Fox Falls For Fake Story About Obama Personally Funding Muslim Museum...
Fox & Friends Saturday criticized President Obama for offering to personally pay for a "museum of Muslim culture" during the government shutdown, a claim that originated from a satire website.
On October 5, the co-hosts of Fox & Friends Saturday discussed the closure of the World War II Memorial, which resulted from the Republican-led shutdown. During the discussion, co-host Anna Kooiman claimed that while the memorial is closed, "President Obama has offered to pay out of his own pocket for the museum of Muslim culture."
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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."
Fox has a history of passing off satirical stories as actual news.
watch the video here:
http://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/05/fox-falls-for-fake-story-about-obama-personally/196304
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My right wingers believed it hook, line and sinker. They really think Obama is a Muslim and trying to hide it. That's ODS on a grand scale. 
I could tell it was satire right off the bat. Never heard of that site before either. I could just tell by the Obama "quotes." Nothing Obama would ever say. The Obama of some right wingers' minds is a complete fiction.
RWNJs all over the internet a probably freaking out over it right now. Wonder what the retraction will look like. 
Not with Faux news, sounds good run with it!
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in the footer. Which strongly suggests that Fox News didn't even TRY to check out the story, let alone try to confirm it.But in the interest of fairness and balance, I must also point out that this site features very poorly done satire. Look at the "related" story titles on the page: if it weren't for the first one, I would wonder if NationalReport.net even knows the meaning of the word. The others come across as either rumors, insults, or just plain bad taste:
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