Fox News Apologizes for Featuring Veteran Who Lied About Being a Navy SEAL
“Even though he showed us medals, Garofalo was not awarded two Purple Hearts or any of the other nearly
two dozen commendations he claimed to have received, except for the National Defense Service Medal.”
The statement concluded, “We apologize to our viewers, especially veterans and servicemen and women.”
Fox published the correction only after Navy Times reported
that Mr. Garofalo had fabricated his record, and had been falsely portraying himself as a SEAL and Vietnam War veteran for years.
But on Thursday, the network issued a correction to the Oct. 8 segment about the veteran, John Garofalo,
and said that “all” of his claims “turned out to be untrue.”
In the segment, Mr. Garofalo was identified as a member of the first Navy SEAL team, who had been awarded 22 commendations.
