• May 26, 2012

Fox News Tweets Scary Fake News About Obama, Because of Hackers

by Kirsten Boyd Johnson  

super super super super super creepyWere you celebrating Independence Day with your beers and your Uncle Sam hat and your special string of obscenities you only get to use when you pull out your aging Earth-destroying charcoal barbecue? Then you are like us in that way, ignorant until recently that it is actually WAR ON FOX NEWS JRNALIZM DAY because hackers going by the name “Script Kiddies” apparently broke into the Fox News Politics Twitter account and posted a bunch of fake tweets reporting that President Obama was assassinated. Sort of a creepy “joke” to make? How did everyone figure out that the messages were faked?

  • “The Twitter messages appeared to be stylistically different from others on the Fox News politics account,” wrote the style queens at the New York Times.
  • “Fox News is wrong about every thing they have ever reported, ever,” twatted screechy monkey Keith Olbermann (and every other libtard on Twitter)
  • Obama is not in Iowa as the posts said he was, NOR IS HE DEAD.

And then everyone on Twitter made annoying “let’s see the death certificate” jokes on the Fourth of July, for patriotism.

Fox News posted a notice and said they were hacked, and they called the Secret Service and then said they “regret any distress” created by the tweets, but probably not the resulting bazillions of clicks on their website. Time for another beer. [NYTimes/ RawStory]

{ 255 comments }

GunToting[Redacted] July 4, 2011 at 3:31 pm

I suppose if I found myself in Iowa, I'd prefer to be dead as well.

Doktor Zoom July 4, 2011 at 4:06 pm

Things to Do in Dubuque When You're Dead

(stoopid IntenseFail commenting system)

ttommyunger July 4, 2011 at 4:15 pm

Being in Iowa is as good as being dead, without the rest.

finallyhappy July 4, 2011 at 4:53 pm

Please,no, I have to go to Iowa later this year(but not running for Prez)

zhubajie July 4, 2011 at 7:11 pm

Go early January, you'll wish you'd gone in July.

HistoriCat July 4, 2011 at 7:30 pm

Haley Barbour – is that you?

Rotundo_ July 4, 2011 at 10:14 pm

It isn't as bad as they say, although civilization tends to come to a grinding halt after the dinner hour. There is some real charm to it, not reflected in its' congressional and senatorial representatives, but usually politicians are bigger assholes than the assholes they represent. Bring a PC or other entertainment device (or devices) along, and pray your gods you don't end up in some godforsaken shithole that has no broadband access. Bring DVD's as backup in that eventuality. Water is usually potable and the craft beers can be wonderful, dining can be wonderful, unless you are phobic of deep fried foods and/or gravy. Again, bring sources of entertainment and intellectual stimulation (including porn, if part of your entertainment diet) as that sort of thing for the most part evaporates once feeding has ended. If you're there more than a couple of weeks though, abandon all hope.

PristineODummy July 5, 2011 at 6:57 pm

Oh, sure, that's what you say NOW.

Swampgas_Man July 4, 2011 at 6:03 pm

It wuz ethanol subsidies done him in.

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 8:55 pm

Get thee to an Iowa,
why woulds't thou be a breeder of sinner liberals?

PristineODummy July 5, 2011 at 6:56 pm

On the whole, I'd rather be in … never mind.

Madfall July 4, 2011 at 3:31 pm

Probably the same expert criminals who hacked Weiner's twitter, did they ever get caught?

#stolenjokes

gullywompr July 4, 2011 at 3:36 pm

Fox regrets any distress caused by the President continuing to be alive. Apologies everybody.

OneDollarJuana July 4, 2011 at 3:38 pm

"Hacked", huh? But not Fox's fault, just like all the times they put "D" after the names of Republican politicians they were interviewing whose ideas were particularly repugnant (even for Fox) .

Fare la Volpe July 5, 2011 at 4:45 am

I don't know. If tomorrow morning the RNC came out with a "Road to Recovery" that consisted of nothing but kiddie diddling, you know by lunch time FOX would have experts on to explain that touching the wee ones in their swimsuit zones has benefits psychological (makes them feel appreciated), international (puts us on the same level as the turrists), and economic (think of all the new police and therapist jobs!).

horsedreamer_1 July 5, 2011 at 10:36 am

This is Good News… for Richard Delgaudio!

donner_froh July 4, 2011 at 3:46 pm

Since Fox's commitment to right-wing propaganda is matched only by its lack of quality control and fact checking, anything they say about how the tweet occurred is either a lie or a mistake.

Limeylizzie July 4, 2011 at 3:47 pm

For God's Sake don't go to Yahoo news and see the comments about this, it will make you weep.

V572 [SSAN] July 4, 2011 at 4:02 pm

Thanks for taking one for the team, LL. And sorry about leaving your Empire, but it appeared you were never going to learn that beer is served cold.

Swampgas_Man July 4, 2011 at 6:04 pm

And they're COOKIES, not biscuits, dammit!

Limeylizzie July 4, 2011 at 6:13 pm

And it's pronounced "scone" as in "gone" not "scone" as in…well, "moan".

Nothingisamiss July 4, 2011 at 10:24 pm

I do learn quite a bit at the Wonkette Cafe.

WABishop July 5, 2011 at 7:47 am

I love Vegemite!

That's British, right?

finallyhappy July 4, 2011 at 8:08 pm

They do sell things marked as cookies as well as cookies called biscuits. I think I saw "Maryland cookies" at Tesco in London.

Limeylizzie July 4, 2011 at 11:16 pm

Yes, those are chocolate chip anything else is a biscuit.

trampndirtdown July 4, 2011 at 8:48 pm

Jammy dodgers are the best.

real_dc_native July 4, 2011 at 10:44 pm

The secret to happiness is NEVER READ THE COMMENTS. (except on Wonkette, of course)

bagofmice July 4, 2011 at 11:28 pm

True. The genius of pedobear is lost on the olds.

