Fox News presenter Ainsley Earhardt on Thursday mistakenly stated that the U.S. defeated ¡°communist Japan¡± in an impassioned criticism of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who had said America ¡°was never that great.¡±
Ainsley Earhardt proudly remembers the time that the United States ¡°defeated communist Japan,¡± proving we are truly a Great country.
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¡°We defeated communist Japan, radical Islamists ... We¡¯re the most generous country in all of the world. Yes, we have our faults, but because of this country our world is definitely a better place. We are great,¡± Earhardt said on the Fox & Friends news program.
She was reportedly taking a swipe at Cuomo¡¯s blunt denial of President Donald Trump¡¯s ¡°Make America Great Again¡± slogan.
¡°We¡¯re not going to ¡®Make America Great Again.¡¯ It was never that great,¡± Cuomo said at a bill signing event on Wednesday, according to ABC News.
¡°We have not reached greatness. We will reach greatness when every American is fully engaged.¡±
Earhardt¡¯s gaffe was not the first time Fox News proved unaware of the facts when talking about Japan.
In the immediate aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which triggered a nuclear crisis in Fukushima Prefecture, the news network misidentified , a music venue in Tokyo, as one of Japan¡¯s nuclear plants on a botched map intended to show locations of atomic power plants.
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