Could Someone Explain What The Hell Happened During This Fox News Segment On Mitt Romney?

Radio talk show host Nancy Skinner sparked an entertaining–and at times somewhat bizarre–discussion on Fox News Thursday afternoon, as host Martha MacCallum attempted to lead a discussion of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign announcement. Skinner, who has a show on Detroit radio and has served as a political commentator for Fox, MSNBC and CNN, quickly shifted from Romney to Bush. She suggested that Romney’s speech was about “laying out the case of how badly President Bush screwed up our economy” before beginning a disjointed defense of President Obama that led to an argument over poll results.

More than once, MacCallum had to interrupt Skinner, and Jason Lewis, a radio talk show host who was part of the discussion accused Skinner of spinning “conspiracy theories.” The awkward segment, which sent some viewers to Twitter to question what had Skinner so distracted and “stuttering”, also featured uncomfortably long pauses, unflattering lighting, a ringing telephone, and Skinner’s odd response to a question about unemployment: “He killed Bin Laden!”

Watch it here, from Fox News:

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