Fox News Legal Analyst Links His Downed Wi-Fi To Biden, Gets Mercilessly Mocked
Twitter users went to town on Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett on Friday after he appeared to suggest there was some nefarious link between his imminent filing of a column criticizing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his Wi-Fi failing.
Jarrett — whose tweets and articles President Donald Trump has shared on dozens of occasions — said he found it “odd, if not curious, that the moment I hit ‘send’ on my column [...] my Wi-Fi service disconnected.”
“Never happened before. Probably just a coincidence,” he added:
I find it odd, if not curious, that the moment I hit “send” on my column that’s highly critical of Joe Biden my Wi-Fi service disconnected. Inexplicably, it will be out all day. Never happened before. Probably just a coincidence. I drove to the local store and sent the column .
— Gregg Jarrett (@GreggJarrett) October 23, 2020
“I’m sure it’s just a communications failure. Or not,” Jarrett conspiratorially wrote in later posts:
BTW... I had to leave the house to send this tweet.
— Gregg Jarrett (@GreggJarrett) October 23, 2020
I’m standing in the middle of the street, but will return home now. Don’t want to get run over! So, I won’t be getting communications. Sorry. I’m sure it’s just a communications failure. Or not.
— Gregg Jarrett (@GreggJarrett) October 23, 2020
Jarrett’s tweets went viral for all the wrong reasons as politicians, journalists and others responded in various mocking ways:
I caused this outage due to my magical powers.
Aww, I don’t have magical powers.
But I am a recovering computer science major and Wi-Fi problems are not the result of someone monitoring your keystrokes for bad words about Biden & then shutting it off at just the right moment. https://t.co/2vKnDHNfGd— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) October 23, 2020