‘Could we check that?’: dumbfounded Fox News host falls for former congressman’s joke

Fox News co-host Brian Kilmeade appeared dumbfounded after falling for a joke by now-former U.S. Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), the once-powerful chair of the far-right House Freedom Caucus who lost his seat in the GOP primary last year after Donald Trump supported his Republican opponent.

In the lead up to this afternoon's vote for Speaker of the House, where Mike Johnson has a razor-thin majority and his re-election is controversial among some in the GOP, Good posted a tweet jokingly declaring, "I will NOT be voting for Mike Johnson for Speaker todat [sic]."

Good has no vote since the new House is being sworn in today and his time in office has ended.

But live, on air, in an interview with U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Kilmeade breathlessly announced, "Well, I got bad news. Congressman Bob Good just tweeted out, he will not be voting for Mike Johnson."

Congressman Jordan replied, "Well, remember Brian, Bob Good has left so I — maybe there's some other name, but I, Bob Good is..."

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Kilmeade, appearing to talk to his producer, replied, "Could we check that?"

"What are you saying he's? —" Kilmeade continued, looking down.

"Bob Good lost that close primary back in that Virginia seat," Jordan continued. "John Maguire is the new member there, John will be voting for, uh, Mike Johnson, for Speaker."

"Alright," Kilmeade replied. "Good point. He's not there anymore, so I shouldn't have brought that up. My bad. But he put that out. Evidently."

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Kilmeade was mocked for being unaware that a well-known Congressman lost in a close primary in June that went into a recount that was in the news for months, and not finalized until August.

"It’s the professionalism that I respect," snarked Meidas Touch podcaster Fred Wellman, a political consultant and military veterans activist.

"How this group of jokers expects us to take them seriously, I do not know," observed award-winning author Jennifer Erin Valent.

"This is utterly hilarious," noted political writer Mona Burns. "Evidently Fox 'News' hosts (& producers) are also unaware that Bob Good is no longer a sitting member of Congress .. Seriously cannot make this stuff up."

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