PristineODummy July 5, 2011 at 7:00 pm

Hey! I have plenty of pedobear. AND I'm an oldz. Officially. Now.

user-of-owls July 5, 2011 at 12:51 am

Ah, behold the beauty of American chavs.

the_problem_child July 4, 2011 at 3:48 pm

“The Twitter messages appeared to be stylistically different from others on the Fox News politics account,” wrote the snide style queens at the New York Times.

Yes, they even expressed condolences to the nation and family. The tone was definitely off.

Arken July 4, 2011 at 4:02 pm

And they used proper spelling.

Sue4466 July 4, 2011 at 4:03 pm

Plus, no exclamation points.

not that Dewey July 4, 2011 at 5:47 pm

And consisted of something more than inarticulate grunts.

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 8:53 pm

That's what ur mum sed bout yer lovemaking 2 her.

arihaya July 4, 2011 at 6:04 pm

The tweets used good diction and there are no grammatical error as well !!!

Poor liberal hackers, revealing that they are well educated.

mavenmaven July 4, 2011 at 3:53 pm

hahaha now that is funny, I'm a- laughing my ass off, now where's that sister of mine as I'm a-raring to f@#$ 'er.

Rotundo_ July 4, 2011 at 3:54 pm

I'll believe it when it reads "Our long national nightmare is over." Otherwise any sign of regret of any sort about anything bad happening to Obama on Faux's part is dubious. It would more likely read "Progress made on debt ceiling negotiations! Obama felled by two bullets."

zhubajie July 4, 2011 at 7:13 pm

Would they *really* be happy at Pres. Biden?

HistoriCat July 4, 2011 at 7:32 pm

At least Biden isn't near.

BlueMonkeh July 5, 2011 at 9:03 am

HA! Blazing Saddles reference is always good.

Rotundo_ July 4, 2011 at 9:59 pm

If happiness is a matter of degrees, probably yes. Biden is lilly white and a known commodity. Then again, it would be less material to froth the bubbas with, so I imagine that they would mourn the loss of our first black president (because it would deprive them of one more way to froth the bubbas).

horsedreamer_1 July 5, 2011 at 10:39 am

I would be curious whom Biden would pick as his VP (if, God forbid, the events above actually occurred). Since it would have to be someone even more gaffe-prone than the President, & a bone to the constituencies not otherwise represented in the Admin, maybe Dennis "Olive Pit" Kucinich?

bagofmice July 4, 2011 at 11:31 pm

At least he wouldn't be articulate, literally.

Fare la Volpe July 5, 2011 at 4:49 am

Of course they would. Biden is white.

weejee July 4, 2011 at 3:54 pm
LetUsBray July 4, 2011 at 3:55 pm

The Secret Service needs to investigate the shit out of this. The fact that the entire right-wing propaganda apparatus headed up by Fox has been subtly and not-so-subtly praying for this needs to be taken into account. I doubt Fox is a completely innocent victim here, is what I'm saying.

Arken July 4, 2011 at 4:03 pm

I'm not sure how it benefits Fox News for this to happen. I doubt it was them.

WABishop July 5, 2011 at 7:51 am

Page views, baby, it's all about the page views in this modern world.

Arken July 5, 2011 at 7:56 am

It wouldn't generate page views. It was a tweet without a link.

Sue4466 July 4, 2011 at 4:01 pm

Fox accidentally tweeted its wetdream.

arihaya July 4, 2011 at 6:00 pm

this must be because the new intern in charge of Twitter was high on meth.

I'm looking at you, Bristol !

V572 [SSAN] July 4, 2011 at 4:04 pm

Oh hell I heard a talk radio guy here in San Diego talk/joks about "committing Obamacide," and emailed the station about it (Fox outlet, natch). They said I just had no sense of humor. Sent the email correspondence to Ken w/clips and all but I guess he was not yet despondent enough that day.

Doktor Zoom July 4, 2011 at 4:10 pm

You don't send that sort of thing to the Wonkette–you send it to the Secret Service.

V572 [SSAN] July 4, 2011 at 4:15 pm

Funny about that. I looked, and they don’t have an email tip line.

LetUsBray July 4, 2011 at 4:24 pm

For that a person needs to call the local field office on the telephone:
http://www.secretservice.gov/field_offices.shtml

V572 [SSAN] July 4, 2011 at 4:21 pm

Here's the clip

March 11, 2011, KOGO radio in San Diego

Radiotherapy® July 4, 2011 at 4:53 pm

Oh, c'mon V, relax, he meant "On Obama's side." Hahaha. Oh yeah those teabaggers are just soooo funny.

horsedreamer_1 July 4, 2011 at 4:06 pm

Shouldn't have been smoking that cigarette in I-o-way, then.

Charlie Cowell, anvil salesman, is a stickler for the rules, after all.

simplyblue7 July 4, 2011 at 4:06 pm

Well that's what happens when you let Sarah Palin handle your twitter account…can't be too hard to break into.

deanbooth July 4, 2011 at 4:07 pm

And then Fox tweeted Weiner pics to Jodie Foster.

Steverino247 July 4, 2011 at 9:05 pm

And, as usual, Jodie Foster was not impressed.

horsedreamer_1 July 5, 2011 at 10:40 am

I'd be willing to bet she's seen Mel Gibson up close. He's like kryptonite, for lesbians.

MiniMencken July 4, 2011 at 4:08 pm

Wrong choice of fake news for the Fox crowd. The hackers should have announced that Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh were burned to death in a suspicious propane explosion while meeting in her bus. Then we'd hear the caterwauling across Twitterstan.

FlipOffResearch July 4, 2011 at 5:27 pm

Doubtlessly cooking up a batch of meth crossed with Viagra.

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 6:41 pm

fantasy much?

PristineODummy July 5, 2011 at 7:04 pm

Yeah, well, Rush prefers them young. REALLY young. As in "I must leave for the Dominican Republic to get any" young.

axmxz July 4, 2011 at 4:09 pm

Up next, FOX investigates who put that surveyor's mark over footage of Obama speaking on the campaign trail.

horsedreamer_1 July 4, 2011 at 4:13 pm

It's a shame Limbaugh used the "America Held Hostage" motif during the Clinton years. Since Muslin turris are actual hostage-takers.

