Fox News apologizes for featuring a man who falsely claimed he served on the first Navy SEAL team

The New York Times

The fact is that he did not serve in Vietnam,” Fox News said in a statement about John Garofalo, who was featured on an Oct. 8 segment. “He was never a U.S. 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.”