Fox, lies and videotape

By Capt. Fogg

I've often used Fox News as an example of the fact that when it comes to politics in America, there is no bottom, but each time I say that, I'm faced with new evidence of the bottomlessness of the pit. Fox's obsession with the Senator from Illinois continues with the latest accusations that Obama is hiding his Muslim extremist past. Watch the Video here.

I don't wish to dignify this smear by calling such crude and baseless insinuations "allegations." but that's what Fox calls them and, in order to distance itself from the slander, blames it all on Hillary Clinton. The slimefest is larded with references to The New York Times and other Fox strawmen, but, according to the London Times, it began with the "moonie"-owned right-wing magazine Insight. The Fox and Friends crew mumble on endlessly about the significance of Obama having been enrolled in a madrassa at the age of six and having lived in Indonesia as a small child, and admits that this doesn't mean he was taught Wahabbist doctrine or that his Christian commitment isn't real. It's another example of "we make it up -- we don't reveal the source -- you decide" journalism.

Although the panel of smiling liars at Fox claim that Obama's exposure to Islam was not mentioned in his biography, people who have read it say otherwise. But Fox usually gets away with depending on the ignorance of its audience, and, despite the attempt to lay the blame for this assault at the feet of Senator Clinton, the transparent purpose of this is to arouse fear and suspicion without taking any responsibility for the truth or accuracy of their words.