Arken July 4, 2011 at 4:10 pm

Guess they shouldn't have used 'fuckthepoor' as their password.

TomAmitai July 4, 2011 at 4:13 pm

You should put quotes around the phrase "Because of Hackers" in the headline to this story, and set it in italics. It's the "fair and balanced" thing to do.

ttommyunger July 4, 2011 at 4:19 pm

Repair shops flooded by Lard Rovers with gearboxes gummed up with splooge and jizz. Thousands left immobile but sassified.

SpurningBeer July 4, 2011 at 4:28 pm

Fellow Wonkettniks, my Intense Debate account has been hacked. I sincerely apologize for any discomfort or annoyance that may have been caused by comments falsely made under my name.

It is not true that Andrew Breitbart was arrested by police in Rock Creek Park for public intoxication and lewdness yesterday, or that he was wearing only grey boxer-briefs with corn-on-the-cob stuffed in front.

(It was actually over two weeks ago.)

Dudleydidwrong July 4, 2011 at 4:53 pm

Pix–pleeeeeze!

Whatever July 4, 2011 at 5:07 pm

Ah damn, you made me look.

user-of-owls July 4, 2011 at 5:22 pm

Rock Creek Park, you say? Does that hate vole have a young, Jewish female intern? With a funny first name that rhymes with Sandra?

HistoriCat July 4, 2011 at 7:35 pm

As if said vole would even notice a female.

hollywooddood July 4, 2011 at 9:44 pm

Well, at least he's not stuffing it in back anymore.

DangerHelvetica July 4, 2011 at 4:31 pm

Fox News' password question: "where did Sarah meet Todd Palin?".

NYNYNYjr July 4, 2011 at 4:47 pm

An Igloo Orgy.

starfanglednut July 4, 2011 at 7:46 pm

Igloo meth factory.

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 8:52 pm

Barney Frank met Chris Dodd in an "I glue" factory.

Fare la Volpe July 5, 2011 at 5:42 am

Psst, you forgot to tell a joke.

zhubajie July 5, 2011 at 3:44 am

Massage Parlor?

arihaya July 5, 2011 at 4:47 am

in a tent, drunken with wine cooler…

oh that was Bristol ..

Weenus299 July 4, 2011 at 4:39 pm

It's not the heat that makes me stay inside, it's the Idiotry.

ProgressiveInga July 4, 2011 at 4:43 pm

Fox News is kind of a dick.

x111e7thst July 4, 2011 at 4:43 pm

"Obama assassinated" what a wasted opportunity. They should have tweeted pictures of O'Reilly's falafel.

user-of-owls July 4, 2011 at 4:44 pm

Yet another example of why Twitter should get a restraining order against Chuck Grassley, elected ruminant.

weejee July 4, 2011 at 4:54 pm

And you know who else twitters on the shitter?

BarackMyWorld July 4, 2011 at 8:06 pm

David Vitter?

('Shitter' being a description of his own pants.)

flamingpdog July 4, 2011 at 8:30 pm

Wolf Blitzer?

trampndirtdown July 4, 2011 at 8:51 pm

Snowbilly Quiter?

C_R_Eature July 4, 2011 at 9:19 pm

B. F. Skinner?

imissopus July 4, 2011 at 9:59 pm

Elliot Spitzer?

Nothingisamiss July 4, 2011 at 10:28 pm

It doesn't seem like the answer should be Hitler, but…..

DerrickWildcat July 4, 2011 at 4:57 pm

That was just Sean Hannity.

Pragmatist2 July 4, 2011 at 4:57 pm

This raises the question: how do you tall a false Fox News story from a true one?
The answer is: You don't. They are all false.

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 5:05 pm

Here's a non-Fox news story – is it true?

Obama’s Economists: ‘Stimulus’ Has Cost $278,000 per Job

"The stimulus is now causing the economy to shed jobs."

LetUsBray July 4, 2011 at 5:18 pm

That seems to be the talking point among Trolls-for-hire this weekend, so I'm gonna say "no".

Or am I wrong in using the plural? Do you also walk the virtual streets on the Mallard Fillmore Sucks blog?

Pragmatist2 July 4, 2011 at 5:19 pm

1. That is not a Fox News story-it is from the Weekly Standard.
2. Neither it not the dozens of extremist sites republishing it link to an underlying document. There is no such document that I could find on the Council of Economic Advisors site. And it contradicts analysis from objective and conservative sites. So, probably false.

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 5:25 pm
LionHeartSoyDog July 4, 2011 at 5:59 pm

Dingle. Berry.

user-of-owls July 4, 2011 at 5:27 pm

Stinky Smelly Dung Beetle! The breadth of your interests and expertise are truly astounding! I have ne'er before seen such a genuine Renaissance Man-like range. Awe-inspiring.

Alas, the fact that you pue comme une merde is just too off-putting, I'm afraid.

Pragmatist2 July 4, 2011 at 5:52 pm

In fact it is false on two basic points. The number of jobs created is not 2.3 million. As the report notes (and the misleading article does not) that is the lowest estimTe. The average estimate is closer to 3 million an the high is 3.6. Odd facts to omit. Second, and more importantly, the stimulus for jobs was not 666 million as the Weekly Standard falsely reports. That was the number for a variety of things like tax cuts for individuals. It was 166 million for jobs. So the actual number is 6% of what the Weekly Standard reported. And that is over two years. So it is about 9k a year perbjob.
Maybe some fact checking would be good for you
Remember, the are no angry winners. Only angry losers.

Swampgas_Man July 4, 2011 at 6:08 pm

"666 million"? Somebody's got the devil on their minds.

bagofmice July 5, 2011 at 6:05 am

So you're saying the stimulus worked, and created jobs…

zhubajie July 4, 2011 at 7:18 pm

Oh, I don't know. I remember the time they reported that my extreme gun-nut Rep Congressman had been arrested in an airport with a concealed weapon. Sounded believable to me!

