Posted on 02/10/2023 12:09:35 PM PST by conservative98
"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin offered a mea culpa after she faced backlash for making an erroneous claim about Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
On Thursday's broadcast, Farah Griffin accused DeSantis of "erasing" Black history for opposing the AP African American History course, which had a curriculum he said included a "political agenda."
After Fox News Digital ran a report Friday morning about the fiery criticism she received, Farah Griffin took to Twitter and acknowledged she "accidentally misrepresented" DeSantis, a lightning rod for criticism in mainstream media and a rumored 2024 presidential hopeful.
"Sooo I got tripped up on a point re: DeSantis/ AP black history on air & accidentally misrepresented what the Governor is challenging," Farah Griffin wrote Friday. "It’s more narrow than how I framed it, & while I still personally disagree, I own that I explained it wrong."
She continued, "My mom always taught me that when you’re wrong admit it, say sorry, and get it right next time."
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While Farah Griffin offered the apology on Twitter, she made no on-air mention of the error during Friday's broadcast of "The View" despite the show's multiple references to Black History Month. Notably, the reach of the "View" audience, which averaged 2.4 million viewers at the end of January (according to Nielsen Media Research), is much greater than Farah Griffin's Twitter following, which is less than 104,000 users.
DeSantis' office told Fox News Digital, "The right thing to do would be to make an on air correction" but suggested her tweeted statement correcting the record was enough.
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Well good on her. She has some droplet of integrity within her. She did what most libs do, which is react to a catch phrase without bothering to do any research whatsoever. This is how that simpleton Whoopi ended up endorsing Dr Jill Biden for surgeon general
This does not reflect well on Ron. It looks like The View got the memo.
I figured she was the “conservative” on the show.
She is the token NeverTrumper Organ Grinder Monkey.
She’s getting all mixed up. He’s a Republican we like. He hates trump
Get it together.
“ This does not reflect well on Ron. It looks like The View got the memo.”
Well…ya. Who doesn’t know he’s the media fave? Well the view. But…
They won’t make that mistake again.
Accidentally.
Sure babe.
What ever.
Oh. I can’t say I keep up, beyond Behar and Goldberg. If you’re correct then the lib record of abandoning all integrity remains intact
Someday, those liberals will be flapping their gums in hell and it won’t come a day too soon for me!
“which averaged 2.4 million viewers” - that many viewers because every damn Doctor’s office has it on. Just like in the airports.
The View were ready to throw DeSantis under the bus, until they were told DeSantis hates Trump. "It was all an accident"!!
“It’s more narrow than how I framed it, & while I still personally disagree, I own that I explained it wrong.”
In other words, she didn’t explain it in a way we morons
would understand.
Marko
“... while I still personally disagree, I own that I explained it wrong.”
That is a surprisingly good way of putting it. Exactly how I have felt when I made an error.
They won’t do THAT again. Golden boy. Get the memo.
“ react to a catch phrase without bothering to do any research ”
You think she changed her tune because of doing research!?
Accidentally Misrepresented = Biden Speak
same tribe
“My hatred and bias is ‘accidental’...”
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