The Drudge Report and Fox Nation are both promoting an editorial in the UK's Daily Express asking if President Obama is the “weakest president in history?”
What is the Daily Express? Is it just an innocous British newspaper? Not quite.
- The Express apologized and paid damages to a charity after falsely claiming the group had connections to Al Qaeda. They paid another charity £60,000 in damages and apologized after falsely linking the charity to Hamas.
- Express Newspapers apologized and paid £550,000 in damages for a series of stories that Express lawyers admitted were “extremely serious, yet baseless, allegations” implicating the parents of missing child Madeleine McCainn in their child's disappearance.
- The Express apologized and paid £45,000 to an assistant secretary of the Muslim Council of Great Britain after the paper had falsely linked him to death threats against Prince Harry
- The Express apologized and paid £20,000 in damages to actress Kate Beckinsale for a false story claiming she had been passed over for a role
- The Express apologized and made an undisclosed payout in damages after falsely claiming that a soccer star had relapsed into alcoholism after his wife's financial demands
- Guardian columnist Richard Greenslade documented 23 instances between March 2008 and November 2010 where the Express' parent company had to pay damages for libel claims
The Express also dabbles in immigrant bashing as well, blaming foraging for wild mushrooms, home theft, and job losses on “migrants.” The paper somehow turned three protesters into a front-page story claiming “Muslims Tell British: Go To Hell.”
There are ample examples of the Express practicing extremely shoddy journalism. No wonder Fox and Drudge are promoting them.