Speaker 1: This next segment is one of the most embarrassing, humiliating segments I
have ever seen because it combines the pathetic political perspective and cynicism of Fox
News with sending a reporter who has no business speaking Spanish to the border to try to speak
Spanish.
Fox News has been playing up this narrative that there's a crisis on the border that was
caused by Joe Biden.
It didn't exist up until January 20th and that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are ignoring
it because they refuse to go to the border.
This is the story that they have been telling.
So Fox News sends a reporter to the border to talk to people and they decided to send
Griff Jenkins and Griff Jenkins.
Listen, this is a guy who's been embarrassing himself on Fox News for a decade, but he goes
and talks to a random guy who's just in the river and he's believed to be in.
Later, we find out that he is someone who helps get people to the U.S. Mexico border
who are looking to cross into the United States.
It's just a random guy sitting in the water and up walks Fox News reporter Griff Jenkins
and tries to speak Spanish.
And this you just have to see.
Let's look at the first clip.
Check it out.
Speaker 2: Smuggler is coming over towards us.
I'm just going to take a moment and ask him a few questions.
Come us.
More, more or less, we the under.
See, now, I don't Speaker 1: even know what he said there.
Remember, I'm a native Spanish speaker, what I think I heard is more Losman us rather than
last menos more plus minus the Ambre, which translates painfully literally as more the
arms of hunger.
And again, I'm like doing the best I can to make sense of the syntax here.
So then the guy has no idea what's going on and is just sort of waving.
And Overstock's Griff Jenkins and this continues.
Speaker 2: Publishing lies no contest.
Pugin, Chrissa.
Let's not make out this.
Speaker 1: Now, so there Jenkins is asking in a very strangely phrased way, how much
are you getting paid for helping immigrants cross the border?
The guy says nothing.
I think that, unfortunately, as embarrassing as this is, the average Fox News viewer sees
this and thinks, wow, this is like really good investigative journalism.
This is great stuff.
And that's a media literacy problem as much as this is a really harebrained idea by FOX.
My guess is a lot of their core viewers love this.
Let's continue.
And this is my favorite part.
Speaker 2: Can I say a la president that bottom.
OK, well, Neil, he's not saying anything about how much he's getting paid or if he has a
message for President Biden, but he does say that more people are coming.
Not entirely sure why the smuggler is sitting in the middle of the river here.
We're going to continue to monitor it and bring it to you as we get it.
Neil.
Speaker 1: Incredible.
I just love that because, first of all, why would this guy have a message for Joe Biden?
But I love that he says LA President Biden, which is the feminine form of the question,
implying Biden is a woman, that we have a female president.
It's not on purpose.
It's not like this guy's trying to emasculate Biden.
He just has no idea how to speak Spanish.
And this was a bad idea from the get go.
So then apparently producers just love this so much.
They the producers were thrilled.
So they they got more of this footage of Fox News asking a guy sitting in a river for his
opinion on American immigration policy.
And Joe Biden Speaker 2: Norinco by attacking a lie that
Kubica, you're not coming for, you know, Bianna.
Speaker 1: So here the guy seems to be saying, I only come to this point.
I don't go any further because that's beyond the border.
That would be illegal.
I'm not doing that.
And this guy is scared and I would be, too.
And then Jenkins' again starts up with the Biden questions,
Speaker 2: c, e, l, President Biden.
Abla Frontera is Cerrado.
Speaker 1: So what Jenkins is trying to say there in some of just the worst Spanish that
I've ever heard is that Joe Biden says the border is closed and this guy responds, but
no one's understanding each other.
And it's a complete and total mess Speaker 2: because it isn't getting us out
of the game regardless.
I mean, I know we're getting guns out of see is is from there, although I have to get louder
and louder.
Oh, I hope he's had that problem.
But I thought, you know, you buy a ticket on my.
Attacking the Iran killer is a message for President Obama to undo while his death, but
there's a bottom here.
Speaker 1: So the guy says, well, build the bridge, then people are tired and the reporter
says again, but it's closed.
The border is closed.
And the guy says, we'll open it.
But it's not legal to go beyond the river.
So that's why I stopped here when I'm helping people.
But the best part of this is the guy says when asked for his message to Joe Biden, he
says, oh, no, I have no problem.
But, you know, do do what you're doing.
You guys are good.
Not exactly the ominous threatening message from coyotes that Fox News wants us to believe.
And it continues getting more and more interesting Speaker 2: in Mexican all American policy
on Mexico.
No, no, no, no, sir.
Not Native American policy.
I don't hear of a new wife, man.
Speaker 1: That is just the best.
The guy says, you know, in Mexico, the police are no good.
You guys are good.
I respect you.
I don't even think Jenkins has any idea the conversation that he's having with this guy.
Let's watch a little bit more.
Speaker 2: And Bearpark for one PRK cruiser cruiser this.
But I at as I know America, I know Bearcat guillotining.
I can see as Trayvon, though.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
So so then Jenkins asks, why are you helping people cross?
And the guy says to help people that are struggling for the American dream, he literally says
for the American dream, because here in Mexico they're screwing people.
So a few thoughts on this.
First of all, this guy is incredibly sympathetic, if you can understand him, which, you know,
you really can't unless you speak Spanish, because what's going it?
There's no translator.
It's just a pathetic mess.
If the idea is to frame what's happening as really bad people helping really bad people
cross, it fails.
If you can understand what's being said, this guy is super sympathetic to me.
But more importantly, no one really knows because there's no translation.
This guy speaks no English.
Griff Jenkins speaks essentially no Spanish.
If you want to do this seriously, you could do it seriously.
This is a side show.
They turn this into a freak show.
Jenkins doesn't even speak Spanish.
You don't know what the guy is saying.
And you really can't actually do justice to a segment that could be quite interesting.
If you want to do this, you bring in a translator and you might actually have a serious segment
here.
Griff Jenkins should be ashamed of himself.
So should Fox News.
Let me know what you think.
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