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@LisPower1
May 19, 2023 • 7 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Fox acknowledges a story they ran wild with miiiiight have been a hoax

"We are now looking into new reports that a veterans advocate misled lawmakers, and media outlets, about a story that some homeless men may have been hired to pose as veterans"

OOPS
For those who haven't been following along

The NY Post released a front page story screaming "VETS KICKED OUT FOR MIGRANTS"

Fox ran wild with it

(Both companies are Murdoch owned) ImageImageImageImage
Fox claimed they had confirmed that veterans were kicked out due to migrants!

"Fox News confirms 20 homeless vets just got kicked out of several hotels in the suburbs north of Manhattan to make room for those migrants"
Fox eventually noted that one of the hotels had denied everything, saying they hadn't even accepted any migrants.

This was mentioned a couple of times on Fox, but that didn't stop them from continuing to push the story as it kept unraveling
On Monday, Brian Maher appeared on Fox to talk about his "personal friend, an American hero" Sharon Toney Finch (who was the initial source for the story) and discuss the vets who were supposedly kicked out for migrants Image
Fast forward to today:

The Mid Hudson News reported that it was all a scam
midhudsonnews.com/2023/05/19/hom… Seven homeless men have com...The saga of the displaced v...
Fox News had at least 20 segments that pushed the hoax that 'veterans were kicked out of their hotel by migrants', devoting 45 minutes of coverage to the story

Now Nate Foy, who earlier said he could "confirm" the vets were moved to a different hotel, has "a quick update"

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Feb 15, 2022
Real 'gee, why won't they cover the shit we're making up' vibes
Fox discussing a NYT article on Durham: "They kind of acknowledge the heart of it deep in the story."

The NYT story: RWM's narrative is off track, mostly wrong, old, misleading, and sometimes outright misinformation

So now Fox is misleading its viewers on what the NYT is saying
A graphic from a few minutes ago showing Saturday to Monday coverage, which ... conveniently leaves out (at the very least) CNN coverage, MSNBC coverage, NYT coverage, and WaPo coverage that has occurred

h/t @McmasterReed
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Jul 27, 2021
The House Select committee begins its investigation into the insurrection today -- Fox's 3 hour morning show has covered it for about 45 seconds, with half of their coverage just regurgitating McCarthy's talking points:
9:00 programming

CNN: Special Coverage of the House Select Committee hearing on the insurrection

MSNBC: Special Coverage of the House Select Committee hearing on the insurrection

Fox News: America's Crime Crisis**

**As long as that crime isn't insurrection
All three cable networks are currently airing the hearing

Fox's chyron throughout calls it the "Pelosi-Selected Cmte" ... which ignores that fact that McCarthy withdrew 3 Republicans from it whilst throwing a temper tantrum
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Mar 22, 2021
CNN anchor Poppy Harlow says that the Biden admin knew the consequences to reversing Title 42, and that they should have been prepared for the surge of migrants at the border

One major problem: The Biden administration hasn't reversed Title 42, they're still heavily using it
On MSNBC's Morning Joe, Donny Deutsch says that "we can't live with ~open borders~ like this"

One major problem: We don't currently have open borders or anything resembling open borders. Open borders are a GOP talking point that's never remotely been a thing in the US
Many in MSM that are sprinting to call this a crisis are entirely missing major and important context.

Trump (dubiously) enacted Title 42 - an antiquated public health policy that denied people the right to legally seek asylum

Biden, largely (and dubiously) has kept this policy
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Feb 25, 2021
I'd honestly like to know what Fox News' definition of "cancel culture" is

In this example, it's Elle and Marie Claire magazines not responding to this person's publisher?
In this example, the daughter of Sean and Rachel-Campos Duffy says she's sick of being cancelled, so she started a conservative student journal to uncancel herself
In this example, The Muppets were cancelled!

No, the episodes weren't removed. Disney+ put a 12 second disclaimer on 18 episodes of the show.

"The Muppets are cancel cultures latest victims"
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Feb 16, 2021
1. Millions of Americans aren't saying this
2. It isn't true
3. This show fucking sucks

"Millions of Americans in the cold and dark say the lack of power is because of green energy policies and the vilification of oil, gas, and coal -- the stuff that ~really~ keeps you warm"
Fualkner is having another segment about Texas' made-up 'green energy crisis' which I'm not posting because it's all bullshit

It conveniently neglects to mention that wind power is generating ~more~ than forecast, and that gas and coal plants are down and pipelines are frozen
Anyways, here's what the people in charge of Texas' power grid are ~actually~ saying

Surprise, it's the opposite of what Faulkner said!
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Feb 2, 2021
In a Newsmax segment about "social media censorship" against the MyPillow Guy, Pillow Guy continued to spread false conspiracies about voting machines, leading the anchor to interrupt him, read a disclaimer, try to get the producers to get him off the air, and storm off the set
What I truly love about this is that the segment was to complain about him being canceled/censored on Twitter for spreading election fraud claims .... and then the anchor essentially (and rightfully) attempts to do the same thing to him on Newsmax.

Just beautiful.
Also, to be extremely clear, Newsmax is awful. The only reason the one anchor was remotely responsible is because they’re scared of being sued into oblivion.
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