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Fox News Sinks To New Low, Repeatedly Reports Parody Story As Actual News

On Tuesday, Fox News morning show ?Fox & Friends? aired at least eight segments on a purported ?news? story that was actually a parody article written by a publication similar to The Onion.

The backstory: Last week in the town of Lewiston, Maine, a group of Somalian Muslim middle school students were the subject of a cruel prank when their peers placed a ham steak next to them in order to personally offend the students. School officials filed a report because the students considered the act to be a hate/bias crime.

This actual story was then spoofed by a parody site called Associated Content, which made up quotes and details, such as the school?s intention to ?create an anti-ham ?response plan.??

On Tuesday, Fox & Friends reported these parody quotes and details as actual news. Poking fun at the students, hosts asked whether ham was ?a hate crime?or lunch?? and showed screen shots of ham sandwiches, starving Somalians, belching, animal noises, and mock ?reenactments? of the incident. Ironically, the hosts assured viewers several times, ?We?re not making this up!?

Fox?s careless blunder made news in the town and ?launched an immediate avalanche of angry phone calls and ugly e-mails to the school system.?

In the parody, the ham steak became a ham sandwich. Fake quotes were attributed to Superintendent Leon Levesque, Stephen Wessler of the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence, and one of the Somali students targeted in the incident.

Following the Fox broadcast, Levesque?s office received dozens of angry phone calls and profanity-laced e-mails, made and sent by people all over the country, who charge the school district overreacted to what they believed from news reports to be a ham sandwich tossed at a Somali student.

?Fox has figured out, from the calls we?ve gotten, that they?ve made a big mistake,? Wessler said.

?This is a wake-up call that the level of hate and anger, among a small population, is vibrant,? he added.

Levesque said he was bothered not only that the parody took aim at a sensitive issue in Lewiston, but also that Fox and others reported the information as fact without checking. The national media, Levesque said, sees information posted online and ?uses it as gospel.?

Everybody wants to be Howard Stern, but they (like Imus) don't know how to do it without getting in trouble.

Where is the link to this article?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jheNdN2ifIw

Here are the morons on youtube.

LOL, "I hope we're not being duped."  :hihi:

Everything else on that fucking "network" is a joke , why wouldn't that be also . >:(

How ridiculous! A hate crime! Is there a hate crime for everything now these days?  ::)

Now if ever there was a school district needed to be sued, the time is now.

P.S. I was asking for the article link though SLCPUNK.

hahahahaha, omg man, hear anything whiz over your head by chance?  :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

The article link is right there on youtube.

Sorry, but I don't see any link to the article you posted. I am looking though.

i wouldnt call "fox and friends" hard hitting journalism...its not like oreilly or hannity did it...

I would really consider those two hard hitters either.

Nice to see Fox trying to become Comedy Central.

hahaha!

Nice one.

news is entertainment, not information. "journalists" have no inclination nor desire to report the truth unless its laid for them on a plate. lazy hack wanks. the lot of them.

Of all the Fox shows, that one is the most light hearted. Yeah, they probably should have done their research before using The Onion as a source. That was just stupid.

Not really.  Theyre just as Republican, political, and sometimes, angry, as the rest of Foxs lineup. 

Fox is to Republican what CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and CBS are to Democrat.  :hihi:

Where did you read that, The Onion?

Im surprised you would give such a simple-minded response.  Maybe you can give CNNs and MSNBCs liberal counterparts to Foxs programs?

Nah, probably Ann Coulter.  :hihi:

The all time best was when Ann Coulter pin up boy Randall Flagg quoted HIMSELF as his source. I couldn't write better characters in a book man.

No, from simple viewership.


You mean like your simple minded response?

I don't know if it is that well defined, but CBS and MSNBC from what I have seen tend to manipulate the news to the left.