fox had laura ingraham actually admit a story they'd been pushing was, in fact, invented... but by someone else

[butters]

briefly, at least

the big story fox had been pushing was that of the homeless vets forced from refuge in order make room for immigrants

a story shown to be entirely false, with homeless people offered money to say they were vets and this is what had happened

For a week, Fox News and other right-wing outlets had been heavily hyping claims that "homeless veterans" were being forced out of a hotel in upstate New York to make room for Central American refugees. Due to diligent reporting from local reporters at the Mid Hudson News, however, the story quickly unraveled. The hotel denied the claims and had receipts to refute the right-wing narrative. By the end of the week, the Mid Hudson News had a group of homeless men ready to talk about how Sharon Toney-Finch, the source of this tale and the head of a veteran advocacy group, had recruited them to pretend they were the displaced veterans. The whole thing was a hoax.

"Turns out the group behind the claim made it up," Ingraham said, in a rare moment of honesty. However, she swiftly returned to the comfier space of mendacity, saying, "We have no clue as to why anyone would do such a thing."

This, of course, is total nonsense. Ingraham knows exactly why someone would fake such a story: Because it works. Whether Toney-Finch's goals were money, fame, or politics, she appears to have correctly surmised that a surefire way to get wall-to-wall coverage in right-wing media is to roll out some B.S. story that validates the bigoted beliefs of their audience.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opin...1&cvid=9af00fa257d24a1d893305c0e3bf3d14&ei=22

guess they should do better about reporting, investigating such claims, yada yada, yada... but if it fits the picture they're keen to portray, it ain't gonna happen, or happen but be suppressed for the narrative that fits their bill

 

[Lazaran]

briefly, at least

the big story fox had been pushing was that of the homeless vets forced from refuge in order make room for immigrants

a story shown to be entirely false, with homeless people offered money to say they were vets and this is what had happened



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opin...1&cvid=9af00fa257d24a1d893305c0e3bf3d14&ei=22

guess they should do better about reporting, investigating such claims, yada yada, yada... but if it fits the picture they're keen to portray, it ain't gonna happen, or happen but be suppressed for the narrative that fits their bill

I await the flood of sincere mea culpas from the RWCJ “members” who promoted that bullshit.

Also: Fox “news” should be shut down.

Those fuckers are going to get more and more innocent people killed from disinformation that paints targets on their backs.

JFC

SAD!!!

 

[Rightguide]

Why don't you tell the truth? It was a well-known female veteran who started the lie. At least Ingraham reversed herself after the truth became known. Unlike the left who lie to Americans for years and when the proof comes out, like with the Durham Report, they still lie.

Longtime advocate lied about vets getting kicked out of NY hotels for migrants: pol​

By
Bernadette Hogan,

Kevin Sheehan and

Emily Crane

An upstate New York lawmaker is calling for an investigation into a well-known veterans advocate — accusing her of lying when she claimed ex-military members were getting booted from hotels to make way for the flood of migrants up north.

State Assemblyman Brian Maher, who’s worked with Sharon Toney-Finch and her Yerik Israel Toney Foundation for three years, said he’s “devastated and disheartened” after her story allegedly began to unravel this week.

Toney-Finch, an Army veteran herself, claimed on Friday that 20 ex-military members were told earlier this month they could no longer stay at three hotels in Orange County because asylum seekers were being bused there from the Big Apple.

“Thankfully, my team and I were able to scramble and find new temporary housing for these veterans,” she wrote on social media about the alleged plight.

More here: https://nypost.com/2023/05/18/advoc...ing-kicked-out-of-ny-hotels-for-migrants-pol/

Questions Swirl Around Vet at Center of Bogus Migrant Story​

‘NOTHING ON FILE’
She says she has a Purple Heart, but the Army has no record of it. Now state officials are investigating her.

Justin Rohrlich​

Reporter
Updated May. 20, 2023 2:08AM ET / Published May. 19, 2023 11:16PM ET

The controversy around an Army veteran accused of fabricating a tale of homeless veterans being booted from hotels to make room for migrants deepened on Friday—with state officials launching an investigation and questions raised about her claims of being a Purple Heart recipient.

The woman at the center of the maelstrom is Sharon Toney-Finch, who was inducted last July into the New York State Senate Veterans’ Hall of Fame after a special salute by lawmakers for her service. She is listed in the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, has been the subject of glowing profiles about her heroism under fire, and once appeared on Fox & Friends to unveil a set of Purple Heart commemorative coins. On May 16, New York State Sen. Rob Rolison, a former police officer, honored Toney-Finch as a “woman of distinction,” making special note of her Purple Heart.

As Toney-Finch tells it, she was partway through her second deployment to Iraq in March 2010 when her convoy was ambushed. The attack put her in a coma for six months, Toney-Finch said in an interview earlier this month. She says she woke up that August in Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, with a traumatic brain injury. She would later be feted by various groups for that tremendous sacrifice, proudly wearing a Purple Heart medal she said she earned for being wounded in action. Toney-Finch has spoken of enduring 82 surgeries as a result of her wounds.

No Record​

However, U.S. Army spokesman Bryce Dubee told The Daily Beast on Friday that the Department of Defense does not know anything about Toney-Finch and a Purple Heart.

More here on the liar: https://www.thedailybeast.com/quest...ey-finch-vet-at-center-of-bogus-migrant-story

 

[JohnnySavage]

That's funny!

Wearing a Purple Heart? Most of these scammers claim, at least, a Bronze Star.

 

[Bray123]

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-receiving-purple-heart-gift-easier/story?id=41069056

Remember when Trump accepted a Purple Heart, for his extensive treatments for venereal disease whilst his contemporaries were in 'Nam