Fox News Anchor Walks Off Set Over Obama Bashing; Chris Wallace Speaks Out
This Fox News breakdown has been fun to watch from the sidelines. It’s a rare public glimpse into some Fox News introspection.
This morning on Fox and Friends, Brian Kilmeade stalked off the set after tangling with co-hosts Gretchen Carlson and Steve Doocy over Obama’s comment that his grandmother is a "typical white person." Kilmeade unsuccessfully tried to talk context but he was aggressively interrupted and overridden by his colleagues. Exasperated, he finally headed to the exits.
Enter Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace who took the Fox and Friends anchors to task for for what he called "excessive…Obama-bashing."
Storm64 commented:
Presidents do not have all the power..Bankers do! They make the decisions! When are people going to realize this? Study your history, and find answers for yourselves, and don't be sheep!! Go ahead I dare you to study history and you'll see, what's really going on. Start with the year "1913", and see how President Woodrow Wilson screwed us over and sold us to the bankers, and how this trouble began!!
Rob commented:
It seems on F&F, Brian and Steve do not have the best working relationship. It would be more comfortable to watch if we knew their was no tension between them. Overall they do a great job on the show.
Nick commented:
Brian Kilmeade and all his friends at fox are the twits that mess up a beautiful country like America.
This is Brian Speaking, ‘’How do we Blow Up Humvees in Iran like they blow up our in Iraq’’? How do we create chaos in their country? Who the F*** speaks like this? CRAZY!!! He must be burning inside with Obama travelling around Europe and Turkey apologizing! Anti-American he calls it!
Bush Burned America for 8 years and they had smiles on their faces! Be responsible you idiots. All 3 of you, the elder, Cinderella and Brain! The 3 stooges!
If you have nothing good to say, then shut up! Stupid people! Be more responsible. You have a following, share and broadcast the truth.
Come live in Europe for a month, speak to Americans and Europeans, educate your selves...Go to Muslim countries, like Turkey and educate yourself further. You all work for an Aussie. What is you back ground Brian Kilmeade? You look like you have 10 breeds in you, Indian, Mexican, and other mixes! Do you know? Stupid people!
Obama is not dumb, he is my new hero! commented:
He is doing the right things, and I can see it, the money that he is doling out is bothering me only because it has to be paid back. Still I see him making changes and if change is what it is going to take to get our country back on track then so be it. We can\’t keep doing the same old business the same old ways we have been. If it doesn\’t work it needs to be fixed if it can not medicated with mind altering drugs so that no one has to really realize what is going on. The lobbiest have been leading us in the wrong directions for far too long, the government has an ethical obligation to check out what is going on, and if our earth isn\’t being taken care of then no wonder nothing else is going to work. It all makes sense to me.
IMPEACH if he GETS IN commented:
John McCain is the right man for America. Obama has such questionable ties - and he has failed to disclose why he chooses such poor relationships - it is imperative we start an impeachment hearing of him now even before he might get in office.
For Freedom of Press commented:
Sean Hannity is one of the nicest people on TV. He is wiling to sit there with Coombs every night and put on a fair and balanced show. Obama can't stand fair and balance and wants a federal law to ban Fox News. What happened to freedom of speech? Obama wants to blow Fox News off the air as it will tell the truth. Obama would rather sit down with the head of Iran who wants to wipe Israel off the map then to talk with Fox News. Yes, Mr. Obama Hussein Whatever your name is - Half of America does not want you in office and will vote against you. The electoral college may put you in - but it is in no way a mandate. Fox News is great and has very educated followers - Obama, you need to apologize for your lame comments. You are unAmerican and anti freedom of speech! Shame on this presidential candidate who would sit down with terrorists without preconditions. He won't even talk to Sean Hannity face to face and thinks Republicans are terrorists. Obama would rather talk with Bill Aires who planned and perhaps plans to blow up our fellow Americans. This man does not deserve the white house given his campaign against freedom of the press. Fox News should file a law suit against him now - constitutional law - and do it before Pelosi - Reid - Obama decide to simply blow Fox off the air and say it is for the domestic "security" of our Democratic citizens. How lame is this candidate ? So lame, his jokes at this night's meeting were met with uncomfortable laughter from the group of journalists. They are starting to have second thoughts themselves wondering if they got carried away putting a person in the white house who is anti freedom of the press. Obama is one of the strangest people in the world and his jerky laughter shows what he thinks about Christians, those who read the Bible, and those who bear arms. He has run an amazingly horrible smear campaign against our senior citizens ...and also insults those with disabilities! He is pure hatred against anyone who is not like himself. He will RAISE everyone taxes by having the Bush tax cut expire - and everyone will wonder why their check has gone down as of February 1. Obama will say - well we really don't have the money in our budget to give you the tax cut we thought about. We need to give Billions of dollars to Acorn - who is stealing my right to vote in the US and know that my vote will count. Obama - bad for America, bad for freedom of the press - and Fox News had better wake up before they are off the air.
