Harris Faulkner has made a reputation for herself as an ultra-conservative Christian tv host, but it surely’s not precisely a secret that her employer, Fox Information, has a historical past of hiring ill-behaved information anchors. Faulkner is among the many community’s stars who’ve confronted scrutiny for a few of their actions, despite the fact that she’s tried to persuade viewers that she’s simply somebody who cares deeply about honesty and her profession.

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In 2022, Faulkner even printed a e-book titled “Religion Nonetheless Strikes Mountains: Miraculous Tales of the Therapeutic Energy of Prayer.” Throughout an interview with the Christian Put up, Faulkner stated, “God has given me what I’ve coined — a divine project. He has known as me to be a witness and to disseminate info in truth from what I see and additional query or examine.”

Sadly, her life hasn’t been all rainbows and sunshine. There are some quite tragic particulars about Faulkner’s life. And sadly, there have been a couple of occasions when Faulkner has been caught being a tad bit shady, too. 

The place have been you once you discovered that Harris Faulkner as soon as discovered herself in a authorized battle over a hamster? Again in 2015, Faulkner caught wind that the well-known Hasbro toy firm was peddling a one-inch-tall plastic toy hamster named — you guessed it — Harris Faulkner. Suffice it to say Faulkner was not flattered. In accordance with NBC Information, she instantly filed a swimsuit in opposition to Hasbro Inc., citing that the corporate “willfully and wrongfully appropriated Faulkner’s distinctive and helpful identify and distinctive persona for its personal monetary achieve.” The kicker? She wished Hasbro to cough up $5 million to cowl the damages she claims she suffered on account of the doe-eyed hamster doing enterprise together with her first and final identify. Cha-ching! 

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Whereas Hasbro initially put up a battle, sustaining in courtroom docs that “a side-by-side comparability of Ms. Faulkner and the Hamster Toy reveals that the 2 bear completely no resemblance” (through NBC Information) and requesting that the decide dismiss the swimsuit solely, the corporate did cease promoting the toy in query. Sadly for Hasbro, the decide presiding over the case denied its request. Ultimately, Faulkner took on an enormous firm and received — nicely, kind of. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Hasbro ended up settling with Faulkner in October 2016 for an undisclosed quantity, so it is a thriller simply how a lot moolah she scored within the authorized battle. 

Harris Faulkner hit the bottom working on June 5, 2023, throughout her first of 5 nights serving as visitor host on “Fox Information Tonight.” Proper out of the gate, she launched right into a prolonged monologue whereby she claimed that she had been kicked out of a restaurant for praying over her meal. “We’re the best nation on earth,” she started. “Proper now, we have to remind some folks that we belong in our divinely given place on the high. We did not simply stumble right here. We’re a nation below God.” 

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She then issued a name to motion, urging fellow Christians to “be daring in our religion proper now.” She continued, “While you collect in public areas, pray fortunately over your meals. Even when the server provides you the stink-eye, or tells a supervisor that your peaceable grace is triggering them.” And that is when she threw the hammer down, claiming that after bowing her head to hope, she was requested to depart the restaurant. “It is all good. They do not deserve my cash anyway,” she quipped.

As one can think about, many had questions following her on-air revelation. “We want the identify of this restaurant and when it occurred. If true that is terrible. IF it is not true… which appears more than likely the case… then there must be accountability ,” former congressman Adam Kinzinger tweeted partly. In the meantime, one other X person wrote, “And but Harris Faulkner ‘newswoman’ has completely no video or audio of this and one way or the other is not referencing the alleged restaurant. Please.” It additionally needs to be famous that Fox Information simply so occurred to be on the lookout for a alternative for Tucker Carlson when Faulkner shared her story.

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It is no secret that Harris Faulkner was not a fan of the COVID-19 restrictions and protocols. Alas, in June 2023, she took that stance a step too far whereas filling in as a visitor host on “Fox Information Tonight” in June 2023. Whereas railing in opposition to what she perceived as “dangerously unhealthy selections” concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, she claimed that through the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, faculties by no means closed. “We did not even have penicillin again then,” she added. “We did sacrifice. We suffered, however then we pressed on. Our enemies hate us for surviving, however they might like to be like us.”

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As one can think about, shortly after Faulkner uttered the disinformation, many rapidly jumped on the likelihood to right her. “That is blatantly unfaithful and takes about 3 seconds to reality test,” one X person declared. Even the Every day Beast joined the group chat with a submit that learn, “Harris Faulkner gave her primetime Fox viewers Tuesday some revisionist historical past concerning the 1918-19 influenza pandemic when making an attempt to make a degree about college closures attributable to COVID-19.” 

Following the present, Faulkner labored extra time to make clear the fictional on-air comment, in the end admitting that some faculties did, in actual fact, shut through the Spanish flu. “First Wave mass college closures for COVID have been what made it totally different and epic from the Spanish Flu pandemic. Additionally, the other of COVID occurred — nation’s largest college district New York Metropolis Stayed Open (together with Chicago faculties),” she tweeted in response.

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