{"id":11059,"date":"2013-12-12T12:05:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T20:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11059"},"modified":"2013-12-18T04:28:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T12:28:58","slug":"fox-news-escalates-obama-selfie-into-an-international-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11059","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Escalates Obama Selfie Into An “International Incident”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having failed to ignite a fire under Obama\u2019s presidency with such memorable pseudo-scandals as Benghazi, Solyndra, Fast & Furious, gun confiscations, the climate change hoax, Sharia Law, death panels, pallin\u2019 around with terrorists, and the Kenyan nativity, Fox News has latched onto an innocent moment of human behavior that took place at the memorial for Nelson Mandela.<\/p>\n

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As ludicrous as it was for so much of the media to focus attention on this dab of triviality, leave it to Fox News to escalate it into an international incident. If they could they would surely find a way to turn it into an Archduke Ferdinand moment that will precipitate World War III (Don’t laugh. Glenn Beck’s been doing it for years<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The article<\/a> associated with this absurd headline did not in any way support the matter-of-fact declaration that Obama had created an international incident. There was no author identified and it was filled with erroneous assertions and commentary from partisan pundits like Fox News contributor Erick Erickson. Not a single reference to any diplomatic agency or individual was included. So how did this qualify as an international incident?<\/p>\n

Well, obviously, it was because Fox could manufacture lies and fling them feverishly at the President they so fervently despise. Never mind that it wasn’t Obama taking the selfie, it was the Danish Prime Minister, Helle Thorning Schmidt. And forget that British Prime Minister David Cameron was also in the picture but the white guy has not been accused of creating an international incident. And don’t bother mentioning that the photographer dismissed all the hyperventilation about whether the First Lady was upset in a blog post<\/a> he wrote saying that “photos can lie. In reality, just a few seconds earlier the first lady was herself joking with those around her, Cameron and Schmidt included. Her stern look was captured by chance.”<\/em><\/p>\n

But if you think that fabricating an international incident is the worst that the propagandists of the Murdoch empire can do, you clearly don’t appreciate the depths of their determination and depravity. Fox’s community website, the lie-filled Fox Nation<\/a>, has had three stories on this so far. And Murdoch’s New York Post weighed in on the matter with an article<\/a> titled “Flirty Obama owes us an apology.”<\/em> The article was filled with gratuitously insulting and sexist remarks such as…<\/p>\n