In a rare moment of self-aware candor, Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones admitted on air that many people think their coverage of President Joe Biden is “unfair,” though seconds later, the Fox News morning show ruthlessly laughed at his expense.
At issue is a video clip of G7 leaders assembled to watch a skydiving presentation by the host country’s Italian military forces. As the parachutes landed near the leaders, Biden can be seen walking over to congratulate one of the skydivers and give the person a thumbs up of approval.
Fox News reporter Madeleine Rivera reported in a news segment at the top of the show that “The RNC Research account is seizing on this video of the president, who walked away briefly from G7 leaders during the skydiving demonstration. A White House spokesperson says the president was saying congratulations to one of the divers and giving him a thumbs up.”
RNC Research is a partisan social media account widely criticized for sharing a misleading edit of Biden slowly sitting down in a chair picked up by partisan hacks who appear on television and should probably know better but revealed that they don’t. Why Rivera is reporting what “RNC Research” is posting as “news” probably says everything one needs to know about the journalistic standards at Fox & Friends.
Coming out of her report, Steve Doocy read a New York Post headline, “Meander in
“If you listen to some of the other media networks, they think we’re being unfair to the president,” Jones followed, correctly noting that many people on other networks and media outlets think they are unfair to the president. “You have a group of world leaders. All of them are together, and you have our commander in chief that is wandering away,” Jones continued before mocking him, saying, “Where are you going?”
Well, as Rivera had just reported, and anyone who looks carefully at the video, Biden is simply approaching a skydiver and congratulating him with a thumbs up. But that’s not the narrative Jones or Fox & Friends chose to promote. “Another leader has to say, Mr. President, let’s get back with the rest of the group.”
What followed was a predictable mockery of the president, comparing him to a lost child on a field trip. That’s the sort of programming that has led this to be the top-rated morning show on all of cable news.
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