Those darn facts get in the way again. Latest dishonest FOX reporting so egregious even they had to acknowledge it.
Yahoo News Canada — Fox News walked back a report on “an attempted terrorist attack” in the Niagara Falls vehicle explosion, a deadly crash where officials said there was “no indication” of terrorism near the U.S.-Canada border.
“What I’ve been told is that this was an attempted terrorist attack,” Fox News correspondent Alexis McAdams reported on Wednesday at 2pm ET. Sources “believe the two people in that car who are now both dead after that large explosion there have packed that car full of explosives.” Until the retraction much later the provocative chyron at the bottom of the FOX screen claimed “Explosion An Attempted Terror Attack” (Mediaite)
I watched the original coverage because as I flipped channels I saw FOX was the only one reporting this. They quickly teed up a narrative that this was Biden’s fault by allowing open borders to terrorists — and their contributors went berserk, assuming it as fact, which is the usual pattern for trashing Biden: “report” something thinly sourced, followed by outraged commentators who present it without equivocation.
It was disgraceful, even for FOX, to spread something so sinister. This wasn’t a mistake, this was another deliberate provocation of their gullible audience for profit.
It worked. Biden-hating provocateurs such as Kari Lake picked up the ball and ran with it long after the FOX “retraction’…
