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  • 2016-09-17 (xsd:date)
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  • Jeff Foxworthy Gets Attacked by Liberals After Publicly SLAMMING Hillary Clinton (en)
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  • In September 2016, a number of unreliable political web sites attempted to drag popular redneck comedian Jeff Foxworthy into the presidential campaign fray, posting articles under headlines such as With Just 7 Words, Jeff Foxworthy DESTROYS Hillary Clinton and Jeff Foxworthy Just Backed Trump, CRUSHED Hillary With 7 Awesome Words On Why We Need Donald suggesting that the comic had publicly criticized Hillary Clinton and was now the target of condemnation by liberals: Virtually nothing about the content of such articles was true (nor were the 7 words of Foxworthy's that supposedly destroyed Hillary Clinton ever identified). For starters, Foxworthy (whose comedy is rather apolitical) said nothing publicly that could be considered a slam of Hillary Clinton; he didn't proclaim he was tired of watching Obama’s agenda manifest, stripping Americans of our hard-won freedoms; nor was he attacked en masse by liberals (especially over statements he never made in the first place). The first two quotes in the article, identified as being taken from Foxworthy's comedy routine, were actually lifted from an online list titled A Country Founded by Geniuses but Run by Idiots that was falsely attributed to Foxworthy (and debunked here.) Although Foxworthy publicly endorsed and campaigned for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012, we found no evidence that he has endorsed 2016 GOP nominee Donald Trump, nor that he said he was terrified for our nation if Hillary Clinton should become President. About the only bit of truth to this piece was that back in September 2015, in response to a question about whether Trump's style of campaigning was tapping into American patriotism, Foxworthy made reference to President Obama's mythical apology tour, saying: Absolutely, [Trump] is tapping into the American spirit. I think people are fed up with having a commander in chief that does the apology tour around the world. Another comedian with whom Foxworthy often appears, Daniel Lawrence Whitney (better known by his stage name of Larry the Cable Guy), did say during an August 2016 appearance on the Fox and Friends television program that he thought Hillary Clinton would be the end of the country: (en)
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