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February 21, 2025, edition of Fox News' Outnumbered
EMILY COMPAGNO (CO-HOST): Isn't that fascinating, Kaylee, how great an impact can have of just having competent people in these positions like Secretary Noem and Tom Homan, that are just committed to enforcing our laws and executing the will of the people through the executive president.
KAYLEE MCGHEE WHITE (WRITER, WASHINGTON EXAMINER): Well, and I think it's important too to note that part of the reason why Kristi Noem is having to deputize so many State Department agents is because they can't get sanctuary cities and states to use local law enforcement to assist in federal immigration efforts. So now they're having to tap into other resources. And part of the messaging element here that's so important for people to understand, I understand how it can be a bit jarring. You know, I think about my friends and family back in the Midwest who are maybe seeing some of these social media videos of the deportations.
And sure, okay, I get that it's a bit jarring. But what you have to understand is that whereas most law-abiding Americans aren't worrying about how to evade law enforcement because because they respect this country and the laws that are there to keep us all safe, what Trump and Kristi Noem understand is that a lot of the illegal immigrants that the Biden administration spent the past four years importing don't. They understand force. They understand threat, and they understand very clearly the message that if they come here illegally, and especially if they come here illegally and continue to commit crime, they are going to be found, they are going to be arrested, and they are going to be sent back in chains. So that is something that is very important that needs to be communicated to these countries.
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November 15, 2024, edition of Fox News' Outnumbered
BEN FERGUSON (GUEST): I've never seen so many conservatives, by the way, now looking at following the money of Big Pharma, and realizing, like, hey, maybe we're actually being taken advantage of. Maybe they want to throw every single vaccine at you to make more money. And we know how much money they made off of vaccines. We also know that doctors were not honest with the American people because they were getting bonuses for how many vaccines they were putting out there. And the American people and mothers will not forget that. mma
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Fox News panel slams the Inflation Reduction Act with data that’s 2 years out of date
09/06/24 mma
Fox News panel slams the Inflation Reduction Act with data that’s 2 years out of date
Perhaps the team at Fox simply forgot what year it is?
Written by Craig Harrington
Research contributions from Zachary Pleat
Published 09/06/24
All five of the co-hosts of Fox News’ midday program Outnumbered got in on the action Friday of taking shots at one of the Biden-Harris administration’s signature legislative accomplishments: the Inflation Reduction Act.
In their criticisms of the law they seemed completely unaware of the dramatic reduction of inflation that has occurred over the past two years, and they dishonestly characterized the bill as a sort of Trojan horse for major climate legislation.
On the September 6 edition of Fox News’ Outnumbered, co-host and former Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany introduced the segment by slamming President Joe Biden for “admitting” that the Inflation Reduction Act “wasn't about inflation; it was really about his climate agenda.”
As the segment progressed, all of the co-hosts took turns deriding the “Inflation Explosion Act” for supposedly resulting in increased inflation and mocking President Joe Biden for his purported recent admission that the IRA was actually just a version of the Green New Deal.
Fox News’ production team also paired the segment with a misleading on-screen graphic criticizing Biden for annualized inflation rising from 1.4% before he took office to 9.1% in June 2022.
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CitationFrom the September 6, 2024, edition of Fox News' Outnumbered
Both of Fox’s lines of attack are deeply misleading.
First, the Inflation Reduction Act is not simply a rebrand of the Green New Deal. Fox has been lying about this for years, and it has never been true.
The Biden administration has also not been secretive about the historic climate provisions included in the bill. As the bill was being negotiated in July 2022, The Washington Post touted that its provisions included “the nation’s biggest-ever climate bill.” CNN likewise described the law as “the largest climate investment in US history, and by far the biggest legislative win for the environmental movement since the Clean Air Act.” Last August, the White House marked the first anniversary of the passage of the IRA by releasing a fact sheet boasting that the IRA “is the most ambitious investment in combating the climate crisis in world history.”
Second, the inflationary peak the Fox personalities claimed to be so upset about occurred more than two years ago. The Inflation Reduction Act was negotiated in Congress and enacted into law amid that inflationary peak.
