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Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Drudge Rips Fox News Over Political Civility


Matt Drudge sharply criticized Fox News on Monday for what he called an insensitive segment on the political implications of recent terror attacks, including the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday in which 11 people were killed.

NBC News reports Drudge focused on a segment from the show "Outnumbered" in which Fox News hosts Melissa Francis and Harris Faulkner appeared with Republican strategist Josh Holmes, Fox News contributor Rachel Campos-Duffy and Fox Business host Lisa Kennedy Montgomery in a segment about creating national unity in politics.

Drudge, a relatively reclusive figure whose website of aggregated links rivals The New York Times website in terms of web traffic, responded to the segment with a string of strongly worded tweets.


Drudge, who regularly deletes his tweets, zeroed in on Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, who goes by Kennedy, posting a screenshot of her on the show with the text, "Is it really funny?"

He also tweeted a series of screenshots of the other panel members with the text, "Hysterical!"

Segment in question comes at the 4:06 Time-mark:


In the segment, Francis explained how she tells her kids that politics is like football and that each side sometimes "talks smack" about the other side.

Faulkner joked about Francis using the term "talking smack," which prompted laughter among the group. The network's chryon read: "Questions on How Mail-Bomb Scare, Synagogue Attack Could Impact Midterm Voters Eight Days From Now."

Fox News released a statement clarifying that the hosts were not making light of the recent violence.

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