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Stephen Colbert mocked Fox News' coverage where they tried to conflate the eclipse with the border.
“Fox News decided to cover the story this way,” Colbert said.
The Late Show host played a Fox clip, “Fox News Alert! A rare astronomical event collides with a policy failure on the ground. The southern boundary will be directly in the path of totality when the Moon covers the Sun today. While everyone might be looking up, if you're looking down here at the range, here's something you're going to see. You will see illegal immigrants dressed in black, sometimes in camouflage, actively trying to sneak into the United States. United States.”
Stephen Colbert replied, “Yes. Oh yes, immigrants in black are using the Eclipse to cross the border. They won't get another chance like this till night…''
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What sort of runner migrant would have the ability to cross the border in 3-4 minutes, and has Fox Information by no means heard of lights? They’ve lights on the vary. It isn’t that the world has plunged into immense darkness and immigrants have come to the border.
Fox Information' protection was silly, however what was worse, there have been individuals watching that believed what they had been promoting. The eclipse didn’t trigger a wave of unlawful immigration.
Cable information protection of the eclipse was excessive, although not as foolish because the breathless protection of the New Jersey earthquake.
Fox's protection was idiotic, because the community as soon as once more demonstrated why its viewers are essentially the most uninformed information customers in your entire nation.
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