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A notice that FOX News would be airing a revealing documentary about Barack Obama began circulating via email on the Internet in August 2009: When no such broadcast materialized, curious potential viewers began wondering what happened to it: Did they miss it? Was it bumped in favor of a bigger or more timely news piece? Was it suppressed due to pressure by the Obama administration? The answer seems to be that this item was merely a recirculation of outdated information about a program that had aired the previous year (October 2008), not something that was about to air in October 2009 (when a resurgence of interest in the e-mailed item occurred). This item continued to circulate well into 2012 with no particular date mentioned (other than the indefinite Sunday night), leading readers to mistake it for a current notice. Back on Sunday, 5 October 2008, the FOX News show Hannity's America was devoted to an hour-long program on Obama & Friends: History of Radicalism. But, as noted, that program was broadcast long before the August 2009 e-mail promoting it began circulating. It also isn't the case that Fox was planning to repeat the original Sean Hannity piece but subsequently cancelled it. We spoke with a FOX News representative who confirmed that neither Obama & Friends nor any other similar documentary about Barack Obama was scheduled to be aired by Fox in 2009. (Fox did air a somewhat similar but distinctly different program, the Bret Baier-hosted President Obama in His Own Words, in late January 2010.) In September 2012 this rumor morphed into a version proclaiming that Fox would soon be airing the documentary 2016: Obama’s America, or that Fox had planned to do so, but Attorney General Eric Holder threatened to pull their FCC license if they did. However, that film was still engaged in its original theatrical run at the time, and no plans had been made to air it on Fox television.
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