Yesterday, ThinkProgress reported on an outlandish Fox Business segment where host Eric Bolling falsely attributed an anti-semitic quote to the Center for American Progress’s new report “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America.” Bolling’s show aired again last night but failed to acknowledge the error despite aggressive efforts by ThinkProgress and others to call their attention to the matter.
On Tuesday night, “Follow the Money” host Eric Bolling made a point to quote “directly from this report” to portray our report as anti-Semitic and our research as biased. But neither the quote cited by Bolling, nor anything resembling it, appears in our report. He said:
I need to point this out – I’m reading directly from this report: “The Obama-allied Center for American Progress has released a report that blames Islamophobia in America on a small group of Jews and Israel supporters in America, whose views are being backed by millions of dollars.”
Watch it:
Eric Bolling needs to issue a correction and acknowledge that the quote he attributed to “Fear Inc.” was completely false. Please email Brian Lewis, VP for Corporate Communications at Fox Business (brian.lewis@foxnews.com) and tell him that Bolling’s false reporting on “Fear Inc.” requires an on-air correction. Let us know what you hear.
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