Fox News host tries to walk back persistent Obama-Muslim talk

[Playinghardball]

A new book about the Obama Administration’s first term has Fox News backpedaling, with host Bret Baier insisting on Tuesday morning that “we found no examples of a [Fox News] host saying President Obama is a Muslim.”

The conservative Fox News Channel has seized upon the bogus claims that Obama might be a Muslim since the 2008 Democratic primaries, when Hillary Clinton’s opposition research dug up details of the president’s childhood and his two years spent at a mostly Muslim school in Indonesia. Ever since then, the Republican-leaning network has featured a steady drumbeat of guests — not hosts — who perpetually suggest that Obama might be a clandestine follower of Islam.

Baier took issue Tuesday morning with a new book by liberal author David Corn, Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones. His forthcoming book, Showdown: The Inside Story of How Obama Fought Back Against Boehner, Cantor, and the Tea Party, puts readers in the middle of the administration’s struggles with Republicans during the 2010 midterm elections, revealing for the first time that Obama felt like he had lost support among white men because Fox News continually misled viewers by giving coverage to individuals who believed he might be Muslim.

Baier attempted to “fact check” that claim on Tuesday morning by offering a very narrow exception — that none of their regular hosts had repeated the claim as fact — but no amount of wishing can change the Republican opinion outlet’s record of misinformation.

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[Bluzmann57]

1. "Well why believe anything Corn says? He's just another librul."

Just imagining what fox noise anchors will be saying.

[Lawlbringer]

2. Why would it even matter?

Even if he was? Isn't this a secular state?

These guys need to make up their minds, is he a Satanist? Radical Black Christian? Satan Worshipper? Muslim? or Godless Communist?

[unc70]

3. Wasn't the Clinton opposition research, was childhood buddies

Pepple in Indonesia came forward anxious to share their memories -- teachers, fellow students, friends of his stepfather at the club, even Obama's sister.

Same thing with people in Seattle where he and his mother had lived his first year, where she had grown up. The only research required was to read the local newspapers.