Juan Williams has been a part of Fox News since 1997.
But the Emmy award winning commentator is also becoming more and more of just another radical leftist making bizarre and disprovable claims.
And Williams got called out on air by his co-hosts on The Five after making this ridiculous claim.
From its inception, Fox News has tried to be the “fair and balanced” news network and has always included liberal commentators and journalists in its lineup.
One of the original liberals is Juan Williams, who has been with Fox more than 20 years.
Lately he has been the vocal and angry liberal voice on Fox’s popular show The Five.
And on Thursday, while trying to downplay the violence and destruction being caused by Antifa and BLM radicals, the co-host claimed that the Portland riot violence footage “keeps being repeated from the first night way back.”
The segment about the continued rioting, looting, and violence began with a video of Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell calling for an end to ongoing violence in his city.
Then, after citing a recent Gallup poll that showed “81% of black Americans want police to maintain or increase a presence in their communities,” the show’s co-host Pete Hegseth asked Williams whether he agreed with the police chief that the BLM movement has been “hijacked” by violence.
“No, gosh, I think it’s still like 60% plus of Americans support the Black Lives Matter movement,” Williams responded.
“The violence?” Hegseth asked.
“I couldn’t disagree more with the police chief,” Williams said. “They don’t support defund the police. That’s Republicans, Democrats, black, white, Asian, Latino. That’s not something that people support. What they really are focused on is police reform.”
“In terms of, you know, the violence that you see in these pictures that keeps being repeated from the first night way back,” Williams continued.
Clearly agitated, co-host Lawrence Jones interrupted Williams and said, “That’s what’s happening there right now.”
Hegseth piled on, “Juan, that video is not from the first day. That video we’re showing is from last night. It’s ongoing day after day.”
“Oh, please,” said Williams.
“Oh please? This is our own video from our own show out of Portland. On this program, lighting fires and assaulting police,” said Hegseth.
Williams derisively ended the segment by continuing to insist that such violence as shown in the Fox News video “is not typical of the protests, which have been largely peaceful.”
The “largely peaceful” mantra has been the liberal media’s response to the death and destruction being perpetrated by the rioters around the country.
And while protests have occurred off and on in a number of major U.S. cities since May, the Portland rioting has continued almost every night ever since.
And, largely overlooked by most of the media, Portland saw a record number of murders in the city in July, after the Portland city council voted to cut $15 million from its police budget.
But don’t think that Juan Williams is alone in his claims of “largely peaceful” riots.
Almost all the media has joined with Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Nadler, Chuck Schumer, and other leading Democrats to continue to try and spread the myth that these continued riots are “largely peaceful.”
Pants on Fire News will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.
