Fox & Friends continues to be the lead paint of news, as evidenced by the latest sub-tirade from America's dumbest hosts, an assertion that everybody is paying attention to Khizr Khan's remarkable speech but nobody paid attention to Benghazi mother Patricia Smith's remarks at the Republican convention a week earlier.
“I was on the floor for that,” Brian Kilmeade said. “I did not know that no networks covered her. Nobody covered those remarks live, but almost everybody covered Mr. Khan’s remarks live.”
Because Fox & Friends is the lead paint of news, you probably know what's coming, right? That's right, plenty of networks carried Smith's remarks live. None of those networks were, however, Fox News.
CNN, MSNBC, Univision, C-SPAN and others carried Smith’s speech live. One network that notably did not carry Smith's speech was Fox News, which opted to show Bill O'Reilly interviewing GOP nominee Donald Trump instead.
Which is part of the pattern, of course. Fox News did not cover the words of the Mothers of the Movement, because the mothers of victims of police violence were judged to be not as interesting to Fox News viewers as Bill O'Reilly's thoughts on undocumented immigrants. Fox News did not consider Khizr Khan's request to treat Muslim Americans with dignity to be of value to their viewers, at least not as interesting to them as a commercial break and the musings of host Brit Hume.
And no, Fox News didn't even find the musings of a woman whose son died in Benghazi to be worth their viewers' attention. After all: Bill O'Reilly really, really needed to interview Donald Trump again.
Brian Kilmeade issued a small correction on Tuesday morning. I don't know why they still bother; at this point everybody knows Fox & Friends is the lead paint of news. You don't watch it expecting any of the news hosts to accurately know things about the news, you watch it because your dog likes the constant burble of human voices saying unintelligible things.