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Fox News Called Out For Turning Healthiest Cities List Into 'Most Unhealthy' List To Attack Dems
Fox News is getting mercilessly mocked on Twitter after attempting to smear Democrats by reporting a supposed ranking of the unhealthiest cities in the U.S. in the exact opposite order.
The report was purportedly about the "Top Ten Most Unhealthy U.S. Cities," all of which are led by Democrats.
The problem is the data is readily available, and as Twitter commentator @Acyn quickly discovered via a simple Google search, the cities Fox News reported as the ten unhealthiest are actually the healthiest in the nation.
See @Acyn's tweet below.
I went to the source cited in this graphic and I\u2019m not sure what happened herepic.twitter.com/3E1S3Dzvhg— Acyn (@Acyn) 1644114985
Lest you think @Acyn did a bunch of high-level sleuthing here, think again: As they said in their tweet, they simply went to Fox's very own source cited oncreen.
As seen below in the screenshot @Acyn included, the cities cited on Fox's map are actually the top 10 healthiest in the U.S.
@Acyn/Twitter
The totally incorrect graphics appeared on far-right ideologue Dan Bongino's show Unfiltered as evidence of the Democrats' supposed lack of interest in the health of people in urban areas.
To illustrate this nonsense, Bongino used a map marked with supposedly "unhealthy" cities like San Francisco, Seattle, and Denver, where Bongino claimed "you stand a pretty good chance of dyin'" because they are run by "Democrats... who [don't give] a damn about people and their health outcomes."
Fact check, please!
Here's what Bongino was saying around the time the upside-down "MOST UNHEALTHY U.S. CITIES" graphic was on screen:pic.twitter.com/eWqEYFVEP7— Daniel Dale (@Daniel Dale) 1644128906
Of course, those cities are far better known as meccas for sporty, outdoorsy types than people who are just withering away. And Fox's cited source revealed the actual top 10 most unhealthy cities are all in Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and West Virginia--among the reddest states in the union. Oops.
And just to add a cherry on top, Bongino and his team appear to have mixed up 143rd-healthiest Irving, Texas, which was marked on their map graphic, with 8th-healthiest Irvine, California. Oops, again.
So was this just a careless mistake or a deliberate bald-faced lie? Given that Bongino is so dedicated to misinformation that he's just been permanently banned from YouTube for spreading lies about COVID-19, it seems likely it's the latter.
Either way, the drags came in hot on Twitter.
I thought you were kidding until I had to look it up myself. Why does Fox keep deceiving its viewers? Don\u2019t they know that this information is easily available on the net?pic.twitter.com/4G0CNcdJdQ— Will Sr- Democracy Won \ud83d\udc99\u2764 (@Will Sr- Democracy Won \ud83d\udc99\u2764) 1644152147
So they blatantly took the top 10 healthiest and said they were the top 10 UNhealthiest? Even for Fox News this seems ridiculous.— Abraham Dylan (@Abraham Dylan) 1644115591
This is why we should always click on sources. They think were too lazy to do it but, often the source does not confirm the original information. In this case it\u2019s the LITERAL opposite.— PoliticsGirl (@PoliticsGirl) 1644132324
Lol\u2026Irving\u2026This list is ridiculous.— Jay \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\u2693\ufe0f\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 (@Jay \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\u2693\ufe0f\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6) 1644118490
Here\u2019s the bottom 10 from that list. I guess they didn\u2019t show these because of which party runs them.pic.twitter.com/mkq66cikfk— Kamiano75 (@Kamiano75) 1644121286
https://twitter.com/stinkshovel/status/1486409687331442690?s=21\u00a0\u2026— Nate (@Nate) 1644129627
Please tell Dan Bongino he's a hairy, annoying, lying, Neanderthal twat-monkey (I don't know, twat-monkey just feels right).\n\nI'd tell him myself but he blocked me before time began.\n\n@UnfilteredOnFox @dbshownotes #MAGA #GOP #GOPTraitorsToDemocracy #Trumphttps://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-host-dan-bongino-faceplants-in-attempt-to-own-unhealthy-libs-with-fake-graphic?via=twitter_page\u00a0\u2026— Mamaleh Trump (@Mamaleh Trump) 1644187958
There should be laws against this.pic.twitter.com/UO7zNBcfKr— evie \u10e6 \ud83d\ude37 (@evie \u10e6 \ud83d\ude37) 1644129312
Isn't that the tagline for his show?\n\n "Totally, completely, almost comically wrong."— Denise Tate (@Denise Tate) 1644264215
Regardless of his intent, Bongino definitely noticed the blowback and the map was subsequently removed from the replay later that night.
They changed it already. You post made them change the repeat at midnight on Fox.pic.twitter.com/AdQWeAEl2G— The Rok (@The Rok) 1644131170
Fox News also toldThe Daily Beast that a correction would be issued on next week's episode of Unfiltered.
Too little too late.