Faux News' "former CIA terror expert" arrested

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Fox News 'terror expert' Wayne Simmons arrested for lying about 27-year career as CIA officer

A frequent Fox News guest analyst has been charged with fraud after falsely claiming to be a former CIA agent, US prosecutors say.

Wayne Simmons of Annapolis, Maryland, portrayed himself as an "outside paramilitary special operations officer" for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1973 to 2000.

He allegedly tried to use that claim to get government security clearances and work as a defence contractor.

The 62-year-old was arrested on Thursday after a grand jury indicted him in connection to alleged misconduct, including major fraud and making false statements to the government.

The indictment said that Simmons falsely claimed on national security forms that his previous arrests and convictions were related to his CIA work and that he had held a top secret security clearance.

It stands to reason that a fake news station would have a fake CIA terrorism expert.

 

[zipman]

I'm sure Ish and A_J will be around to voice their disgust as they did when Brian Williams was caught lying.

Bwahaahaha!

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Some guest analyst that Fox occasionally hired was arrested.


Wow.


That's something.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

I'm sure Ish and A_J will be around to voice their disgust as they did when Brian Williams was caught lying.

Bwahaahaha!

The stories are so similar it's remarkable.

 

[doctor_insanus]

Remember when Fox's "expert" during the Ferguson riots was Mark Fuhrman?

Keep racing to the bottom of the barrel, Fox.

 

[zipman]

The stories are so similar it's remarkable.

Wow, I didn't expect you to actually realize that.

 

[bronzeage]

Fox News 'terror expert' Wayne Simmons arrested for lying about 27-year career as CIA officer

A frequent Fox News guest analyst has been charged with fraud after falsely claiming to be a former CIA agent, US prosecutors say.

Wayne Simmons of Annapolis, Maryland, portrayed himself as an "outside paramilitary special operations officer" for the Central Intelligence Agency from 1973 to 2000.

He allegedly tried to use that claim to get government security clearances and work as a defence contractor.

The 62-year-old was arrested on Thursday after a grand jury indicted him in connection to alleged misconduct, including major fraud and making false statements to the government.

The indictment said that Simmons falsely claimed on national security forms that his previous arrests and convictions were related to his CIA work and that he had held a top secret security clearance.

It stands to reason that a fake news station would have a fake CIA terrorism expert.

Remember, if you or any of your IMF team are captured, the Secretary of State will disavow any knowledge of your activities.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Wow, I didn't expect you to actually realize that.

I expected you to not detect my sarcasm.

 

[zipman]

I expected you to not detect my sarcasm.

Thereby confirming your stupidity.

Got it.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Thereby confirming your stupidity.

Got it.

While you were arguing, Fox News' ratings just went up 5 more points.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Yeah, it's too bad the only thing you would know about terrorism or intelligence operations on Fox News would be from some fraudulent lying asshole.

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[Que]

Interesting the brass ones on that guy. I guess he figured the CIA would simply go into "we can neither confirm nor deny" mode if queried.

You can bet that the CIA has an entire department just reading in "Three Days of the Condor" style anything that might be written or said by any former CIA employee. I'm pretty sure before you say anything you have to run it by someone that handled your out-take. The fact that no one would have had a file on him would have been glaringly apparent the first time someone took a transcript of one of his appearances and went to file it however they match that up with former employees.

In the alternative, maybe that is what the CIA actually WANTS you to think...dunh, dunh dunnnnnhhhhhhhhhh....

 

[Que]

Speaking of Fox News, Trump might be a whole lot smarter than I would have assumed.

Alienating them comes at zero risk. When and if he makes it to a general election, they are not going to torpedo him, regardless of any appearance of bad blood. Distancing himself further sets the narrative that he is a political outsider. This would appeal to low information voters who are not particularly liberal but have never actually watched Fox news but know (from the newsmen Colbert and Stewart) that Fox news is not "news."

Also, faux is not a homonym of fox, query sounds like wary not weary, and homonyms have nothing to do with sexual orientation. Retarded word-play makes me sad. If you are going to play with sounds- try faux snooze or maybe faux excuse, just for example.

 

[Hypoxia]

Also, faux is not a homonym of fox, query sounds like wary not weary, and homonyms have nothing to do with sexual orientation. Retarded word-play makes me sad. If you are going to play with sounds- try faux snooze or maybe faux excuse, just for example.

I prefer Faux Nooz. And no, faux is not a homonym (sounds like another word) of fox -- the joke does not work aurally.. It is however a homograph (looks like another word) and is thus just fine in text displays. Sort of like Nixxon as a play on Exxon. Or we might refer to a certain jackbooted party as Donald Tromp. (I just made that one up. Hey, it's late, I'm tired, yada yada.)

Back to Faux Nooz. It was established and run as a propaganda channel. Former execs have testified they received instructions from on high to Make Stuff Up. I try to tell my Faux-worshiping acquaintances that they're being taken for fools. But it's like a religious experience -- their brains haven't been demagnetized yet.

