Phoenix news anchor Kari Lake of Fox 10 (KSAZ) was caught dropping the F-bomb in a Facebook Live appearance that seems to have gone live too early.

“(Expletive) them,” she says in the video in response to potential negative coverage of her latest mini-controversy in the Phoenix New Times, the Valley’s long-running alternative weekly.

“They’re 20-year-old dopes. That’s a rag for selling marijuana,” Lake says in the video reposted July 15 by the website FTVLive, which covers events and controversies in the TV-news business.

FTVLive has been reporting on the Channel 10 anchor's participation in a right-wing social media site called Parler, a would-be Twitter alternative, presumably for people who have been kicked off or otherwise curtailed from using mainstream sites such as Twitter and Facebook.

Lake has a history of raising eyebrows concerning her political objectivity. Last year she apologized after tweeting that the #RedForEd movement, which pushed for education funding from the state legislature, was actually a push to legalize marijuana.

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In its latest post, FTVLive is following up its reporting that Lake had promoted her Parler handle on her Twitter account but then took it down. The Facebook Live footage finds co-anchor John Hook seemingly explaining the company line:

Hook: “I think they just think it’s been branded as a far-right kind of place …”

Lake: “Jesus.”

Hook: “… so they don’t want you tied into anything like that where you’re going to get blowback from the New Times or …”

Lake: “(Expletive) them.”

Hook: “… whoever it is.”

Lake: “They’re 20-year-old dopes. That’s a rag for selling marijuana.”

Hook: “I know, but then they’re in a position where they’ve got to explain it, or you’ve got to explain it.”

Lake: “I’m reaching people.”

Speaking of reaching people, we reached out to Fox 10 news director Douglas Bannard as well as the station’s official spokespersons. No response so far. We will update this story if we hear back from them.

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