Fox News Still Running Lie That President Obama Met "Pirate" Yesterday

In yet another attempt to smear President Obama, Fox News is pushing the meme that President Obama lied when he told Israeli President Netanyahu that he doesn't have time to meet with him. (Netanyahu told David Gregory it was scheduling conflict). To support this notion that Obama is ignoring Netanyahu (who, according to Netanyahu has met with him more than any world leader) Fox & Friends ran a photo, sourced from Drudge, that purports to show Obama meeting with an actor dressed as a pirate. While Fox& Friends claimed this took place yesterday, the "meeting" took place in 2009! Fox News should be walking the plank for yet another lack of truthiness. But they don't seem to care. AAARRGGG!!!!!

This all started yesterday when Obama tweeted a photo of himself, with the "buccaneer," in order to celebrate "Talk Like a Pirate Day." It was quickly seized and deceptively framed by Drudge. The correct information,however, was available, on The Daily Mail, 10 hours ago. The photo is shown on a 2009 blog entry. But Steve Doocy, during their "pic of the morning" segment, "joked" that this was a "quick look at what" the president is "up to." Brian Kilmeade, in noting that Obama has no time to meet with Netanyahu, later stated it as fact - after Media Matters reported the lie.

Even the conservative Washington Examiner has reported the true story which was posted too late for Fox & Friends; but Fox News Insider still has it. Their headline: "President Obama Finds Time To Meet With Pirate On "International Talk Like a Pirate Day." Guess it's not a lie if you believe it! Shiver me timbers, matey!

And word to the curvy couch potatoes - If you want to source Drudge, ya might want to do some fact-checking first. Just sayin...

Wonder if the three stooges friends will find the time to correct this? Just askin...

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Inis Magrath commented 2012-09-21 15:47:14 -0400 · Flag

“Wonder if the three friends will find the time to correct this?”

Unintentional errors should be corrected. But Fox tells intentional lies. No correction necessary.

mlp ! commented 2012-09-20 22:30:17 -0400 · Flag

Well, I do confuse my ‘yesterdays’ fairly often…but then I don’t have a ‘news’ blog.
Apparently, neither does Drudge.

Barbara S. commented 2012-09-20 17:15:31 -0400 · Flag

OK- maybe drudge actually has a sense of humor ater all. Yesterday, Sept 19, was International “Talk Like A Pirate Day”. Seriously. I observer it every year. http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html

mj - the same one commented 2012-09-20 16:02:59 -0400 · Flag

“Fox News should be walking the plank for yet another lack of truthiness.”

Priscilla, if Fox had walked the plank for EVERY instance of their lack of truthiness, they’d have been in Davy Jones’ Locker and covered with barnacles long ago . . .

“And word to the curvy couch potatoes – If you want to source Drudge, ya might want to do some fact-checking first. Just sayin…”

Word to the couch potatoes: if you source Drudge — you’re already beyond help.

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doors17 commented 2012-09-20 15:54:47 -0400 · Flag

After the completion of todayâs program Fox & Friends tweeted the followingâ¦

The picture we aired this morning of the President & the pirate was from 2009

Notice it was not an apology to the President or their audience.

Lakeview Greg commented 2012-09-20 15:38:47 -0400 · Flag

And I am relatively sure Cap’n Slappy and Old Chumbucket and Webwench did appreciate any extra traffic and sales the free publicity that F&F and the President gave them.

Lakeview Greg commented 2012-09-20 15:36:53 -0400 · Flag

LOL, Fox disappeared it. Love their “That’s Embarrassing” thing though. Has multiple meanings.

patrick tolle commented 2012-09-20 14:39:56 -0400 · Flag

I’ve seen speculation that the “pirate” was actually either Ehud Barak or Ariel Sharon. Although either of those guys would have been wearing a different uniform and in Sharon’s case he’d be perfect for the Fux Noise audience having been dead these several years and comatose for a while prior to transitioning.
Truman- you’ve probably got it right difficult as that may be the Fux Noise audience, especially for this quintet of twits, probably is both dumber and more unaware.

truman commented 2012-09-20 14:14:13 -0400 · Flag

Daddy Douchebag and Brain are eternally grateful that their viewing audience is actually as dumb and unaware as they are.

doors17 commented 2012-09-20 13:10:43 -0400 · Flag

Chris Merlich, sounds like Roger Ailes learned his lesson from his Nixon days, destroy the tapes.

Lakeview Greg, that was funny.

KingCranky commented 2012-09-20 13:02:35 -0400 · Flag

Well, well, well, “Page Not Found”.

FOX “News” historical revisionism in all it’s laughable, easily-debunked glory.

Lakeview Greg commented 2012-09-20 12:58:11 -0400 · Flag

F and F, drilling holes in their boat to let the water out.

bemused commented 2012-09-20 12:45:01 -0400 · Flag

@Joseph: Oh so true, so true.

@doors17: ditto, with spades.

doors17 commented 2012-09-20 12:36:05 -0400 · Flag

This past week has not been the best of times for Fox & Friends. Fox doesnât need to find their own Jon Stewart since they already have these three to provided comedy gold.

Visitor 55 commented 2012-09-20 12:16:51 -0400 · Flag

Ok. So even the most shit-filled Obama hater would be able to notice that in the pirate picture, President Obama’s hair is solid black…not the salt and pepper hair he has now. It’s only obvious that it’s an older picture. Duh.

I can see the 3 stupid FoxFiends of the curvy couch falling for it, but I guess I was wrong to give Matt “the egg man” Sludge more credit than that.

Joseph West commented 2012-09-20 11:58:57 -0400 · Flag

“And word to the curvy couch potatoes – If you want to source Drudge, ya might want to do some fact-checking first. Just sayin…”

Priscilla, Priscilla, Priscilla. Thank you for the laugh.

“Fact-checking” at FoxNoise? Where do you think the Romney campaign came up with the idea that they don’t need to rely on fact-checkers? The folks at Fox rely on their own set of facts. If Obama were to say, “The sky is blue and the grass is green,” the FoxNoise folks would say “Obama’s lying again because everyone knows the sky is green and the grass is blue” even as they show an exterior shot that actually showed blue skies and green grass.

Thx4 Fish commented 2012-09-20 11:27:44 -0400 · Flag

In Fox World admitting to errors is weakness, and only to be done when one can no longer keep one’s head in the sand. I’ll bet the Fox Friends don’t even know about their blunder and won’t unless some producer decides to tell them.

Fox News Still Running Fox & Friends Lie: Obama Met "Pirate" Yesterday

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