Fox News 'terror expert' says everyone in Birmingham is a Muslim: Twitter reacts with #foxnewsfacts

[Turborama]

Steve Emerson, described as a terrorism analyst, also told Fox News that parts of London have a Muslim police force who 'attack people if they don't dress according to religious rules'.

He told the American network: "In Britain, it’s not just no go zones, there are actually cities like Birmingham that are totally Muslim, where non-Muslims simply don’t go in."

=snip=

The interview was roundly mocked on Twitter, under the hash tag #FoxNewsFacts.

@nikkidholliday summed up the mood on Twitter, saying: It's things like #foxnewsfacts that make me proud to be British, what a fantastic response.


Full article with lots of tweets: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fox-news-expert-says-everyone-4962092

And here's the feed which is still going very strong lol: https://twitter.com/hashtag/foxnewsfacts?src=hash

A couple of my faves...



Islamification of Britain continues as popular bingo chain forced to change name to Mecca #foxnewsfacts

[Violet_Crumble]

1. OMG! So funny! I couldn't stop laughing...

Out of so many hilarious ones, I liked this one slightly more than the rest:

'In England, we call them bins rather than trash cans, in honour of Osama bin Laden. #foxnewsfacts'

on edit: No, this one just took top spot

[KMOD]

10. That tweet is brilliant

and hilarious

[Turborama]

20. LOL, love it! Here's a recent one that made me LOL....

(Sincere apologies about not getting back to you, btw. Things have been super duper hectic here with the new baby and his very jealous sister. I've been meaning to and never got around to it. Sorry )

[Violet_Crumble]

45. Ha ha! I missed seeing that one...

Hey, no probs about getting in touch. I know what it's like with a new bub. My best friends have got one too and I know from that and from past experience with my own how hectic it is. Add to that a jealous sibling and I imagine the hectic factor would shoot into the stratosphere

[Denzil_DC]

23. That was my absolute favorite of the hashstorm

(which we were discussing in an earlier thread).

From her tweets, she seems a pretty cool person.

[malaise]

2. Nice report here -Fox News Fail Muslim claim

on Front page
http://www.theguardian.com/uk
which leads to this link

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/11/fox-news-steven-emerson-birmingham-muslims

Check the comments

[Enthusiast]

7. Love those comments.

Kind of sad that UK viewers recognize the network as little more than a source of propaganda while in the US millions of people actually believe Fox is fair and balanced.

[malaise]

8. Did you hear Chris Wallace implying that Paris was an American

capital before correcting himself and saying Western capitals rather quickly. That spoke volumes for me re arrogance and assumptions despite their abysmal ignorance about the rest of the planet.
If the French had heard the crap paraded on both FOX and CNN, they would have a march against stupid RW bullshit.

[Enthusiast]

17. No, I didn't see it. I make a point of not hearing their garbage.

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It's scary that so many give them an audience. I used to kind of harbor contempt for the pre-WWII German people. I always thought, "How could you have been so foolish?" Now I understand. It can happen here. It is happening here.

[malaise]

18. We don't have their cable channel

but since NFL was on Fox when I turned on while making coffee they must have been having a repeat on their regular Florida channel. Rove was on the panel but I switched to BBC in the middle of George Will chatting some BS.

I agree with you - it can happen anywhere if enough people either buy the propaganda or switch off.

[dixiegrrrrl]

21. I was shocked to read that 3 million people watch O'Reilly...

in an article about DISH and Fox fight over fees, it mentioned that.
Fox has a huge audience.....
very depressing to contemplate.

[Enthusiast]

26. It is depressing to contemplate.

[PatrynXX]

40. wonder how those Freedom Fries are doing over in the Faux Lunch room N/t

[Blue_Tires]

43. Well, lets be honest -- A lot of them over there regularly watch Sky News

which is only a shade or two better than Fox here...

[shenmue]

3. "Cornwall is actually a wall, made out of corn"

-from the Twitter feed.

[freshwest]

4. Faux, the fact-free faith-based network. They decieve those who want to believe their lies.

[drynberg]

5. So...how many of Faux's True Believers are buying Emerson's Crapola? Good Opportunity

For a little "Fact Checking", no?

[Enthusiast]

6. Fox "News"! What would they have without the lies? Nothing!

[JHB]

9. 'Terror expert'. Nice work if you can get it.

Kinda like talking to people's dead relatives. Tell your audience what will stoke their hopes/fears, and ignore all the times you were completely wrong:

Apr 01, 1993
SoundBites

Second Opinion

Being a terrorism expert means never having to say you're sorry. After the World Trade Center bombing, Steven Emerson of CNN's Special Assignment Unit filed an "exclusive report" (3/2/93) announcing that unnamed "law enforcement officials...suspect the bomber or bombers may be from one of the former Yugoslav republics." Three days later, after Mohammed Salameh was arrested in connection with the bombing, Emerson was writing for the Wall Street Journal op-ed page (3/5/93) as an expert on the radical Islamic fundamentalist threat. The disappearance of the Serbian menace was not explained.

http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/soundbites-51/

[Scuba]

14. Work for any Republican campaign and you are instantly an expert on everything.

[SomethingFishy]

49. I've actually been thinking of becoming an asshole for a year...

Just to see how much money I can make... I mean James O'Keefe goes on the internet every few months and begs for money for his next "undercover film" and people hand him 50 grand...

