{"id":20297,"date":"2014-08-22T14:39:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T21:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=20297"},"modified":"2014-08-22T14:39:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T21:39:43","slug":"faux-pas-fox-news-video-gaffe-during-isis-segment-was-ironically-appropriate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=20297","title":{"rendered":"Faux Pas: Fox News Video Gaffe During ISIS Segment Was Ironically Appropriate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During last night&#8217;s episode of The Kelly File, Megyn Kelly was having a discussion about the ISIS murder of Jim Foley with Pete Hegseth, CEO of the Koch brothers financed Concerned Veterans for America. Just as Hegseth was getting to the core of his comments, the control room queued up a video to accompany the dialog. But it may not have been the video that Kelly was expecting. Hegseth told Kelly that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;At this point this is a terrorist army that believes that it controls a state.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-ferguson-fauxpas.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News\" width=\"550\" height=\"292\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20301\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, instead of showing militants in Iraq, the video was of the unrest in Ferguson, Mo. Specifically it showed police officers racing through the protest-clogged streets of the St. Louis community. For those images to be juxtaposed with the words spoken simultaneously by Hegseth was jarring, but it inadvertently transmitted a message that the protesters, and many Americans, would have found apropos to the situation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z3xXpxdCFTM?rel=0&#038;start=22&#038;end=27\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apparently the video was live, breaking news from Ferguson that the producers thought took priority over the Foley issue, but Kelly disagreed and interrupted the discussion to tell them so. Then she and Hegseth continued the segment. They did not appear to have grasped the irony of the video gaffe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During last night&#8217;s episode of The Kelly File, Megyn Kelly was having a discussion about the ISIS murder of Jim Foley with Pete Hegseth, CEO of the Koch brothers financed Concerned Veterans for America. Just as Hegseth was getting to the core of his comments, the control room queued up a video to accompany the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Faux Pas: Fox News Video Gaffe During ISIS Segment Was Ironically Appropriate","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,429],"class_list":["post-20297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-fox-news","tag-megyn-kelly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-ferguson-fauxpas.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-5hn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64754,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64754","url_meta":{"origin":20297,"position":0},"title":"Has Hell Frozen Over? 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