If this doesn't induce a double-take nowadays, nothing will:
Nope,it's not an op-ed, and this is how real reporting is done: No opinions differing or questions lingering, or weasel-worded qualifiers, or endless claims and counterclaims in the interest of fairness and balance. Just report what they actually fucking say, and provide some relevant context, i.e., facts:
In a convention floor speech Tuesday night, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin boasted that people rushed into her state in the Great Land Run of 1889 with only their own grit to thank, and no help from the federal government.---Vitelius“And in 1897, eight years after the land run, a handful of adventurous pioneers risked their own money---not the federal government’s money---to drill Oklahoma’s first oil well, the Nellie Johnstone,” she told conventioneers.
However, Fallin’s characterization omitted major chunks of federal government involvement, including the Dawes Act of 1887 and other measures that forced Indian tribes onto reservations, freeing “open” surplus lands for white settlers. Oil later was found on some of that land. The Homestead Act of 1862 provided the method by which the land was distributed to settlers.
“Those pioneers who came to settle in Indian territory were benefited by federal government largess at every hand,” said historian W. David Baird, dean emeritus of Pepperdine University’s Seaver College. “The federal government . . . surveyed the raw land into sections, ranges and townships so than individual plots could be legally described. In 1889 and subsequently, the U.S. Army orchestrated the dramatic runs for 160-acre parcels of land or town lots, which were then registered with a U.S. government land office.”
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Posted by: Basketball Sneakers | August 31, 2012 at 08:51 PM