 

[Hypoxia]

.....

 

[SweetCupcake]

A frequent Fox News guest analyst has been charged with fraud .QUOTE]

Couldn't they pretty much arrest any Fox commentator for fraud and make a pretty good case?

 

[Que]

I prefer Faux Nooz. And no, faux is not a homonym (sounds like another word) of fox -- the joke does not work aurally.. It is however a homograph (looks like another word) and is thus just fine in text displays. Sort of like Nixxon as a play on Exxon. Or we might refer to a certain jackbooted party as Donald Tromp. (I just made that one up. Hey, it's late, I'm tired, yada yada.)

Back to Faux Nooz. It was established and run as a propaganda channel. Former execs have testified they received instructions from on high to Make Stuff Up. I try to tell my Faux-worshiping acquaintances that they're being taken for fools. But it's like a religious experience -- their brains haven't been demagnetized yet.

Except that is not what a homograph is. A homograph requires the word be spelled the same but has a different meaning and pronunciation. Read and read, lead and lead.

What that is, is what I said it was, sloppy wordplay Dependant on the reader either not knowing how faux is pronounced or knowing and assuming the joke is that most people don't.

Sharing a leading and trailing letter is not even pun worthy in any language.

Nixxon and Exxon are poor examples. They are neither homographs nor do any of the letters not share congruency in pronunciation. the X is pronounced the same way in each.

It's more like calling someone Joey Boots because Joseph Boarmants begins with a "bo" and ends with a "ts." Or how about calling Thomas Phonograph, Tommy Fiji because "Ph" is "F" and "G" can be "J" -but isn't in this case.

It is no better than Busybody calling Democrats Dum-os or Jen calling them Democraps. In dos a fine job of striking an insulting tone, but any 5th grader can do that. It isn't word play that I find interesting.

It could be tortured into something interesting. Lets say that the network used an image of a fox the way NBC used a peacock. The joke could be that the original spelling was Faux News, but then someone explained to Roger Aeils that faux is not pronounced that way.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

I call it FauxNews because Faux looks more like Fox than False does. Because they aren't a news station, but the propaganda machine of the right wing telling all of the ditto-heads what they want them to hear.

There's a reason why viewers of Faux News are less informed than those who watch admitted fake news shows or no news at all.

The fact that it annoys whatever Query is calling himself today is just a bonus.

 

[Que]

I call it FauxNews because Faux looks more like Fox than False does. Because they aren't a news station, but the propaganda machine of the right wing telling all of the ditto-heads what they want them to hear.

There's a reason why viewers of Faux News are less informed than those who watch admitted fake news shows or no news at all.

The fact that it annoys whatever Query is calling himself today is just a bonus.

As I have pointed out every time you trot that study out:

Fox has more self-described liberal viewers than any other cable news network. They have more of every kind of viewer. That study you love to cite shows that the liberal viewers were the least informed viewers that Fox had and drug down the average, but you keep thinking that big L label makes you smart. ~pats head~

I notice that you have so far no response to Colonel Hogan's post showing the many unquestionably qualified and authentic intelligence experts Fox has put on the air along with this (admittedly hilarious) fraud.

 

[zipman]

While you were arguing, Fox News' ratings just went up 5 more points.

Which doesn't change anything, Ken.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Which doesn't change anything, Ken.

No, it really doesn't, KRC.

 

[zipman]

No, it really doesn't, KRC.

At least we agree your comment was meaningless

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

As I have pointed out every time you trot that study out:

Fox has more self-described liberal viewers than any other cable news network. They have more of every kind of viewer. That study you love to cite shows that the liberal viewers were the least informed viewers that Fox had and drug down the average, but you keep thinking that big L label makes you smart. ~pats head~

I notice that you have so far no response to Colonel Hogan's post showing the many unquestionably qualified and authentic intelligence experts Fox has put on the air along with this (admittedly hilarious) fraud.

*chuckle* I'm sure that vast number of liberal viewers of FauxNews dragged down the average.
But according to Pew, that just isn't so. Fully, 60% of Fox News viewers describe themselves as conservative, compared with 23% who say they are moderate and 10% who are liberal, according to a 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center. By contrast, the ideological makeup of CNN viewers (32% conservative, 30% moderate, 30% liberal) and MSNBC viewers (32% conservative, 23% moderate, 36% liberal) is far more mixed.

Well, at least you admit that FauxNews viewers fared poorly against those who watched Fake news shows like The Daily Show or no news at all.

Baby steps.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

At least we agree your comment was meaningless

This whole thread is meaningless. One need look no further than the op.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

This whole thread is meaningless. One need look no further than the op.

Still looking for attention wherever you can eh Mr_Bert_Ann_Dentata?
Have you tried acting like you're the victim of harassment instead of a perpetrator?

Oh.. yeah.. That didn't work out so well for you either did it?