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onehandle

(51,122 posts)
Mon Feb 24, 2014, 05:48 PM Feb 2014

Ten Of The Most Ludicrous Fox News Guests

Last week, Fox News invited discredited conspiracy theorist Kathleen Willey on air to smear Hillary Clinton. Willey has for years spread outlandish conspiracies about the Clintons, including suggesting that they may have been behind the death of her husband and former White House aide Vince Foster.

During the interview Fox host Megyn Kelly pointed out that "detractors" say Willey is a "dishonest person," and that "there's no direct evidence tying the Clintons" to some of Willey's more outrageous allegations. But the fact that Willey is dishonest and lacks evidence for her smears merely highlights the folly of giving her a platform in the first place.

Fox News has had similar lapses in judgment when hosting other conspiracy theorists and smear artists in the past. Among others, Fox has hosted a person who thinks the Obama administration may have "orchestrated" the Benghazi attacks; a guest that believes the president and Osama bin Laden are literally the same person; a blogger that thinks Obama's father isn't Obama's father; a contributor that once wrote a column arguing Rep. Gary Condit had Chandra Levy killed by a gay Caribbean motorcycle gang; and someone who thinks the president "bears traits that resemble the Antichrist."

Below is an admittedly incomplete list of the least credible guests the network has ever hosted. People that just missed the cut include a self-proclaimed prophet who warned that the Antichrist "will employ precisely the same methods" as President Obama and the author of the birther tomes Where's The Birth Certificate? and Where's The Real Birth Certificate?

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/24/ten-of-the-most-ludicrous-fox-news-guests/198191

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Shrike47

(6,913 posts)
4. So THAT'S why Osama Bin Laden always wears a beard in those videos! He's really Obama!
Mon Feb 24, 2014, 06:34 PM
Feb 2014

I wonder why the CIA decided to create a fake Muslim leader/ terrorist back in the 80's or whenever it happened? And if she's right, who attacked the World Trade Center? Obama? By day, lawyer and college professor. By night, street fighter? Who woulda thunk it?

These people boggle the mind and nothing anyone says or shows them will deter them.

Bandit

(21,475 posts)
5. Osama is dead and so that means so is Obama and that raises the question "who" is now
Mon Feb 24, 2014, 06:42 PM
Feb 2014

the President? Another major conspiracy in the works I guess.

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