In a March 20 NewsBusters post, Noel Sheppard touts how Fox News’ Bret Baier “struck back” at a statement in a new book by David Corn that President Obama complained that Fox News pushes the idea that “Obama is a Muslim 24/7” by stating, “we found no examples of a host saying President Obama is a Muslim.”
Sheppard apparently thinks this was a brilliant response:
Yeah, but that doesn’t matter, Bret.
Corn wrote it, Politico cited it, and now it’s going to be blast all over the Obama-loving media until large portions of the nation believe it.
Makes you proud to be an American, doesn’t it?
In fact, Baier’s response is very specific and parsed. It may be factually accurate that no Fox host specifically stated that Obama is a Muslim, but as Media Matters details, Fox has clearly and repeatedly questioned and promoted falsehoods about Obama’s faith, including pushing the false claim that Obama attended a madrassa. And as Corn himself points out, Fox has made little effort to shoot down claims by others that Obama is a Muslim.
Is anybody proud that Sheppard is such a mindless shill for Fox News? We can’t imagine how.