After a truck-ramming attack killed at least 14 people at a New Year’s celebration in New Orleans, Fox News misreported that the vehicle used came across the southern border two days earlier, implying that the suspected perpetrator — later identified as an Army veteran born in the U.S. — had also crossed the border.
Although the network has seemingly attempted to quietly walk back the false information, Fox personalities and guests — including some former and incoming Trump administration picks — have continued to baselessly connect an act of terror reportedly committed by a U.S. citizen to the southern border in order to fearmonger about terrorists entering the country. […]
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That’s how it works. They throw something out there, let it stew for awhile, then quietly retract.
I was watching a Carlson clip where he’s interviewing a sheriff on the Texas border. This guy claims the feds give every illegal a $1,000 Visa card when they cross. I’m screaming bullshit, that would be a monster scandal and we’d all hear about it.
Carlson lets the guy ramble on for awhile, let’s the idea sink in for the viewer, then asks him to come back to the Visa thing.
“(mumble, mumble) Oh, it’s just something I heard about.”
And Carlson is completely satisfied with that answer!