Sean Hannity Falsely Identifies 'Pallets and Pallets' of Baby Formula at the Border Amid Shortage
By: Yahoo
There is a shortage of baby formula in the US. Butt, the so-called baby formula shown by Hannity was actually NIDO® products. There is no shortage of NIDO® products (clearly marked "for ages 1-3) at the grocery store.
Fox uses disinformation to cause outrage among their viewers. Fucker Carlson uses "replacement" bullshit to provoke White supremacists. We saw the impact of Carlson's replacement theory in Buffalo where a White supremacist committed mass murder.
The disinformation spewed by Fox News causes dangerous outrage.
(Note: post has been updated with a response from Sean Hannity and information about baby formula vs. powdered milk for babies.)
Fox News' Sean Hannity shared photos that falsely claimed to show "pallets and pallets" of baby formula at the southern border that were reserved for "illegal immigrants," which CNN quickly debunked, calling the "Fox and Friends" segment an "illuminating example" in "outrage creation."
Rep. Kat Cammack (R - Florida) joined the Fox News host on Friday to talk about the national shortage of baby formula. She's among several Republicans who have decried President Joe Biden over his decision to provide baby formula to migrant infants. Cammack has been on several Fox shows to express outrage over the issue and shared photos she said were given to her by a Customs and Border Patrol agent.
"Pallets and pallets of baby formula for illegal immigrants and their families even as hardworking American…families, we are now suffering a massive nationwide shortage," Hannity lamented, showing the photos on-air.
Hannity and Cammack's characterization of the photos, however, was debatable and, according to CNN Business managing editor Alex Koppelman, both misleading and incorrect. Koppelman, who authored a report on the matter for the Reliable Sources newsletter, said the packages contain powdered milk, not baby formula.
"The photo Hannity pointed to, and the one that followed it, showed boxes and boxes clearly labeled NIDO," the report, titled "Outrage Creation," read. "As anyone at Fox could have discovered with about a minute's worth of fact-checking, NIDO is not baby formula; it is powdered milk. As its maker, Nestle, specifically notes: 'NIDO® products are only intended for children ages 1 year and older.'"
"There is undoubtedly some formula being provided to babies in these centers at the border — you'd assume there would be, unless you expect the government to simply decide to starve babies in its care," Koppelman continued.
"The narrative spun over the past two days on the right, though, has let people imagine not a little bit of necessary food but rivers of formula going to the undocumented over themselves. It's an illuminating example of how Republican politicians and right-wing media work in concert, turning the thinnest possible set of facts into days of outrage over Them getting something You deserve — and then, as with the photos Hannity and 'Fox & Friends' used, abandoning facts altogether."
Hannity took to Twitter to argue his point. "As this picture shows (which aired in the same segment), there is in fact baby formula at the border and two of the additional pictures we aired during the interview w/ Rep. Cammack were milk products for babies over 1 years old," he wrote, adding that when he reached out to the White House and Department of Homeland Security for comment, he said White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki defended sending baby formula to the border.
However, powdered milk for "babies over 1 year old" is not formula. According to the Cleveland Clinic, "A healthy baby should drink breast milk or formula until they are 1 year old. "Generally, babies should have at least 24 ounces per day between the ages of 9 months to 1 year. But once your baby starts eating a full diet of nutritious solid foods, make the switch to cow's milk, which offers protein and vitamin D."
Pampers agrees, writing that "The general rule of thumb is to start transitioning from formula to cow's milk at 1 year, but not anytime sooner," and suggests to "wait until your baby is at least 12 months old to start transitioning from formula to milk." On a similar note, Yummy Toddler Food writes that "babies should stop drinking formula by 12 months of age."
The reason, they say is: 1) "When a baby turns a year old, they are typically eating three meals and two snacks a day, and are getting the majority of their nutrition from food." And 2) "Continuing to use formula can reduce a child's appetite for food and can potentially cause challenges with learning to like a range of foods and textures.
According to The Wall Street Journal, "some 40% of the nation's baby formula is out of stock," citing Abbott Laboratories' February recall of several brands and the closure of a Michigan plant after four infants fell deathly ill after ingesting powdered formula that contained bacteria. "Last year Abbott accounted for 42% of the U.S. formula market, about 95% of which is produced domestically," WSJ reported.
Hannity is Trump's biggest fan and also serves as an advisor.
Fox News is the propaganda arm of the Retrumplican Party.
too bad one of those boxes didn't get damaged in shipment causing a big pile of white powder to be left. hannity's nose would start running, he'd start sweating, and he'd be searching his desk for a straw while on the phone to don jr.
I actually felt sorry for coked up Junior during his RNC speech. I found his over-excitement telling. I thought the close-up accentuated his oversized teary pupils and that was entertaining. His bad timing was amusing. But when he couldn't get through two sentences without exhibiting coke jaw, it just made me pissed his media-whore girlfriend or grifter family members didn't get him out from behind the dais. It was then I realized that they just didn't give a shit about that poor loser.
The left seems to be bouncing from we have a legal obligation to supply illegals with baby formula to the pictures are not accurate and we do not have formula for the illegal aliens. Maybe they should get their story straight and stick with it.
And they expect to be taken seriously when giving "information".
Do you believe the disinformation being spewed on Fox?
You would have to ask somebody who actually watches Fox. Maybe somebody from the left.
If you don't watch FoxNews, why are you here defending it?
Al is the one that assumed I watched Fox. I never said I did.
Question stands. If you don't watch it, why are you defending it?
lets see...
Oh, I see.
You're just a troll.
Not part of the left. Sorry. Any more wrong assumptions?
Still trolling....
