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“Natasha Lennard” - Fox News invents the possibility of a U.S.-Ireland bailout
May 23, 2011 Natasha Lennard
May 23, 2011
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/05/23/fox_ireland_bailout_baseless/index.html
In an exemplary instance of getting the story just plain wrong, Fox News Monday reported on the possibility of a U.S.-funded bailout for Ireland, which supposedly President Barack Obama will discuss with Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny. As Media Matters pointed out, these claims are baseless.
No U.S. bailouts are on the table at all. The Irish P.M. does hope to make Obama an ally in Ireland's push for more favorable terms in an EU/IMF-funded bailout, which we assume -- or at least hope -- Fox knows to be a different thing from a U.S.-funded bailout.