Election coverage was in full swing Tuesday night, which meant that network news was completely devoted to airing the results in real time.
It also meant that for one night, there was little focus on anything other than poll numbers and newly elected members of Congress. But apparently the hosts of Fox News just couldn't take it anymore, because it wasn't long before the conversation switched to a discussion about Ebola and the controversy over the Washington Redskins team name.
Megyn Kelly was first to draw a direct parallel between a change in the polls and the response to the spread of Ebola to the U.S.
“Jeanne Shaheen was comfortably ahead until October 9th," Kelly said, referring to the Democratic Senate candidate who was elected in New Hampshire Tuesday night. "On October 8th, Thomas Duncan died of Ebola. And that issue wound up exploding in the month of October."
Moments later, co-anchor Bret Baier said the tight Senate race in Virginia is due to Republican Ed Gillespie's recent ad, in which he says, if elected, he will step up and "oppose" the anti-Redskins bill.
"I'm telling you, that Redskins ad!" Baier insisted. "It was the Redskins ad! Monday night football!"
Fox News's senior political analyst Brit Hume noted how surprisingly close that race has become.
"There is one issue -- one subject -- that unites the people in the Washington area as nothing else can and that is the subject of the Redskins," Hume added.
There has been widespread demand for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to change the name of the Washington football team for its racist nature. A powerful new video even urges television and radio personalities to stop using the word on air.
But that didn't seem to stop Baier or Hume.
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