Radiotherapy® July 4, 2011 at 4:58 pm

I'd like to see the uproar if they said "House Republicans agree to 3% marginal tax rate hike."

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 4:59 pm

Do you mean an 8.57% tax rate increase from 35% to 38%?

imissopus July 4, 2011 at 5:30 pm

OMG! 8.57% of 35% > 3% of 100%??!! Hold me!

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 5:36 pm

Divide 3 by 35, what do you get?

I'm just highlighting how libunatics minimize the actual effect of tax increases.

Suppose sales tax went from 3% to 6%. Pro-tax libunatics would say that's a 3% increase, while in fact, it's a 100% increase.

However, calling it a 3% increase is better marketing than admitting it's a 100% increase.

Radiotherapy® July 4, 2011 at 5:42 pm

Thanks for proving my point, payaso.

imissopus July 4, 2011 at 5:44 pm

It's a little dishonest because the 38% only kicks in on income over $250,000 a year. It's not even a 3% increase on 100% of income. Your way of looking at it is simply designed to piss off people because 8.5 is a bigger number than 3, making no allowance for context or even for the way in which your yearly federal income tax bill is calculated. That's it, that's the level of sophisticated thinking in this argument.

Let's try it this way: a person making an even million in taxable income (after all deductions, tax shelter dodges, etc.) sees his/her federal income tax bill go from $350,000 to $372,500. That's $22,500 out of the million that got deposited in the checking account in a twelve-month period. Anyone else's heart bleeding for this poor soul?

gurukalehuru July 5, 2011 at 3:52 am

If you raise the sales tax, you hurt poor and working class people, who can barely afford to buy anything at all as it is. If you raise income taxes on wealthy people, you don't hurt anybody at all, because those fuckers have too much money for their own damned good.

Texan_Bulldog July 4, 2011 at 4:59 pm

And how many right wing turds cried…when they found out it wasn't true.

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 5:13 pm

dats fun fun funny coming from left wingers who gnash their fangs because Bush & Cheney still live…

chilequiles July 4, 2011 at 5:47 pm

Hahaaa, oh you. You really are an earnest one hmm? So adorable. Please stick around, it's kinda nice having a harmless punching bag to sharpen our actual fangs on.

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 5:52 pm

Go back to talking about teabagging, it's so entertaining.

PristineODummy July 5, 2011 at 7:11 pm

All of them, Katie.

Wut?

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 5:01 pm

Q. How many libunatics wished (and still wish) the same were true for ALL non-communist politicians?

A. All of them, Katie!

weejee July 4, 2011 at 5:11 pm

You ought to change yer name to Henry the VIII, ♪♫ next verse same as the first ♫♪

As with your fellow Teabaggers, your political currency is fear, but you do not realize the cognitive dissonance of trying to assuage your fear through a constant and furious masturbation of all your inner daemons.

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 5:16 pm

What's w/ the libunatics' obsession w/ teabagging?

weejee July 4, 2011 at 5:23 pm
Radiotherapy® July 4, 2011 at 5:45 pm

Oh weej, sky rockets in flight, a little teabagger delight.

user-of-owls July 4, 2011 at 5:29 pm

Yo, P-Stink! What's w/ your obsession with Social Cleansing, eh?

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 5:52 pm

social cleansing is YOUR fantasy

Radiotherapy® July 4, 2011 at 5:31 pm

Cue Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever,
A little American History lesson: You see payaso, we are really just conservatives here. Sticking to founding principles. Before there was the Tea Party, they called themselves teabaggers. What was it, a month or so before the Dick Army, et. al. got all crimson? And then they realized why we were snickering. And we snicker to this day that the Right Wing of the Republican Party initially named themselves after a sex act at which you are, no doubt, proficient.

fuflans July 6, 2011 at 12:29 am

this is exactly right. it doesn't get said often enough.

An_Outhouse July 4, 2011 at 6:00 pm

I didn't even know what tea bagging was until the aging white porn crowd introduced it into the common vernacular. Even the swinging groups try to keep it on the down low. Not the baggers – just put a tea bag on your hat and troll for balls to suck. What will we tell the children?

BlueStateLibel July 4, 2011 at 5:17 pm

You do realize that Obama has had more death threats than any other U.S. president, don't you? I'm sure the Secret Service is really amused by this too.

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 5:24 pm

What amazes me is that the Secret Service is able to get anyone to work on Dear Leader's detail. Most of those people really care about America and it would be pretty hard for them to agree to put themselves in harms way defending the person who single-handedly has done more damage to this country than anyone else.

BlueStateLibel July 4, 2011 at 5:29 pm

Yeah, you keep believing that, teabagger.

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 5:38 pm

Don't nibble so much next time, libunatic!

And, wipe your chin.

user-of-owls July 4, 2011 at 5:34 pm

Fellow Wonkets, behold, La Grande Testa di Cazzo has blessed us again with his knowledge and wit. The Foul One clearly has intimate knowledge of the inner beliefs of our President's security detail. All hail, all get a thick handkerchief!

Limeylizzie July 4, 2011 at 6:21 pm

Hello, Beloved Owls, I have a friend who knows someone on his security detail and the threats to Obama are unbelievable, but he would take a bullet for our Barry, he just loves him.

FlipOffResearch July 4, 2011 at 5:57 pm

"…the person who single-handedly has done more damage to this country than anyone else"

How so moran?

Might you be projecting? Because wasn't it your hero saint GW Bush who actually caused the most damage to this country? Remember 9-11, lying the nation into a war, orchestrating the most sever collapse of the economy since the great depression, etc?

I like to refer to you clowns as teabaggers – in the pejorative sense. I could just refer to your ilk as the easily brainwashed. Or haven't you noticed that all the policies you are constantly caterwauling for are actually against your own interests? For instance you are against raising taxes for the top 1%, how could that possibly be in your interest?

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 6:11 pm

"Remember 9-11,"

Yes, I remember that.

