{"id":1520493,"date":"2022-06-17T10:50:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T14:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520493"},"modified":"2022-06-17T10:50:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T14:50:05","slug":"fact-check-viral-image-of-big-boys-billboard-encouraging-customers-to-watch-tucker-carlson-is-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-viral-image-of-big-boys-billboard-encouraging-customers-to-watch-tucker-carlson-is-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Viral Image Of Big Boy\u2019s Billboard Encouraging Customers To Watch Tucker Carlson Is Fake"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-viral-image-of-big-boys-billboard-encouraging-customers-to-watch-tucker-carlson-is-fake%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520493&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/GettyImages-1052722724-e1655476372924.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>An image <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=391920999642684&#038;set=a.221402116694574\"><span>shared on Facebook<\/span><\/a><span> purportedly shows a billboard at a Big Boy restaurant chain location with a message that reads, \u201cDon\u2019t watch the Dem circus tonight come in and watch Tucker Carlson on our big screen!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image is digitally fabricated. Different iterations of the same image have circulated online since at least 2009.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fox News was the only major cable news channel that did not air the Jan. 6 committee hearing last week, instead opting to broadcast the prime-time shows of Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/06\/10\/1104116455\/fox-news-jan-6-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR<\/a>. A Facebook image claims to show a billboard at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigboy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Boy\u2019s<\/a> location urging people against watching the \u201cDem circus\u201d and instead encourages them to watch Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDon\u2019t watch the Dem circus tonight come in and watch Tucker Carlson on our big screen!\u201d reads the text on the billboard. \u201cThis place has the best burgers and shakes,\u201d reads the post\u2019s caption. \u201cVisit this one every day and will definitely be patronizing it more now!\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/05\/19\/fact-check-tucker-carlson-buffalo-newspaper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Was Tucker Carlson Pictured Smiling While Holding A Newspaper Reporting On The Buffalo Supermarket Shooting?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>The sign is digitally altered. The same image can be seen in a blog <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/the-legion-of-decency.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/national-party.html\"><span>post<\/span><\/a><span> from 2009 showing a message regarding a Canadian football team. \u201cRoughrider fans 30% off Montreal Alouette fans f*** off!\u201d it states. Countless other <a href=\"https:\/\/tineye.com\/search\/78446eb200bbd24124621afacb3960f597093330?sort=crawl_date&#038;order=asc&#038;page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iterations<\/a> of the image show the billboard containing different messages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact discovered the images can easily be created and customized using the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redkid.net\/generator\/bigboy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RedKid.net<\/a>, which allows users to <span>input text to be displayed on the billboard.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Check Your Fact has reached out to Big Boy for comment and will update this piece accordingly if one is received.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a billboard at a Big Boy restaurant chain location with a message that reads, \u201cDon\u2019t watch the Dem circus tonight come in and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}