 22. Taking away the swords - under the guise of security - was just a prelude to taking away firearms and gutting the Second Amendment, these purists said.

Only, the White House never banned ceremonial swords. Furthermore, midshipmen never wear swords to commissioning, at least not in modern history, Naval Academy officials said.

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Would have been nice - 2009-07-01 07:16:18

It would have been nice of the author, instead of citing sources as an "internet warrior", obviously displaying the author's bias, he/she cite the actual source so that we can judge for ourselves.


You have to love the new wave of articles and pieces that attribute all of their substance to the likes of "unnamed staffers" or "former campaign adviser wishing to remain anonymous" and not a single statement or comment from an identified source. It really calls into question the validity of authors' articles when we have no one willing to go on the record or the author able to produce anyone who will.

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swords - 2009-06-26 21:59:55

I cant believe they didnt blame Bush for once

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Wouldn't suprise me.. - 2009-06-26 15:38:30

If Obama HAD banished swords.But I digress. So what's this have to do with Fox News Paul?

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swords - 2009-06-26 11:55:37

Sounds like typical fox news strategy...darn the facts we can scare people into believing anything, if you say it long enough people will believe it.....

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