Emily Larsen, DCNF
A meme posted Sunday on Facebook from the progressive page Left Action shows Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren arguing that former President Barack Obama created the Festivus holiday to destroy Christmas.
These people are literally insane.
Posted by Left Action on Sunday, December 2, 2018
“TOMI: OBAMA CREATED FESTIVUS TO DESTROY CHRISTMAS,” read the image caption.
Verdict: False
A screenshot of Lahren on Fox News was altered to add a fake message in the news chyron.
Fact Check:
The meme of Lahren circulated widely around Christmas in December 2017.
Festivus, a secular, anti-commercial holiday celebrated on Dec. 23 as an alternative to Christmas, gained popularity after the sitcom “Seinfeld” featured it in a 1997 episode. The father of Dan O’Keefe, one of the show’s writers, invented Festivus when his son was around eight years old. The holiday’s traditions, as described on Seinfeld, include setting up an aluminum Festivus pole that requires no decoration, an airing of grievances among those celebrating and engaging in feats of strength.
Lahren is known for her fiery “Final Thoughts” monologues chastising political correctness and liberal politicians, but she did not argue in a Fox News segment that Obama created Festivus to destroy Christmas.
The altered screenshot of Lahren came from an August 2017 segment on “Hannity” where she discussed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s server scandal; it was edited to change the screen caption, as Snopes reported.
.@TomiLahren: "How about when the mainstream media stops covering Russia day in and day out, maybe we can drop the Hillary email scandal." pic.twitter.com/OwfYWfuhDD
— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 31, 2017
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