{"id":29645,"date":"2015-09-14T18:02:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T01:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29645"},"modified":"2015-09-14T19:33:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T02:33:25","slug":"fox-news-host-floats-delusional-miss-america-conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29645","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Host Floats Delusional Miss America Conspiracy Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Todd Starnes, he is Fox’s Christianist Ayahtollah and host of the webcast “The Dispatch.”<\/em> He is primarily known for spinning fables about the alleged persecution of America’s oppressed majority Christians. In most cases he invents the stories himself and provides no independent corroboration. And there is generally a stench of overt racism wafting from everything to which his name is attached.<\/p>\n

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Take for example the time that Starnes reported on a five year old girl whose father claimed she was prohibited from praying in her school\u2019s cafeteria. It turned out<\/a> that the girl’s father was the VP of Sales for his publisher and he had a book that was just about to be released. There was no evidence that the incident ever occurred and Starnes failed to disclose his close personal relationship with the allegedly abused family. Starnes has a resume of dishonesty<\/a> that has hounded him throughout his career. Which, I suppose, is what makes him such a perfect employee for Fox News.<\/p>\n

Starnes latest outrage involves the selection of the new Miss America. He took to his webcast (video below) to rhetorically ask “Did Miss America Judges Shoot Down Pro-Gun Contestant?”<\/em> Starnes asserted that one of the contest’s runners-up, South Carolina’s Daja Dial, had been robbed of her victory because her answer to a question on assault weapons didn’t call for banning them, as the pageant’s overlords wanted, according to Starnes. He said…<\/p>\n

“It was quite a night on the boardwalk where a distinguished panel of left-wing judges tested the ladies intellect on a number of the most pressing issues of our day. […] Miss South Carolina turned out to be one of the few ladies who refused to kowtow to the judges agenda, shooting down an anti-gun question by saying she opposed banning firearms. Needless to say, the pride of the palmetto state did not win. Liberals frown on pistol-packing beauty queens.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Left-wing judges? Where Starnes gets that idea from is never revealed. Nor does he explain how any of the other candidates “kowtowed”<\/em> to some imagined agenda of the liberal beauty queen cabal. In fact, the panel of judges included a country singer, a Disney star, an investor, and the widow of “American Sniper”<\/em> Chris Kyle. None of the judges could plausibly be characterized as liberals. But what makes Starnes’ bitchfest so strikingly stupid is that the contestants who gave answers<\/a> that liberals might agree with also failed to get the crown. For instance:<\/p>\n