OOF: Fox News' Laura Ingraham Issues Awkward Mid-Show Correction On Biden
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Fox News host Laura Ingraham was forced to deliver an on-air correction in the middle of her show after a crack about President Joe Biden instead exposed her own ignorance.
Ingraham and regular guest Raymond Arroyo were mocking the president’s speech on artificial intelligence.
“AI is all around us. Much of it is making our lives better,” Biden said. “And AI is helping the National Weather Service predict weather events, helping the Webb Telescope manage half a million miles of galaxies away — billions of light-years away.”
Biden stumbled over the word “telescope,” which Ingraham and Arroyo found hilarious.
“Good lord,” Arroyo said as Ingraham rolled her eyes and sternly shook her head.
“Did he call it the web telescope?” Ingraham said after the two bantered about AI. “Isn’t it Hubble? Is he thinking of web Hubble? I don’t understand.”
“Who knows,” Arroyo said, as the two laughed.
when youre on national tv and make fun of joe biden for calling the hubble telescope the web telescope and are doubled over with how funny it is without realizing theres a very famous james webb telescope pic.twitter.com/Ucijcx7Ijd
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) October 31, 2023
After they played another clip, Ingraham issued a correction.
“All right. There is a Webb Telescope,” she admitted with a laugh, stumbling several times herself over the word “telescope” ― something they had both mocked Biden over only a minute earlier. “I stand corrected by Joe Biden.”
The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope of its kind by far, was launched with great fanfare in December 2021 and became fully operational by summer 2022. Media ― including Fox News, which has called its images “stunning” and “marvelous” ― covered it extensively.
It’s 100 times more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope that Ingraham had confused it with, and, as Biden mentioned, scientists are using AI help analyze its images.
Critics mocked Ingraham and Arroyo for botching this one so badly:
We sent a telescope a million miles from Earth to observe the beginning of time and this is what we get https://t.co/3M7y2GDRsz
— Thor Benson (@thor_benson) October 31, 2023
apparently laura ingraham doesn't know what the james webb telescope is pic.twitter.com/sE9jwicmGf
— helena hind (@cynicalzoomer) October 31, 2023
They are both idiots. https://t.co/1nJsqJX7t8
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) October 31, 2023
Just a reminder that Joe Biden is far more mentally there than 99% of his critics. https://t.co/pnRzJSRpfg
— Just a Random Guy (@What46HasDone) October 31, 2023
Look at how giddy there are in their ignorance. The Webb Telescope, which Pres Biden referred to in his comments on AI, EXISTS. Fox News morons tried to own Biden but only managed to demonstrate their own imbecilic stupidity about the the Webb Telescope and the Hubble Telescope. https://t.co/LlHOFxHsyW
— HawaiiDelilah™ 🟦 #MauiStrong 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦 (@HawaiiDelilah) October 31, 2023
It’s actually a thing, Laura. https://t.co/IvaRJysgCj
— Jack Kuenzie (@JKuenzie) October 31, 2023
Laura Ingraham and that religious right guy cracking up because they had no idea that the newest telescope is in fact called the Webb telescope. https://t.co/BFFztojzcQpic.twitter.com/D7mpjx3H2d
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸🇬🇷🏳️🌈 (@aravosis) October 31, 2023
