On the Wednesday morning edition of Fox & Friends, the co-hosts gave a peculiar message to their viewers about how to watch the crucial events of the Senate impeachment trial against President Donald Trump: Don’t even bother.
“If you watch some of it, there were snippets — and we’re showing you the good stuff — it was unbelievably boring,” said Steve Doocy.
“And I don’t know how people can follow it.”
(MISTY: Does FOX really have so much contempt for their viewers that they think they are too stupid to follow the trial?)
On Tuesday afternoon, Fox anchor Dana Perino declared: “It is somber, it is serious, and I think you could see today, you know, it is a little bit like watching paint dry. …
Things got a lot more explicit on Sean Hannity’s radio show.
Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett appeared as a guest and joked, “I understand there’s a run on NoDoz at Walgreens.”
He characterized the day’s proceedings as “a soporific debate over what procedures to adopt,” adding,
“Frankly, you know, it’s going to be a tepid bore.” (Not exactly the kind of legal analysis that would give people an understanding of what was going on.)
Later in the program, Hannity complained to his producer: “I’m trying to, like, be interested. I’m watching the proceedings.
It is boring me to death what they are doing here today,” and the crew even played a snoring sound effect.
That night, Fox Business host Lou Dobbs brought on longtime Republican strategist Ed Rollins, who said: “It was the longest, most tedious day. I thought I was in, you know, at a graduate course in boring mathematics or something.”
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