Possibly you've forgotten that bin Laden is quoted as saying that Clinton's Cruise missile attack on his camp is what prompted him to attack inside the USA?

Possibly you've forgotten that Slick and Jaime Gorelick built "The Wall" inside the FBI which prevented agents from collaborating on cases concerning crime and terrorism?

Possibly you've forgotten that Slick basically shut down the CIA's clandestine info gathering activities for over a year because he didn't like them using "untrusted" sources?

Possibly you've forgotten that Slicks final document on national security, published in December 2010 barely mentions either Al-Qa'eda or bin Laden?

__kth__ July 4, 2011 at 6:32 pm

Your top-level comment alleges that liberals hope for the deaths of conservative politicians, yet in this comment you suggest that real Americans would be indifferent (at best) to Obama's assassination. You just aren't the most self-aware troll that ever trolled, are you?

__kth__ July 4, 2011 at 6:37 pm

More than FDR or LBJ? Hard to see how both aren't far worse than Obama, from your John Birch Society pov.

That's what I can't stand about the wingnuts, their utter, unrelenting ignorance of history.

chilequiles July 4, 2011 at 5:37 pm

What do we have to do to get some actually clever trolls around here?

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 5:43 pm

Tell the Koch Brothers to pay more!

chilequiles July 4, 2011 at 5:48 pm

Every time you post, i just hear sad trombone noises.

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 6:11 pm

Quit playing with your trom
boner so much.

Limeylizzie July 4, 2011 at 6:21 pm

That was actually funny .

flamingpdog July 4, 2011 at 8:40 pm

But actually true.

HistoriCat July 5, 2011 at 12:10 am

If he wants a raise he should ask for it himself.

zhubajie July 4, 2011 at 7:20 pm

libunatics = Libertarians.

zhubajie July 4, 2011 at 7:23 pm

I know a lot of real commies, here in PR China. Most are rather more conservative than the typical T-tard or servant of Cthulhu in the GOP (Giant Octopus Party).

axmxz July 4, 2011 at 7:25 pm

How's that cognitive dissonance working out for you, Immolate Heretics!?

glamourdammerung July 4, 2011 at 7:43 pm

How is obsessively trolling this site for hours a day while whining about how folks are hateful credible in any form at all?

OKthennext July 5, 2011 at 12:24 am

I pronounce it: lib-you-nat'-icks with the accent on the 'nat'. It makes it sound meaningless and disappointing, which seems appropriate.

CapeClod July 4, 2011 at 5:06 pm

So the fake news channel got hacked and started tweeting out fake news? This is really getting meta.

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 5:14 pm

I meta man who wasn't there

user-of-owls July 4, 2011 at 5:37 pm

He wasn't clean again today,
Oh how we wish he'd go away.

arihaya July 4, 2011 at 6:08 pm

yo dawg,

I heard Fox news are fake news, so I put fake news in your Twitter so you can tweet fake news in your news

user-of-owls July 4, 2011 at 5:18 pm

Well this adds a little context to the heretofore puzzling petition campaign by Hannity:

Free John Hinckley & Give Him a Gun…Now!

horsedreamer_1 July 5, 2011 at 10:44 am

Artie Bremer's been free for awhile. & he's in Maryland.

blogslut July 4, 2011 at 5:24 pm

Poor Fox News. I think the only solution is to shut down operations, close the curtains, buy a dog and wait for the party van.

not that Dewey July 4, 2011 at 5:56 pm

Dear Secret Service:

I regret any distress I may cause you in the future.

Love,

Dewey.

There. That should get me off the hook. Now where's that counterfeiting machine?

user-of-owls July 5, 2011 at 9:33 pm

Hey amigo, hope you're checking. How's tricks? Told my psych today about you, about our viciously compassionate little family here. The theme was, "Where do you fit?"

Just post a word, like Poopyhead or Walnutz or anything, ok?

not that Dewey July 5, 2011 at 10:39 pm

Poopyhaeg (remember that troll that botched the Morse code?)

Phase one is now complete. I have completed the intake process (at the clinic, not the drinking process, dummy!) and had a rewarding and memorable hour with my new therapist. I told her about you, too, and what a relief it was that I had someone to talk to over the weekend, since they made me wait 5 FUCKING DAYS TO GET IN TO SEE A THERAPIST. Not like it was urgent, or anything.

I'll be having weekly group, weekly individual, and (as per jukesgrrl's and Dustbowl's suggestions), weekly AA. That's phase two. There is no phase 3. Or, rather, phase three is getting through the rest of my life.

Thanks again.

user-of-owls July 5, 2011 at 11:48 pm

Dewey, I am not just glad, but proud of you, and not just in awe of what our little lack-of-faith-based community is capable of doing when one of our own needs it most, but am right now weeping for the redemption in it.

Let's take a walk, shall we?

An_Outhouse July 4, 2011 at 5:56 pm

Were the tweets in all caps? If not, that's a clear give away.

arihaya July 4, 2011 at 5:56 pm

poor Teabaggers, they have to cancel the celebration for the Kenyan-Socialist-is-Dead Day,, now all the fireworks and potato chips will be wasted…

rocktonsam July 4, 2011 at 6:03 pm

no time for this, waiting for BPailn;s MEMYOUR,MEMOUR, book.

voodooeconomics July 4, 2011 at 6:10 pm

2 years in and Fox News could not contain themselves. They killed the black President via Twitter.

ingloriousbytch July 4, 2011 at 6:19 pm

I think Anthony Weiner hacked them. It gave him a chance to screw with Fox and get back at Barack for being such a pussy.

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 6:39 pm

I wonder if Secret Service agents get extra pay for being around all that cigarette smoke?

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 6:48 pm

The violent left:

New Jersey Politician On Chris Christie: 'I Want To Punch Him In His Head'

http://www.HUFFINGTONPOST.com/2011/07/03/chris-ch...

axmxz July 4, 2011 at 7:27 pm

You conservative cry-babies are scared of everything. Socialists are scary, single mothers are scary, colored folk are scary, and homosexuals, whoa – super-scary! The sight of a Chinese flag, and you shit your pants. A word of Arabic, and your pants are dripping with terror-piss. And of course, Democratic thugs are everywhere, tampering with your freedumbs and reaching their clawed hairy paws for your guns.

