“We did our best — Stop the fabrications” — Fox News host Harris Faulkner fiercely responds to accusations of Dishonesty and Indifference!
The Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner on Thursday tore into Marie Harf, a liberal guest host, for accusing the network’s panel of not focusing enough on the record COVID-19 daily d3aths in the United States.
After a segment on pandemic-related business restrictions — a heavy focus across the network this week — Harf, a Democrat who was a spokeswoman for the State Department in the Obama administration, questioned why the d3ath toll hadn’t come up more.
“We’re 43 minutes into this show and we haven’t mentioned yet that 3,000 Americans di3d yesterday, more than on 9/11,” Harf said. “And every day for a while we’re going to have that many American d3aths.
“And so I agree that the regulations should be driven by science,” she said, adding, “But as we debate these regulations, we cannot lose sight of the tragedy that is unfolding every single day in this country in large part because people want to go about life as normal.”
Faulkner cut in. “I feel like, Marie, you took a shot at us there,” she said. “And maybe you felt like it was necessary. I don’t know. But if you don’t think that our hearts are big enough to mourn for the people who we have lost during this pandemic, what exactly are you trying to say?
“That is offensive, and it is not true,” Faulkner continued. She added: “Please, keep your judgment someplace where you know you can fact-check it, because you can’t see my heart. And trust me when I tell you it hurts all of us to lose those Americans and people around the world.”
The CNN reporter Oliver Darcy said on Twitter that none of the transcripts he looked at from Fox News’ prime-time lineup on Wednesday night mentioned the fact that the US had recorded 3,124 COVID-19 d3aths in one day. That was the nation’s highest one-day d3ath toll so far, and it exceeded the number of people killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
As of Thursday, more than 15.5 million Americans had been infected by the coronavirus, and more than 291,000 had di3d, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
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The network has been airing graphics and news alerts updating the d3ath toll, but Darcy said the network’s most viewed shows weren’t talking about it.
Harf went on to say that she just wanted to talk about the issue of such a high d3ath toll more than “Democratic hypocrisy.”
Faulkner insisted that Fox News was already talking about the d3aths.
“Well, we aren’t enough,” Harf replied. “That’s my opinion, and I get to give my opinion.”
“How about telling us the truth in the beginning about those masks?” Faulkner said, referring to some medical experts’ initial advice that people who weren’t healthcare workers shouldn’t wear masks.
Harf and Faulkner also sparred before Thanksgiving, when Harf took issue with the panel joking about restrictions on small gatherings in some states.
