Fox News Contributor Admits to Creating Fake Story About Canadian Woman Being 'Trampled' to Death

[ItsjustMe]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-contributor-sara-carter-admits-to-creating-fake-story-about-canadian-woman-being-trampled

Fox News contributor Sara Carter has walked back her entirely fictitious claim about a woman dying after being trampled by a Canadian authority on horseback amid ongoing trucker-led protests.

While the claim wasn’t accurate, the tweet was red-meat for her over 1.3 million conservative Twitter followers, who quickly amplified the baseless death as evidence of Canadian government wrongdoing.

“Reports are the woman trampled by a Canadian horse patrol just died at the hospital ... #Trudeau #FreedomConvoyCanada,” Carter tweeted Friday evening.

Shortly thereafter, conservatives picked up and amplified the tweet, including former Fox Nation hosts Diamond and Silk and Republican Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX).

On Saturday morning, attempting to do clean-up, the Fox News contributor admitted her reporting was false.

[Docreed2003]

1. It served its purpose

No one on the right will care or notice the walk back, and we'll hear nonstop bs from them about a protestor being trampled

[keithbvadu2]

2. Cokie's Law states that it does not matter if it is true or not. It's out there.

Mission accomplished: they got the message out to their base....

Cokie's Law - about politics and media coverage...

Cokie's Law states that it does not matter if it is true or not. It's out there.

Cokie Roberts journalist, author, reporter

Then they can apologize in a much smaller forum. (If they do)

[Rebl2]

5. When I

started listening to her many, many years ago I thought she was somewhat liberal. Then the older she got the more conservative she got. I quit listening to her/watching her several years before she died. Am I wrong that she was liberal many years ago?

[underpants]

3. I fell for it. Posted and then deleted a tweet in response to this story.

DU corrected me and I self-deleted.

[Skittles]

4. Cruz cared more about this fake woman than the Jan 6 casualties

what a disgusting tool he is