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Fox News terrorism pundit pleads guilty to faking CIA ties

danarhea

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The guy that FOX News has had on their show as an expert in terrorism turns out to be a phony? FOX News should hire him back as soon as he gets out of jail. After all, "FOX" and "News" are mutually exclusive words. A phony expert on a phony news network? Yea, that's about right.

But even weirder is the US government which hired him to go to the Middle East as an analyst, based on his lying about being a CIA agent on FOX News. They didn't even bother to double check his credentials bull puckey. The US government is DUMB, DUMB, DUMB. LOL.

Article is here.
 
It's telling when folks hold FOX News to a higher standard than they do the federal government.
 
Lutherf said:
It's telling when folks hold FOX News to a higher standard than they do the federal government.
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Maybe you didn't read the part where I trashed the government too. Reading is fundamental, 'ya know. :mrgreen:
 

Did the Feds not even do a background check on this guy? I was under the impression that contractors, just like Fed employees, receive at the very least a basic background check. I am a Fed employee, and I am quite sure that it is the way it's supposed to work. As for Fox, perhaps they do not validate a so called experts credentials, paid or unpaid.
 
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I can't even imagine keeping such a big lie like that for such a period of time. And top of that to get on national TV! You would think someone who knew him prior would come out of the wood work and say that guy is a fake.

I suppose he will soon be riding in a wheelchair needing two men just to help him stand for the trial.
 

Nope. No background check by the Feds. LMAO.
 
why does it matter didn't a judge say FOX has the right to lie?
 
This ties nicely with a piece currently on Politico:



Donald Trump 2016: Blame TV - POLITICO Magazine

But the problem is not that tv people have long done "stupid ****" for ratings, as if they took some fun time, a break from their journalism profession to keep the bosses happy by making some money by being silly. No, the problem is that there seems to be no on left on the property who remembers what journalism is, and very few who have the subject matter expertise required to report intelligently on their assignments. And just to be clear it is not just the "reporters" and "commentators", it quickly becomes clear that there are not any smart skilled editors remaining either.

THERE IS ALMOST NO ONE TRYING TO DO IT RIGHT!

Is it any wonder that while America still sometimes tunes in we dont for the most part take what we see seriously? That we dont expect to see serious news? That we are mostly more than happy to forgo the reality TV version of the news for the product of a true entertainer named Donald Trump?

Look at the White House. They’re basically running their own news organization. They bypass us every day. We’re just trying to keep up.”
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The White House has been doing this for years, with almost no objection from anywhere, to include the American people. Dont blame Trump, everything this woman (CAMPBELL BROWN, who maybe I have seen on TV but I dont remember her, and I have not watched TV news in years....because it sucks) is complaining about predates Trump, he was just the smart guy who decided to take the media world as it is and use it, while nearly everyone else was in denial.
 
Forget about impersonation:


Holy ****
 
This incident further demonstrates the fraud that is the GWOT :thumbdown
 
Not really.

Feds and networks need to be more diligent in their "due diligence."

The good news:

A grand jury indicted him in October for portraying himself as an "Outside Paramilitary Special Operations Officer" for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1973 to 2000.

Simmons pleaded guilty to charges of major fraud against the U.S. government, wire fraud and a firearms offense. He faces up to 40 years in prison. Sentencing is set for July 15. Fox News terrorism pundit pleads guilty to faking CIA ties | Reuters
 
danarhea said:
Maybe you didn't read the part where I trashed the government too. Reading is fundamental, 'ya know. :mrgreen:
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That reinforces Lutherf's post.
 

Figures you'd be the one johnny on the spot with this. Of course where are you when the liberals slip? I'm trying to think when that's happened. Maybe never?
 


Seems perfect for Faux News. He is after all a CONman. Its also amusing the cons on this thread posting about others who have committed similar discretion's as if that excuses it. Particularly since on most of their other posts they are trashing those very same people as to how not to behave. Now its used as a rationalization that everyone does it. Too funny.
 
American said:
Figures you'd be the one johnny on the spot with this. Of course where are you when the liberals slip? I'm trying to think when that's happened. Maybe never?
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My, aren't we the snarky little one today.
 

I guess Fox has to do background investigations on everyone they put on TV? They can't have a bad hire or make a mistake like the channels on the left and every other company? You are trying to convince me that Fox put him on the air knowing he was a fraud. Sorry, I don't buy it.
 

No. Read my post again. As for FOX News, I merely stated that they had a fraud on the air. But that's not really news. FOX News IS a fraud passing as a news organization. As for background investigations not being done, I had posted that this was the government that did not do the checks.
 

Fox is a news channel like all of them. They do hard news and they do analysis and commentary. The hard news is of the same quality as the hard news from any other channel. The analysis and commentary are right leaning in the same way that MSNBC is left leaning. What makes it a fraud?
 
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