Fox News host Dan Bongino: The “top ten most unhealthy U.S. cities” are San Francisco; Seattle; Portland, Oregon; San Diego; Honolulu; Washington; Austin, Texas; Irving, Texas; Portland, Maine; and Denver.
PolitiFact’s ruling: Pants on Fire
Here’s why: In a sweeping segment blaming “garbage Democrat politicians” for society’s ills, Fox News host Dan Bongino aired a map that he claimed showed the “Top Ten Most Unhealthy U.S. Cities.”
The map highlighted 10 blue-leaning cities: San Francisco; Seattle; Portland, Oregon; San Diego; Honolulu; Washington, D.C.; Austin; Irving; Portland, Maine; and Denver.
“You look at some of the health outcomes in some of these inner cities that these Democrats have run monopolistically for decades, and you stand a pretty darn good chance of dying in one of these inner cities,” Bongino said Feb. 5 as the graphic aired beside him. “Far more likely than if you lived in areas where they gave a damn about people and their healthcare outcomes.”
The problem: the source for Bongino’s graphic, the personal finance website WalletHub, says the exact opposite of what his map showed.
The 10 cities Bongino singled out as the “most unhealthy” are actually the 10 “healthiest places to live in the U.S.,” based on assessments of health care, food, fitness and green space.
Bongino also mixed up Irvine, California, a city southeast of Los Angeles, with Irving, Texas, a large Dallas suburb; the WalletHub analysis concluded that Irvine, not Irving, is the eighth…
