It turns out hoax news reports can do more than make people look really stupid.
A Phoenix media hoaxer "reported" a couple of weeks ago that President Obama was funding a Muslim museum out of his own pocket during the government shutdown, which a Fox News host repeated as fact on-air. The director of that museum does not appear to be upset by this at all.
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Muslim Museum: Hoax News Story Has Been Good for Us
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