[{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/Blog\/ID\/23\/7-times-fox-news-lied-about-food-stamps#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/Blog\/ID\/23\/7-times-fox-news-lied-about-food-stamps","headline":"7 Times Fox News Lied about Food Stamps","name":"7 Times Fox News Lied about Food Stamps","description":"Fox News isn\u2019t exactly known for their ability to report on news with accuracy and honesty, but the following incidents really take things to whole new levels.","datePublished":"2018-07-06","dateModified":"2018-07-29","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/author\/admin#Person","name":"admin","url":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/author\/admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e26111862ca029071a00a76fae48c51b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e26111862ca029071a00a76fae48c51b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"FoodStamps.org","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FS_Logo-2.png","url":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FS_Logo-2.png","width":600,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FS_Logo-2.png","url":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FS_Logo-2.png","width":100,"height":100},"url":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/Blog\/ID\/23\/7-times-fox-news-lied-about-food-stamps","about":["News"],"wordCount":861,"keywords":["23"],"articleBody":"Fox News isn\u2019t exactly known for their ability to report on news with accuracy and honesty, but the following incidents really take things to whole new levels.1. Coloradoans Buy Pot with Food StampsOn the January 21 edition of\u00a0Fox & Friends, Brian Kilmeade alleged that the new law legalizing marijuana meant food stamps recipients were using their SNAP benefits to buy pot. We\u2019re not sure how Kilmeade and Fox managed to think this was true, but the USDA clearly says recipients cannot use food stamps to buy alcohol, tobacco and non-food items.2. Foodstamps Recipients All Use Their Money for Lobsters and Other LuxuriesJason Greenslate, you may know him better as the surfer\/musician who proudly lives off friends\u2019 couches and uses food stamps to buy lobster, but Fox thinks\u00a0he represents the whole of recipients. Looking at the actual demographics paints quite a different picture, as 76 percent of recipients are children, the disabled and the elderly; the average SNAP household has a gross monthly income of $744 (plus countable resources of $331); and 91 percent of recipients don\u2019t make more than $19,530 a year (for a family of three).3. Herman Cain says SNAP recipients are using their food stamps for fitness programsThis comic talk show host will make repeat appearances on this list, but that\u2019s because he frequently takes Fox to task for their mistruths. In this case, it\u2019s Stewart versus\u00a0Herman Cain, with the latter thinking SNAP recipients are using their food stamps for fitness programs. They’re not, because they can’t.4. Government Teaching Kids to be Takers Not MakersOn this occasion, it\u2019s Stewart going mano-a-mano with\u00a0Eric Bolling, co-host of Fox\u2019s\u00a0The Five. Bolling seems to think that Stewart had to validity for poking holes in Fox\u2019s show on food stamps, saying things like, \u201cOur liberal government is teaching our kids to be takers, instead of makers\u201d, \u201c[Jason Greenslate] is\u2026the representative of literally\u00a0millions\u00a0of Americans\u201d, and \u201cAs the rich get richer, it floats all boats\u201d.5. People Going to Las Vegas and Drawing Money With FoodstampsStewart doesn\u2019t take down any one person in particular, but rather\u00a0Fox News as a whole. He shows clip after clip after clip of Fox talking heads speaking mistruths, calling Fox the news show with the tagline \u201cWe read the chain mails your grandma gets in her inbox and reads them out loud like they were true\u201d.6. They’re all gonna have a phone, a TV set, a car, and 120 free minutes, and food stampsOh, where do we start with\u00a0Rush Limbaugh? Given how little he seems to care for fact-checking, he\u2019s proven himself to be far less credible a source than Wikipedia. Here are some of his best (re: least true) quotes: \u201dThey\u2019re all gonna have a phone, a TV set, a car, and 120 free minutes, and food stamps.\u201d\u201d16 million children face a summer of hunger. Now, Michelle Obama told us they\u2019re all so fat and out of shape and overweight that a summer off from government eating might just be the ticket.\u201d\u201dThere\u2019s always the neighborhood dumpster\u2026[to] survive until school starts back up in August.\u201d 7. Democrats Use Foodstamps to Buy VotesFox Business Network\u2019s\u00a0Stuart Varney\u00a0doesn\u2019t agree with food stamps one iota. That\u2019s not the issue, as not everyone will agree with the program. But what separates Varney from the rest of the pack is comments like these: \u201cThey\u2019re keeping churning out the food stamps in return for votes\u201d and \u201cHow will we ever get a handle on our debt if you can\u2019t cut $8 billion out of food stamps over a 10-year period?\u201d Apparently, someone forgot to tell Varney the debt isn\u2019t entirely comprised of food stamps.These are but a few examples of the mistruths Fox News delights in perpetuating, which seem to happen so often we can set our watches to it. If we\u2019ve missed any, let us know in the comments box.The following sites also point to other Fox News mistruths, with factual data to back them up.http:\/\/readersupportednews.org\/news-section2\/317-65\/9709-dishonest-fox-chart-food-stamps-editionhttp:\/\/aattp.org\/watch-fox-news-get-caught-lying-on-food-stamp-recipients-again\/"},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Blog","item":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/Blog\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"ID","item":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/Blog\/\/ID\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"23","item":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/Blog\/\/ID\/\/23\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"7 Times Fox News Lied about Food Stamps","item":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/Blog\/ID\/23\/7-times-fox-news-lied-about-food-stamps#breadcrumbitem"}]}]