If your grandfathers knew their descendants will be such feeble-willed bed-wetting cry-babies, they'd have castrated themselves right there on the beaches of Normandy.

flamingpdog July 4, 2011 at 8:43 pm

FTW!

Limeylizzie July 4, 2011 at 9:57 pm

Man, woman or animal, I care not what you are but I would like to fuck your brains out for that comment.

Radiotherapy® July 4, 2011 at 11:44 pm

And don't forget the union teacher thugs, they are as scary as Count Chocula!

glamourdammerung July 4, 2011 at 7:39 pm
BarackMyWorld July 4, 2011 at 8:04 pm

Boy, I sure feel guilty about comments made by someone I've never heard of on the other side of the country that I had nothing to do with.

mourningnmerica July 4, 2011 at 9:42 pm

God, I just hate it that liberals are so violent. Not like the right. Hey listen, I was just thinking, if you ever meet one of us Wonketteers in person, I hope they won't just kick the shit out of you. I mean people on the left are just so damn violent. It would be a shame if someone, like, slapped your face. And why? Just because they see you as a bit of a dimwit? It's not right.

imissopus July 4, 2011 at 10:19 pm

Well of course he wants to punch Christie in the head. Have you seen how fat that fucker is? You punch him anywhere else and your fist will be harmlessly enveloped within several metric yards of blubber and it won't hurt him at all.

Doktor Zoom July 5, 2011 at 2:53 am

Well, I wouldn't want to see him hurt, but I must confess to being a little curious about the sound it would make.

user-of-owls July 4, 2011 at 10:35 pm

Ooh, ooh! You are so right, Poopsie! The left is so terribly into grotesque violence such as a punch to the head! Thank goodness your smelly tribe embraces the infinitely more sanitary practice of social cleansing. I do so want to hear your inevitably eloquent explanation as to why a paragon of tolerance, reason and overwhelming stench such as yourself would have earlier advocated and indeed, self-identified yourself as an agent of this magnificent practice. Remove the 'bacteria' and 'undesirables' indeed. Bravo, Sir Poopyhead, bravo!

sati_demise July 5, 2011 at 1:18 am

I want to punch him in the head too, doesnt everyone? He is a backstabbing asshole who cannot keep his word to anyone except his corporate masters. Wonder what job he is gonna take when his term is over.? CEO of Lardbucket Industries!

bagofmice July 5, 2011 at 6:22 am

As someone who has lost more than a few friends to right wing nuts exercising their second amendment remedies, let me just say that as a pacifist, I would lose no sleep over delivering the viewpoint of the left, the right, or the uppercut on this issue.

lulzmonger July 5, 2011 at 11:27 am

The violent right: http://www.csgv.org/issues-and-campaigns/guns-dem...

PROTIP: Hypocrisy is not a vitamin.

donner_froh July 4, 2011 at 6:50 pm

Dear Fox News tweet readers:

The President has not been assassinated.

But it gets even worse for you: He is still black.

starfanglednut July 4, 2011 at 7:48 pm

Immediately afterwards, Fox tweeted the results of their latest poll: 163% of viewers approved of Obama's death.

Warpde July 4, 2011 at 8:11 pm

Hacked my ass.

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 8:49 pm

How many times?

gurukalehuru July 5, 2011 at 3:56 am

did not

BarackMyWorld July 4, 2011 at 8:22 pm

T.

vulpes82 July 4, 2011 at 8:35 pm

This proves Obama is morally weak.

comptoneffect July 4, 2011 at 9:52 pm

“This proves Obama…”

"doesn’t compromise enough.”
“is a socialist.”
“is too black.”

There's gotta be more but that's all I can come up with now.

flamingpdog July 4, 2011 at 8:46 pm

"The Twitter messages appeared to be stylistically different from others on the Fox News politics account,” wrote the snide style queens at the New York Times.

Next time maybe the hackers will hire Nomind/Dogass to write the messages.

LibrulEleet July 4, 2011 at 8:50 pm

Too bad for Joe. For a brief moment, he must've thought he was done Biden his time.

C_R_Eature July 4, 2011 at 9:12 pm

…and then Barack Obama's Twitter page said:

"All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia. -BO"

Redhead July 4, 2011 at 9:52 pm

Well, "hackers" is a new one. At least they didn't use the intern excuse like when they labeled Egypt as Iraq or added a (D) after any republican politician who did anything at all screwed up.

HistoriCat July 5, 2011 at 12:15 am

I think that's pretty much confirmation that it was an intern. Either that or someone let Hannity play with the corporate Twitter account. But my money is on an intern.

There may be an unexpected intern opportunity for the student who has low standards.

KotBR July 4, 2011 at 10:57 pm

Heh. I assumed those tweets were the answer to the question 'What happens when you give Roger Ailes three beers, two Klonopin and one iPhone?'

mrblifil July 5, 2011 at 12:31 am

Andrew Breitbart knows absolutely nothing about any of this.

WilliamHTaft July 5, 2011 at 1:02 am

Good for you Fox goblins, you successfully floated the idea of the president being assassinated and you didn't call him a Muslim once. And you left it up for 9 hours so we could all see it and know. Now sell that gold!

sati_demise July 5, 2011 at 1:20 am

hey, its out there, man. just pointing out whats out there is all.

Negropolis July 5, 2011 at 3:40 am

"Hacked" my black ass. Ha! They got hacked like Anthony Weiner got hacked.

zhubajie July 5, 2011 at 3:42 am

I'm surprised that no one has hacked Fox News before!

Negropolis July 5, 2011 at 4:09 am

You guys must forgive my personal twitter feed. It was hacked. Please ignore any situation that Glenn Beck may have raped and killed a girl in the 90's. It was #notintendedtobeafactualstatement.

