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C’mon, Fox, take some credit: You’ve earned it.

August 23, 2010 1:11 pm ET by Jamison Foser

Under the headline “Obama Still Dogged by Muslim Rumors,” Fox Nation … dogs President Obama with (false) rumors that he’s a Muslim. 

Fox’s write-up of the dogging is little more than a collection of excerpted suggestions that Obama is Muslim. Fox Nation excerpts a Washington Times op-ed titled “The First Presumed Muslim President” and Franklin Graham’s statement that Obama “was born a Muslim”; the closest Fox comes to debunking the rumors is quoting Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell saying “The president says he's a Christian. I take him at his word.”

If there’s one thing Fox News is rarely accused of, it’s excessive modesty. But this time, at least, they don’t give themselves enough credit. A more accurate headline would be “We dog Obama with Muslim Rumors.”

See also: Behind Obama Muslim myth stands the right wing

Tags: Fox News Channel, Fox Nation

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    • Author by jediknight65 (August 23, 2010 1:21 pm ET)
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      yes and fox does this because the whole place is the secret headquarters of the KKK
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      • Author by MiniTru (August 23, 2010 2:15 pm ET)
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        It's not so secret.
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        • Author by mustardman (August 23, 2010 3:44 pm ET)
             
          and KKK is too narrow of a special interest group. You can pretty much add in all extremist groups and that would be almost ALL of the existing Faux/GOP base.
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    • Author by nerzog (August 23, 2010 1:23 pm ET)
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      It's amazing, isn't it? FOX just can't imagine where all these rumors are coming from, can they?

      What's even more incredible is that they're allowed to get away with it. I'm pretty sure that the tiny handful of Liberal Talk Radio hosts will call them on it... Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann may call them on it... but that's about it.

      The rest of the chattering dunces will sit around and try to analyze the synthesis of such puzzling misconceptions. It's infuriating to think how much these people are paid for pretending to be so stupid.
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      • Author by cugagcmu805031 (August 23, 2010 1:29 pm ET)
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        This reminds me of the guy in CA who had a shootout with the police after listening to Glenda rage against the Tides Foundation. When it was hinted at in the media by some writers that Glenda had something to do with the incident, Glenda went into his denial mode. His denial mode didn't last long because a couple days later, he was raging against the Tides Foundation, AGAIN. Not only is he a rodeo clown, he's also a first class coward. No other network or radio personality had said anything about the Tides Foundation, except Glenda.
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        • Author by nerzog (August 23, 2010 1:39 pm ET)
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          He's an absolute menace. In a sane world, the real journalists on the real News Networks would be ripping his head off (figuratively, of course).

          Unfortnately, we live in Bizarro Republican World, and the Free Press is a rattling, wheazing skeleton of what it once was. In its place, we find a fat, complacent corporate toad.
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      • Author by epkklk851 (August 23, 2010 1:53 pm ET)
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        I admit it, when I first heard of Barack Obama back in 2004, I thought he was Muslim. I thought he would have a hard time winning a national office as a Muslim, but then I heard he was Christian. It didn't matter to me, either way. I was impressed with his 2004 Convention speech, I knew he would be running for President sooner or later. A colleague played me a man-on-the-street interview tape where they gave the people just his name and many of them said he had no business running for President, or they thought he was a terrorist, almost no one on the tape had heard he was an American Senator, that was February of 2007. I also notice how this has affected his daily Gallup rating. He dropped down to 41% the other day. It's disgusting at how unfair they are being.
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    • Author by MidnightWriter (August 23, 2010 1:40 pm ET)
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      This is "Birther-Lite." Nothing more. A bit of classic fear and smear being put into play by those who have deluded themselves into believing this is a more "acceptable" way to make the President appear to be a dangerous outsider.

      At least the true Birthers have guts enough to stand by their whack-a-doodle stupidity. Those pushing this are the same kind of idiots--only cowards.
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      • Author by mustardman (August 23, 2010 3:47 pm ET)
           
        There is a name for that. Racism. A kindler gentler more main stream looking media friendly form of racism but the undercurrent is every bit as raw and ugly and always just under the surface.
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      • Author by Porkeater (August 23, 2010 3:51 pm ET)
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        This is "Birther-Lite."

        On the money.
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    • Author by NiceguyEddie (August 23, 2010 1:43 pm ET)
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      And the really amazing thing is the circular logic that these idiots on the right use to justify this kind of insanity:

      Them) It's OK to say false things about him (like he's a muslim) because he's un-American.

      Me) How do you know he's un-American?

      Them) Well, for a start, he's a Muslim! Not to mention a Socialist!

      Me) Well... both of those things are false, so if that's the best you can do...

      Them) It doesn't matter. And why are you defending him?! He's UN-AMERICAN!

      Seriously. It's no more sophisticated than THAT.

      It's like it's lost on them that if all of their "points" are proven false, that it must mean... duh-da-daaaa: THEY'RE WRONG!

      It's like... if the facts don't support their position, that means LYING is now JUSTIFIED, rather that the POSITION needs to be CHANGED.

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      Children aren't this absurd!
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      • Author by MsYellowDog (August 23, 2010 2:33 pm ET)
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        The Right Wingers have managed,in little more than a generation,to change everything it "means" to Be An American. They have empowered large groups of dissatisfied misfits to think that THEY are super-patriotic "heroes." For proof of this,one has to look no further than May 2003,when Shrub staged a movie-like landing on an aircraft carrier,dressed in a COSTUME,and declared that America(and he) had "won" something.No one seemed to ask the question,at the time or later,of what,exactly,had been "won," and at what price.My heart sunk at the gullibility of press and others,who would be convinced by such antics,that it was cause for celebration.Instead I thought it was one more example of the total dumbing-down of America.And the dumbing-down has proceeded at breakneck pace since then.
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        • Author by NiceguyEddie (August 23, 2010 3:44 pm ET)
             
          Agreed. And it's only gone downhill since then.

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          (And, not coincidently, Glenn Beck's career has done the opposite in that time.)
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        • Author by Porkeater (August 23, 2010 3:50 pm ET)
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          It is all predicated on a false notion that no longer enjoys majority support. That "American" is in any way like a 50's tv show.

          That isn't America, and never was. It's a lie.

          "The greatest generation" started to cherish this false ideal after WWII, and it has been slurped from the trough and spread like manure by the arch-hypocrites of the Republican party from young Nixon to the present crop of frauds.

          The MSM has bought into it because it's easy. TV advertisers and their agents have pushed it because it seems idealistic. I insist that a majority of Americans are smarter/more analytical than that.

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