Fox News’ resident Democratic commentator Jessica Tarlov called out a social media account for attempting to fact-check her using a video clip from a day earlier in a testy reply Friday.
The digital dust-up began after Tarlov appeared on the radar of the conservative-leaning social media account Media Lies, which was previously “KamalaHQLies.” The account posted a video Friday to its roughly 300,000 followers of Tarlov airing her opinion about the spending bill fiasco during a Fox News segment.
“What’s your problem with a bipartisan cancer research program for $190 million dollars? A drop in the bucket of what this is, those are the kinds of things that came out of this,” Tarlov said in the 27-second clip.
Her statement on cancer research prompted the social media account to weigh in and set the record straight – or so it thought.
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“Jessica Tarlov and other liberal shills have spewed lies claiming that the GOP wants to get rid of cancer research. It’s false. The Senate has just passed H.R. 3391 granting the research funding,” Media Lies wrote on X above the clip of Tarlov.
But the left-leaning pundit wasn’t having it.
The problem, according to Tarlov, is the clip was over 24 hours old, and with the fast-moving developments on Capitol Hill, not an accurate knock at her.
“lol show a clip from over 24 hours ago before Tim Kaine got this done *after Rand Paul dropped his resistance* this evening - keeping it classy as always!” Tarlov, a co-host on Fox News’ “The Five” wrote in a reply post.
The funding bill scrambled together by lawmakers starring down the possibility of a government shutdown passed the House by a vote of 366-34, keeping the government from a holiday shutdown.
Watch the clip below or at this link.
