MSNBC Falls for Parody North Korean Twitter Account Attacking Fox News

MSNBC’s Morning Joe reported on a “North Korean” Twitter account that attacked Fox News and defended Donald Trump, without noting the account was just a parody.

Bloomberg Politics’ Mark Halperin got the ball rolling by discussing recent criticisms of Trump’s debate performance. “There is someone coming to his defense though; the North Koreans on their Twitter account,” he noted.

Morning Joe‘s production team evidently expected this segue, since the tweet appeared on-screen and host Joe Scarborough read it aloud: “U.S. media in total disarray as venomous Fox News declares war on noted scholar Donald Trump.”

The problem, of course, is that DPRK News is a parody Twitter account, as a later tweet at the show’s expense clearly shows:

Watch, via MSNBC.

[h/t Washington Free Beacon]
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