The IRA was enacted in August 2022 and, since it went into effect, all traditional measurements of inflation have improved considerably –– a fact McEnany glossed over.
Fox viewers were shown this graphic, which included only January 2021 (when the economy was still largely dampened by COVID) and June 2022 (peak of inflation). Fox could have easily shown its viewers more recent data, demonstrating that inflation has been stable for over a year and is now only slightly higher than pre-pandemic levels:
Fox personality Lisa Kennedy Montgomery slammed the administration, saying that working families “haven’t gotten a raise” and that the price of eggs has risen to “$10 a dozen,” but those statements are simply false.
In reality, average hourly wages are up, wage growth has outpaced inflation since May 2023, and the average egg price is $3 per dozen nationwide. Even with inflation, an analysis from the Center for American Progress shows that wage increases had surpassed price increases by November 2023.
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the hosts of Fox News’ popular midday news program Outnumbered trotted out misleading statistics from the right-wing Federation for American Immigration Reform — doused with Fox’s own patented brand of paranoid xenophobia — to fearmonger about the supposedly unsustainable financial burden immigrants place on American society. The report underpinning Fox’s segment is an apparent reproduction of a 2017 FAIR study that was roundly criticized for methodological omissions and exaggerations. At no point did anyone at Fox acknowledge how much immigrants contribute to American society or how much immigration contributes to economic growth and prosperity.
During the April 16 edition of Outnumbered, co-host Emily Campagno introduced a segment about the supposed financial burden imposed by illegal immigration.
“As the bloated government processes our taxes, we are learning just how much of your money is going toward the migrant crisis,” she began, before pivoting to data from FAIR; “The total net fiscal cost of illegal immigration is $150 billion.”
“So let’s run through some of those numbers, guys,” Campagno continued. “At the federal, state, and local levels, taxpayers are shelling out about $14 billion for welfare, $42 billion for medical care for the illegal immigrants, and that boils down to each individual taxpayer paying an estimated $1,100 a year, which Americans, I think we well know, don’t have.”
Seemingly riffing on the findings outlined in the FAIR report, right-wing radio host Ben Ferguson invoked the xenophobic “great replacement” conspiracy theory, arguing that the “Marxist, socialist, and communist” Democratic Party understands “that if you bankrupt a country, and you bring in new voters in the process, which we’re doing literally by the millions right now, then you can fundamentally change the United States of America in one generation.”
Dialing up the paranoia, Ferguson then suggested that supporting migrants was related to the Democratic Party’s supposed efforts to hook Americans on government benefits. “The government’s there to hand you your food and your housing and your medical,” he said. “They own you like a modern-day slave.”
Outnumbered co-host Harris Faulkner then narrated an on-screen scroll of government programs and agencies that cost less than the $150 billion allegedly spent on so-called “illegal immigration.”
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CitationFrom the April 16, 2024, edition of Fox News' Outnumbered
There’s just one problem. The entire set-up for this segment was based on false information. The study from FAIR — an anti-immigrant organization founded by a white nationalist and defined as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center — is junk.
In fact, the 2023 study Fox cited in today’s broadcast — “The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers” — appears to follow the same methodology as a 2017 report that the libertarian Cato Institute comprehensively debunked the same year. From Cato (emphasis added):
FAIR’s report reaches that conclusion by vastly overstating the costs of illegal immigration, undercounting the tax revenue they generate, inflating the number of illegal immigrants, counting millions of U.S. citizens as illegal immigrants, and by concocting a method of estimating the fiscal costs that is rejected by all economists who work on this subject.
FAIR’s Errors
Merely using the correct numberswhen it comes to the actual size of the illegal immigrant population, the correct tax rates, and the effect of immigrants on property values lowers the net fiscal cost by 87 percent to 97 percent, down to $15.6 billion or $3.3 billion, respectively.
Fox News relied on a report that seemingly overstated the actual costs of illegal immigration by “87 to 97 percent.”
