FOX News Twitter Hacked – Announces Death of President Obama - Photo

Boy, when people say FOX News has made enemies they’re not kidding.

In what seems to be a pretty serious hack Monday morning of the news organizations twitter account @foxnewspolitics, hackers tweeted that President Barack Obama had been shot twice and killed.

The original FOX logo was altered and the text "H4CK3D BY TH3 5CR1PT K1DD3S" added.

The photo below shows the progression of the hoax, first saying the President had been assassinated by two gunshot wounds to the pelvic and neck area and bled out, and later congratulating Vice President Joe Biden in his new role as Commander in Chief.

The hackers said that Obama had been shot at Ross Restaurant in Iowa while on a campaign function, and later tweeted condolences to the country for the assassination that occurred on the fourth of July Holiday.

FOX later responded with a news release indicating they were aware of the problem saying,

“Fox News Twitter feed for political news was hacked early Monday morning.

Hackers sent out several malicious and false tweets claiming that President Obama had been assassinated. Those reports are incorrect, of course, and the president is spending the July 4 holiday with his family.

The hacking is being investigated, and FoxNews.com regrets any distress the false tweets may have created.”

We can only imagine the initial panic people felt after seeing the original comments and there was, indeed, quite a stir when this news broke.

Note to hackers:

Next time, please try to hack into Sarah Palins account – she needs to be knocked down a couple pegs.

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Hillary Clinton Airbrushed out of New York Newspaper Photo

In a world where we all know the power of Photoshop, a New York Hasidic newspaper has done an incredibly stupid and ignorant thing.

Remember the now famous photo of Obama and his staff in the situation room beneath the White house watching the raid on Bin Laden?

Hillary Clinton and another woman are clearly seen in the photo and have now become part of history.


But due to some bizarre Hasidic law, a Jewish newspaper in New York has published the photo but with all the females airbrushed out of the shot.

The Brooklyn-based newspaper Der Tzeitung issued the following statement,

“In accord with our religious beliefs, we do not publish photos of women, which in no way relegates them to a lower status … Because of laws of modesty, we are not allowed to publish pictures of women, and we regret if this gives an impression of disparaging to women, which is certainly never our intention. We apologize if this was seen as offensive.”

Holy crap. Can you believe this stuff still goes on?

They say it was not intended to lower females to a lower status but that is EXACTLY what it does. Thank goodness there have never been any famous or powerful Jewish women because we would never see them in print. Oh wait, there have been.

You would almost expect a Muslim newspaper to do this because we know how they feel about and treat women. But for a Brooklyn New York paper to do this really sets woman’s rights, and humanity, back about 2,000 years.

Why not Photoshop out Barak Obama because he is black? Or remove anybody that is not a Christian?

You really have to wonder how we can still have a constructive dialog when this type of thing is still happening. Think about how their children will deal with the world when they become old enough to interact with society.

My two cents:

If a woman in a powerful position is going to try and broker peace for our country and yours (and that includes Israel and Palestine), and try to make this a better place for you and your children to live, the least you can do is recognize her in a photo and not remove her.

If you remember, there was a time when one particular individual tried to erase any sign of the Jews from our planet and we came in to help fight for you. We need to stop trying to erase people from our thoughts and minds and recognize them for both the good and bad that they bring to the world.

This is the very type of action that keeps intolerance alive.

Thank goodness this tradition has not gone country wide or my relatives would have some very strange looking wedding photos in our family album.

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