Stephen Colbert made fun of how Fox News tried to link the eclipse with the border.
Colbert stated, “Fox News chose to report on the story in this manner.”
The host of The Late Show showed a clip from Fox, “Fox News alert! A rare celestial event collides with a policy failure on the ground. The southern border will be directly in the path of totality today when the moon covers the sun. While everybody is going to be looking up, if you’re looking down here at the border, here is some of what you’re gonna see. You’ll see illegal immigrants dressed in dark clothing, sometimes camouflage, actively trying to sneak into the United States. The United States.”
Stephen Colbert responded, “Yes. Oh, yes, immigrants in dark clothing are using the eclipse to sneak across the border. They won’t get another opportunity like that…until night.”
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What kind of fast runner migrant is going to be able to cross the border in 3-4 minutes, and has Fox News never heard of lights? They do have lights along the border. It is not as if the world was plunged into unfathomable darkness and immigrants flooded over the border.
The Fox News coverage was foolish, but what was even worse was that there were people watching who believed what they were selling. The eclipse did not lead to a wave of illegal immigration.
Cable news coverage of the eclipse was extremely exaggerated, although not as ridiculous as the overly excited coverage of the New Jersey earthquake.
The coverage at Fox was ridiculous, as the network showed once again why its viewers are the most uninformed news consumers in the entire country.
