Fox News Went All Day Without Mentioning Trump's Obama Ape Video That Even Republicans Criticized
President Donald Trump’s now-deleted post with a video depicting former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes sent shockwaves through the political world Friday, dominating the day’s news cycle and even sparking some rarely-seen critiques from Republicans. But in Rupert Murdoch’s television empire, it was ignored until the sun had set.
Thursday evening, Trump posted a video with baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election that included a short clip at the end of the Obamas’ faces superimposed on apes’ bodies. The video was furiously criticized by members of Congress on both sides of the aisle, members of the media, and other political commentators as racist. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt initially defended the post as simply sharing an “Internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle” and dismissed critics as voicing “fake outrage.”
But shortly before noon ET Friday, the post was deleted, and a still-unnamed White House staffer was blamed for making an “erroneous” post. The controversy made “Obama” and related terms trend on multiple social media platforms for hours Friday — an uncommon thing since his presidency ended nine years ago — and the story was all over cable news programs. All over cable news — with two notable exceptions, that is.
A review of the entire day’s programming on both the Fox News Channel and Fox Business found not one single mention of the story all day long Friday until after 6 pm ET as the weekend kicked off, on Special Report with Bret Baier. The story was not covered at all, neither to defend nor criticize the president, report on the reactions to the post, or mention it at all, until Bret Baier’s program spent slightly more than two minutes on it.
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