In line with Cato’s 2017 findings, FAIR admits in its 2023 methodology that its estimate of the undocumented population “is higher than those offered by most mainstream immigration research organizations” and that it intentionally “includes costs incurred by minor, U.S.-born children” in its calculation even though those children are Americans with the full rights and responsibilities of citizenship. (Anti-immigrant groups often use statistical gimmicks to exaggerate the supposed problems created by immigration, like lumping American citizens in with those in the country without permission or speculatively extrapolating the costs of government programs.)
Fox News depicting immigrants as an unsustainable fiscal burden imperiling American society falls in line with the network’s other routinely xenophobic portrayals of migrants.
Just this month, a Fox guest warned that immigrants were “poisoning the bloodline in this country,” while a long-time Fox Business host used the tragic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge to claim that migrant workers were “destroying the country.”
Earlier this month, a Fox prime-time host warned that immigration would turn America into a “third-world dumping ground.”
On another occasion, a Fox guest warned that “illegal immigrants” voting in elections was “part of a political endgame for the Democrats to hold power.”
Fox’s hard turn into anti-immigrant rhetoric, and its embrace of the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, in particular, has only heightened as the 2024 election goes into full swing.
October 31, 2023, edition of Fox News' Outnumbered
EMILY COMPAGNO (CO-HOST): I just want to dig a little deeper into the UN, because as we consistently repeat how the greatest antisemitic organization, essentially, outside of the terror organizations is the UN, I want people to understand and know exactly why and how.
So for example, last year the UN condemned Israel more times than they condemned every other country combined. And when you spoke about the ones that they condemned last year, no condemnations whatsoever toward Turkey, China, Qatar, Venezuela, and more. And not only was that just last year alone, but since 2015, the [United Nations General Assembly] has adopted 140 resolutions condemning and criticizing Israel. Guess how many for the world combined? Sixty-eight. A mere 68.
And I have to point out this, the final point, because we're getting low on time, that just in the beginning of this year, before these atrocities began, before Hamas invaded Israel and butchered their people with the goal of extermination, the UN referred to the ICJ, the International Criminal Court of Justice, they referred Israel for what they called the "prolonged occupation, settlement, and annexation of Palestinian territory." To me, Israel is wasting that effort against – before the UN with these yellow Stars of David they should be so proud to wear, that we all solidarity wear with them. Because that body, more than anyone else, is the deaf ears.
KAYLEIGH MCENANY (CO-HOST): Yep, almost as if the United Nations exists to target one nation, Israel.
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'Complete lie': Fox News anchor allegedly fabricated story during primetime guest hosting gig
David Badash and The New Civil Rights Movement June 07, 2023
After firing its star host, Tucker Carlson, Fox News has been scheduling its other anchors to fill in as guest hosts on a week-by-week basis, with some viewers, if not network brass, seeing these as auditions.
This week Harris Faulkner, host of the far-right network’s “The Faulkner Focus” and co-host of “Outnumbered,” filled in during what was once Carlson’s slot.
Reaction online has not been positive.
On Monday, Faulkner claimed she had been kicked out of a restaurant for praying, in what The Wrap called a “blistering, biblical monologue about the ongoing ‘attack’ on the Christian faith in America.”
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“We know who we are. And we know who’s we are,” Faulkner told the dwindling Fox News audience. “For those of us who believe, we must be bold in our faith right now. When you gather in public spaces pray thankfully over your food, even when the server gives you the stink-eye, or tells the manager that your peaceful grace is triggering them. Had it happen to me. I’ve been asked to leave a restaurant for openly bowing my head in prayer hands. In America. It’s all good. They don’t deserve my money anyway.”
Many demanded Faulkner name the restaurant, or provide proof. Among them, The Daily Beast’s senior media reporter Justin Baragona, who tweeted, Monday night, “I’m going to ask Fox News PR if Harris Faulkner can provide the name of the restaurant and date when this happened. Will update if I receive a response.”
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Baragona has yet to state he’s received a response.
Another doubter is Republican former Congressman Adam Kinzinger, who wrote: “We need the name of this restaurant and when it happened. If true that’s awful. IF it’s not true… which seems most likely the case… then there needs to be accountability. Lies are not the tool of the Lord. And the USA isn’t his god.”
