Fox News mistakenly airs parody of Obama offering to personally fund Muslim museum
Last edited Mon Oct 7, 2013, 10:39 AM - Edit history (4)
Source: Yahoo News - (with video of the Fox News segment)
In a story about the monument closure, Fox News host Anna Kooiman fell prey to a false report from a parody site, which claimed that President Obama had offered to keep the International Museum of Muslim Cultures open with cash from his own pocket.
Kooiman was referencing a quote from the National Report, a parody news site that ran the fake story on Obama. The key quote from the story reads:
The International Museum of Muslim Cultures is sacred. That is why I have taken it upon myself to use my own personal funds to re-open this historic piece of American culture.
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/fox-news-mistakenly-airs-parody-of-obama-offering-to-personally-fund-muslim-museum-233837793.html
Its a 2:21 m:s video. The first 1:30 m:s of the video is about how war memorials are being shut down, even though it doesn't cost anything to keep them open, just to make the shutdown as painful as possible.
Then at 1:30 it gets more interesting and at 1:58 is when they claim Obama is offering to pay out of pocket to keep the International Musuem of Muslim Cultures open.
Yes, I know Yahoo! News, The Sideshow is not a mainstream source, I did look for something more mainstreamy. (Yahoo News did post it as the 3rd main story on its news.yahoo.com home page). But I trust the video is real, and I trust Media Matters. Media Matters packaged the video segment.
Other sources:
http://gawker.com/fox-news-falls-for-fake-story-claiming-obama-is-funding-1441573171
Media Matters http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/05/fox-falls-for-fake-story-about-obama-personally/196304
[font color = red]On Edit 10/6 1023 pm Central (after 26 replies) -- there are several comments directed at this OP about how Fox's "mistake" was intentional. I agree. However, one of the rules of Late Breaking News is that we must use the original title of the article. And also any excerpts we use (above the "Read More:" line) must be unaltered. [/font] Yes, I think a more apt title is one with quotes and a spelling change: [font color = blue]Faux "News" "mistakenly" airs parody of Obama offering to personally fund Muslim museum[/font]
[font color = green]On Edit 10/7 939 am Central[/font] - On October 6, Kooiman issued the following statement via Twitter: "Just met w producers- I made a mistake yday after receiving flawed research abt a museum possibly closing. My apologies. Won't happen again."
Source: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/05/fox-falls-for-fake-story-about-obama-personally/196304
I know "mistake" "flawed research" "apologies" "again"
"a museum possibly closing"
I heard about this update on the Stephanie Miller show.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Of course a lot of people will believe it.
It was, after all, on Fox News.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)do you really believe it would have been a mistake? A little disinformation goes a long way and that's their game.
progree
(10,901 posts)As the mediamatters.org story notes at the end: "Fox has a history of passing off satirical stories as actual news."
defacto7
(13,485 posts)I realized it sounded personal. I didn't mean "You"... It was a comment on Faux news to reiterate their usual behavior. My mistake.
progree
(10,901 posts)And I was agreeing with it with the mediamatters.org links in #3.
But after I posted it, I was worried it might come across differently than what I intended!
Cirque du So-What
(25,932 posts)Falsehood is their milieu, after all. The upside, reinforcing the prejudice of their low-info viewers, always outweighs the downside -which is negligible - considering that FAUX will never utter a word in retraction.
christx30
(6,241 posts)and I thought that the word 'mistakenly' was missing quotes. Like when I 'accidently' buy pizza and beer.
Cirque du So-What
(25,932 posts)someone should 'accidentally' leave a wolverine in Ted Cruz's bathroom.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)In fact using it was great as they did not have to even pay for its production.
And as a bonus, if they ever get caught, they can just whine that they didn't make it and thought it was real. (no matter how bizarre)
Next they'll be using clips of Colbert's show.
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)area51
(11,907 posts)It should read "Fox 'News' 'mistakenly' ..."
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Just asking...
Egnever
(21,506 posts)They do that crap on purpose. They have a long hiistory of it.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)my republican friends were posting this all day...
DCBob
(24,689 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)conspiracies for conspiracy theorists.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)or perhaps they're reading messageboards this fine Sunday morning & need to learn to open their eyes
edit to change you to they..I don't think bubbabob is a troll
JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)I do not reside under a bridge.
maxrandb
(15,323 posts)Now that shit will be posted on every rightwing nutjob site and "auto-forwarded" to everyone who has even a remote relationship to a "wingnut". I expect it in my e-mail from my SIL soon.
It would take years and years to debunk these canards once they are out there. Hell, I'm still getting shit about the POTUS' Birth Certificate.
Faux knew exactly what they were doing.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Skittles
(153,150 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)This arm of the Reich-wing is well funded and knows what it's doing---lies, all lies---but great propaganda for their "cause" of taking over the country for land grabs, endless war and resource exploitation in the name of jobs and good business.
progree
(10,901 posts)Source: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/05/fox-falls-for-fake-story-about-obama-personally/196304
"a museum possibly closing"
I heard about this update on the Stephanie Miller show.