Redhead July 5, 2011 at 8:03 am

Yes, but in all fairness, Beck never denied that. Obama HAS denied being assassinated.

GeoatBeck July 5, 2011 at 7:56 am

Let's help stop this sort of thing.
http://nation.foxnews.com/media-matters/2011/06/2...

mumbly_joe July 5, 2011 at 8:25 am

The real news is that this time, Fox news put up fake news about Barack Obama that made lots of people afraid, but by accident.

GeoatBeck July 5, 2011 at 8:04 am

Since everyone seems to be into conspiracy theories here,how about it was left wing hackers trying to develop sympathy for the president and his administration. Much more plausible don't you think? Maybe, Media Matters?

flamingpdog July 5, 2011 at 9:47 am

About as plausible as anything posted here by HimmlerAte HairyDicks.

lulzmonger July 5, 2011 at 11:36 am

GeoatBeck uses RIDICULOUS SPIN!
It's not very effective!

axmxz July 5, 2011 at 8:59 pm

Conspiracy theories are the M.O. of those with pathological fears of the government. Are you sure you're on the right board?

Miller July 6, 2011 at 3:22 am

Oh, look, it's a troll.

GeoatBeck August 4, 2011 at 7:31 am

Miller, I wouldn't call you a troll… misinformed, naive but not a troll. I guess looking back you see how right I am. Self fulfilling prophecy or just common sense?

Miller August 4, 2011 at 12:09 pm

Four weeks and that's your comeback? Pathetic.

GeoatBeck August 4, 2011 at 6:07 pm

Took 4 weeks for the stench of your reply to dissipate.Miss me Miller? Maybe you just want to pick a fight, in an attempt to console yourself. I hated being right. No sane person wishes the catastrophe that is LibProg on any nation.

BeWoot July 5, 2011 at 10:19 am

Was stuck in front of a Fox "news" feed at an airport "restaurant" Sunday … The word "ALERT" was flashing in yellow over the (boring, unremarkable) news crawl the whole time. Is Fox always that excited about life-as-usual or should I have been alarmed?

benjo765 July 5, 2011 at 11:38 am

Fox News reports false news. Sorry, that just doesn't sound like an event.

Zombie_Reagan July 5, 2011 at 2:18 pm

So Faux Newz's Twitter feed was supposedly "hacked", yet they left these allegedly "hacked" messages up for almost 48 hours?

Yeah, right.

dyedwool July 5, 2011 at 10:36 pm

I'm surprised Fox hasn't already trotted out the catch-all .that you just KNOW we're going to see one day — the one that's already been written for their lazy asses. Be it for Twitter…for their news crawl…fitting for every one of their court cases…and for every one of their newscasts, come to think of it:

"Not intended to be a factual statement."

weejee July 4, 2011 at 5:48 pm

Or 2¼ purrcents of the taxable million.

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 5:49 pm

Dishonest?

Maybe you don't understand the concept of marginal tax rates.

Also:

Bill Clinton calls for corporate tax cut

"ASPEN, Colo. — President Bill Clinton says the nation’s corporate tax rate is “uncompetitive” and called for a lower rate as part of a “mega-deal” to raise the debt ceiling.

“When I was president, we raised the corporate income-tax rates on corporations that made over $10 million [a year],” the former president told the Aspen Ideas Festival on Saturday evening.
————————————–
After der Slickmeister has spoken, watch libunatics do a complete turnaround, faster than the turnaround they did when they found out biofuels were a subsidy scam.

Radiotherapy® July 4, 2011 at 5:59 pm

Hiz cipherin' iz almost as goodz as hiz tawkin point english.

Chet Kincaid July 5, 2011 at 2:10 am

57 Teleprompter Clinton blow jobs! Thug math pegged by Pelosi. Libfantile libsanity. Community tax organizers! FEMACORN!!!1

weejee July 4, 2011 at 5:52 pm

Immolate Heretics!, its difficult to understand you with the Koch brutha's nutz in yer mouth. Spit them out right now, you don't know where they've been.

An_Outhouse July 4, 2011 at 6:04 pm

Bill Clinton gets blow jobs in the Oval office.

imissopus July 4, 2011 at 10:15 pm

Oh, you're still here? I figured you'd be off watching some fireworks while fapping into an American flag, you giant patriot, you.

I understand the concept of marginal tax rates very well, but by all means tell me how you think both I and my math are wrong. Please show your work.

Despite your effort to change the subject instead of defending your ridiculous statements, I'll add this: yes, Clinton called for a corporate tax cut. He also said that should only be done if the government also closes a whole shitload of loopholes so that corporations still have to pay their fair share. You should really try reading the entire article if you're going to build an argument on it. Fuckin' reading comprehension, how does it work?

user-of-owls July 5, 2011 at 1:07 am

Oh, honestly, mmoja ambaye kichwa cha mavi, maybe you don't understand the concept of marginally humorous or topically relevant commentary.

And not to be impatient or anything, but would you mind getting back to us regarding your earlier advocacy of and self-identification as an agent of social cleansing? Because really, it's been an awfully lot of posts since you identified yourself as an advocate of "cleaning" the "undesirables." Should I just go ahead and link to that post or shall we wait for your response?

FlipOffResearch July 4, 2011 at 6:22 pm

Oh, I get it, 9-11 was all Clintons fault. I suppose the fact that Obama got Osama was all to Bush's credit as well. You are truly brainwashed.

Here's a little 4th of July present for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ri1i6nAGOE

glamourdammerung July 4, 2011 at 7:51 pm

Possibly you've forgotten that bin Laden is quoted as saying that Clinton's Cruise missile attack on his camp is what prompted him to attack inside the USA?

Yeah, poor bin Laden. Seriously, how mentally ill do one have to be to want to take Osama bin Laden's side just because of their impotent rage over losing a presidential election?

imissopus July 4, 2011 at 10:10 pm

Possibly you've forgotten that bin Laden is quoted as saying that Clinton's Cruise missile attack on his camp is what prompted him to attack inside the USA?

