Crash Course: Fox News falls for another hoax, as the Dominion defamation settlement pays off

The most surprising part of the "homeless veterans" hoax? Fox News admitted they were wrong. [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmTyG-P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvbmpocDI0NXZoeC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTc4ODIxbjl0YTJXA3NwY0IKZGK_nGxkatCVp1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmTyG-P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvNHVndXV1YnZiNy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTc4ODIxbjl0YTImbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZGK_nGxkatCVp1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). Fox News falls for another hoax, as the Dominion defamation settlement pays off On Friday night, Fox News' Laura Ingraham did something nearly unheard of on the propaganda-masquerading-as-news network: She admitted that a story Fox had been hyping was wrong. For a week, [Fox News and other right-wing outlets had been heavily hyping](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmTyG-P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvODc4ZzRlb201ai8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTc4ODIxbjl0YTJXA3NwY0IKZGK_nGxkatCVp1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) claims that "homeless veterans" were forced out of a hotel in upstate New York to make room for Central American refugees. Due to [diligent reporting from local reporters at the Mid Hudson News,](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmTyG-P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvNjEybXJmNzlidy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTc4ODIxbjl0YTJXA3NwY0IKZGK_nGxkatCVp1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) however, the story quickly unraveled. The hotel denied the claims and had receipts to refute the right-wing narrative. By the end of the week, the Mid Hudson News had [a group of homeless men ready to talk](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmTyG-P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvM25pYmIxNTNzeC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTc4ODIxbjl0YTJXA3NwY0IKZGK_nGxkatCVp1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) about how Sharon Toney-Finch, the source of this tale and the head of a veteran advocacy group, had recruited them to pretend they were the displaced veterans. [The whole thing was a hoax](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmTyG-P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvZTdlMDJ1b3ZzNC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTc4ODIxbjl0YTJXA3NwY0IKZGK_nGxkatCVp1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). [Read more from Amanda Marcotte.](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmTyG-P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvanB1YThnb3lncC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTc4ODIxbjl0YTImbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZGK_nGxkatCVp1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) (Photo via Getty Images) The ambitious Republican plot to take it all down Picture it, if you will, it's January 21, 2025 and Donald Trump has just been inaugurated for his second term after the Biden interregnum. Yes, it would be a horrific time, not unlike those first horrible weeks in 2017 when over half the country struggled to grasp how it was possible that an ignorant, bombastic, game show host had eked out a win through an electoral college fluke. But those feelings of despair are where the similarities will end. The next Trump administration will be ready to hit the ground running with their leader's Retribution Agenda and it won't be because Trump is any more effective at presidential leadership. It will be because right-wing institutions will have spent their four years in the wilderness preparing for their chance to enact a radical overhaul of the federal government unlike anything we've ever seen in this country. Even some members of the GOP establishment are getting nervous. 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