“I sincerely hope this holiday season will drain the poison that has infected our politics, and set us against one another,” an optimistic President Joe Biden said this afternoon in a Christmas address to the nation.
However, if the politically nimble Democrat in the White House hoped to break through the echo chamber of our national discourse, Fox News Channel burst that wish While CNN, MSNBC and the rest of the usual cable suspects carried POTUS’ speech live, the Rupert Murdoch-owned outlet played Scrooge and ignored the whole thing.
Focusing on topics like the crisis at the southern border and the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX and running a lot of ads for security system and more, FNC were, as the partisan trope says, in a whole other universe today to Biden’s remarks – as they have been many times in the past.
Unmentioned directly, but part of the heart of Biden’s address, Fox News did not respond to request for comment from Deadline on why they ran none of the president’s innocuous holiday remarks live Thursday.
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