On the Fox News show Outnumbered, the hosts went on and on about a story in which they claimed that a group of homeless veterans were evicted from Upstate, New York, hotels to make room for migrants bused up from the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Fox folks said that this shows that Joe Biden didn’t care about veterans. “And a reminder that every time the president ends a prepared speech, he always ends it with, ‘God bless our troops,’” Fox host Emily Compagno said at the time. “I guess that ends essentially when they come back after service.”

But, there was just one tiny problem: the story the Fox News hosts were going on about wasn’t true.

The episode aired on May 15th, and this week, Fox News finally got around to saying they were wrong.

Compagno read the correction statement without any graphics or much context.

We want to update you on reports last week claiming that Upstate hotels in Orange and Rockland counties, including the Crossroads Hotel, evicted a group of homeless veterans. We’ve since learned that veterans advocates misled local officials and it now turns out that those eviction claims were false. We wanted to update you and make sure the record was set straight. More as we get it.

That seems to be the Fox News way. You go on and on about some story that turns out not to be true and then just give it just a couple of seconds to say that the story was bullshit.

Then again, there are other times when they just beat the false story into the ground and then pay $787.5 million bucks and a quick sorry before moving on.

Be better.

H/T Mediaite