Fox News, Newsmax, OAN, and other TV purveyors of fake news

[realist]

Who's on first.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

Good Lord. She didn't know about the Webb telescope.

Oh, c'mon, be fair! Where's someone working for Fox going to hear news?

[Slim Cognito]

OK, I admit it. I’ve heard of the Hubble, but not the Webb telescope. However, if I were to hear someone speak of the Webb telescope, my first reaction would be to run to teh Google, just to avoid such an embarrassment
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[neonzx]

That reminds of the throwback to when Laura Ingraham didn’t know about and couldn’t grasp the concept of a show called You.

Thank you. I had not seen that before.

No, Laura, not everything is about YOU!

[Gregg]

Later, per TheDailyBeast -

Fox News host Laura Ingraham acknowledged her mistake in mocking President Joe Biden’s reference Monday to the James Webb Space Telescope, having seemingly been unaware that a telescope by that name exists. In his remarks at the White House, Biden had mentioned the Webb telescope in the context of his executive order designed to combat the potential negative consequences of artificial intelligence. “Did he call it the ‘Webb telescope’? Isn’t it the Hubble? Is he thinking of Webb-Hubble? I don’t understand,” Ingraham said, bursting into laughter. Shortly after, the Fox host cleared things up. “There is a Webb telescope that I didn’t know about,” she told viewers. “I stand corrected by Joe Biden.” Since its launch on Christmas 2021, the telescope—which is more advanced than the much older yet still active Hubble telescope—has captured a stunning array of images of the solar system and points beyond.

Good Lord. She didn't know about the Webb telescope.

I would imagine there are a great many things Laura Ingraham doesn't know.

The Webb Telescope isn't capable of seeing all the things Laura Ingraham doesn't know.

[bob]

The Webb telescope launched on Christmas 2021. When the president was, ya know, Biden.

[Suranis]

And who could forget the first picture ever sent back from the Webb Telescope.

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[Dave from down under]

[AndyinPA]

[RVInit]

I have seen video showing the people at Faux news who work in the control room actually watching CNN because they want to actually be informed of what is on the news. Apparently the hosts don't bother to do that.

[pipistrelle]

There's been a fairly big splash about the quality of the Webb images. Here are some images.

Speaks volumes about how desperate they are to portray Biden as mentally incompetent to an audience that's incurious about science or anything outside the bubble.

[Kendra]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/02/media/fo ... index.html

Fox News is showing its true colors, yet again.

The right-wing television network has remained entirely silent amid fierce backlash stemming from Islamophobic comments made on its top-rated show, “The Five,” by one of its top hosts, Jesse Watters.

In an astonishing and ugly rant, Watters on Wednesday said that he was fed up with Arab Americans and the entire Muslim world. “We have had it with them,” Watters declared during the diatribe, which aired during a segment about activists ripping down posts spotlighting Israeli hostages.

“And so, if you’re an Arab American in this country, and you ripped down posters of Jewish hostages of American hostages — no, no, no, no, someone is going to get punched in the face when you rip down posters of hostages like that,” Watters added.

The remarks earned Watters and Fox News another stinging rebuttal from the White House, which called them a “sickening attack on the rights and dignity of their fellow Americans.” The White House added that Fox News “owes an apology to every single viewer.”

If you’re waiting for an apology from Fox News, however, don’t hold your breath (you should probably know this by now). As usual, Fox News hasn’t said a word about the hateful rant that streamed out of a top host’s mouth and into the homes of millions.

[raison de arizona]

Khanna refuse to be gotcha'd, bringing the receipts live on the air.

Fox News’ Sandra Smith: “Can you tell me what specific policy under this president created those jobs?”

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) “Yes, I actually can … The reality is that this was the policy of the American Rescue Plan, of the CHIPS Act … of the Inflation Reduction Act.”

[Ben-Prime]

Fox News’ Sandra Smith: “Can you tell me what specific policy under this president created those jobs?”

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) “Yes, I actually can … The reality is that this was the policy of the American Rescue Plan, of the CHIPS Act … of the Inflation Reduction Act.”

The sad part is that even when Fox *denies* this kind of thing publicly, we have in the past tended to assume that they are doing so out of mendacity. The fact that the reporter asking the question didn't know enough to know how easy it would be to have the receipts just compounds the problem -- they have spent so much time eating their own dog food that they no longer as reporters know the truth in order to cross the street to avoid it.

[Gregg]

Fox News

As dumb as our viewers!

[Kendra]

One would think after a couple of plus years, Brian Kilmeade would have learned to sat Kamala correctly, but no...

[Slim Cognito]

I bet it’s intentional.

[Ben-Prime]

I bet it’s intentional.

We all need to start calling him 'Bree-AHN', clearly.

[Kendra]

I bet it’s intentional.

We all need to start calling him 'Bree-AHN', clearly.

I've heard Kilmeade flub other names, never ever a correction. Hegseth does it too.

[raison de arizona]

Fox News pays this person for her political insights

[Slim Cognito]

And she's probably one of their more intelligent contributors.

[neonzx]

[Kendra]

Leave it to Fox and Friends to use last night's SNL skit on an aging Biden and drag in Kilmeade on a Sunday to analyze and politicize it ad nauseum, even going back to the choice to make him VP. Which of course carried into a promo on his ever-so-boring sounding book

[raison de arizona]

Even Newsmax is better than Faux?

CNN: Hostage Deal

MSNBC: Hostage Deal

Newsmax: Hostage Deal

Fox: Ha Ha Biden is old

[Kendra]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fox-n ... c29a&ei=11

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade praised "slave owners" because he said the United States of America would not exist without them.

Kilmeade made the remarks on The Charlie Kirk Show on Monday while promoting his book about Booker T. Washington and President Theodore Roosevelt.

"But for the most part, we are a country that was born, like every other country, every continent had slaves," Kilmeade said. "In the South, most houses, most plantations had slaves. Nobody condones it. But without those slave owners, we don't have a country. So you make your choice."

A bit more at the link.