Hell Freezes Over! Fox News Apologizes for False Story About President

Yesterday Fox News' morning show, Fox and Friends, ran a segment that was utterly false.  They claimed a Wikileaks cable showed President Obama planned to go to Japan in 2009 and apologize for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The only thing that prevented the president from doing this, according to Fox News, was a dignitary from Japan who told the president it was not necessary.

Here's how Fox ran the false story (h/t Mediaite):

“The president, in 2009,” Kilmeade said, “was heading to Japan, at which time evidently the White House had a great idea. Let’s apologize for dropping that bomb on Hiroshima.”

He then asked, “Guess who stopped it?”

Co-host Gretchen Carlson took the hand-off, saying, “A Japanese official who said, look, we don’t want any apology for that because actually, we sort of need to keep the nuclear threat alivebecause of the people — the countries that are betwixt around us, speak of China and maybe North Korea. Those country’s that are a threat or could be to Japan. According to Wikileaks and this report, the Japanese official is the one who contacted the White House and said let’s not apologize for Hiroshima.”

Of course if you actually read the leaked cable you would see that no where does it say anything like how Fox reported it. There was never any plan by the White House to apologize for the 1945 atomic bombings. Fox made the whole thing up.

So today, for what might be the first time ever, Fox News forced Steve Doocy to issue an apology.  “There was never a plan for President Obama to apologize to Japan,” said Doocy, adding, “we should have been clearer about that, and we’re sorry for the confusion.”

Holy Cow did that just happen!!!??!!

On Monday Fox News was forced to distance itself from Hank Jr. and now they are offering apologies for false stories about President Obama. Grab your Bibles, the end is near.