The Sad Faces of Fox News on Election Night ----> [View all]

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Elspeth Reeve
Nov 6, 2012

The early election returns and exit polls had little good news for Mitt Romney, and you could see it on the Fox News election team's faces. The reporters and pundits were not uniformly dejected, with Megyn Kelly sounding mostly like a regular reporter -- explaining how some states can be called so early with so few results in -- and Bill O'Reilly mourning the end of "the white establishment."

Let's start with Bill O'Reilly's grappling with a possible Republican loss after four years of Barack Obama. One reason Obama might win? People care more about his response to Hurricane Sandy than to the attacks on our consulate in Benghazi, because "there were pictures."


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