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Fox News: Only ‘A Very Small Percentage’ of Homeless People Are Homeless ‘Because They Can’t Afford Housing’

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Fox News is continuing the network’s attacks on America’s homeless population. Monday morning “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade falsely claimed only “a very small percentage” of homeless people across the country are homeless “because they can’t afford housing.”

Kilmeade served up his absurd and damaging attack after showing viewers a clip of one homeless man in Austin, Texas, who told the conservative cable channel that living on the streets in that city is “great,” because people “give you money” and “you can party.”

“It’s a blast,” he told a Fox News reporter.

What Kilmeade and his fellow “Fox & Friends” co-hosts did not do is tell Americans that on any given night there are about 550,000 people living without a home.

“Here’s what’s important,” Kilmeade, clearly not a scientist, told viewers. “To talk to the people – don’t talk in generalities.”

Talking to “the people” might offer anecdotal insight, but one person’s experiences or views are not the same for everyone.

“Find out why they’re there,” Kilmeade continued. “Some of them are choosing to be there, some of them have mental illness,” he offered.

Steve Doocy interrupted Kilmeade to say, “Like that guy,” referring to the homeless man they just interviewed.

“Some of them have drug issues. It’s not necessarily, or maybe a very small percentage, because they can’t afford housing.”

In fact, there are many reports that make clear people in America are homeless because they can’t afford housing.

“Low income households often do not earn enough to pay for food, clothing, transportation and a place they can call home,” the National Alliance to End Homelessness reports. “More than at any other time, there is a lack of housing that low income people can afford. Without housing options, people face eviction, instability and homelessness.”

Who suffers from homelessness most?

“Data show that men, black Americans, the mentally ill, domestic-violence survivors, substance abusers and veterans all experience homelessness at higher rates,” The Washington Post reports.

“A lack of affordable housing and the limited scale of housing assistance programs have contributed to the current housing crisis and to homelessness,” the National Coalition for the Homeless says.

“Society often blames the individual and sees homelessness as a personal problem, but this ignores the role that our social institutions play, such as not providing enough affordable housing,” says Claudia Solari, an author of a report on homelessness.

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Karine Jean-Pierre Shuts Down Fox News Reporter Asking About Harris’ ‘Accent’: ‘The Question Is Insane’

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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had no time for a strange question from Fox News’ Peter Doocy about Vice President Kamala Harris’ “accent.”

During a White House press conference Tuesday afternoon, when Jean-Pierre called on Doocy to ask a question, he brought up a recent clip that had been circulating on social media in MAGA circles. During a campaign stop Monday in Detroit, Harris used what Fox News called a “new ‘accent'”.

“You better thank a union member for the five-day work week,” Harris said. “You better thank a union member for sick leave. You better thank a union member for paid leave. You better thank a union member for vacation time.”

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In an appearance the same day in Pittsburgh, Harris delivered a similar speech, but without the same intonation.

Doocy used his time at the White House to ask about Harris’ oratorical choices.

“Since when does the Vice President have what sounds like a Southern accent?” Doocy asked.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” Jean-Pierre replied.

“Well, she was talking about unions in Detroit using one tone of voice. She used the same line in Pittsburgh, and it sounded like she at least had some kind of a southern drawl, what—” Doocy replied, before being cut off by the press secretary.

“Do you hear the question that you’re—I mean, do you think Americans seriously think that this is an important question? You know what they care about? They care about the economy. They care about lowering costs. They care about health care. That’s what Americans care about,” she said.

“So… okay, well this is something—” he replied.

“Your colleague just asked me about democracy. What basically we talked about, we went back and forth about democracy and freedom. That’s what they care about. I’m not even going to entertain some question—It’s just, it’s just hearing it sounds so
ridiculous,” she continued.

“Well, but hearing it—” Doocy interrupted.

“It’s the question I’m talking about. The question is just insane,” she said.

“Is that how she talks in meetings?” Doocy asked before Jean-Pierre again cut him off to move on, and took a question from a different reporter.

Karine Jean-Pierre and Peter Doocy have sparred repeatedly during White House press conferences. There are many examples of Doocy asking a bizarre or irrelevant question with Jean-Pierre shutting him down. In one press conference in July 2022, Doocy asked about activists protesting Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh outside a steakhouse. Jean-Pierre then explained the First Amendment right to peaceful assembly. In another, he insisted the Biden Administration was completing former President Donald Trump’s border wall—despite Jean-Pierre repeatedly telling him that wasn’t actually happening.

