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Twitter thought this ‘Ingraham Angle’ prank was real

Contributor Raymond Arroyo fell off his chair in a stunt.

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If you were watching Fox News on Friday night, you might have managed to catch The Ingraham Angle with host Laura Ingraham.

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In the show’s “Friday Follies” segment, Ingraham and contributor Raymond Arroyo covered the week’s topics, including Brett Kavanaugh protests and selfie deaths. At the very end of the segment, Arroyo pulled out a six-pack of Bud Light as a mocking nod to the anti-Kavanaugh protesters who brought red Solo cups and chanted “I like beer” near Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s D.C. home. 

Arroyo claimed that the protestors were drunk when they marched on McConnell’s home at 7:30am, and he expressed sympathy for McConnell for having to endure the protests at such an early hour.

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As Ingraham was preparing to end the segment, Arroyo pulled out the brewskis, saying, “I thought, just to bring it all together, Laura.”

“I like beer,” Ingraham replied. Arroyo pulled out his phone to snap a photo of the two—apparently in reference to this selfie statistic—saying, “Smile. Do we have it? Wait …”

Ingraham then urged him to move to the edge of his seat, which caused Arroyo to fall.

Keeping with the joke, Ingraham frantically asked the medic to check on Arroyo. “Help him,” she said.

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But in reality, the fall was actually a fake one—a planned stunt.

“For all of you concerned viewers, @RaymondArroyo’s fall during our Kavanaugh-Toast selfie was a JOKE…a pratfall after a long week,” Ingraham said in a tweet on Friday night. “#Laughter #selfiecide.”

Arroyo backed up Ingraham’s statement, saying, “I’m fine…all planned, folks. Thanks for caring and watching.”

But that didn’t stop Fox News viewers from freaking out online.

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But some were in on the joke:

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During the segment, Ingraham and Arroyo also mocked diversity on corporate boards and laughed at more Kavanaugh protests.

H/T Business Insider

 
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