Reading through this, I really don't see the controversy. For example, they dropped Patton in order to spend more time on blacks in the military - ie Ben Davis and the Tuskegee Airmen.
They dropped FDR to add Billy Graham, too.
The links you provided are to the 2009 revisions. The new standards (which are the ones generating the uproar) are the 2011 revisions, and I can't find them online anywhere - but I don't have any particular reason to think that the media is reporting the changes any more inaccurately than the media reports anything else.
