12 times Fox News goofed in 2018

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The year was pretty ridonkulous across the board, but Fox News had itself a doozy of a 2018, with a string of controversies, slip-ups, feuds, and strange happenings. 

The news network has long since tied its fortunes to President Trump. They seem to sink or swim along with the president — with the occasional aside from figures like Shep Smith, the lone voices of reason among a collection of pro-Trump pundits.

From beefs with teen school shooting survivors to fear-mongering about, well, all sorts of things, it was another weird, wacky, controversial year for The House That Roger Ailes Built. Here are 12 moments that stuck out above the rest. Read more…

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Fox News mistakenly calls the president ‘David’ Trump

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While President Donald Trump has reportedly used fake names to maneuver and manipulate the PR game, he’s got a brand new label thanks to a funny Fox News flub that hit the air on Tuesday night.

During a discussion on Laura Ingraham’s show about Time‘s “Person of the Year,” a graphic was shown on screen listing the 2018 finalists which includes Donald Trump. Or, perhaps, maybe Trump’s twin, David?

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— Dusty (@DustinGiebel) December 12, 2018

And in case you think it’s a prank, here’s Ingraham herself confused by the typo.  Read more…

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Laura Ingraham compares child detention centers to ‘summer camps’ as Fox News goes totally off the rails

Fox News has really outdone themselves this time.
While the rest of the nation waits for a soothing voice to rise above the maddening cacophony and give us direction in this moment of national crisis, two of Fox News’ highest profile on-air talents c…

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Watch Laura Ingraham’s guest mock her for losing advertisers on live TV

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Laura Ingraham is having quite the no good, very bad 2018. 

After the Fox News host felt compelled to complain about Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg for “whining” about receiving college rejection letters via Twitter in March, things got ugly.

David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA…totally predictable given acceptance rates.) https://t.co/wflA4hWHXY

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 28, 2018

Ingraham received massive amounts of backlash for bullying a teenage survivor of a school shooting, and in addition to refusing her apology, Hogg asked his Twitter followers to contact Ingraham’s top advertisers to boycott. Read more…

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Laura Ingraham visits ‘SNL’ Weekend Update to announce her new sponsors

Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update news segment hosted a visit from Laura Ingraham (Kate McKinnon) this week.
You remember Ingraham, right? The Fox News host who mocked Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg, then immediately saw her TV sponsors…

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The Parkland teens wield real power. Just ask Laura Ingraham and Frank Stallone.

Two minor right-wing celebrities, two half-assed apologies that feel more forced than sincere. They might have gotten away with it too, if not for those meddling kids and their pesky tweets.
In the weeks since a lone gunman murdered 17 at Marjory Sto…

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Parkland survivor David Hogg launches ad boycott against Laura Ingraham after she goes too low — even for her

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Fox News host Laura Ingraham is trying to stymie the gun control fight the best way she knows how — by bullying teenage survivors.

Ingraham shared an article on Twitter yesterday revealing Parkland survivor David Hogg’s rejection from four separate colleges. Folks on Twitter immediately pounced on the pundit for this non-bit-of-news, before Hogg jumped in and launched a boycott himself, enjoining advertisers to withdraw from her show.

“David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges to Which He Applied and whines about it,” Ingraham initially wrote on Twitter (that’s her random capitalization, not mine). Read more…

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LeBron fires back at Laura Ingraham after she told him to ‘Shut up and dribble’

As America veers toward a Constitutional crisis, Fox News host Laura Ingraham is placing the blame not on Donald Trump but on … LeBron James?
On Thursday, Ingraham dedicated a whole segment of her show to James, enjoining the player to “shut up and…

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