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Fox’s Kooiman Reports Fake Story About Obama Funding A Muslim Museum

Posted by Ellen -7841.60pc on October 06, 2013 · Flag

Fox News and host Anna Kooiman were so eager to promote a report that President Obama is funding a Muslim museum – despite closing the World War II Memorial – that they couldn’t be bothered to do any fact checking.  Otherwise, they might have discovered that it was a fake story from a parody news site.

Kooiman relayed the “news” yesterday as part of a Fox & Friends Weekend segment blatantly designed as a dose of Republican Rehab over the government shutdown.

Here’s what Kooiman said:

The Republican National Committee is offering to pay for (the World War II Memorial) to keep it open so that the veterans from Honor Flight are going to be able to go and see this because who did it honor? It honored them. It really doesn’t seem fair, especially—and we’re going to talk a little bit later in the show, too, about some things that are continuing to be funded. And President Obama has offered to pay out of his own pocket for the museum of Muslim culture - out of his own pocket - yet it’s the Republican National Committee who’s paying for this. 

I can just imagine the smug snickering that went on behind the scenes when Kooiman and her Fox & Friends producers decided to juxtapose this “secret Muslim” dog whistle with their “Republicans are fighting for the all-American heroes the president has abandoned” meme. But what’s really funny is how many more people are now laughing at Kooiman and Friends. This "Fox fell for the fake news" story is on Media Matters, Yahoo and Gawker, to name a few.

Media Matters, which found the source of the fake story wrote:

Unfortunately for Kooiman, the claim that Obama offered to pay out of pocket for a “museum of Muslim culture” originated from the satirical website the National Report. As the fact-checking site Snopes.com points out, a now-removed disclaimer on the National Report noted: “National Report is a news and political satire web publication, which may or may not use real names, often in semi-real or mostly fictitious ways. All news articles contained within National Report are fiction, and presumably fake news.”

Yahoo News pointed out that while it's possible the now-missing disclaimer could lead one to the conclusion that the National Report is legit news, a once-over glance would have been revealing: "(T)he National Report currently contains a set of “news” headlines such as “Jesus Christ boycotts Hobby Lobby,” and “Police barge into kindergarten classroom and taser multiple children ‘for the check of it.’”

I think we can safely conclude that the biggest joke of all here is on Kooiman and Fox News.

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Mel Brandow commented 2013-10-07 13:29:32 -0400 · Flag
Stayed tuned, after the break we will bring up the " Free Obama Phones" phony story again. We only report what you want to hear. Bengazhi, Fast and Furious" IRS scandal and whatever drivel we can think of next. Please respond to poll which we will broadcast the results at the end of the show. Do you think the Clintons murdered their family dog " Buddy"?
scooter commented 2013-10-07 00:51:24 -0400 · Flag
You watch, these idiots will double down and say that Snopes is a “librul” website and can’t be trusted, same as MM.
Thx4 Fish commented 2013-10-07 00:20:52 -0400 · Flag
l wouldn’t put it past Fox to plant a story like this at a satire site so they could -oops!- report it. It does perfectly fit their fake narrative.
James commented 2013-10-06 17:00:47 -0400 · Flag
There appears to be a typo in the last sentence. It is written as, “I think we can safely conclude that the biggest joke of all here is on Kooiman and Fox News.” However, I believe it is meant to be, “I think we can safely conclude that the biggest joke of all here is Kooiman and Fox News.”

Just sayin’…
Aria Prescott commented 2013-10-06 15:21:35 -0400 · Flag
It’s a story that makes Obama look bad- Of course Fox will never retract it.
doors17 commented 2013-10-06 11:12:34 -0400 · Flag
I do wonder how many took this as the gospel truth and spreading this while they failed to get the word that this was sarcasm.
truman commented 2013-10-06 11:00:08 -0400 · Flag
Is it any mystery as to why Fux Noise viewers are consistently the most ill-informed creatures on the planet?
NewsHounds posted about Fox’s Kooiman Reports Fake Story About Obama Funding A Muslim Museum on NewsHounds' Facebook page 2013-10-06 10:00:08 -0400
Why bother to fact check when you can blow that "secret Muslim" dog whislte?
mlp ! commented 2013-10-06 08:59:58 -0400 · Flag
Like I said before, this kind of ‘STOOPIT’ is dangerous.
I wonder if Fox knew this was a fake story, but put it out there because they knew their base would WANT very much to believe it. Doesn’t need to be be true to foment the crazy!








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