As Obama eulogizes a civil rights hero, Fox News covers the "finding" of "Noah's Ark"
April 29, 2010 11:56 am ET by Ben Dimiero
Earlier this week, numerous conservative blogs and websites were promoting a story about a team of evangelical researchers who supposedly "found" Noah's Ark in Turkey. The story is quite obviously a hoax, and when it made the jump to FoxNews.com, they were ridiculed for promoting it in their "Science" section.
This morning, Fox News decided that this ridiculous "story" merited some on-air coverage, and America's Newsroom devoted several minutes to "Noah's Ark." This wouldn't be so notable if it came on a morning during which nothing else of note was going on, but Fox News ran this segment while President Obama eulogized civil rights legend Dorothy Height. Fox noted that the eulogy would be streaming on FoxNews.com, but they chose to devote their TV airwaves to this:
As we've noted in the past, Fox will use any excuse not to cover various Obama speeches. Couldn't this "story" have been postponed to cover a presidential eulogy of a civil rights legend?
Also of note, Fox News clearly thought they had found an archeologist who would lend credence to the idea that this may actually be Noah's Ark -- host Martha MacCallum introduced Eric Cline from George Washington University by saying that "you say that there's a pretty good chance that this is it." Unfortunately for Fox, as evidenced in the video above, Cline shot numerous holes in the "finding" and labeled it as possible "pseudo-science" or a "hoax."
But this bears repeating: Fox News skipped live coverage of the President of the United States giving a eulogy for a civil rights legend to cover a hoax discovery of Noah's Ark.
They also ran one other short story instead of covering the eulogy:
He quoted from Matthew, "And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted." Then he said that he didn't think that the author would mind if he amended that to say that "SHE" will be exalted. Such blasphemy!
However, Blimpy Limbaugh has mastered the technique of playing a sound bite, then lying to his audience about what they just heard. His ability to convince his dittobots that up is down is quite impressive.
Grand Canyon and the Flood of Noah
These idiots need 50 paper cuts on their groinal region, then fall in a salt vat.
Back many years ago, people didn't realize the interaction between all kinds of tiny creatures in our soil and the rest of the food chain.
Most of those creatures require oxygen on a regular basis to survive. We would have had 'dead soil' had the entire Earth been covered with water for 40 days.
So, even had someone built an Ark, and found matching pairs of every kind of animal, they wouldn't have found every plant and every bug and every tiny organism that keeps the food chain working. It's totally impossible.
Now, I could agree that maybe the area that's now the Black Sea, when THAT flooded, the "entire world" that Noah's family was aware of might have flooded, and it could have taken him many hours, maybe even days, to float to the shore. But any attempt to prove the fairy tale is totally bogus.
I've actually heard some wingnuts claim that Earth had Saturn-like rings around it made of ice, and they fell to Earth to cause the flood.
I checked. Not FoxNews.
And MMFA makes a very good point - if there were two equally compelling stories, it'd be one thing, but there wasn't a good reason for CNN or MSNBC to switch off Obama, yet FoxNews didn't carry him at all.
So how could they justify even acknowledging that a Black civil right leader has passed, let alone covering Obama?
It's too bad that he also brought along two nitwits. Fox seems to be trying to hire and appeal to their decedents.
Not a worthy story to bump Obama. Yet they did it anyway. That's not how a legitimate news outlet behaves.
But the Ark would have remained intact, with divided rooms, after thousands of years? It can turn solid rock into what they call "rock flour", but it wouldn't have touched the wooden structure held together with wooden pegs?
A: Does a bear family camp out in a tree?