This morning on Fox News, hosts of the show Fox and Friends blamed the wildfires in California on a new culprit: al Qaeda. They pointed to a 2003 FBI memo, which raised the possibility that al Qaeda may try to set wildfires around the western United States. They also noted that men in a “hovering helicopter” saw “a guy starting one of these fires.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nConspiracy theorists will want to know if the hovering helicopter was black. The rest of us can’t stop laughing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For the next couple of weeks I will be engaged in activities that will preclude me from delivering my usual stream of enlightening essays and insights. Is it the intrusion of work? Vacation? Or a top secret mission to infiltrate Rupert Murdoch’s international disinformation cartel? I’m not saying. I should be resuming my regular schedule […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-az","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":462,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=462","url_meta":{"origin":655,"position":0},"title":"Roger Ailes Links Fox News and Al Qaeda","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/6\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"In remarks given as host of the Eric Breindel Awards ceremony for Excellence in Journalism, Fox News CEO, Roger Ailes, made a connection that would be shocking if it was in reference to anything other than Fox News: \"The candidates that can't face Fox, can't face Al Qaeda. And that's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":234,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=234","url_meta":{"origin":655,"position":1},"title":"Bill O’Reilly On Al Qaeda Death List","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/20\/2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Bill O'Reilly will be interviewed french kissed by Barbara Walters on Friday's episode of 20\/20. In the course of the cooing, O'Reilly reveals that al Qaeda has issued a death threat against him. Personally, I think al Qaeda is just using this as a fundraising ploy. They may be evil,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8474,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8474","url_meta":{"origin":655,"position":2},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: The White House Did Not Edit CIA Talking Points","author":"Mark NC","date":"11\/19\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Earning a place at the top of the Fox Nation web site this morning is story that complies perfectly with the non-existent journalistic standards of Fox News. The article cites the uber-conservative blog FreeBeacon and features the headline \"White House Deleted Al Qaeda From CIA Talking Points.\" Get the New\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9841,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9841","url_meta":{"origin":655,"position":3},"title":"Fox News Contributor Allen West On Eric Holder: Worse Than Al Qaeda","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/6\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"If you happened to be looking for another reason to be grateful that Allen West was booted from congress, you just got your wish. West sent an email to his Batshit Brigade seeking money to fund his struggling Super PAC, The Allen West Guardian Fund. Apparently desperate to make an\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8583,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8583","url_meta":{"origin":655,"position":4},"title":"Wall Street Journal Exposes Fox News Lies About Benghazi and Susan Rice","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/4\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"For several weeks Fox News has been spearheading a smear campaign against U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice for comments she made on Sunday news programs about Benghazi. The actual substance of her comments was specifically limited by her qualification that the information was evolving as investigations continued. Nevertheless, Fox falsely portrayed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":42193,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42193","url_meta":{"origin":655,"position":5},"title":"Made in America? Trump Uses White House Farce to Lie and Embrace White Nationalists","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/15\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"On Monday morning Donald Trump hosted a \"Made in America\" charade at the White House that was intended to celebrate domestic manufacturers, workers, and products. What makes this especially absurd is that Trump himself has his own merchandise made primarily in China and other foreign countries. 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