Whoopi Goldberg being hired by Fox News is fake news. There is no truth to reports that the actress and talk show host was hired by Fox News as part of shakeups at the network. Where did this fake news originate?
The Last Line of Defense published on May 15, 2017, an article that falsely reported that Fox News had replaced Sean Hannity’s late former co-star Alan Colmes with Goldberg. You can read text from that fake story below.
This time of year is always interesting in the world of TV news. It seems that when winter ends, so does the tenure of many in that world. So far this week, Megyn Kelly has been released from a contract she never started at NBC, replaced with Elizabeth Hasselbeck, and Shep Smith was let go from Fox News.
In another shocker, Fox has decided to replace their recently deceased liberal commentator, Alan Colmes, with someone who could never be his equal. Starting this summer, Colmes, who was regarded as a great friend and open-minded commentator by his friends at the network, will be replaced with liberal lunatic and total moonbat, Whoopi Goldberg.
Rupert Murdoch, speaking to the New Yorker, said:
“Whoopi might not be what some of the Fox faithful are looking for, but we have to have a liberal commentator. This time we decided to go with a well-known minority female and Oprah, Star Jones and Beyonce Knowles all turned us down.”
In addition to an outrageous headline, the item also neglected to disclose the “filthy, lying liberal celebrity” mentioned. That phrase concerning Goldberg was made intending to increase the likelihood of readers clicking through and generate traffic.
Here are some examples of people who were discussing the fake news on social media.
@LorenePaula WHOOPI GOLDBERG HIRED BY FOX >>HOPE THIS IS FAKE NEWS>>>IF TRUE RUPERT MURDOCH NEEDS HIS ASS KICKED.THE LIBERALS ARE LIARS!!!
— paula lorene horton (@LorenePaula) March 9, 2017
@seanhannity please tell me it’s fake news that fox hired Whoopi Goldberg, not happy about this#❤️mypresident pic.twitter.com/Ct5i1NkjDG
— Wendy Graham (@grahamwendy331) March 9, 2017
Like many Last Line of Defense yarns, the claim spread through one of its myriad shell sites, in this case Daily USA Update. Although outlets other than Last Line of Defense sometimes are not always immediately recognizable as fake news, the former site’s disclaimer explains that information originating on it is not to be trusted:
The Resistance may include information from sources that may or may not be reliable and facts that don’t necessarily exist. All articles should be considered satirical and any and all quotes attributed to actual people complete and total baloney. Pictures that represent actual people should be considered altered and not in any way real.
In recent news, Goldberg was announced to join Toni Collette, Giancarlo Esposito and Thomas Haden Church in “Shriver,” a comedy of mistaken identity. The film, directed by Michael Maren, turns on a loner (Church) who is mistaken for a famous author at a literary conference and who falls for the conference organizer (Collette). The man nearly pulls off the deception before the real author shows up and causes havoc.
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