{"id":8017,"date":"2012-09-14T17:08:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T00:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8017"},"modified":"2012-09-14T17:08:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T00:08:04","slug":"fox-nations-shameless-politicization-of-the-american-diplomats-who-were-murdered-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8017","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation&#8217;s Shameless Politicization Of The American Diplomats Who Were Murdered In Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not bad enough that Fox News lies incessantly and engages in ongoing campaigns to insult President Obama, and the millions of Americans who support him, but today they posted an entirely unnecessary triviality that served only to tarnish a day of remembrance solely for the purpose of landing a political low blow against the President.<\/p>\n<p>The breaking news story that Fox Nation was compelled to report was <em>&#8220;Obama&#8217;s Twitter Feed Hawks Campaign Sweatshirts During Ambassador&#8217;s Casket Transfer Ceremony.&#8221;<\/em> What they thought was important about this information is a mystery. After all, Obama&#8217;s Twitter account is run by campaign staff, so it&#8217;s not as if the President was Tweeting from the Oval Office. But Fox found it necessary to diminish the President&#8217;s tribute by juxtaposing two completely unrelated occurrences.<\/p>\n<p>And what makes this all the more repulsive is that Fox&#8217;s intent was so pointedly partisan. They obviously never even looked at Mitt Romney&#8217;s Twitter feed (or they did but didn&#8217;t care) or they would have seen that, at the same time, he was doing the very same thing. He was hawking <em>&#8220;a chance to join [him] on board the campaign plane&#8221;<\/em> for a donation to his campaign.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/FoxNation\/foxnation-obama-twitter.jpg\" alt=\"Fox Nation\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>That sort of unfair, unbalanced, and hypocritical coverage is why Fox has so little credibility outside of the mental deficients who make up their audience. It is just unfortunate that they have to demonstrate their disgraceful lack of decency on a day like this, and that a ceremony to honor murdered Americans was turned into a circus on the Fox News web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not bad enough that Fox News lies incessantly and engages in ongoing campaigns to insult President Obama, and the millions of Americans who support him, but today they posted an entirely unnecessary triviality that served only to tarnish a day of remembrance solely for the purpose of landing a political low blow against the [&hellip;]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[152,1],"tags":[183,527,260],"class_list":["post-8017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-barack-obama","tag-fox-nation","tag-mitt-romney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-25j","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8172,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8172","url_meta":{"origin":8017,"position":0},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Obama&#8217;s Imaginary Foreign Fundraising","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/8\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"A new report released by a right-wing organization is receiving a great deal of attention from the conservative media circus. The Government Accountability Institute's report alleges that President Obama is unlawfully soliciting and receiving donations from foreign nationals. At Fox Nation the headline is a sensationalistic \"Foreign Fundraising Scandal Rocks\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8893,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8893","url_meta":{"origin":8017,"position":1},"title":"Fox News Covers the Obama Inauguration: &#8216;Saddest Day Of The Year&#8217;","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/21\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Seconds after the first inauguration of President Obama, Chris Wallace of Fox News speculated that he wasn't really president because the oath was flubbed by Chief Justice John Roberts. 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The Fox Nation posted an article they sourced from Twitter\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6231,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6231","url_meta":{"origin":8017,"position":4},"title":"Fox Nation Review Of Obama Ad Riddled With Falsehoods","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/19\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The Obama campaign just released its first advertisement of this election season. It focused on his record of ethics and energy independence, specifically addressing the phony allegations from \"secretive oil billionaires\" (the Koch brothers?). 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