Mayhem At Fox News: Anchor Walks Off Set, Wallace Rails Network For "Obama-Bashing"

Fox News' very own anchors are speaking out — and walking off — over what they perceive to be "Obama-bashing" on their network.

This morning on "Fox and Friends," Brian Kilmeade walked off the set after a dispute with his co-hosts Gretchen Carlson (she who celebrates deadly floods) and Steve Doocy over Obama's comment that his grandmother is a "typical white person." Kilmeade argued that the remark needed to be taken in context and eventually got so fed up with his co-hosts that he walked off set.

Later, "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace came on the show and railed against "Fox and Friends" for what he called "Obama-bashing."

Watch both clips below (refresh your page if they don't load properly):

Brian Kilmeade walks off set over Obama dispute:

Chris Wallace rails against "Fox and Friends" for Obama-bashing

Update: Later that morning, Chris Wallace called into Brian Kilmeade's radio show to talk about the incident (apparently Steve Doocy was genuinely mad). Wallace also indicated that Fox execs might not have agreed with his position. You think? Find the audio here.

Comments

[GrainOSand]

03:43 AM on 03/27/2008

Kudos to Chris Wallace, the man dost seem to have some courage. I have to further revise my analysis of FOX I could have been hasty --- Nah!

[alm123]

07:25 PM on 03/24/2008

Brian always seemed as the TYPICAL crybaby who will take his bat and ball and run home, crying!

[prverde]

05:33 PM on 03/24/2008

wHY WAS THE TRUTH ABOUT THE FACT THA pUERTO RICANS HAVE FOUGHT IN WARD 1 AND STILL FIGHTING FOR THE FREEDOM IN USA . YET, THEY CANNOT VOTE IN THE GENERAL USA ELECTION. THEY DIE AND ARE MAINED FOR OUR FREEDOM BUT THEIR VOTE IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH BUT THEIR BLOOD IS. WHAT DO YOU CALL THIS FACT............BUT PE IS NOT SCREAMING. THEY ARE WAITING FOR THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE.

[melann830]

01:22 AM on 03/27/2008

I have screamed this same thing over and over again. Thank God for Roberto Prats. He fought to give every Puerto Rican a chance to cast a vote in the primary in June. Viva Puerto Rico!!!

[dax49]

11:58 AM on 03/24/2008

they put on the lamest act on monday's show you ever saw. it was all an act to lighten every one's mood. yeah, right.

[geobushono]

07:51 AM on 03/24/2008

sieze their assets and bring everybody in for questioning.
That would be an eye opener for the repigs.

[AntonioMaceo]

02:27 AM on 03/24/2008

Actually chris wallace is weaksauce tbh, but if you want to see it get rough check out him gettin owned by his own pops for fox news bias
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yvhxaLFzIao

[JScott]

10:34 AM on 03/24/2008

Haven't seen the clip but I always wondered what the elder Mike thinks of Chris's job.
Perhaps he thought 'yep, despite who he works for, he still has cojones'.

[hypnotoad72]

08:08 PM on 03/23/2008

One conservative says "You think it takes a village."

Another sends e-mails saying how all sorts of indiscretions are tolerated because of liberals...

Maybe it does take a village, albeit to a certain extent? Why else are our troops fighting? To protect our village; America?

[BSMDBT]

03:29 PM on 03/24/2008

It takes a village was said by Hillary in reference to ...raising a child.

[longislandlol]

07:14 PM on 03/23/2008

FOX needs to chill- but Wallace makes us proud-- and for sure his dad Mike's wizened journalistic qualities were on display-- he has Mike's grace and fast thinking on your feet quality, as well.

[Neaguy]

04:55 PM on 03/23/2008

This is a non story.

It's not like he walked off the set because Obama is pro death penalty or pro nuke power or to protest Obama's ridiculous attacks on President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.

Who cares? Report the news.

[JGatsby]

06:12 PM on 03/23/2008

Neaguy, do you think that someone who was anti-nuke, or anti-death penalty or especially not sufficiently anti-Chavez would have any chance at all to be elected president in 2008? I agree with all your positions and I myself am so far to the left on most issues that its not even on the spectrum of what can be talked about in the MSM. But I also whole heartedly endorse Obama. I don't think he's the reincarnation of JFK (nor in fact that JFK was all that great) but I do think he represents a real alternative to both Clinton and McCain. He was against the war from the very beginning. More importantly he has shown by the way he dealt with the Wright nonsense and other issues that he actually has some principles that mean something to him. The problem I have with the left in this country is that so many of them seem more concerned with winning debating points than winning elections. Nader can go on and on about all the things that are wrong with Clinton and Obama but I have never heard him give a practical alternative as to how to elect someone better. I would think that 7 years of Bush instead of Gore would have made everyone on the left realize that we need to play real politik and not vote based solely on our ideals but it seems that's not the case.

