2011

NOTE

This is simply a running list (in chronological order) of all events within the file. Links and sources to each event can be found in subcategories.

2011

From 2011 through 2019, Fox News repeatedly peddled that universities were paying $503K, then $3M, then $3B in funding to “watch shrimp on a treadmill”. They failed to cite the actual cost being paid for out-of-pocket by the researchers, or that the research was used to study food safety and how much bacteria can end up in our seafood.

2011 January

2011-01-08 Democratic Congresswoman Gabby Giffords and 18 others were shot during a “Congress On Your Corner” event in Tucson. Six were killed including a 9-year-old girl and 13 were seriously wounded.

2011-01-11 Following speculation over her crosshairs map and rhetoric, Sarah Palin published a video admonishing the accusation as “blood libel”.

2011 March

2011-03-28 During an interview with Fox, Trump floated the idea that Obama is Muslim, stating, “He doesn’t have a birth certificate. He may have one, but there’s something on that, maybe religion, maybe it says he is a Muslim”.

2011 April

2011-04-17 Trump said he would like to seize oil fields in Libya and Iraq.

2011 October

2011-10-20 Headline, “Marco rubio’s compelling family story embellishes facts, documents show”. The article discuses how Rubio claimed his family fled the Castro regime, however his parents entered the US via a commercial flight over two years before Castro overthrew the Cuban government.