During that same monologue, as The Daily Beast noted, Faulkner told Fox News viewers: “Women and children are being redesigned by some sort of mad leftist science experiment.”
“It’s as though people on the left have more free time than anybody else. They want to acronym and pronoun us to death,” she said, apparently taking a swing at the LGBTQ community. “Well know this: the Lord has determined I am a woman, and my pronouns are U.S.A.”
“We are in a spiritual fightfor the soul of America,” she also claimed, “and if you think that’s not true, take a look around at what’s going on.The devil has gotten into some people. The worst part of experiencing our country ripping at the seams is that our enemies are massing, feasting on the tastiness of our weaknesses.”
Baragona pointed out, “In her first night on primetime filling in for Tucker’s old timeslot, Harris Faulkner drew 1.59 million total viewers and just 105,000 in the 25-54 advertising demographic, finishing behind CNN and MSNBC in the demo. Tucker averaged 3.26 million total viewers last quarter.”
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Former CNN media reporter Brian Stelter added, “And Jen Psaki was filling in at 8 on MSNBC,” suggesting MSNBC might have had fewer regular viewers during that time slot.
But the real outrage came on Tuesday, when Faulkner delivered what many deemed an outright “lie,” and served up proof of their accusations.
Faulker told Fox News viewers, “You know, we didn’t actually close schools in 1918, during the Spanish flu pandemic.”
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“And sometimes we make dangerously bad decisions, like pandemic lockdowns and keeping our own children home from schools when a virus was hurting them far less often than adults,” she said, ignoring the fact that family transmission often started with children (see below.) “You know, we didn’t actually close schools in 1918 during the Spanish flu pandemic. We didn’t even have penicillin back then. We did sacrifice. We suffered but then we pressed on. Our enemies hate us for surviving, but they would love to be like us.”
“This is blatantly untrue and takes about 3 seconds to fact check,” observed Media Matters for America’s Kat Abu.
And fact check many did.
Some noted that penicillin is an antibiotic, not an antiviral, and would have had no effect on the “Spanish flu,” an erroneous term (the first case identified was in the U.S.) for what is broadly known as the 1918 flu pandemic. The CDC says, “The 1918 H1N1 flu pandemic, sometimes referred to as the “Spanish flu,” killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide, including an estimated 675,000 people in the United States.”
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Attorney Brad Moss, calling Faulkner’s claim a “complete lie,” also tweeted: “Utter and total falsity. You would think these fools would have some shame after paying Dominion hundreds of millions of dollars.”
And he came with receipts, including a screenshot of a New York Times article from October, 1918, noting the entire state of Pennsylvania had “indefinitely” shut down all schools, churches, theaters, and “all places of public assemblage.”
Others pointed to a PBS article from 2020 that reads: “During the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, when an estimated 675,000 people died in the United States alone, the majority of public schools were closed for weeks to months on end. But three major cities — New York City, Chicago, and New Haven — kept their schools open amid valid questions and concerns about safety.”
So false was Faulkner’s claim, a readers’ note was added to video of it. It points to a study that states: “During the 1918–19 influenza pandemic, many local authorities made the controversial decision to close schools.”
Others on social media pointed to an article published last week by theUniversity of Minnesota: “More than 70% of US household COVID spread started with a child, study suggests.”
As for Faulkner’s claim that, “Our enemies hate us for surviving, but they would love to be like us,” the U.S. ranks 15th worst among all countries around the world in COVID deaths per capita.
Meanwhile, Baragona also weighed in, noting: “Throughout the height of the pandemic, Harris Faulkner would only broadcast her show from the safety of her house.”
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f**ox News** personality Harris Faulkner took time on Friday to bring up **Hillary Clinton** in a discussion about a highly controversial New York Times editorial written by conservative Bret Stephens, titled, “I Was Wrong About Trump Voters.”
“First of all I want to go back to Hillary Clinton for just a second and I normally don’t blame one person for an entire movement nor do I give them total credit either but she was a specific case of bringing hate to a new level in this country,” Faulkner told her Fox News colleagues on “Outnumbered.”
