Fox News host Dan Bongino aired an inaccurate graphic attempting to make the bogus correlation between “unhealthy” U.S. cities and those governed by Democratic policies.
During the Saturday evening “Unfiltered” segment casting liberals as “unhealthy,” Bongino presented a graphic reading, “Top Ten Most Unhealthy U.S. Cities.”
Yet, it turns out there was one big problem with Bongino’s thesis: WalletHub, the website the Fox News host cited for the graphic, clearly stated in their research that the metropolitan cities referenced—including Seattle, Portland, and Washington, D.C., among others—are the “healthiest places to live in the U.S.”
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Bongino riffed to his audience about “Inner cities run exclusively and monopolistically by garbage Democrat politicians who don’t give a damn about people” while the inaccurate graphic appeared on the screen.
The remarkably erroneous graphic, which aired throughout the segment, also mistook Irvine, California for Irving, Texas. Of course, that didn’t stop the Fox News host from taking continued swings at Democratic-led cities based on a false premise.
“You look at some of the health outcomes in these inner cities the Democrats have run monopolistically for decades, and you stand a pretty darn good chance of dying in one of these inner cities,” he continued, “far more likely, than if you lived in areas where they gave a damn about people and their healthcare outcomes.”
The network attempted clean-up late Saturday night by removing the graphic during a re-run of the program. (Bongino didn’t return The Daily Beast’s request for comment on Sunday morning.)
Following publication, a Fox News spokesperson told The Daily Beast that the network intends to issue a correction on next weekend’s program.
“On Saturday night’s episode of Unfiltered with Dan Bongino, a graphic was aired with inaccurate information on the unhealthiest cities in the country,” the Fox spokesperson said. “We regret the error which will be corrected on next week’s program.”
The Fox News host admitted the segment was based on a “comically wrong” graphic during his Monday afternoon podcast. “It was just totally, completely wrong,” he added, blaming his staff. “Totally, completely, almost comically wrong.”
