On Tuesday, a district court judge in Texas slammed the door shut on a defamation lawsuit filed on behalf of “Clock Boy” Ahmed Mohamed by his father against a host of people and companies, including a local Fox News affiliate, Glenn Beck, TheBlaze, and the mayor of Irving, Texas.
Mohamed rose to fame about a year ago when he brought a clock that looked a whole lot more like a bomb than a clock to his high school in Irving. When Mohamed began acting strangely, the police came in and briefly detained him, after which he was suspended for three days for what school authorities suspected was a “hoax bomb” stunt. Clock Boy’s family and the Counsel on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) pushed the incident as a textbook example of “Islamophobia” and the then-14-year-old became the darling of the Left, endearing himself to none other than President Barack Obama, who praised the clock he “invented” (he actually just took the outer casing off an already working clock and put it in a sketchy looking case) as a “cool” and invited him to the White House.
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