Fox News Forced to ‘Fact Check’ Itself on Obama vs. Trump Oval Office Speeches
During a discussion on Fox News Tuesday morning about President Donald Trump’s upcoming primetime address to the nation on what he is calling a “Humanitarian and National Security crisis on our Southern Border,” America’s Newsroom host Bill Hemmer had a question about all the consternation around whether the big three broadcast networks would grant him the air time.
“Why was there even a debate among these networks whether to take this Oval Office address?” Hemmer asked. “He’s never done it before! It would be the first one. Under any other president, there is no debate.”
“Well, actually it was a debate,” one of the show’s guests, former DNC spokesperson Mo Elleithee said, attempting to remind Hemmer that the networks refused to carry an Oval Office address from President Barack Obama on the issue of immigration in 2014.
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