Fox is taking quite the beating in the last couple days. First, posting altered photos from Seattle and now confusing a quote from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” with reports about infighting in the Seattle CHAZ group.
Martha MacCallum read from a Reddit thread that was headlined, “I didn’t vote for Raz”, thinking it was a reference to CHAZ leader Raz Simone.
“There’s infighting among some of the occupiers, and some signs of rebellion against Raz Simone — who we introduced you to here on the story last night,” MacCallum said. “One posting on social media that has now been deleted, read this: ‘I didn’t vote for Raz. I thought we were an autonomous collective? An anarcho-syndicalist commune at the least.'”
John Cleese, one of the co-founders of Monty Python, mocked the news network for their blunder.
BREAKING: No one @FoxNews has ever seen @montypython & The Holy Grail. 😂 #runit #goodjournalism #factchecking pic.twitter.com/46sKRh4qQi
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) June 15, 2020
BREAKING: After much in-house fighting amongst members of #CHAZ they have unanimously elected a strong and capable new leader. Please report @FoxNews And it should be noted he's quite capable of walking down ramps and drinking water properly. pic.twitter.com/Z8DtJNgKmp
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) June 16, 2020