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×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Comedy legend and veteran just in ’ general direction.In , Fox tried to suggest there was trouble brewing between protesters in the , a roughly that demonstrators against police brutality and systemic injustice occupied last week.The quote-unquote evidence of infighting came from a post on Reddit, supposedly written by someone within CHAZ, that read in part: “I thought we were an autonomous collective? An anarcho-syndicalist commune at the least. We should take turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.”AdvertisementThe trouble is, the Reddit post was actually referencing from the 1975 comedy classic “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”Fox News fell for a Monty Python joke on Reddit lmao — Josh Billinson (@jbillinson)Advertisementas it aired — andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE)Python fans and news junkies spent the weekend ribbing Fox News for getting played, but Cleese delivered the final blow on Monday.BREAKING: No one has ever seen &amp; The Holy Grail. 😂 — John Cleese (@JohnCleese)Fox News’ coverage of the autonomous zone has been alarmist and misleading at best. has as “chaos and craziness,” and Laura Ingraham called it “a Marxist cultural revolution” that hopes to “destroy everything that came before it.”HuffPost reporter Michael Hobbes, who has repeatedly visited CHAZ, described something much calmer and more community-oriented in this weekend.Advertisementhas accused Fox News of publishing digitally altered photos in stories about CHAZ, saying the Fox coverage was “a clear violation of ethical standards for news organizations.” and admitted it “did not clearly delineate” the splicing together of multiple images from different locations.See GallerySuggest a correctionNewsletter Sign UpHuffPost's top politics stories, straight to your inbox.Successfully Subscribed!Realness delivered to your inbox

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Comedy legend and veteran just in ’ general direction.In , Fox tried to suggest there was trouble brewing between protesters in the , a roughly that demonstrators against police brutality and systemic injustice occupied last week.The quote-unquote evidence of infighting came from a post on Reddit, supposedly written by someone within CHAZ, that read in part: “I thought we were an autonomous collective? An anarcho-syndicalist commune at the least. We should take turns to act as a sort of executive officer for...

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