By Stephen C. Webster/Raw Story
If you were watching Fox News or reading The Drudge Report on Thursday morning, you might mistakenly believe that President Barack Obama blew off the prime minister of Israel this week to chat up a colorfully costumed man who looks more like “Captain Morgan” than any government leader.
“TOO BUSY FOR ISRAEL,” a “Fox & Friends” kicker headline read in all-caps, stamped below a photo of Obama sitting next to man dressed like a pirate. “PRESIDENT FINDS TIME FOR PIRATE, LETTERMAN.” Hosts Brian Kilmeade and Steve Doocy piled on, attributing the photo to “International Talk Like A Pirate Day,” an unofficial holiday marked every year on Sept. 19.
Co-host Gretchen Carlson added: “I’m going to have to see more on that story because it doesn’t totally seem to gel.” Still, the show went on, with the “Fox & Friends” production team repeatedly displaying the pirate photo and even cuing up pirate music. Doocy later said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “getting the Clint Eastwood treatment” from Obama, and showed a photo of the Israeli president cross-cut with an image of an empty chair.
Matt Drudge, the conservative media aggregator behind The Drudge Report, took the bait. “BUT NO TIME FOR NETANYAHU…” a headline on his popular conservative website declared, according to a record of the post captured by liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America.
It didn’t take long for savvy web users to point out that the pirate photo not is new. It turns out the image was taken as part of a Twitter joke for the White House Correspondents Association dinner, which typically features a night of political comedy and a satirical speech by the president. It has been available online since May 2009.
Reacting to the obvious blunder, a Twitter account for “Fox & Friends” corrected the repeat error. “The picture we aired this morning of the President & the pirate was from 2009,” they explained. Drudge, however, did not offer a correction.
This video is from “Fox & Friends,” broadcast Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, as snipped by Talking Points Memo.
2 comments:
AAAARH, Nothing will ever come close to the blooper of the demobrats/crats covention all standing as proud Americas in front of Russian war ships showing who really gets their respect not America! Yet he obama did just meet with a pimp this week, a mexican talk show host who calls himself the smallest pimp or something pimp,{ could have time used for something intelligent like finding how he ailed stopping the plained attacks on our embassy's or speaking with Israel } what in the world would be in a mans mind to associate himself with talk with a pirate day, or pimp day? The prime minister of israel is nearly as pompus as obama, he wants the president as he has done for years to meet when he wants to meet, but obama makes sure he shames israel and the minister by refusing while he has a honey beer at some barbecue, so two pompus
a$$'s one righteous one wrong! Never has so much shame been put into a presidential campaign as obama's, his base has awoke to his past lies so he now has turned gay when being elected on a anti-gay marriage platform, he now after letting women suffer as he calls it just before the end of his term in office he now says women deserve better pay, yet waited to just before election for his saving gesture, putting women behind gays, muslims, every criminal in america, and now when his base is leaving him he wants to help get them more money! Now having so called classified documents released that have fictious boostings of his greatness in every hand written classified secret letter, and he still claims victory of a war he would have nevered began, and claims to be the killer of osama ben liden, and it was Bush who set up the agencies and Bush who went after the... killers of our people, but now obama claims to be a general! And europe now keeps him from conquering our debt, when he asks for more player money everyday...
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What in the blue fuck are you talking about? Unlike other forums I'm allowed to personally attack right-wing idiots since I run this blog. That photo is from 2009 you ignorant dipshit, secondly what the fuck you talking about pimp what pimp?
If you mean going on Univision your shitty candidate also went on that network and he bombed. As for Israel, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said this about President Obama doing more" for Israeli security than any other U.S. president.
But I'm sure you didn't see that part right? If you want to spew racist, homophonic, xenophobic and other things of right wing idiocy there are ton of right wing blogs that will allow it.
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