And it’s not just her—both President Joe Biden and White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby have mocked Doocy’s questions to his face. And so has Jean-Pierre’s predecessor, Jen Psaki.

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Fox News Correspondent Smacks Down Pete Hegseth: ‘Unseemly For the Finger-Pointing to Begin This Soon’

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Fox News National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin refused to allow her colleague Pete Hegseth to malign the men and women who just flew the last U.S. plane out of Kabul, ending America’s longest war ever, and reminding him that they just evacuated 122,000 Afghans and Americans out of Afghanistan.

“A lot of people feel like the way that we left in the last couple of weeks was not honorable,” said Hegseth, who was on Trump’s short list to run the VA until veterans groups objected, “that it was a retreat, that it was at the behest of the Taliban.”

“We just saw the press conference from the Department of Defense, we will soon see a press conference for the Department of State. Do you feel like this is the moment with all our troops home that the finger pointing begins, because ultimately it was not a process handled properly,” Hegseth decreed.

“Do you get a sense that, from DoD and State, there’s going to be an attempt to rewrite the narrative of who’s to blame for what didn’t go right?” he added, feeding her a narrative she refused to accept.

“I think for the finger pointing to begin this soon is a, is a bit unseemly, frankly, and that is not the impression that I have from the people who’ve been working tirelessly since August 14,” replied Griffin, who has covered numerous military events since 2000 and who hosts The Wounded Warrior Experience for the American Veterans Center. “I’ve seen people here at the Pentagon, as well as at the Department of State, many of them will remain nameless over the years but they worked, and they were heroic in their efforts in the fact that they got 122,000 vulnerable Afghans and Americans out of that country when they had to, they had to fight their way back in basically the airport scenes you’ll remember them the 82nd airborne secured that airport in 24 hours, and there were for the most part, other than that tragic suicide bombing at Abbey Gate.”

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“It was an unbelievable effort you had military planes landing every 45 minutes lifting people off to safety, is it heartbreaking for the military commanders that they had to leave anyone behind. Obviously I just asked General McKenzie how he feels after 20 years of war, handing the country that they had seized from the Taliban after 9/11 back to the very same Taliban. I can’t imagine that anybody in this country, any American citizen is going to be unchanged by what we’ve just been through, not only from the last 20 years, but for the last two weeks.”

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Fox News Blasted for Claiming ‘No Word on Possible Motive’ of DC MAGA Bomb Suspect Who Demanded Biden Resign

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During a five-hour standoff with U.S. Capitol Police 49-year old North Carolina registered Republican Floyd Ray Roseberry allegedly posted several Facebook live videos from his pickup truck parked on the sidewalk in front of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Thursday. He threatened to blow up two-and-a-half city blocks as that building, the U.S. Supreme Court, and several other federal buildings were evacuated.

The goal appeared to be to overthrow the government.

Roseberry during at least one of the videos attacked Democrats in the Senate and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, but mostly President Joe Biden, repeatedly demanding he call him in his truck, and resign.

“You step down out of office, I’ll step down out of this truck,” Roseberry said, as WUSA-9 reported. “You go home. I’ll go to federal prison.”

In his videos, Roseberry said he was “picked by the American [expletive] people to come up here and take a stand.” Much of his ranting was directed specifically at Biden and suggested he believed in the baseless election fraud conspiracy theories pushed by former President Donald Trump and other prominent Republicans that Biden was not legally elected.

“I just got chose for the job. Unlike you,” Roseberry said. “This ain’t about politics. I don’t care if Donald Trump ever becomes president again. I think y’all Democrats need to step down. Y’all need to understand people don’t want you there.”

A Fox News reporter on the scene during the bomb threat reported live on the existence of the Facebook videos, and other details, which were widely available on social media, but Fox News primetime ignored the story almost entirely.

The only apparent mention was this short 15-second clip, where a news reader tells Fox News viewers, “no word on a possible motive,” as Vox’s Aaron Rupar reported:

Many are furious that once again Fox News is distorting the truth to protect its core base of pro-Trump MAGA supporters.

 

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