According to Fox News, President Obama is financing a “museum of Muslim culture”

[DonViejo]

The report comes from a satirical news site

Defending its perch atop of what Jon Stewart affectionately refers to as Bullsh-t Mountain, on Saturday Fox falsely reported that President Barack Obama is using his personal funds to construct a museum devoted to Muslim culture. MediaMatters caught the “Fox & Friends Saturday” segment, which criticized Democrats for the closure of the World War II Memorial that resulted from the (Republican-triggered) government shutdown. Co-host Anna Kooiman was appalled that the government would not fund the memorial, especially since “President Obama has offered to pay out of his own pocket for the museum of Muslim culture.”

Via Snopes.com, MediaMatters notes that Kooiman’s “information” comes from The National Report, a satirical Web site whose articles “are fiction, and presumably fake news,” according to a former disclaimer. Kooiman’s full quote:

“The Republican National Committee is offering to pay for it to keep it open so that the veterans from Honor Flight are going to be able to go and see this because who did it honor? It honored them. It really doesn’t seem fair, especially — and we’re going to talk a little bit later in the show too about some things that are continuing to be funded. And President Obama has offered to pay out of his own pocket for

the museum of Muslim culture out of his own pocket, yet it’s the Republican National Committee who’s paying for this.”

Perhaps it is fitting that a fake news source gets news from a fake news source.

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http://www.salon.com/2013/10/06/according_to_fox_news_president_obama_is_financing_a_museum_of_muslim_culture/

[Fridays Child]

1. Tucker Carlson ought to...

...climb up his own asshole for a little taste of the shit he's shoveling there.

[MiniMe]

2. Fox News fell for it, but Snopes said it is not true

The National Report is a satire site. http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/museum.asp

[coldmountain]

3. But Faux News watchers will believe it because they want to believe it

A lie is better than the truth to these scumbags. What ever happened to the commandment of not bearing false witness?

[DFW]

4. I doubt Fox Noise really had no idea. They just don't care

They spew out this garbage because their viewers hear what they want to hear and believe what they want to believe.

If they "report" something that that turns out to be a lie, They just stop "reporting it," and not always right away.

They are a propaganda machine, not a news organization. They say what they want when they want, and whether
or not what they say is the truth is of little consequence.

In an interview at the founding of Fox "News," Roger Ailes was asked whether or not he would be looking to report the objective truth, or slant what his station "reported," and he truthfully (whether by accident or by design) was candid. He just said, "we have an agenda."

We would do well to remember those words. He was publicly being very candid, a habit he learned to break in very short order.