Fox News Will Issue Correction for Guest’s ‘Muslim Birmingham’ Comments

On Jeanine Pirro‘s Fox News show last weekend, guest Steve Emerson made the mind-bogglingly ridiculous claim that the city of Birmingham in England is “totally Muslim” and a “no-go zone” for non-Muslims. Emerson was relentlessly mocked, even by David Cameron himself, and his apology didn’t save him from a severe grilling over how the hell he thought it was true in the first place.

Well, now Pirro is planning to fix the record. According to The Washington Post, she’ll issue an on-air correction for Emerson’s remarks. And the Fox News spokeswoman who spoke to WaPo said it’s “highly unlikely” Emerson will be invited back on anytime soon.

And all of this doesn’t even include the claims of another Fox News guest about “no-go zones” that were so off-base, a French TV show has started a campaign to make Fox apologize for that error too.

You can watch Emerson’s initial comments here, via Fox News:

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