Faux News strikes again: Hannity promotes verifiable Biden hoax
It seems like only yesterday we were being told that hosting the big Republican lie-o-rama on Wednesday night could help Fox News regain some of the credibility it never had to begin with. The fatal flaw in that theory is that it presumes Fox gives a damn about "credibility," which is a hard premise to justify when Fox hosts are using their fame to promote hoaxes at the exact same time. NBC News reports:
Fox News host Sean Hannity was among those who shared low-resolution video on X, the social media app formerly known as Twitter. Hannity’s post was viewed more than 425,000 times within a few hours, and similar videos posted by others received thousands more views on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.
The video in question is an intentionally low-resolution clip created to support yet another Republican hoax, this one claiming that President Joe Biden fell asleep during a memorial for the victims of the Maui fires. You can tell the video was created as a hoax because C-SPAN footage of the supposed moment is not grainy, and shows Biden looking down, coughing, nodding his approval at what the speaker is saying, and looking up again. None of it is out of place with what you’d see at any somber memorial. The video used to boost the hoax had to be low quality because the high-definition version simply disproves it.