Laura Ingraham Omits Context From Fox News Interview to Suggest White House Spokesman Was Utterly Tone-Deaf About Mideast Violence

Laura Ingraham omitted crucial context from an interview conducted by her Fox News colleague Martha MacCallum to cast White House spokesman John Kirby as tone-deaf, if not clueless about violence in the Middle East.

Kirby made the media rounds on Monday, days after Hamas launched a series of deadly attacks in Israel that killed more than 900 people. The group also kidnapped more than 100. In response, Israel has laid siege on Gaza, which Hamas controls.

Kirby appeared on Fox News’ The Story, among other shows, to offer reaction and answer questions. At one point, MacCallum asked him about remarks President Joe Biden made last month when Biden said, “The only existential threat humanity faces, even more frightening than a nuclear war, is global warming going above 1.5 degrees in the next 10 years.”

MacCallum asked Kirby, “Given all the nuclear players in these two areas where we are engaged on, does the president still stand by that comment?”

Ingraham aired Kirby’s response to the question, but not the question itself, presumably to suggest that Kirby’s comments missed the mark, when in fact he was giving a direct answer to her Fox colleague’s question. She teed up Fox News contributor Ari Fleischer, by saying, “Ari, this afternoon, Martha MacCallum did a fantastic interview with the White House spokesperson, John Kirby, about the administration’s priorities.”

She then aired Kirby’s response, but not McCallum’s question that elicited it.

Viewers who had not seen MacCallum’s interview with Kirby were likely confused as to why he was talking about climate change because they would not know he was asked about the issue specifically in the context of the Middle East violence.

“Climate change is an existential threat. It actually threatens and is capable of wiping out all human life on Earth over time. I mean, that’s– I don’t know how more existential you can get than that,” he said. “The president believes wholeheartedly that climate change is an existential threat to all of human life on the planet. That’s just science. That’s a fact.”

Ingraham acted as though Kirby had made the comments about climate change apropos of nothing.

“Even during war, Ari, they go to their point of major fanaticism, which is climate change,” she said. “That’s what Americans should be uniting around – not Israel’s survival.”

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