FOX ISN'T NEWS WITH A RIGHT-WING SLANT -- IT'S ANTI-NEWS

This is why I hate Rupert Murdoch more than any person alive, including Donald Trump:

So here's Andrew Cuomo reacting to Maria Bartiromo wondering if Mamdani will "change the look of New York" and have Muslim women "completely covered up," telling her that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture" because he has "dual citizenship" and "he's a citizen of Uganda."

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— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona.bsky.social) October 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM

Many very smart people believe that Fox merely reports the news with a right-wing slant, and gives over airtime to commentators who express right-wing opinions about the news.

Some of these very smart people will acknowledge that those right-wing Fox commentators are demagogic and wildly inflammatory. Yet these smart folks still believe that Fox is, on balance, a news channel.

Opinions can vary widely, but the news is the truth, or it's supposed to be. What Maria Bartiromo says in this Fox Business clip isn't opinion based on reality. What she says is based on lies. That's worse than plain demagoguery. Viewers turn to Fox News and Fox Business to learn what's happening in their world, and they're told lies and implicit lies.

That's not news -- it's anti-news. Viewers walk away from this segment believing they've learned facts when they've learned falsehoods disguised as facts.

Bartiromo says, at 0:31:

I guess I'm wondering if you're expecting New York to look more like London. You go to London right now and it is largely Muslim. Women are completely covered up. I don't know if you expect, if Mamdani were to be in charge, him to change the look of New York as well.

Here are the facts: London is 53.8% white. It's 20.8% Asian or Asian British. It's 40.66% Christian and 14.99% Muslim.

London is, in fact, whiter than New York City, which is 30.9% white. New York has been a majority-minority city since at least the 1990 census. As for religions, New York is approximately 4% Muslim.

Bartiromo wants you to believe that every Muslim in London is covered from head to toe. That's nonsense. Here are London's Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, and his wife, Saadiya Khan:

And what about Mamdani? Well, here's the woman he married earlier this year, an illustrator named Rama Duwaji:

That doesn't look like a niqab to me.

Would Mamdani preside over an Islamic fundamentalist government? I'm pretty sure Islamic fundamentalists don't make a habit of bantering about gaydar with trans people, or release campaign ads commemorating trans activists:




It's contemptible that Andrew Cuomo is trying to leverage this kind of disinformation to win the mayor's race (and yes, there are undoubtedly cops on Staten Island and elderly shut-ins on the Upper East Side who think it's conceivable that London looks like Afghanistan now and New York could be next). Cuomo is contemptible, but it's contemptible that this kind of high-budget mainstream television exists at all. It's filling fact gaps in viewers' minds with lies.

Anti-news is killing America. And it made the Murdoch family rich.