Fox hosts fall for hoax: Obama personally funding Muslim museum during shutdown

[Galraedia]

Chalk one up for life imitating satire. Fox and Friends host Anna Koolman was discussing the closure of the World War II memorial in Washington during the shutdown Saturday, and claimed “President Obama has offered to pay out of his own pocket for the museum of Muslim culture” while allowing the memorial to remain shuttered.

That’s not true, of course.

The source of this claim came from the satirical website National Report, which mocks news coverage much like The Onion does. Snopes has a cottage industry of debunking National Report pieces along with Onion satire and other on-line mockery passed off as legitimate news.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/06/fox-hosts-fall-for-hoax-obama-personally-funding-muslim-museum-during-shutdown/

[Deep13]

1. You mean they willfully perpetuated a lie. nt

[MADem]

2. Stupid is as stupid does!

That's hilarious....!!

And I guess no one over at Faux bothered to question why the US government might ever fund a "Museum of Muslim Culture" that would be denied funds necessitating a bail out in the first place!

[Blue Owl]

3. Oh for Fox sake

[Turbineguy]

4. They seem to have forgotten.

Their job is to make their viewers look like idiots, not themselves.

[Takket]

5. "falls for hoax"

Yeah right... they knew exactly what they were doing. they plant the seed and know it will grow in the limited minds of their ignorent viewers. its the "Al Gore invented the internet" effect.

[doc03]

6. Have they acknowledged their false report, if not

there are now millions of people out there that believe it. Well on second thought even if they say it wasn't true most of their viewers will believe it anyway.

[COLGATE4]

8. You're exactly right. And that's the 'beauty' of Faux

reporting - they know they can say damned near anything injurious to Obama and the faithful will believe it hook, line and sinker. And even when the rest of the media show the reporting to have been false, the true Faux believers will just shrug it off as part and parcel of the 'Lame Stream Media' and believe the falsehood.

[leftynyc]

9. I hear they tweeted the

"straightening out" part of it. Because their geriatric audience was sure to see it on Twitter.

[MattSh]

7. As if they ever gave a shit about truth... n/t