{"id":4804,"date":"2011-07-04T10:23:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T17:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4804"},"modified":"2011-07-04T10:24:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T17:24:18","slug":"fox-news-twitter-account-hacked-hacker-hired-to-replace-glenn-beck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4804","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Twitter Account Hacked – Hacker Hired To Replace Glenn Beck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reports are circulating<\/a> this morning about an apparent hack of the Fox News Twitter account @FoxNewsPolitics<\/a>. The hacker, falsely identified as Anthony Weiner in early reports, posted several tweets<\/a> asserting that President Obama had been assassinated. The report of the hacking was confirmed by Fox News who issued a statement of regret for “any distress the false tweets may have created.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Immediately after posting their regrets, Fox announced that they had hired the hacker to be the host of a new program to be aired weekdays at 5:00pm, Glenn Beck’s old time slot. Praising the hacker’s ingenuity and initiative, Fox VP Bill Sammon said, “He’s at least as accurate as the rest of our Fox News team.”<\/em><\/p>\n

This acquisition should insure a steady supply of the sort of delusional conspiracy theories that epitomized the Beck brand. To date Fox News has not issued any regrets for the distress caused by the thousands of other false stories they broadcast on a daily basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reports are circulating this morning about an apparent hack of the Fox News Twitter account @FoxNewsPolitics. The hacker, falsely identified as Anthony Weiner in early reports, posted several tweets asserting that President Obama had been assassinated. The report of the hacking was confirmed by Fox News who issued a statement of regret for “any distress […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[33,44],"class_list":["post-4804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-humor","tag-fox-news","tag-glenn-beck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1fu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2325,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2325","url_meta":{"origin":4804,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Stands By Glenn Beck’s Hate Speech 1000%","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/4\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"This should tell you all you need to know about Fox News and their commitment to bigotry and division. 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