trazer222 commented:
Obama is so stupid that he thinks it is perfectly ok to have a terrorist running Iran and saying he will erase Israel from the map. Obama supports terrorist nations. He is afraid of the truth and fair and balanced report of Fox News How lame can this man be. Obama is simply not presidential. People are so naievely following him thinking this is American Idol - who can talk the slickest. This is not that type of game - Terrorists do kill America; Obama did associate with Bill Aires - a domestic terrorist - and also with Acorn. Obama is simply unAmerican and a traitor.
mary mcnamara commented:
It's convenient to claim, after the fact, that Kilmeade's exit was a joke - which is what Fox execs are now saying. However, it sure didn't look that way. And I'm certainly not the only blogger who thought so. This isn't about being left/right, Republican or Democrat. This is about using the media to unfairly target a presidential candidate. Chris Wallace is right and he took a courageous position. The bashing is excessive and unseemly, and corrosive and unwarranted. It's unhealthy for this country and it's a Fox News low point.
mary barth commented:
Cris Wallace was very much out of line talking with Steve, Brian and Gretchen about bashing Obama. Fristly, he didn't have his facts straight; he was not loyal to his fellow co-workers at FOX; he was not there to critisize Fox and Freinds he was suppose to be promoting his own show on Sunday. He is a closet Democrat who has now shown that he is his father's son. I have never felt comfortable with him and now I know why. He owes Fox and Freinds an apology and should do it quickly. I will never watch him or his program again. What a jerk!
Joe commented:
This was a joke people! This is why Fox and Friends continues to outshine CNN AND MSNBC in the ratings. They actually have fun doing what there doing.Go find a sense of humor, Mary...
mary mcnamara commented:
I'm bothered that Fox anchors jumped all over an innocuous phrase like "typical white person" and embellished the remark beyond recognition. At a key moment in this county, when Obama paved the way for having an open dialog on race, Fox News once again focuses on trivia.
michael55 commented:
FOX NEWS CHANNEL they claim that they are "FAIR AND BALANCED " , they probably mean that they are "FAIR AND WHITE "
wallice/fox commented:
Has fox news joined the obama worshipers? They have been reporting both canditates and have favored neither. Wallace should be corrected for not being professional.
speakup commented:
My thanks to Chris Walllace for speaking out against the Obama-bashing. Some media outlets and/or hosts/reporters are trying to mirror their feelings onto the audience listening to hurt the Sen. Obama. They haven't been able to find anything but this flap! Sen. Obama is not responsible for the outrageous words or actions of Rev. Wright. Furthermore, Sen. Obama is the only one who can decide to continue his membership at the church. We all have the choice to worship where you please. Why didn't Fox News called for Sen. McCain to denouce and reject both Rev. Parsley and Pastor Hagee. Isn't he guilty by association for an endorsement? Why didn't Fox News called for both Bill OReilly and Sean Hanninty to denouce and reject the Catholic Church when the priest destroyed lives against young people. In fact, why didn't Fox fire them to make a statement that you are guilty by association. Why do wives stand by their husbands when they commit sin? Are they guilty by association? He/she without sin cast the first stone. I don't think anyone on Fox News can do so...
James commented:
It is astounding to see how unfairly and viciously some radio and TV commentators are reacting to Barack Obama’s speech on race. It is simply inexcusable to say, as they do, that Obama “threw his own [white] grandmother under the bus.”
Rather, contrary to what everyone expected, he didn't throw anyone under the bus, neither his regrettably hate-filled pastor, nor his own partially prejudiced grandmother who herself admitted that she sometimes struggled with such feelings (as Obama makes clear in his book, "Dreams of My Father"). He didn't throw racially resentful blue collar workers under the bus, nor did he throw angry unemployed black radicals, nor you or me under the bus.
Instead, he pointed out that we are all part of this wonderful but in some ways still flawed America, and that there are legitimate reasons for some of the hurtful black and white anger that divides us -- anger which, nonetheless, we should all strive to overcome.
Never since Lincoln has a politician spoken to our nation with greater candor, dignity, and truthfulness. Obama stands tall above all the carping talk show hosts who -- resentful at being confronted by a person so utterly sincere, honest and, quite simply, good -- try in vain to pick him to pieces.
His speech will stand the test of time because it represents something new -- not politics as usual, but something that lies at the root of all right-minded religion. I begin to wonder if America is worthy of this person of such uniqueness, stature, integrity, and amazing magnanimity.
Rev. Jim Boswell
WKaplan commented:
This isn't news "reporting", it's news entertainment. All the major media outlets are run by entertainment conglomerates and are in it strictly for the ratings / $$$.
LIN commented:
FOX NEWS IS THE BEST BETTER THAN ANY NETWORK OR MSNBC CNN THEY ALL SPIN
David Carter-Chicago commented:
Fox news is unfair and bitter toward the Obama and Clinton campaigns. They'll jump at the chance to tout and endorse their canidate (McCain)while throwing the democratic challengers; especially Obama, under the bus with extreme prejudice. "FONEY" NEWS sounds better than Fox.
Vivian - Chicago commented:
Fox news is CRAZY! Let them hang themselves, they are so full of hate that their exploding from the inside out.
Jackie Pfister commented:
Well said C. Wallace. Fox News makes me sick that is why I hardly watch it (and when I do it doesn't last for more than 5 minutes).














