{"id":33405,"date":"2016-12-24T16:49:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T00:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=33405"},"modified":"2016-12-24T16:56:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T00:56:51","slug":"fox-news-finally-apologizes-for-lying-about-a-man-and-his-90-year-old-grandmother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=33405","title":{"rendered":"Fox News FINALLY Apologizes For Lying About A Man And His 90 Year Old Grandmother"},"content":{"rendered":"

A month ago Fox News did a story<\/a><\/strong> about a protester at a Trump rally. Austyn Crites approached the stage with a sign saying “Republicans Against Trump.”<\/em> A commotion in the crowd caused the Secret Service to hustle a cowering Trump off stage. There were varying accounts of what transpired, and some reports said that a Trump supporter yelled “Gun!”<\/em> Crites was quickly taken into custody and escorted out of the rally.<\/p>\n

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As it turns out, there was no gun. Crites was not in any way threatening and was not arrested. The incident was an epic over-reaction that evolved into a mythical fable of the fake danger bedeviling The Donald. So naturally Fox News fabricated a fictional account<\/a><\/strong> of the event that featured Kellyanne Conway, who labeled Crites a Democratic plant. She also laughably implied on CNN that this innocent, lawful protest was an assassination attempt. Meanwhile, back at Fox & Friends, Brian Kilmeade falsely accused Crites<\/a><\/strong> of having committed voter fraud by casting a ballot for Clinton in the name of his grandmother, who Kilmeade said had died in 2002.<\/p>\n

Kilmeade:<\/strong> “Democrats would like for you to believe that voter fraud does not exist. Better chance of getting hit by lightening, they always say. But this morning yet another reminder from the guy who interrupted Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday who many thought had a gun. […] He claims he was a Republican, but it turns out he’s a huge Hillary supporter. And his grandmother has been using this address to vote absentee for years. But she’s been dead since 2002. Although I miss her, I don’t think she should be voting.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You’ll never guess what happened next. An actual journalist from the Guardian contacted Crites’ grandmother who stubbornly insisted that she was alive and well. She’s probably a Democrat who’s lying about being alive to smear Trump. Now virtually everything Fox News reported has been proven to be blatantly false. And what does Fox do about it? They wait for month after the truth was well known and then have Steve Doocy issue a correction. By this time, of course, no one remembers what he’s talking about. So he gets away with dismissing the lies as “exagerrated.”<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s the Fox News brand of “journalism.”<\/em> Notoriously unprofessional and entirely devoid of ethics. They still haven’t bothered to interview Crites or provide him him with an opportunity clear his name. The never reached out to his grandmother whose friends and family might have been distressed to hear of her death. However, just airing an apology is a big step for Fox News, so we probably should be grateful.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n