I could probably get rich if I were an asshole.

[Doctor_J]

11. I wonder why they are allowed to get away with this

[Spitfire of ATJ]

29. FOX "News" defended their lies in court by claiming they weren't REALLY "news".

[Doctor_J]

34. I forgot about that

how bizarre that their zombies believe every word of it

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. There's panic on the streets of London. There's panic on the streets of Birmingham...

What an ultramaroon.

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Always Good To See A Bugs Bunny Reference

Bugs is a personal hero.

[SMC22307]

42. Could life ever be sane again? (n/t)

[Scuba]

13. "If Fox News ran a corrections column it'd need a whole other channel."

[Douglas Carpenter]

15. Birmingham's religous demographics in real life

Birmingham's religions

The city's population estimated at 1,073,045

Christian: 494,358
Muslim: 234,411
Sikh: 32,376
Hindu: 22,362
Buddhist: 4,780
Jewish: 2,205
Other: 5,646
No religion: 206,821
Religion not stated: 70,086
Source: Census 2011

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-30773297

[justiceischeap]

19. I hadn't followed this story so when I saw the headline, I thought he was talking about Alabama

not the UK. Doh!

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. "In Britain the weather switches between Sunni and Shi'ite....... #foxnewsfacts"

[Turborama]

24. LOL genius! Good find!

Here's a link to it: https://twitter.com/blueliberal1/status/554402731180720128

[Turborama]

25. !

Link for anyone who wants to retweet: https://twitter.com/gareth0108/status/554607001041637376

[nxylas]

27. This one seems to be quite popular

[Spitfire of ATJ]

28. Loved this one....

Barracks O'Bama ?@P0TUS 3h3 hours ago

BREAKING: Patriotic Americans being forced by Muslim jihadists to wear burqas and burn their crosses. #FoxNewsFacts

[Spitfire of ATJ]

30. Loved this one too...

Chris Kennett ?@chriskennett 13h13 hours ago

Islamic head coverings now prevalent across Britain #foxnewsfacts

[47of74]

37. Yeah my brain hurts too...

...after a full day of Republican dumb fuckery.

[Pacifist Patriot]

31. As a long suffering Aston Villa supporter...

Twitter has kept me entertained all day with #FunNewsFacts

I howled at this one.

https://twitter.com/RobinWigg/status/554398238451965952/photo/1

and this one

https://twitter.com/Vee92i/status/554668736440201217/photo/1

Oh really, there are tons of clever people having a go at this one. Love it!

[Contrary1]

32. Dancing is banned as Unislamic in the UK...

Dancing is banned as Unislamic in the UK and the Queen personally beheads those guilty of promoting it #foxnewsfacts

:large

[47of74]

36. These ceremonies...

"...used to involve the services of many young men dancing in the nude, waving their naughty bits in the royal counternance."

[DeadLetterOffice]

33. As an avid jam maker, this one's my favorite:

Jam jars are now forced to convert to Islam by 'Moslim' extremists #foxnewsfacts

:

[renate]

38. I just saw that one too--brilliant!

I love the smell of Fox being mocked in the morning.

[47of74]

35. Emerson is a fucking idiot.

[Turborama]

39. Breaking...

[Denzil_DC]

41. Fuck me sideways, Emerson can't open his trap without more stupid tumbling out.

Steven Emerson, Fox News pundit and "terrorism expert", has likened listening back to his incorrect comments on Birmingham as "like waterboarding" in another gaffe today.

While speaking on Sky News Mr Emerson apologised for his "inexcusable error" after he described Birmingham as a city that non-Muslims "simply don't go" into, but then caused further controversy by saying "hearing it over when you played it was like waterboarding I guess".

When it was mentioned that some people may find that analogy offenive Mr Emerson replied "I didn't mean to offend anyone...I deserved to have experienced the pain of listening to it over again".

Video at link (Warning: article from The Telegraph with autoplay ad): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11341426/Fox-News-terror-expert-Listening-back-Birmingham-Muslim-error-like-waterboarding.html

#NOTAFOXNEWSFACT

[SMC22307]

44. Kitty jihad!

By Any Means ?@Mo_mohamud1 · 11h11 hours ago
#foxnewsfacts cats who convert to Islam are being brainwashed into jihad being told they will get 72 mice in heaven



https://twitter.com/Mo_mohamud1/status/554730448950403072

Aww, Hijab Kitty:

[muriel_volestrangler]

46. Stung by the Emerson episode, Fox News turns to a REAL expert on Islam:

[Turborama]

47. LOL, I thought it was going to be Farage.

[yurbud]

48. incredibly, this nitwit went on the BBC News to apologize:

http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/13/glenn_greenwald_on_how_to_be

[Fred Sanders]

51. Excellent. The American news media is an utter disgrace, and only semi-cloaks it's Islamophobia.

[yurbud]

52. the Islamaphobic moment that got me in the Iraq War: "Are Iraqis READY for democracy?"

Like they were fucking monkeys that just evolved from swing from trees.

[Fred Sanders]

53. For American democracy as it exists now, who the fuck wants this mess? The goods are worn.

[Politicalboi]

54. I liked this one and the Queen head cover

ELiSA ?@think_freedom_ 5h5 hours ago
Unintentional satire Steven Emerson FoxNews via@Chris_Wilde:Heavy traffic reported in Birmingham today😉#foxnewsfacts "


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