Typical of the uninformed right. No wonder tRump enjoys ripping off people like them. No wonder he incites them and then turns his back them. They're willing to shit on their self-respect, willing to piss on their dignity, because it pisses the left off. I love it. You do you, let us all witness it, and keep doing it. Keep talking.
Love the "pisses off the left" trollers. They comprise the Nugent Party. Ted Nugent claimed that he shit and pissed his own pants in order to get a 4F so he wouldn’t have to serve his country. The Nugent party is led by a forgot-which-foot bone spur traitor who claims "I like people who weren't captured."
Nugent later claimed that the pissing and shitting incident wasn't true, and he did get a student deferment first and a later deferment for an unknown medical reason.
The Nugent Party members sit in their own shit and piss because they think it pisses off the left.
Maybe Fox should broast accurate news instead of trying to produce outrage.
Is the news accurate and the picture not accurate or is there no law saying we have to supply illegals with formula like the liberals have been saying.
Well, if you believe only liberals are saying it, then you're admitting the right is less than informed. I guess there are few right leaners that know of the Flores Agreement that was enacted in 1997. Every administration, including trump, has followed Flores since then.
I have included Flores in my comment 8 below.
I also know Trump tried to lose Flores and some party blocked him
I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that Trumplethinskin the Humanitarian wanted to dump it.
Read the Flores Agreement. I'll never understand people who show their ignorance with such conviction.
Facilities provide children in their custody with access to sanitary and temperature-controlled conditions, water, food,
In the case of infants, food would include baby formula. Glad I could help you connect the dots.
Glad to see you have reached the right conclusion, eventually.
Except I was never confused, sure.
Are you sure? You want to stick with that ... story? You at 2.2.1 says different.
'Or is there no law' is a question to the last poster. I admit I put a period instead of a question mark but the wording is one of a question. So go read it again.
gee, it's the "I thought I made a mistake, but I was wrong" defense...
Common excuse from many. I've come to expect it.
Actually that comment was to Al J, not me.
My understanding is that decisions by courts such as SCOTUS become
common law as opposed to statute law passed by legislatures.
Court settlements are considered to be enforceable laws
in spite of the lack of statute or legislation.
I have zero legal training so my explanation might not be perfect
for someone in the business or a trained lawyer.
Both statements are true. Only small minds must think along the lines of either/or.
Either we are supplying formula to illegals or we are not supplying formula to illegals. Only the mindless or a biden supporter think both statements could be true. [deleted]
WOW! You just proved my point.
From one thing I read, the pallet they showed was not even baby formula. It was dried milk or something.
You're right.
It was NIDO® (dried milk for ages 1-3) which is not intended for newborns.
Sean Hannity drank all the baby formula and is now trying to blame the dems.
We all know what a big baby Hannity is so this is a very believable story.
How petty is it to begrudge babies getting formula?
I am not, nor have I ever really been a Hannity fan, but I do not see CNN having the credibility to honestly debunk much of anything lately.
Further proof that the "pro-life" party is really "pro-birth". Once that baby leaves the birth canal, all bets are off. It doesn't matter what country they're in.
it's the insurrectionist party's version of hitler's lebensborn program.
Himmler's worry about Replacement Theory before it was a theory.
Did you see Boebert's newest tweet? It's a hilarious example of personal cognitive dissonance.
This is the same person who only last year posted this against maternity leave:
You gotta trust what she says. She did, after all, get her GED certificate in 2020, a month before her first election primary.
Soooo ... do I need a sarc tag here?
I've interacted with her before, more than a decade ago, when she was working the drive up window at the McD's in rifle CO. she didn't win the county she lived in last election because of her family's reputation in town.
Considering the shit that comes out of her uneducated mouth, she should immediately say "you want flies with that?" every time she speaks.
I don't see her getting re-elected since her district was redrawn and she's circling the whirlpool of the local voting machine breach scandal that her Q-nut campaign manager was involved with.
DC trumpsters already know what her idea of a happy meal is.
Stupid twat. Maternity leave is for mother-baby bonding and a recovery period for the mother. What things did she have to get on with that she had one of them in the truck? Did she have to get back to her drive-thru job at McD's?
“I don't see her getting re-elected…”
Wish I could share your confidence.
As a newly relocated resident of the district office she holds, and being subject daily to the yard signs, letters to the local editor, and bumper stickers hereabouts…not to mention the money from outside the district she has banked, she will be difficult to defeat.
The poster child for all that is wrong with the political landscape as it currently exists. Imbecilic ramblings excused for the sake of party numbers…
Don't drink the water
“Don't drink the water”
Moved from AZ…know all about the poison in the well.
There is a lot of fluoride in CO water. There's an aesthetic effect called Colorado Brown Stain where the teeth are stained a motley brown. It makes them look bad but in fact the teeth are very strong because of the fluoride. Studies were done on this effect and it was found that people had few cavities. And that's why fluoride has a Secondary Contaminant Level of 2.0 mg/l.
More information that you wanted, I'm sure. <giggle>
I laughed so hard at that!!
probably the same place it was conceived...
She should provide every one of her base her ultra special pulled pork sliders the day before the election. They will be too busy puking and shitting to get to the polling places.
And in the same position.
one ankle over the steering wheel and the other in the rifle rack...
The shortage of formula begins: "Abbott voluntarily recalled powder formulas that included Alimentum, EleCare, and Similac in February because of potential contamination with an environmental bacteria called Cronobacter sakazakii . Two babies died and two more got sick after having been fed formula produced at the Sturgis plant."
For me it shows the dangers of having everything concentrated into a select few.
You're right, Ender. Again.
Why haven't the right leaning complainers bitched about not having shipments of formula sent to us by Canada?
Good question. I think that High Tariffs and FDA labeling regulations has limited imports.