Fox falsely claims 'thousands' of fans wore Charlie Kirk tribute t-shirt at Penn State game

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

Fox falsely claims ‘thousands’ of fans wore Charlie Kirk tribute t-shirt at Penn State game — by using a clip that shows only conservative Benny and his friends wear one. It was one of Penn State’s “White Out” games. During these games, Penn State fans dress to make the stadium almost entirely white


https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikToks/comments/1ntuime/fox_falsely_claims_thousands_of_fans_wore_charlie/

[Prairie Gates]

1. There were like 75,000 people there (On edit: 110,000 people there!)

Even if one of every 20 wore some Kirk shirt (totally believable in State College, PA), that would still be thousands.

I mean, they didn't prove it, but neither did you debunk it.

[Celerity]

3. Not 75,000. The attendance was for that game was 111,015.

https://sports.yahoo.com/article/did-penn-state-football-set-022744361.html

[Prairie Gates]

5. Well, there you go...my point is strengthened

A fortiori.

[Cosmocat]

4. It was actually around 110,000

I was there, I didn't see more than five or so Kirk related things.

Yes most of the people there were Rs, but White Out is pretty sacred PSU stuff and by and large PSU fans are down to earth enough to not want to draw attention to themselves in that kind of way.

As an aside - State College is a VERY democratic town.

[Prairie Gates]

6. Now tell me about the rest of Centre County (never mind what surrounds it!)

They still fighting for the Red Raiders in Bellefonte? Or did they finally drop the ole Injun Chief?

[lees1975]

11. As is Penn State itself.

The county clerks office doesn't identify Penn State students specifically, however, the margin in 2024 of mail-in ballots in the county, where half the population is likely Penn State students, was almost 2 to 1 Dem to Rep.

[sl8]

2. Reddit post's source is this Mediaite article:

https://www.mediaite.com/media/sports/maga-runs-wild-with-claim-thousands-of-fans-wore-charlie-kirk-tribute-t-shirt-at-penn-state-game-by-using-clip-that-shows-only-2/#article-nav

[biophile]

7. My daughter was there - she saw less than 10

And they tailgated for 7 hours

[BlueTsunami2018]

8. They handed out 5,000 shirts to the kids for the "white out" game.

Most of them have no idea what the shirts meant, they were white.

[Melon]

9. College kids didn't know what a shirt meant🙄

Everyone knows what a Charlie Kirk shirt means. They aren’t dumb. 5000 free shirts were handed out. I’m sure 5000 shirts were worn at the game. Who cares.

[badhair77]

10. They already arrived in a white shirt.

They might have accepted the freedom shirt but most didn’t change. What bothered me was the line to get the free shirt, all ages, with Benny Johnson running around recording it. Ugh. The tailgaters threw them in their cars and wore their Penn State white.