Silly Fox. Trix are for Kids.
Yesterday, Fox News proved yet again that it’s a credible (*cough*) news source by publishing a story they thought was real news. The article ran on the Fox Nation website with this title, “Pakistan: Islamic Clerics Protest Women Wearing Padded Bras as ‘Devil’s Cushions,'” noting (via Salon),
The Council of Islamic Ideology in Pakistan has protested the use of padded and colourful bras by Muslim women, and recommended that Pakistani Muslim researchers should try to invent an innerwear that makes female assets unnoticeable.
Really? Really? You not only thought that was a real news story, but you thought it important enough to feature on the main page of Fox Nation?! I know you think every Pakistani is a crazy fundo, Fox, but c’mon!
The bra story, which, very subtly, featured a picture of a padded bra, cited sify.com, which in turn linked to a “report” in Roznama Jawani, a satirical news site that features stories like, “Karachi Preparing a Huge Ass Bat to Beat the Sh** Out of Kamran Akmal” and “Nawaz Sharif Celebrates International Women’s Day – Looks into Getting a Boob Job.” In the bra story on the Roznama site, Zakir Naik, a supposed leading Islamic scholar, commented on the situation, noting “if the Pakistani government approves of the funding grant for this research and if Pakistan is successful at making such a bra that makes the chest of women unnoticeable, Pakistan might become the biggest exporter for Shariah compliant underwear.”
Fox Nation eventually realized their mistake (mental image of a flickering dim light bulb) and took the story down. But not before readers made a few more ignorant comments. Via Salon.com, one ‘louisiana_mom’ stated emphatically,
How can anyone in their right mind defend this religion/cult is beyond me. The silence of NOW and other women’s rights organizations speak volumes as to where their true loyalties are (and it is not for the rights for women). I cannot believe anyone in the 21st century would even entertain the thought of allowing Sharia Law into any Western county.
Oh dear God. Why are people so effing stupid?
I get it. Fox News is a joke of a news agency, so much so that they don’t even get jokes. But how hard is it to fact-check or even just click through a source’s website? If they did, they would even have seen this disclaimer:
The stories published in Roznama Jawani might only be applicable and true in another universe. That universe might be parallel to this universe. Might even be serial. Who knows?! Maybe some one does.
Roznama Jawani. Fox News approved.
(Thanks Misbah, aka, @miznaq for the story tip!)
LOL. Fox News really needs to check stories before publishing them. I can’t believe people are so gullible. It reminds me of that news story about Paris Hilton converting to Islam. There were so many people who believed it was true even though the website it was published on clearly stated that it was fake news.
Jesus Christ! I don’t know where to laugh or cry!
This is like the time when a Bangladeshi newspaper cited The Onion as a source. Except this is worse x10trillion.
Def. I mean it’s not like Pakistani news channels are angels (have a piece I’m working on related to that) but Fox News is just ridiculous. They even mistook a Japanese night club for a nuclear reactor on their map about the disaster: http://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-nuclear-plant-2011-3
SO dumb! Ahh!
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Ahh!!! The sad thing is there are probably way too many people who read it and will never know it was a joke.
>Oh dear God. Why are people so effing stupid?
Because its plausible. Heard of certain clerics in KSA permitting women to feed their colleagues so that they can work with them? It was rightly condemned by other clerics, but it does give you a picture of the basic mindset and their retarded worldview.
LOL … what a rubbish if they are an international news agency does that mean they can publish any news lolzzz