In a poorly-timed flub, Fox News host Sean Hannity appeared to call Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) by the name of his state instead of his actual name.
This came shortly after yet another segment in which Hannity cast aspersions on President Joe Biden's cognitive abilities, suggesting he was unfit to carry out the basic duties of office.
"Here with reaction, Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson, Florida Congressman Michael Waltz," Hannity said in the clip first flagged by Acyn Torabi of the progressive Meidas Touch. "Florida — uh, Congressman..."
In recent weeks, Fox News and other right-wing media outlets have tried to push the narrative that Biden lost his mental faculties using a series of deceptively edited videos. The videos are called "cheapfakes" to distinguish them from fully engineered deepfakes, cut or cropped to create the impression Biden is not entirely there.
In a recent example, the New York Post showed a clip of Biden appearing to wander off from other leaders at the G7 summit, cutting out that he was interacting with a paratrooper off-screen.
While Biden has messed up words in his speeches, as a result of trying to control a lifelong stutter, such flubs are common in regular speech by everyone, and Hannity is by no means alone — Trump himself gave a speech in Racine, Wisconsin this week loaded with speech flubs.
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