Brian Stelter shocked by 'Fox & Friends' error
Brian Stelter discusses President Donald Trump's close relationship with Fox News, highlighting clips from the network with false information.
There's being bad at geography, an affliction from which many Americans suffer, and then there's being really bad at geography. Whoever writes the on-screen text for Fox & Friends Weekend appears to be in the latter category.
How else would the morning news show have wound up with a chyron that claims the existence of three distinct Mexicos?
The chyron error, captured by CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter, reads "Trump cuts U.S. aid to 3 Mexican countries." The obvious issue being that there is only one Mexican country. It is called Mexico.
This is an actual banner from "Fox & Friends Weekend." 6:03am today. I double checked because I didn't believe it at first. Hat tip @BadFoxGraphics pic.twitter.com/tTNH0Y7a25— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 31, 2019
The actual news behind the graphic involved the Trump administration cutting aid to El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, none of which are Mexico. Only one of them, Guatemala, shares a border with Mexico.
Later in the day, as reported by Talking Points Memo, Fox correspondent Ed Henry issued an on-air correction for the chyron, calling it "inaccurate" and apologizing for the error.
Henry offered no explanation as to how Fox & Friends could have possibly referred to three different countries as Mexico plural. It's almost as if the show, and its number one fan in the White House, routinely misstate and misunderstand Central American facts in order to rile up its political base.
Almost.
SO something really sooper-extra stupid happened on Fox News today. Like something so cartoonishly absurd people honestly thought it was a photoshop.
Man, that is bad. I know some will reflexively defend Fox News, but this is exactly what you would expect from a channel that fit liberals’ exaggerated accusations against them. Don’t do it, Fox.*screams into a pillow* pic.twitter.com/GHgy47PHAt— Lily Adams (@adamslily) March 31, 2019
There were some funny jokes about it:
Intern responsible for the error has been found and promoted to the 9pm slot pic.twitter.com/srLoDePb35— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) March 31, 2019
And this jerk:“Mexican” means “brown person” in Bigoteese.— Rap Bastardz 🌊 (@RapBastardz) March 31, 2019
But check out Stelter’s reaction:I mean, to be fair to @FoxNews, this is much easier to remember than all those weird names. @edhenry pic.twitter.com/Yg7mGD8TKd— ¡El Sooopèrr! ن c137 (@SooperMexican) March 31, 2019
And he beat up Fox News on his show too:This is an actual banner from "Fox & Friends Weekend." 6:03am today. I double checked because I didn't believe it at first. Hat tip @BadFoxGraphics pic.twitter.com/tTNH0Y7a25— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 31, 2019
This is the very definition of “pouncing” that the media uses falsely against the right. The mainstream media has just been slapped down with an incredibly devastating defeat in the collusion wars, and Stelter is going to focus on this, admittedly stupid, error from Fox News.But @brianstelter we do know what’s going on! Billionaires like Murdoch and Mercer sell racist conspiracies to their white audiences as part of a strategy of divide and conquer — to ensure white people never vote to tax billionaires like themselves. pic.twitter.com/QqJpEJG1OU— Waleed Shahid (@_waleedshahid) March 31, 2019
That’s the “objective” news – when the media or democrats make a mistake, Stelter brings on liberals to defend them, and when Fox News or Trump or some conservative makes a mistake, Stelter brings on liberals to attack them. Perfectly fair, right? LOL!
And that’s why we don’t trust Stelter ever, and why we mock him mercilessly.
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