Apparently, a former Secret Service agent has published a book alleging that the president secretly practices Islam, hates Christians, and even made the agent stay up all night while blaring Diana Ross tunes.
If it sounds laughable, that’s because it is. But that hasn’t stopped fake news website NewsExaminer.net from exploiting gullible people who want to believe the worst about Obama.
This isn’t the first time that this story has gained traction, though. According to Politifact, which rates the book and all of its claims as “Pants on Fire,” the story previously was pushed via the fake news site NBC.com.co on Oct. 2, 2015, and was resurrected at ABCNews.com.co on Nov. 16, 2016. Neither site is affiliated with the networks they pretend to represent.
According to NewsExaminer.net, the former Secret Service agent, Paul Horner, has written a tell-all book, The Black House, exposing Obama’s deepest secrets.
In an interview with NBC News Senior Political Analyst Tom Downey, Horner says that Obama is gay and has men coming and going from his bedroom at all hours, and that more than 50 percent of those men are Muslim. (Both Horner and Downey are both fictional characters, and no such book by that title and author exists.)
“What are some of the things the public will find the most shocking?” Downey asks in the “interview.”
Responds Horner: “Probably the sheer amount of men he welcomed into his bed quarters. I am in no way homophobic, but Obama’s insatiable lust for homosexual liaisons is like nothing I’ve ever witnessed. We’re talking 10 to 15 partners in a single day.
“Also, at least once a day, Obama would have us log on to Facebook and report a page about a dolphin named Fappy who travels around the country speaking to elementary school children about the dangers and consequences of masturbation. It was all very, very strange stuff.”
The fiction continues, with Horner saying that Obama constantly ridicules and mocks Christians in private, and has daily prayer sessions where he prays to the prophet Muhammad while wearing a Muslim tunic.
Horner also claims that he was subjected to “torture” when the Obamas would make him listen to Diana Ross songs “at full volume, every day, at all hours of the night” because he was white. Horner claims he was never able to sleep and was forced to quit because of this. (Who could have guessed that “Upside Down,” “Love Child,” and “Chain Reaction” were not only anti-white songs, but the musical equivalent of waterboarding?)
According to reporting from The Washington Post, the name Paul Horner is often used in satirical and joke articles, but is also the name of “a serial hoaxer and lead writer for National Report,” a fake news site. Politifact, citing the Post‘s reporting, draws the conclusion that everything about the tell-all is a fabrication, while noting that there is no disclaimer indicating the “news” reports on NewsExaminer.net are satire.
So the next time your crazy uncle at Christmas dinner tells you the 44th president is a secretly gay Muslim bent on destroying American society, at least you’ll know where he’s getting his information.
Masked attackers in Israel are reportedly using Grindr to lure and entrap members of the LGBTQ community to severely harm them.
According to reports, the assailants are creating fake profiles on the popular dating app and arranging meetings in remote locations in the city of Haifa.
The victims are then ambushed and reportedly stabbed with sharp weapons. A few assailants have attempted to carry out lynchings.
The Aguda, an LGBTQ task force, documented at least ten such incidents in recent months, reports the Jerusalem Post.
But some victims have chosen not to report the attacks, making it more difficult for police to track down and arrest offenders.
Two more individuals have been arrested in connection with the brutal murder of Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old transgender man, in western New York.
New York State Police announced the arrests of 29-year-old Kimberly Sochia, of Canandaigua, N.Y., and 21-year-old Thomas Eaves, of Geneva, N.Y. on February 21.
Police previously arrested five others in connection with Nordquist's death: 38-year-old Precious Arzuaga of Canandaigua; 33-year-old Kyle Sage, of Rochester; 30-year-old Patrick Goodwin, of Canandaigua; 30-year-old Jennifer Quijano, of Geneva; and 19-year-old Emily Motyka, of Lima, N.Y.
Muhsin Hendricks, the world's first imam to publicly come out as gay in 1996, was shot dead in South Africa on February 15 in what appears to be an ambush. Eastern Cape provincial police confirmed that the 58-year-old was killed in a possible targeted hate crime.
According to police, Hendricks and a driver were inside a gold Volkswagen T-Roc SUV in Bethelsdorp when a silver Hilux double cab stopped in front of the car, blocking its way. Two unknown suspects, their faces covered, exited the cab and fired multiple shots at the VW before fleeing the scene. The driver, who survived the attack, realized that Hendricks had been killed by gunfire.
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