Fox Falls For Trump Lie: Clinton’s Child Care Plan Has Been Available For More Than A Year
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/09/13/fox-falls-trump-lie-clinton-s-child-care-plan-has-been-available-more-year/213056
Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron repeated a false claim pushed by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during a policy speech in Aston, PA, intended to outline the candidates newly-proposed reforms to child care and maternity leave. Trump attacked Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for producing no such policy proposals -- a lie which Cameron then repeated on air.
During Trumps September 13 speech, in which he attempted to flesh out the details of his convoluted reform agenda for child care and maternity leave, Trump falsely claimed that Clinton has no child care plan.
Journalists immediately slammed Trumps claim. Political reporters Ben Jacobs of The Guardian, and Dan Merica of CNN called the statement patently untrue and patently false. And both noted that Clintons comprehensive child care reform agenda, which is far more detailed and expansive than Trumps, has been online since June 2015.
Despite Trumps false claim, Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron repeated the lie during a speech recap with Fox News host Bill OReilly. Cameron claimed that Trumps speech was aimed at the moderate voters he needs to win swing states like Pennsylvania. He then added that Trump has laid out his child care policies before Hillary Clinton has done anything in serious detail:
I'm shocked,
shocked to find out that lying has been going on in this establishment!