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Rachel Maddow debunks the newest Right Wing outrage over the "fact" that President Obama omitted God from the Gettysburg Address. He didn't.

This courtesy of Raw Story:

According to Media Matters, Burns specifically asked the president to read from the “Nicolay Version,” which was written before the phrase “under God” was added:

“It is rather for us, the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

The phrase, however, was changed slightly by the time the speech was delivered by Lincoln: “that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.”

By Tuesday morning, the news had become one of the top stories on conservative websites like the Drudge Report, The Daily Caller, the National Review Online and WMAL. The Daily Caller did eventually correct their report to note that Burns had requested the “Nicolay Version” of the speech.

This story was ALL OVER the Right Wing blogosphere yesterday. I knew when I first heard it that it was nothing.

I swear that these idiots spend all day, every day simply waiting for something that they can feel outraged over.

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