For those people who still believe that FOX News is "fair and balanced," here is another damning piece of evidence. FOX News aired a report saying that Obama neglected to watch the election results and chose to watch a documentary about his election on HBO. The only problem was none of it was true.
This Christian Science Monitor article reports that White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that the president actually didn't watch any TV on election night. But the damage was done, the fake news story had already spread to the right-wing noise machine and has leaked into the news cycle.
This is not the first time FOX News has run a fake story about Obama. During the 2008 election FOX ran a story claiming that Obama had been educated in a Madrasah, which was also debunked by CNN. This is classic FOX strategy, make up an outrageous story, put it on the air and then watch it spread like wildfire. FOX also accused the Obamas of performing a "terrorist fist jab." By the time the candidate has debunked the story, it has already seeped into the minds of gullible Americans who believe everything that FOX puts out. And people wonder why some people still think Obama is not an American citizen?
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