Fox & Friends fires hosts, hires chimps.

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FOX & FRIENDS FIRES HOSTS, HIRES CHIMPS
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
By Frank Lake

NEW YORK – Fox News today fired the hosts of Fox & Friends and replaced them with chimps.

Fox & Friends is going bananas! Out go the monkeys, in come the chimps.

Why did Fox News toss aside their morning hosts like a used banana peel?

Jetpacks.

The hosts of Fox News morning show, Fox & Friends, reported that Los Angeles is going to spend $1 billion on jetpacks that can fly a person up to 63 miles per hour and soar to heights of 8,000 feet.

The hosts of the show – Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade and Gretchen Carlson – took credit for the story, but everyone in the nation knows that it was broken right here by WWN’s own, Frank Lake.

After doing a story about glazed donuts and how terrorists were using them to make people in New York City constipated, the hosts spent a half-hour talking about the jetpacks. Their reportage was filled with gaping holes including Kilmeade making a wild claim about LAPD Helicopters.

Kilmead said, “”It’s a bloodbath up there. Police choppers are shooting down Jetpack Law Enforcement Officers in the skies over L.A.” Kilmeade then spent five minutes making “machine gun sounds” with his mouth.

 

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Fox & Friends Falls For Fake LAPD Jetpack Story
by Steve Krakauer
October 5th, 2010

Yesterday morning, Fox & Friends reported the LAPD had ordered 10,000 new jetpacks at a cost of $100,000 each. Outrageous!

Except it’s not true.

Gawker was the first to report on the story. ‘Jetpacks for the LAPD’ was the journalism of the Weekly World News. Maybe the fact that Los Angeles would be spending a billion dollars on jetpacks should have tipped off a producer or host.

Anyway, it didn’t, and the story got reported. “You gotta make up some rules,” said co-host Brian Kilmeade. “Because you’re going to have jetpacks flying into choppers!” Kilmeade really wanted to fly the jetpack.

But about 40 minutes later, co-host Steve Doocy came on with the disappointing news. “Earlier we were talking about jetpacks where you can fly around, and it looked like the LAPD was going to buy a whole bunch,” said Doocy. “Turns out they’re not going to. Which means Brian, more for you.” That’s right, the jetpacks do exist – FoxNews.com reported on it back in March.