Faulkner partially praised President Bill Clinton, while not mentioning him by name or title, but said he did bring the country together during a time of economic hardship. (By the time he left office Bill Clinton balanced the federal budget and erased the federal deficit.)
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“Her husband was the one in dynamically similar straits that we are today economically who said ‘I feel your pain’ to every single American. He was able to do something that really we haven’t seen anybody do since and that’s bring the entire country together, maybe for just that moment,” Faulkner said, adding, “and Lord knows he had his issues right?”
“But with her it particularly was damaging for her to express her hate for half the country after having been in a White House for eight years when it wasn’t specifically like that,” she added, presumably referring to Clinton’s remark suggesting half of Trump voters – not half the country – are “deplorables.”
Faulkner mischaracterized and misstated Clinton’s remarks from the highly contentious 2016 campaign, so for the sake of fact-based reporting here is what the former U.S. Senator and U.S. Secretary of State said, via NPR:
You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? [Laughter/applause]. The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric. Now some of those folks, they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.
Clinton, like Stephens in his New York Times essay, went on to talk about “that other basket of people who are people who feel that government has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they are just desperate for change.”
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Neither Faulkner nor most of the media ever reported on that part, arguably the more important part of Clinton’s comments, where she essentially suggested she too felt their pain:
But the other basket, the other basket, and I know because I see friends from all over America here. I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas, as well as you know New York and California. But that other basket of people who are people who feel that government has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they are just desperate for change. It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from. They don’t buy everything he says but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they’re in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.”
Faulkner went on to say:
When people were really down and you didn’t kick them when they were down. You tried to help them with a better economy with saying that you understood them. So now you fast forward and we get the Clinton crowd, the Hillary Clinton version of that crowd, as you say, and we’re only growing more of them. Because it’s easier sometimes to profligate hate than it is to shed your grace and love.
**Watch Faulkner’s remarks below or at this link.**
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with thousands dying from extreme global heat in recent days, and as President Joe Biden announced new executive actions to address the climate crisis, right-wing media figures and climate deniers are downplaying the heat wave and the threat from human-caused climate change.
In Europe, extreme “red” heat warnings were issued in the United Kingdom for the first time, and Wales recorded its highest-ever temperature. Railroad lines, major highways, and airport runways in the U.K. buckled under the extreme heat. Multiple regions of Germany also set all-time highs, as did at least part of Denmark. Over 2,000people have died in Spain and Portugal due to the extreme heat, which has fueled wildfires there and in parts of France. These record-setting events are not contained to Europe. Parts of the U.S. and Central Asia are suffering from extreme heat as well.
Even though the extreme heat event in Europe is truly exceptional, and its connections to the climate crisis are unquestionable, multiple right-wing media figures used the extreme heat event to downplay and criticize any possible action to address the climate crisis.
Right-wing media also attacked Biden for considering declaring a climate emergency during this deadly heat wave. Instead Biden unveiled much more modest steps to address climate impacts, such as putting $2.3 billion toward community resilience and infrastructure and bolstering offshore wind development. The Federalist falsely declared that “Biden has no right to declare a ‘national climate emergency,’' though The Washington Post explained that such a move would “tap a variety of long-standing emergency authorities under the National Emergencies Act and other laws.” LifeSiteNews fearmongered thatthe emergency powers would result in “climate lockdowns.” And other right-wing media suggested that there is no crisis at all.