[MrBritesnide]

01:58 PM on 03/25/2008

Since the oxymorons on Fox News have so much time on their hands, it stands to reason that they have two hours to kill for the purpose of race baiting. Myurprise is that even two of their ancors got sick of it.

[Phaedrus21]

02:43 PM on 03/23/2008

I went back and counted three times where they ran the audio from Obama's radio interview. The three times I saw it, they stopped the audio after "typical white person" BUT went on and READ the remainder of the quote.

Why not play the entire quote? Why play half of it and read the other half?

The only thing I can think of is that they wanted to maximize the emotional impact of the "typical white person" portion while being able to maintain that they DID provide the entire context.

They tried that argument with Wallace, but he acted as if he was familiar with the tactic and called them on it.

[tobiasfunke03]

02:25 PM on 03/23/2008

I cannot, for the life of me, understand what the media is doing here. I know with a 24 hour news cycle you have a lot of time to fill, but MY GOD!!! It's not just Fox News though, I love HuffPost, but I just read the most ridiculouse article on here headlined "why barack changed his name". The article is essentially about obama droping his nickname Barry when he went to college. Seriously? Is that even kind of close to sort of mattering?

[ann1]

01:46 PM on 03/23/2008

It's funny that people are even debating Sen Obama's typical white comment. Newsflash..........he's white too. What part of that are you missing? Is it because his skin is black and not white? Wrong, wrong, wrong he's been blessed to experience both worlds. My goodness, the man grew up in a white household, he has just as much claim to his mother's heritage as to his father's. This country has forced people of mixed race to choose sides. Unfortunately, it's solely based on the color of one's skin. It shouldn't be that way.

[anywho]

11:44 AM on 03/23/2008

My apologies up front for being glib but why does anyone watch FOX or CNN or MSNBC for that matter? They are all awful. They are intellectually depraved and 95% pure propaganda. Now that we have the Internet, YouTube etc there seems little value in "watch" this tripe.

[JUSTME]

11:17 AM on 03/23/2008

CNN is not far behind Fox these days. I stopped watching Dobbs some time after another one of his anti-immigrant rants. I have turned Blitzer off for his frenzied reporting on the Wright controversy.

I have yet to hear the MSM mention the greater context of Wright's remarks. For that matter, I have yet to see the media frenzy vis a vis Hillary's fabrications regarding her visit to Bosnia.

[theplaintrutho1]

11:09 AM on 03/23/2008

EXCUSE ME FOLKS,

I've been wanting to say this here and on "Kos" as well as other blogs for an awfully long time, and I'm quite sure many of you have already acknowledge this:
The only way, and I mean ONLY way to stop the "Talking-Heads" or any other unsavory business in our society is called "BOYCOTT"!!!

These businesses are just that, in business to make money, TV news via sponsors. With the V-chip, cable, direct-TV etc; these people need and must SELL commercials to it's viewers. Sponsors monitor the amount of viewers via the aforementioned covert operations in place. Better then telephone wire tap, Internet interception and satellite spying, it is a direct link to each and every household. Couple that with the voluntary Nielson hook-ups, the paying sponsors know what we watch and when we watch it. They are not in the business of losing money, when we tune these radicals out/off, as well as boycott their products, they do an one eighty and pull their commercials, by by $-dollars.

Myself, I refused to watch them, all of them. Outside of the local forecast on the weather-channel, I leave them the F***k alone. Seriously, emailing them only tells them you're watching, which makes the sponsors very happy, puts a smile on their face.

Example: Howard Stern and others would get thousands of complaints monthly, so the sponsors hung in there. (Nothing against you Stern.)
Please, please, please turn these hippocrates off, or they will continue as long as we have an Earth to live on no matter who the next President is. Or they will suddenly see the light, WHEN THE BUCKS DRY UP.

You people are smart and well informed. Get to work, it will only take, two weeks or less!

PS. If you must watch something, try C-SPAN, nothing will change, until we do!

[MadeinAmericaProud]

03:21 PM on 03/25/2008

thank you, thank you and thank you. I do not buy TV.I AM 4 BOYCOTT VOTE WITH YOUR BUCKS