# This Just In...Fox News Channel is bunch of lying fucks **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 22, 2021, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180 "2021-01-22T06:13:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 110
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2182 "2025-09-10T05:17:00Z")
I’m not going to take one for the team and find out. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2183 "2025-09-14T12:01:50Z")
> This should surprise no one. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2184 "2025-09-14T12:13:56Z")
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**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2185 "2025-09-24T00:58:34Z")
I would revive the “Is Fox News really that bad” thread, but it is getting old enough I would feel bad so I’ll put this here. Trump said all kinds of crazy shit today in front of the UN including saying their countries are “going to hell”. He met with Zelensky and did an about face on Russia. Lots of actual news. What is the Fox News leading story? [![](https://i.imgur.com/Ome3iDh.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/Ome3iDh.png) ---
**Author:** ![OldOlds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a3d4f5/32.png) [@OldOlds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldOlds)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2186 "2025-09-24T15:01:27Z")
Is there video of him climbing the escalator? Because I’d be willing to bet he doesn’t look very graceful. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2187 "2025-09-24T15:07:13Z")
Heads will roll over this nasty event! You know that escalator was built by some woke company filled with DEI hires! > **[Escalator stops right as Trump gets on at the United Nations](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTAa97rSFgY%2F)** > > President Trump's visit to the U.N. got off to a shaky start when an escalator stopped right after he got on it. A U.N. official said the U.N. understands so... ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2188 "2025-09-24T15:10:43Z")
It’s no surprise his escalator doesn’t go all the way to the top. (I believe the escalator was accidentally stopped by one of those camera people you see going up ahead of him, so it was his own staff. And his own staff who screwed up the teleprompter too.) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2189 "2025-09-24T19:40:29Z")
There is. There was also a working up escalator right next to it. Did he, or seemingly anyone else, use it? No, but I guess the exercise was good for him. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2190 "2025-09-24T19:48:02Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > but I guess the exercise was good for him. His muscles are still sore from the effort. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2191 "2026-01-26T06:27:02Z")
Those bullshit artists at Fox News are up to their usual bootlicking ways. [Most Fox News Reporting on Minneapolis Shooting Supports Official Version - The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/business/media/fox-news-minneapolis-shooting.html) > The Department of Homeland Security [posted on social media](https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2015115351797780500) that Mr. Pretti “approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun” and that they tried to disarm him. But videos [analyzed by](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/minneapolis-shooting-federal-agents-video.html) The New York Times and other news outlets appear to show that Mr. Pretti never took his pistol out of his holster, even after multiple masked agents sprayed him in the face with chemical irritants and forced him to the ground. Instead, one agent removed Mr. Pretti’s firearm and immediately after that, two other officers began shooting him in the back. > > Yet on Sunday morning, that kind of analysis was nowhere to be found on Fox. Instead, Matt Finn, a reporter for Fox on the ground in Minneapolis, citing statements from the Department of Homeland Security, said that Mr. Pretti “had a 9MM semiautomatic handgun on him and two full magazines when he approached agents,” adding that “an agent, fearing for his life, ultimately shot Pretti.” > > Others on the channel supported suggestions that Mr. Pretti had brandished his weapon and had actively threatened the agents. That was how multiple federal officials described the incident, including Ms. Noem and Gregory Bovino, who heads Border Patrol operations. On Saturday, Mr. Bovino claimed in a news conference that Mr. Pretti “wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.” > > On Saturday night, Nicole Parker, a Fox contributor, said on air that “when you’re seeing a gun in your face and you’re in the scuffle, then you have to, again, assume that is a gun.” Early Sunday morning, Chris Clem, a retired Border Patrol agent interviewed on Fox News, called the shooting “tragic” but said that Mr. Pretti “put agents in a situation where they had to use deadly force.” ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2192 "2026-01-26T19:52:30Z")
IOW [![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS1JUysyKb6Yl0MSkSLh_Dk-fxCBx0rUlEMKg&s) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS1JUysyKb6Yl0MSkSLh_Dk-fxCBx0rUlEMKg&s) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2193 "2026-01-26T20:14:07Z")
Man, the Right Wing really hates gun rights. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2194 "2026-01-26T20:47:14Z")
No, just morphed to the usual _Gun rights for me, not for thee_. As I have said before, Republicans have elevated talking out both sides of their ass into a fine art, sometimes managing to accomplish it in consecutive sentences. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2195 "2026-01-26T22:16:00Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Man, the Right Wing really hates gun rights. Having a gun only gives you power if others don’t also have them. ---
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2196 "2026-01-28T17:08:41Z")
[![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSIBHm31L028XA1m8MzzH_bfcjEQL_9wDjCeg&s) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSIBHm31L028XA1m8MzzH_bfcjEQL_9wDjCeg&s) ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2197 "2026-01-28T17:15:24Z")
Too small to read. Is there a larger version? ---
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2198 "2026-01-28T17:22:38Z")
Sadly, not that I can find. Goes like this: “Sir, can you tell me what happened?” “That guy stabbed me.” “WTF, dude? That guy stabbed ME!” “We’ll continue to report equally on both sides of this complicated issue.” ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2026, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2199 "2026-03-08T16:38:15Z")
On Saturday, Trump wore a white baseball cap to the dignified transfer of remains of service members killed in Kuwait. Fox news aired footage of a dignified transfer from Trump’s first term, where he was not wearing a baseball cap. > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mgkguabktf2e)** > > Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used \*old footage of a previous dignified transfer\* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2026, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2200 "2026-03-08T16:41:49Z")
My speculation is that he has something wrong with his hair or perhaps a lesion or something of the sort up there. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2026, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2201 "2026-03-08T16:55:09Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > My speculation is that he has something wrong with his hair or perhaps a lesion or something of the sort up there. You are probably right. If that’s the case come out with a Huge bit of Gauze wrapped around his head. Then the media can make up another lie about what happened. A baseball cap is just unfathomably disrespectful. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180.md?page=109) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180.md?page=111)