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Fox News guest offers up such an egregious lie he gets fact-checked by hosts in real time [1]

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Date: 2023-01-27  

Sandra Smith, Brian Claypool, and John Roberts try to pretend they are playing news person!

On Friday, footage from home security cameras and police body cameras that captured the attack on Paul Pelosi, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, was released to the public. In the wee hours of the night on Oct. 28, 2022, 42-year-old David DePape broke into the Pelosi home in the Pacific Heights area of San Francisco. He used a hammer to break in. The attack left Paul Pelosi in the hospital with a fractured skull.

The Republican Party and the conspiracist wing of the conservative movement (which basically includes most Republican elected officials these days) quickly tried to downplay this attack on an elected official’s spouse as something other than what was being presented. They made bad jokes about it. They implied that there was something untoward about the whole situation. Specifically, online MAGA-sleuths said that Paul Pelosi was clearly having some kind of drug- and alcohol-fueled extramarital liaison with this man that went wrong. Considering there was no evidence to imply this, it was a truly debased position to take privately, let alone publicly.

With the video out now, it is clear that the story that was told by authorities in the first place is backed up by the video evidence, the police report evidence, and the eyewitness evidence. But that doesn’t mean Fox News’ guests aren’t still willing to promote a well-debunked narrative—even when their misinformation is being contradicted in real time, on the same screen they are spewing lies on.

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