Given how Fox News has been caught telling a lot of stupid lies regarding claims about the 2020 election, one would think they would be more circumspect in their news coverage.
But Fox News isn't going to let the truth get in the way of their agenda against President Biden. Hence their claims that President Biden laughed about the deaths of two brothers who died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl.
Of course, Biden did no such thing. It was (you guessed it) Marjorie Taylor-Greene who claimed the two teens died under Biden's watch. In point of fact the two brothers died in July 2020 while Donald Trump was in the White House. Biden was directing his chuckle at MTG, not the boys who died nor their mother conservative activist Rebecca Kiessling. But what can you expect of Fox News which sees fit to criticize President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden's choice of dinner?
The New York Post isn't much better accusing Biden of making cheap political points while making no mention of MTG's error. Of course, The New York Post's real agenda (and for that matter Fox News and the right-wing media ecosystem) is about the U.S.-Mexico border. While some fentanyl is smuggled through the U.S.-Mexico border but much of it is smuggled through legal ports of entry by U.S. citizens.
It's the same dynamic with immigration at large. Some people illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border but most simply overstay their visas. But it is easier for right-wing media outlets to vilify racial minorities than it is to actually address the main source of the problem at hand because it generates more anger. And with more anger comes more money. Now that is no laughing matter.
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