Last week Fox News made the mother of all misinformation clangers when they called Birmingham a “no-go area”, implying it was off-limits to non-Muslims and a bona fide Western caliphate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_zF7nbEvwY

Whilst apologies have been coming in dribs and drabs since then, such as Emerson’s admission that “my comments about Birmingham were totally in error”, Fox has yet to issue a full on-air apology befitting the scale of this monumental screw-up. But as of yesterday the British public has finally had this ridiculous personal slight redeemed:

And again, in case we didn’t hear them the first time:

At such a sensitive time in Western history, with religious tensions threatening to blow-up into widespread civil unrest, the last thing we need are these clowns feeding the public false information; whether by genuine error/ignorance or to purposely fuel hatred for Muslims. Certain facets of our society are absolutely desperate for any reasoning to support their anti-Islamic bigotry, and Fox is doing nothing more than giving them what they want to keep the views coming in.

This kind of misinformation is the most abhorrent rabble-rousing and Fox should be ashamed, but I doubt we’ll see any change whatsoever in their constant xenophobic rhetoric. On the bright side however I suppose we should all take comfort that you really don’t have to be intelligent, reasonable or in any way useful to get on American television.