This weekend, President Obama made a speech in which he talked about being successful.  How no man is an island and that we succeed because of both our individual initiative and because of who we are together.

FoxNation responded with the following graphic:

Fox, along with the RW blogosphere began promoting this story based on one line from the President’s speech:

If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that.

Of course, when you put it into context of what he actually said, it means something much different:

“There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t — look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.“

Now, there’s a ton of graphics floating around Facebook with the out-of-context quote.

Example 4,012,048,925 of why watching Fox News makes you stupid.