It wasn't a quote, but that little nugget was contained in the infamous PDB of 8/6/01 that Bush ignored. In any case, he had said he wanted to attack inside the U.S. as early as 1997, and possibly earlier, because he was pissed off we'd left troops in Saudi after the first Gulf War. But keep fuckin' that chicken.

Possibly you've forgotten that Slick basically shut down the CIA's clandestine info gathering activities for over a year because he didn't like them using "untrusted" sources?

Speaking of sources we shouldn't have trusted, ever heard of Curveball?

Possibly you've forgotten that Slicks final document on national security, published in December 2010 barely mentions either Al-Qa'eda or bin Laden?

I think you mean December 2000, and so what? It's not as if W got his pants on fire over bin Laden until after 9/11. Meanwhile, Clinton administration members are on record as saying they told Bush's people during the transition that bin Laden and al-Qaeda were the biggest (or at least one of the biggest) national security threats they would face, and they still did next to nothing for the first eight months of his term.

bagofmice July 5, 2011 at 6:13 am

So you're saying that attempting to stop Osama BEFORE 9/11 was a bad thing, but letting him live afterwards was a good thing? Why do you hate America?

lulzmonger July 5, 2011 at 11:18 am

Yes, only a lefty traitor like Slick Willy would fire missiles at a Good Upstanding Religious Man like OBL. What a vile act of treachery … not like those good ol' boys of the Bush Clan, who were happy to be chums with the Bin Laden Clan – & business partners, too.

FAMILY VALUES FTW!

Possibly you've forgotten that Bush pulled troops out of Saudi Arabia just like Bin Laden told him to, with no result? Possibly you've forgotten "Bin Laden? I don't think much about him"? Possibly you're trying like hell to forget Tora Bora?

Don't worry, little guy – we'll just pretend you have a point that makes sense.

Keep on typin' until Amerika is FREE!

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 6:26 pm

Lolcats! How does it work?

Immolate Heretics! July 4, 2011 at 6:40 pm

57 or 60 blow jobs?

Radiotherapy® July 4, 2011 at 7:38 pm

Lizzie, there was this lame bumper on the the Innanity show a few months ago that went something like, "Congratulations Jimmy Carter, you are no longer the worst President in US history." Of course, it was just Föx propaganda, but after Obama whacked ol' what's his name, they stopped playing it.
These people are deranged.
And, as usual, our resident troll uses displacement reaction to imply another falsehood.
Who, who, who won the election last time?

Radiotherapy® July 4, 2011 at 7:42 pm

Excellent retort, FOR, to me, this says it all.

Warpde July 4, 2011 at 9:51 pm

Mayhap we should start with your cleansing first.
I can smell you from here.
Phhhttttt! Stinky!
Little advice. It's called soap.

user-of-owls July 5, 2011 at 1:13 am

Curious, then, that your Stink-holiness raised it first, don't you stink, er, think? Shall I link to your stink?

Radiotherapy® July 4, 2011 at 10:59 pm

Done with my fireworks, imissopus, wish y'all could see a seasoned display. And like I said below, he's half-baked reading comprehension and Trig level math.

Radiotherapy® July 4, 2011 at 11:02 pm

Except cut taxes on the job creators.

Limeylizzie July 4, 2011 at 11:11 pm

The “scone rhymes with phone” pronunciation is a bit posh and affected.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scone_(bread)

Limeylizzie July 4, 2011 at 11:12 pm

I know, it makes your eyes bleed.

Crank_Tango July 5, 2011 at 12:24 am

do scones always look better than they actually are over there too? cuz fool me once, etc. etc. etc. bottom line, they are the only baked good I actually hate.

AJWjr. July 5, 2011 at 1:10 am

Used to eat Peek Freans biscuits as a kid. Don't know why I loved them so much, other than I got to drink tea with them when I was otherwise too young to drink tea.

user-of-owls July 5, 2011 at 1:10 am

Lolcat Unchanged Poopyhead Kitty Litter For Three Months! How does it smell?!

user-of-owls July 5, 2011 at 1:20 am

Yet another staggeringly hysterical riposte from our apex of wit, our good knight of tolerance and our most avid booster of 'cleaning out the bacteria and other undesirables.' Now, that's the spirit, eh lads!

Sad, though, his encasement in a bulb of Eau de Two Day Old Missed Fecal Wipings has a tendency to dissuade even his most erstwhile potential acolytes.

Doktor Zoom July 5, 2011 at 2:48 am

Next Trolly is going to tell us that things would have been better if Clinton had just tried reasoning with Bin Laden. Why'd he have to go and attack the guy and make him angry at us?

bagofmice July 5, 2011 at 6:01 am

He's probably just a little horse.

Limeylizzie July 5, 2011 at 7:54 am

Vegemite is the Australian version, Marmite is the British, I always have a jar available.

BaldarTFlagass July 5, 2011 at 8:30 am

Hey!! You stole my post!

PristineODummy July 5, 2011 at 7:11 pm

ZOMG, quick, somebody's hacked Chet Kincaid's account!

V572 [SSAN] July 5, 2011 at 9:48 am

Also handy for patching up roof leaks.

Limeylizzie July 5, 2011 at 9:54 am

It is delicious on hot buttered toast, I think the problem is that ,if you are not familiar with its power, the tendency is to spread it on like peanut butter, it only needs a wee dab .

comrad_darkness July 5, 2011 at 11:57 am

Hey Lizzie, come on over I'll make biscuits and gravy for you anytime. You'll forget about all those other biscuits…

Miller August 4, 2011 at 7:35 pm

I miss using you like an internet pinata as a hangover cure and generic time waster, but even shooting fish in a barrel gets old after awhile.

As for your claims of intellectual prowess, well, psychotic delusion isn't just a river in Egypt.

I'd say "I hope you're doing well, " except I don't.

Miller February 12, 2012 at 3:31 am

Considering you're the world's dumbest piece of shit, you've been quiet lately. Get fired again because no one at your company can stand you?

Enjoy the "socialist" unemployment, you hypocritical moron.

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