‘Snide, Condescending Sneer’: Fox News Anchor John Roberts Attacks Margaret Brennan For Fact-Checking JD Vance

Fox News anchor John Roberts attacked CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan for fact-checking Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) during the vice presidential debate.

During the debate, Vance accused the moderators of breaking the rules due to repeated instances of Brennan and Norah O’Donnell fact-checking the Ohio senator. However, CBS’ rules as provided to the campaigns did not include any prohibitions on fact-checking, with the network planning all along to provide fact-checking in real time online and in post-debate commentary. The moderators were also free to “facilitate” discussions and step in with fact checks if an “egregious” error was said by either candidate.

At one point during the debate, both Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) had their microphones muted after the moderators fact-checked Vance for comments he made on Haitian immigrants in Ohio.

While interviewing Karl Rove on Wednesday, Roberts claimed that Brennan was “condescending” during her fact-checking of Vance.

ROBERTS: All right. So there you had three things happening. First of all, the fact check, JD Vance, when they said that they weren’t going to, then they cut the microphones just as it was getting good. And then that was a rather snide, condescending sneer I thought that Margaret Brennan had when she said, “Thank you for explaining the legal process.”

ROVE: Yeah. No. The major dominant media didn’t look good last night in this regard. And you know — make up your mind, you’re either going to fact check or not fact check. And if you do, fact check, at least pretend like you’re, you’re doing both sides because there were things that the Governor Walz said that were clearly not accurate.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.