{"id":2140,"date":"2010-07-13T14:29:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T21:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2010-07-13T19:10:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T02:10:21","slug":"fox-alert-the-taliban-is-recruiting-monkey-mercenaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2140","title":{"rendered":"Fox Alert! The Taliban Is Recruiting Monkey Mercenaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has been giving the World Weekly News some pretty stiff competition. With Fox News making up stories about ClimateGate<\/a> and the New Black Panther Party<\/a>, and Fox Nation trying to spark fears of Boob Bombs<\/a> and armed IRS ObamaCare enforcers<\/a>, the Murdoch empire is not much more than a right-wing fantasy factory.<\/p>\n

Today they have upped the lunacy by passing along a ridiculous story about the Taliban training monkeys to do battle with American soldiers. The story, sourced to the People\u2019s Daily in China, was published by at least two Murdoch properties, Fox Nation and the New York Post<\/a>. And if you weren’t frightened by the prospect of terrorists sneaking into the country with explosive breast implants, then maybe the thought of radical Islamic macaques and baboons armed “with AK-47 rifles, machine guns and trench mortars in the Waziristan tribal region near the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan”<\/i> will set you to squirming. And both the Post and the Fox Nationalists featured an obviously doctored “photo”<\/i> of a menacing Monkey Mercenary, along with this foreboding video:<\/p>\n

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Ordinarily I would dismiss this sort of rightist horror story without much consideration. After all, even the video supplied doesn’t show a single rhesus recruit, just some suspicious still photos. But upon reflection, I couldn’t entirely cast off the theory after observing the quality of Murdoch’s “news”<\/i> operations. I mean, if the monkeys working for Murdoch can be reporters and publishers, then why couldn’t they be soldiers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has been giving the World Weekly News some pretty stiff competition. With Fox News making up stories about ClimateGate and the New Black Panther Party, and Fox Nation trying to spark fears of Boob Bombs and armed IRS ObamaCare enforcers, the Murdoch empire is not much more than a right-wing fantasy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[527,33,29,30],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fox-nation","tag-fox-news","tag-new-york-post","tag-rupert-murdoch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-yw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34572,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34572","url_meta":{"origin":2140,"position":0},"title":"Scandal Plagued Fox News Boss Rupert Murdoch is Now Advising Trump on a Daily Basis","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/6\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The partnership between Fox News and Donald Trump has evolved into an unprecedented fusion of government and media. 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