Fox News Anchors Mock The New York Times for Being a ‘Day Late and a Dollar Short’ in Reporting on Border Crisis

by | Dec 13, 2024 | Fox News, Mediate, The New York Times

Fox News anchors Sandra Smith and John Roberts had a field day mocking the New York Times for being a “day late and a dollar short” to report on big issues like the border crisis and “migrant crime”.

The ribbing came on Friday’s America Reports after Smith interviewed Chicago pro-Trump activist P. Rae Easley, who called on Border Czar appointee Tom Homan to “scoop these people out of our city because we don’t deserve to be terrorized by them.”

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) famously shipped migrants to “sanctuary cities” like Chicago that were welcomed openly by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D).

“I appreciate you coming on,” Smith said to Easley. “It is a city we will watch closely. ‘Ground zero ,’ Tom Homan says for beginning those deportations. We’ll be watching.” Smith then threw it back to Roberts.

“John, obviously a very passionate plea to get started there and get started soon,” Smith said, before Roberts began ridiculing The Times — which has an entire section dedicated to “U.S. Immigration and Border News ” — for coming late to the story. Here is the exchange that followed:

ROBERTS: It is getting hot in Chicago! And, how about this? Four years after the border crisis exploded, this headline in The New York Times. “Recent Immigration Surge Has Been Largest in U.S. History: Under President Biden, more than 2 million immigrants per year have entered, government data shows.” That was Wednesday in The New York Times!

SMITH: Can you believe that?

ROBERTS: I mean, talk about being a day late and a dollar short!

SMITH: Yeah. I mean, you can say the same thing about inflation and so many of these other policies, that they were chasing the story way too late. Now, they have got a “big cleanup on aisle six” for so many issues.

ROBERTS: I don’t know so much as they were chasing the story as the story was chasing them!

Watch the clip above via Fox News.

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