Right-wing media denied the existence of the climate emergency
Fox News host Dan Bongino questioned whether the planet is getting warmer and whether humanity played a role in it, asking: “What kind of a dunce believes that? Come on. Is it [the planet] getting warmer? The answer is maybe. … The question isn’t is it getting warmer; the question is what’s human beings' role in it.” Fox News, *Hannity*, [7/19/22]
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton wrote on Twitter: “There is obviously no ‘climate emergency'.” Twitter, [7/19/22]
Fox host Tucker Carlson devoted a monologue to undermining the existence of climate change, reducing climate predictions to: “It’s gonna be hot and then it’s gonna rain hard.” “No one really believes in global warming,” he continued, “and that’s why all of the liberals in the United States live on the coasts – because they don’t believe it… The entire theory is absurd and they know it. … The whole thing is a joke.” Fox News, *Tucker Carlson Tonight*, [7/20/22]
On Fox, conservative British political commentator Douglas Murray dismissed the urgency of the climate crisis, saying, “Whenever there is not an absolutely vital recent emergency, we can always fall back on – oh and the climate emergency.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [7/20/22]
Fox anchor Dana Perino asked: “What has changed with the science that would lead a president to need to declare an emergency?” Fox News, *America’s Newsroom*[, 7/20/22]
Fox host Todd Piro said that climate impacts, particularly the ones affecting the most vulnerable communities, did not meet his criteria for an emergency: “While we all love clean air and clean water — I, in fact, use both … this is not an emergency that we need to focus on today. We got a lot of other problems in the world.” Fox News, *Outnumbered*, [7/20/22]
Fox host Sean Hannity responded to new actions by the Biden administration to address climate change by dismissing the role of human influence over global warming saying, “I think these might be acts of nature, and God, and way out of the realm of something that human beings can prevent.” Fox News, *Hannity*, [7/20/22]
Conservatives also downplayed the deadly extreme heat
Climate change denying author Bjorn Lomborg dismissed the dangerous extreme heat event, writing on Twitter: “Standard climate scare.” Twitter, [7/17/22]
Climate denier Steven Milloy on Twitter dismissed a Washington Post article linking the Europe heat wave to climate change, writing: “Hot in some places. Cool in others. Just weather. Not climate.” Twitter, [7/19/22]
Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade dismissed the dangers extreme heat poses to human health, saying: “Don’t panic. It is summer. If it was December and this was happening, then I would say, this is a little weird. But it's just a little bit hotter than usual.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [7/20/22]
Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro said on his radio show that the heat wave and wildfires were being reported so fervently because “you always know that it’s the slow season newswise when you start getting weather reports from Europe. … The thing that they will never tell you, the media, is that more people die of cold every year than die of heat every year, but the cold narrative doesn’t tend to play into the climate change narrative that they wish to progmulate.” The Daily Wire, *The Ben Shapiro Show*,[7/19/22]
Fox host Jesse Watters dismissed the extreme heat event as regular seasonal weather, saying: “Joe Biden has seen more seasons than a lot of us. He knows that it gets cold in January and hot in July.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [7/20/22
Watters followed this up with an interview during which an on-screen graphic read: “Dems worried about weather, not real problems.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [7/20/22]
Fox host Greg Gutfeld said: “We are in a full-blown heat wave hysteria.” He said that while he does believe “it’s getting warmer,” climate advocates should “think about the opportunity cost of all the zealotry. You know? Panic didn’t work.” Fox News, *The Five*, [7/20/22]
Right-wing media also attacked the Biden administration for considering a climate emergency declaration
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed on his Infowars show that a climate emergency would be orchestrated by a “scientific global dictatorship whose aim is 90% world depopulation,” and that it would lead to a “dystopia”: “You’re gonna live in a 200-square-foot coffin apartment, you’re gonna be given forced inoculations five, six times a year, you’re gonna be sterilized, you’re gonna be killed.” Infowars, *The Alex Jones Show*,[7/20/22]
The Wall Street Journal editorial board called a possible emergency declaration “a serious abuse of power.” The Wall Street Journal, [7/19/22]
Kilmeade called Biden’s executive orders tone-deaf and “agenda-driven,” insisting that they “will do nothing but hurt the price of oil and gas.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*,[7/19/22]
Hannity quoted climate denier Joe Bastardi, saying on his radio show that Democrats’ response to climate change is the “systemic dismantling of the American way of life. It’s not a rational response to a climate crisis.” Premiere Radio Networks, *The Sean Hannity Show*, [7/19/22]
Hosts of Fox’s Outnumbered claimed a possible climate emergency declaration from Biden “could cause a global depression,” is “suicide,” and is “going to kill the economy.”:{ Fox News, :(style="background-color:#ffffff;"):}:*Outnumbered*:{, :(style="background-color:#ffffff;"):}:[7/19/22:{]}:
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