FOX NEWS HOSTS CONTINUE TO SPREAD THEIR LIES & MISINFORMATION 

 

                  …Here is a picture of the key Fox News Hosts at Fox Headquarters

 

They all seem to get their info together for spreading the same lie

 

It’s pretty disgusting how the Fox News personalities keep passing along their misinformation as if it’s the truth.

Tucker Carlson is probably the worst as he has started it all claiming that: “The attorney general announced the FBI would investigate moms who dared to complain at school board meetings as potential terrorists.”

This is of course totally false.

But the lie is not just coming from Carlson.  It’s from those people that go on Fox News and repeat all kinds of misinformation.  And some of them are elected officials.

As an example, Florida’s lieutenant governor, Jeanette Nuñez, stated on Fox News: “Biden and his cronies are calling the parents domestic terrorists,” which isn’t happening.  But then the Fox host Matt Walsh said: “I’m glad that the Biden administration labeled us domestic terrorists, because that was a wake-up moment for a lot of parents,” spreading the lie even further. 

And to spread it some more, host Laura Ingraham just had to add that: “Merrick Garland gets involved, and the Justice Department gets involved,” which also didn’t happen.

Then we have Elise Stefanik, the No. 3 House GOP leader, on Fox News saying: “The Biden administration … has said that they are considering parents who speak out regarding education issues for their children to be domestic terrorists, “ also totally false.

For the last three months, Republican officeholders and Fox News personalities have been shouting these false statements from the rooftops.

As Dana Milbank of the Washington Post stated: “There’s just one wee problem with the whole Biden-says-parents-are-terrorists claim, reported dozens of times on Fox News airwaves and echoed at each link down the Republican media food chain: It’s horse excrement. Biden never said it. Attorney General Merrick Garland never said it. No senior (nor even junior) official in the Biden administration has ever been shown to have said it. Yet Fox News presents it as unchallenged fact, week after week.”

This Fox Network is the one direct link of their false rhetoric to, “inform the majority of Republican voters” what’s true and really going on, but they fail to do the job, time after time.

They have instead constructed a parallel universe in which: vaccines kill you, Biden stole the election, Biden is senile, grade schoolers are being force-fed critical race theory, the FBI orchestrated the Jan. 6^th Insurrection, and the country is in a spiral of open borders, rampant crime and runaway inflation.  All false information.:

But let’s pause to dissect their particular smear, that Biden-says-parents-are-terrorists fiction.  This fits with a narrative sometimes described on Fox as Biden’s “war on parents.” It also sanitizes the violence.

Fox’s Carlson and others have objected to the truth that: Jan. 6 Insurrectionists being accurately labeled as “domestic terrorists.”  If they can make it appear that Biden is “labeling anyone who disagrees with his policies … as domestic terrorists,” or that Biden is saying all: “Trump supporters are effectively domestic terrorists,” then they make it like it’s just more comments from liberal elites about the “deplorables.”

“They are trying to turn half of the country into second-class citizens,” J.D. Vance, a Republican Senate candidate in Ohio, told Fox, with “Attorney General Garland going after parents as domestic terrorists.”

The basis for the smear is Garland’s Oct. 4 memo saying that, because of a “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff,” the FBI would develop “strategies for addressing threats” with state and local authorities. It said nothing about parents being labeled domestic terrorists.

Fox News has even reported that the Biden administration “requested” a Sept. 29 “letter from the National School Boards Association (NSBA) calling parents domestic terrorists.” The administration of course, denied this allegation.

In any event, the NSBA-written request letter also didn’t call parents domestic terrorists.  It said that certain “heinous actions” of violence and threats against school officials “could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes.”

But as expected, the Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) falsely claimed that an FBI email provided by a “whistleblower” showed “troubling attempts” by the DOJ and the White House “to use the heavy hand of federal law enforcement to target concerned parents.” The email didn’t even mention parents; it was about tracking “threats” against educators.

In reality, the DOJ is doing what you’d expect.  It is targeting people who threaten or commit violence, whether at school board meetings or at Capitol insurrections.  Not angry parents. “The Justice Department supports and defends the First Amendment right of parents to complain as vociferously as they wish,” Garland has testified to Congress.

But the smear goes on as Kellyanne Conway falsely tells Fox that Americans “see the Democrats calling parents domestic terrorists.”  This stated as Lara Trump is telling Fox that Biden should apologize for choosing “to label … parents as domestic terrorists.” 

All this, while Fox host Sean Hannity asks for “reaction to the memo of the Department of Justice to look at parents … being investigated as domestic terrorists.”

To keep this falsehoods going, the House Republican Whip, Steve Scalise, is telling Fox that Biden’s DOJ is telling parents “that they’re domestic terrorists if they go to the school board meeting to say, ‘Stop teaching your kids to hate America.’ ” All false.

As to emphasize the misinformation, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) tells Fox “Parents don’t like being told that they’re domestic terrorists”.

This is a true statement.  But thanks to the Republicans and Fox News, millions of Americans can now add this to their long menu of lies that are being digested by the American public.

Copyright G. Ater 2022