Fox News Stoked Outrage Over Migrants Displacing Homeless Vets. It Was a Hoax.

[Guno צְבִי]

Whipping up the flyover country rubes into a mouth foaming frenzy


The story had all the hallmarks of fueling the maximum amount of right-wing outrage. With migrants being bused into New York City amid an immigration surge at the southern border, upstate New York hotels had supposedly kicked out homeless veterans in order to make room for the influx of asylum seekers.

After right-wing tabloid The New York Post published the sensational report last Friday, Fox News and Newsmax ran wild with it, devoting dozens of segments (and countless online articles) to the indignation of “people who served our country and need a little boost” getting displaced by “illegals,” all while “these hotels are selling their soul for a check.”

Turns out, however, the whole story was made up.


https://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-stoked-outrage-over-184955929.html

 

[Jade Dragon]

Whipping up the flyover country rubes into a mouth foaming frenzy


The story had all the hallmarks of fueling the maximum amount of right-wing outrage. With migrants being bused into New York City amid an immigration surge at the southern border, upstate New York hotels had supposedly kicked out homeless veterans in order to make room for the influx of asylum seekers.

After right-wing tabloid The New York Post published the sensational report last Friday, Fox News and Newsmax ran wild with it, devoting dozens of segments (and countless online articles) to the indignation of “people who served our country and need a little boost” getting displaced by “illegals,” all while “these hotels are selling their soul for a check.”

Turns out, however, the whole story was made up.


https://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-stoked-outrage-over-184955929.html

I already figured that considering who was wailing about it at the time.

 

[Guno צְבִי]

 

[Tinkerpeach]

According to your link the NYP was correct.

The vets were kicked out and replaced and the NYP printed the story.

All completely accurate.

After the story came out the city placed the vets in another housing facility obviously to cover up what they did.

You should thank FOX for reporting this and keeping our vets safe.

 

[Guno צְבִי]

Naturally, this story was absolute catnip for the right-wing media industrial complex. Fox News and its sister channel Fox Business began covering it immediately after the Post report dropped, frequently featuring prominent Republicans—including Maher—expressing their outrage over Democrats putting the needs of “illegal immigrants” over homeless vets. Newsmax followed suit shortly after.

However, earlier this week, local media began poking holes in the story. After Maher had provided a credit card receipt from Toney-Finch supposedly showing payment for the rooms at the Crossroads Hotel, The Mid-Hudson News reported that the hotel had no record of the transaction. Additionally, a graphics expert examined the receipt and said it appeared to be altered.

The manager of the hotel also told Mid-Hudson News that no veterans were ever at the hotel, let alone kicked out of Crossroads. No other guests had been displaced either, as the hotel had not been booked to capacity despite housing a group of migrants.

Eventually, Maher ended up denouncing the story as fake and emotionally told the Times-Union he was “devastated and disheartened” after finding out from Toney-Finch that she had made the whole thing up.

 

[Guno צְבִי]

According to your link the NYP was correct.

The vets were kicked out and replaced and the NYP printed the story.

All completely accurate.

After the story came out the city placed the vets in another housing facility obviously to cover up what they did.

You should thank FOX for reporting this and keeping our vets safe.

poor low IQ women

The manager of the hotel also told Mid-Hudson News that no veterans were ever at the hotel, let alone kicked out of Crossroads. No other guests had been displaced either, as the hotel had not been booked to capacity despite housing a group of migrants.

Eventually, Maher ended up denouncing the story as fake and emotionally told the Times-Union he was “devastated and disheartened” after finding out from Toney-Finch that she had made the whole thing up.

 

[martin]

Whipping up the flyover country rubes into a mouth foaming frenzy


The story had all the hallmarks of fueling the maximum amount of right-wing outrage. With migrants being bused into New York City amid an immigration surge at the southern border, upstate New York hotels had supposedly kicked out homeless veterans in order to make room for the influx of asylum seekers.

After right-wing tabloid The New York Post published the sensational report last Friday, Fox News and Newsmax ran wild with it, devoting dozens of segments (and countless online articles) to the indignation of “people who served our country and need a little boost” getting displaced by “illegals,” all while “these hotels are selling their soul for a check.”

Turns out, however, the whole story was made up.


https://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-stoked-outrage-over-184955929.html

Calling out false new stories like that one is a service to everyone. Thanks guno.

 

[Guno צְבִי]

The story got even wilder on Friday, however, when Mid-Hudson News further reported that Toney-Finch had recruited a group of homeless men from a nearby shelter to pretend they were the military veterans that had been displaced by migrants.

 

[Tinkerpeach]

poor low IQ women

The manager of the hotel also told Mid-Hudson News that no veterans were ever at the hotel, let alone kicked out of Crossroads. No other guests had been displaced either, as the hotel had not been booked to capacity despite housing a group of migrants.

Eventually, Maher ended up denouncing the story as fake and emotionally told the Times-Union he was “devastated and disheartened” after finding out from Toney-Finch that she had made the whole thing up.

You might want to check the Post sources that contradict that manager.

 

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[Geeko Sportivo]

According to your link the NYP was correct.

The vets were kicked out and replaced and the NYP printed the story.

All completely accurate.

After the story came out the city placed the vets in another housing facility obviously to cover up what they did.

You should thank FOX for reporting this and keeping our vets safe.

Man, your weed must be better than mine!

I'm just not getting those kind of hallucinations with mine!