{"id":10392,"date":"2013-08-17T14:10:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T21:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10392"},"modified":"2013-08-17T14:10:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T21:10:32","slug":"congratulations-fox-news-wins-the-most-asinine-conspiracy-theory-promotion-award-of-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10392","title":{"rendered":"CONGRATULATIONS: Fox News Wins The Most Asinine Conspiracy Theory Promotion Award Of 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

In these turbulent times there is no shortage of ridiculous nonsense disseminated from right-wing nutcases. We’ve seen relentless challenges to President Obama’s citizenship. We’ve seen Republicans explain how women’s bodies can magically “shut down”<\/em> pregnancy following a rape. We’ve seen imaginary “death panels”<\/em> appear in health care legislation. We’ve even seen, courtesy of Glenn Beck, allegations that Obama is protecting the “real”<\/em> Boston marathon bombers.<\/p>\n

How can you possibly top these five-star delusional classics? Well, for Fox News the answer is to pluck a video from the diseased mind of American Family Association director, Bryan Fischer, who thinks that Obama was photoshopped into the Situation Room photo on the day of the raid on Osama Bin Laden. (Video below)<\/p>\n

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Fischer is well known among crackpot political analysts for sermons just like this one. His reasoning is notoriously flawed. He asserts that Obama didn’t want to be anywhere near the Situation Room during the raid in case it went terribly wrong. But how would it have been beneficial if news of a failed raid was accompanied by reports that Obama neglected to attend the planning? He would have been excoriated for his absence.<\/p>\n

What’s more, if Obama were intent on falsifying a photograph after the fact in order to create a scenario more favorable to himself, it would have been much easier to attend the meeting and have himself photoshopped out later, if he thought that was better for his image. And Fischer complains that the picture was cheaply done and obviously faked, suggesting that the White House doesn’t have the wherewithal to employ skilled graphic artists. And finally, we are talking about the friggin President of the United States (aka Leader of the Free World). If he wanted to, he could have ordered everyone back into the room and taken a new photograph.<\/p>\n

Absolutely none of what Fischer is alleging makes the least bit of sense to anyone with a functioning brain. Yet, for some reason, Fox News saw fit to promote Fischer’s lunatic lecture on their community web site Fox Nation. This is pretty standard fare for the Fox Nationalists who work diligently to produce the most dishonest content on the Internet.<\/p>\n

Please see my highly acclaimed ebook, Fox Nation vs. Reality<\/a>, for dozens of documented examples of Fox’s overt and repeated assaults on truth. It puts this episode into context and is a great way to shut people up who keep asking you for proof that Fox lies.<\/p>\n