Fox News Total Lie About Food Stamp Fraud Sparks Rare Retraction Request From Federal Govern

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Fox News Total Lie About Food Stamp Fraud Sparks Rare Retraction Request From Federal Government
http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/fox_news_lie_gets_rare?recruiter_id=2&utm_content=buffere5efb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer


by David Badash
December 30, 2016 12:01 PM

But Fox News' Mission of Yet Again Demonizing the Literally Life-Saving Food Stamp Program Was Accomplished

Fox News' Abby Huntsman this week delivered an entirely false story about food stamp fraud to "Fox & Friends" viewers, sparking a rare request from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture for the right wing cable news giant to issue a retraction. As NCRM reported, Huntsman told viewers that food stamp fraud is at an all-time high and totaled about $70 million in 2016. That would be 0.09% of the total amount of food stamps issued annually, an incredibly low number, actually, but false nonetheless. Fox News also lied, claiming food stamp fraud was at the highest level ever. It's actually not, and it's actually decreasing.

So, not one word of the report was true, including the fact that the USDA hasn't issued any numbers on the SNAP program for 2016, or 2015, or 2014, leading to our tweet to Huntsman:

Huntsman did not respond.

In fact, as Mother Jones' Kevin Drum – who first reported that the Fox News report was a lie – notes, there are no published numbers on food stamp fraud past 2011..................................



TWEET:
David Badash
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Hey, @HuntsmanAbby, do you not fact-check before going on-air? Your food stamp story is being called a lie. http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/fox_news_is_asking_if_the_food_stamp_program_that_helps_44_million_americans_should_be_ended_because_of_0_09_fraud @FoxNews

[spanone]

1. we have to realize the fake news is now mainstreamed

don't know how a democracy exists in such an environment

[2naSalit]

2. What the 24/7 news ought to be about

is calling them out on every lie, every single day until the system represents us once again. Might take a while but if we manage to starve the beasts who oppress us, we can go forward rather than backward.

[classof56]

3. Isn't Abby John Huntsman's daughter?

Aren't they practicing Mormons? Would they lie? Guess we know the answer to that one.

[KelleyKramer]

4. So FOX was lying with the goal to take food from millions of poor Americans

That should tell you all you need to know... their selfishness, greed and cruelty have no boundaries

Wow