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Fox News Contributor Arrested for Lying?

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We are living in a particularly crazy time. Our country, based on a two-party system, has one party that, nationally-speaking, has gone completely off the rails. The New York Times won’t report the fact because it violates the paradigm of the Republicans and Democrats being equivalent. If Dante were alive, there’d a special place in hell for the mainstream media that has played Pontius Pilate for the radical right. Instead, we have to make do with occasional episodes that remind us how insane things have gotten. And laugh. 

Not a small part of the insanity is due to the propaganda wing of the Republican Party: Fox News. And lest we forget, they have no journalistic standards. Today’s case in point, contributor Wayne Simmons, a frequent guest on Fox. He was recently arrested and indicted for claiming to be a long-time CIA agent.

Wayne Simmons claimed to have 23 years experience with the secretive federal agency as an “outside paramilitary special operations officer,” CNN reports. He was indicted for using that claim to gain security clearances and a post as a defense contractor advising military personnel overseas….

CNN pointed out that Simmons had a pattern of making “extreme and factually dubious” claims about terrorism, including a claim in January that there were “at least 19 paramilitary Muslim training facilities in the United States.”

He also denied waterboarding was torture and said that President Obama was a “novice who lacked a spine,” according to CNN.

Officials told the station that there had been suspicions about Simmons’ resume which were stirred when questions were raised with various government agencies about his statements.

I’d heard the conspiracy theories of secret Muslim training groups in the United States. I never associated it with Fox News. Silly me. At least Chuck Barris’s claims were amusing.

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  1. He was arrested for a specific type of lying.

    I was wondering if they were arresting Fox News contributors for lying in general (or in politics), in which case I was looking forward to a revamped FNC schedule:

    6a-9a :Drive-time with Chuck the Custodian and Karl the Temp
    9a-10a: Stock video footage of Black Panthers rallies from the 1960s awkwardly colorized with Photoshopped headlines from today’s newspapers
    10a-11a: MOOC on planning defense testimony
    11a-12p: Rotating want ads
    12p-1p: Direct feed from Roger Ailes Periscope account
    1p-2p: Jeb! AdHour for Power
    2p-3p: Country Club Member on the Street Interviews
    3p-4p: Live shots of NYSE set to “adult film” music
    4p-6p: The IT guy reads the New York Post and Wall Street Journal directly on camera
    6p-7p: “Fox News Classic” reruns
    7p-8p: Airing old clips of “Crossfire” with the token liberal cut out
    8p-9p: Call-in show hosted by Sheila from the mail room
    9[-10p: Jeb! presents JebNews, sponsored by NotTrumpbutJeb PAC
    10p-11p: Stock photo of Hillary Clinton on screen, scary music playing underneath
    11p-3a: Reruns of Birth of a Nation and Al Jolson reels
    3a-6a: Infomercials for the RNC

  2. some of Wayne Simmons greatest hits:

    “Since the coronation of the boy king 15 months ago, it is again not an accident that every third world despot — every third world despot — from Venezuela through Cuba to North Korea, virtually anyone in the Middle East that decides they want to take a shot at the United States and our Allies is doing just that,” Simmons said .

    “If the Democrats come into power in the United States and re-employ their vision of defense for this country, we will have 9-1-1s unabated,” Simmons said. “That’s not maybe. We know what took place in the past. And I still don’t understand exactly what it is that the Americans expect President Bush to do any different than he’s already done, Bill.”

    “The Speaker of the House is a pathological liar and her attacks on the CIA, the release of the CIA memos has so sent a chill through the CIA to guys like me,” he said. ” I can assure you that we are not going to go the extra mile ever in this climate to secure information and intelligence that’s going to protect the United States, so understand that … this has directly affected the National Security of the United States.”

    “I have been involved in or been — not involved in, been in the rooms when narco terrorist interrogations were taking place. And they are brutal. You don’t want to watch someone get their eyes cut out, have their tongues cut out,” Simmons said.

    Appearing on Fox News in March, he asserted that White House adviser Valerie Jarrett was actually running the country. But she didn’t know how to defeat ISIS.

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