# Faux News co-host walks off his own show? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 22, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-news-co-host-walks-off-his-own-show/442389 "2008-03-22T23:35:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-news-co-host-walks-off-his-own-show/442389/1 "2008-03-22T23:35:19Z")
On The Daily Show, J. Stewart mentioned a recent incident on Fox News who had enough of nonstop Obama bashing and walked off the set. It has to be on YouTube, but my amateurish searches were ineffective. Help. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-news-co-host-walks-off-his-own-show/442389/2 "2008-03-22T23:40:16Z")
I don’t think he walked off but Chris Wallace timidly spanked his brother Fox guys for their [OMG Obama mentioned race!!!](http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/21/wallace-obama-fox/) banter. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-news-co-host-walks-off-his-own-show/442389/3 "2008-03-23T00:06:32Z")
This makes me wonder who’s going to be hosting Fox News Sunday tomorrow, Chris Wallace (the normal host/moderator these days) or Brit Hume (who used to do it and still fills in at times.) That said, as a general rule all morning news shows are completely worthless (cable, broadcast, it doesn’t matter.) Fox and Friends is just on the far end of the worthlessness scale. ---
**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-news-co-host-walks-off-his-own-show/442389/4 "2008-03-23T00:12:10Z")
Brian Kilmeade walks off the set: [1st video link](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/21/mayhem-at-fox-news-ancho_n_92743.html) I’ve heard people claim it was planned, but the awkwardness makes it seem unstaged to me. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-news-co-host-walks-off-his-own-show/442389/5 "2008-03-23T00:12:49Z")
YouTube video [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPCtobsUTp4). I can’t tell whether he was seriously walking off or whether he was joking. He was obviously upset with them about the spin they were putting on it, but I honestly can’t tell if he was actually THAT offended. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-news-co-host-walks-off-his-own-show/442389/6 "2008-03-23T12:41:27Z")
Thanks, all! I went to bed shortly after posting OP, so I hope you’re not offended by my taking so long to express my appreciation. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-news-co-host-walks-off-his-own-show/442389/7 "2008-03-23T13:22:21Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] YouTube video [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPCtobsUTp4). I can’t tell whether he was seriously walking off or whether he was joking. He was obviously upset with them about the spin they were putting on it, but I honestly can’t tell if he was actually THAT offended. [/QUOTE] Looked to me like he was tired of being talked over and generally ignored. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Zagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@El\_Zagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Zagna)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-news-co-host-walks-off-his-own-show/442389/8 "2008-03-23T23:49:49Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] I can’t tell whether he was seriously walking off or whether he was joking. [/QUOTE] What’s the joke, then? It was an awkward moment for everyone on the set. I just don’t see anything cute or humorous or clever about it. In fact it looks exactly like what you would expect if someone got totally fed up with the situation. I’m still wondering how long he was gone, and if anything else was said about it once he returned to the set. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-news-co-host-walks-off-his-own-show/442389/9 "2008-03-24T02:19:36Z")
This is just another thinly-veiled pro-Obama thread, right? Does this belong in CS? Aren’t there enough of these threads all over the Dope? ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-news-co-host-walks-off-his-own-show/442389/10 "2008-03-24T04:19:38Z")
[QUOTE=Harborwolf] Looked to me like he was tired of being talked over and generally ignored. [/QUOTE] Then he works for the wrong network. Honestly, I thought it made him look like a little baby. He should be able to take much stronger stuff than that. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-news-co-host-walks-off-his-own-show/442389/11 "2008-03-24T06:26:30Z")
[QUOTE=Annie] I don’t think he walked off but Chris Wallace timidly spanked his brother Fox guys for their [OMG Obama mentioned race!!!](http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/21/wallace-obama-fox/) banter. [/QUOTE] Damn, who slipped testosterone in his coffee? Can it be that he got tired of Mike Wallace telling people “my son Chris sells sofas in Abilene” and decided to buy a little bit of his integrity back? [QUOTE=levdrakon] This is just another thinly-veiled pro-Obama thread, right? Does this belong in CS? Aren’t there enough of these threads all over the Dope? [/QUOTE] Speaking only for myself, there’s nothing thinly veiled about my pro-Obama stance and if I wanted to start a pro-Obama thread you’d probably know it from the title. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-news-co-host-walks-off-his-own-show/442389/12 "2008-03-24T12:43:06Z")
[QUOTE=Spiny Norman] Brian Kilmeade walks off the set: [1st video link](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/21/mayhem-at-fox-news-ancho_n_92743.html) I’ve heard people claim it was planned, but the awkwardness makes it seem unstaged to me. [/QUOTE] What a wussie. The instant somebody makes a (perfectly legitimate) point about St. Obama, his supporter runs away in a snit. And he was not ‘generally talked over and ignored’. He had every chance to make his point; he just couldn’t do it. If the Obama campaign wants honest talk about race, they better not run out of the room sobbing whenever they get asked a tough question. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-news-co-host-walks-off-his-own-show/442389/13 "2008-03-24T13:55:46Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] What a wussie. The instant somebody makes a (perfectly legitimate) point about St. Obama, his supporter runs away in a snit. And he was not ‘generally talked over and ignored’. He had every chance to make his point; he just couldn’t do it. If the Obama campaign wants honest talk about race, they better not run out of the room sobbing whenever they get asked a tough question. Regards, Shodan [/QUOTE] :dubious: These are not Obama supports in either case. They are both Faux News on-air personalities and conservitives that have gotten fed up with the utter bull%\*$ that Fox is spreading right now. Even [Jack Kemp](http://www.newshounds.us/2008/03/22/jack_kemp_fed_up_with_hannitys_ad_hominem_attacks_on_obama.php) went off on Hannity about it. Is he an Obama supporter? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-news-co-host-walks-off-his-own-show/442389/14 "2008-03-24T14:38:11Z")
[QUOTE=Death of Rats] :dubious: These are not Obama supports in either case. They are both Faux News on-air personalities and conservitives that have gotten fed up with the utter bull%\*$ that Fox is spreading right now. Even [Jack Kemp](http://www.newshounds.us/2008/03/22/jack_kemp_fed_up_with_hannitys_ad_hominem_attacks_on_obama.php) went off on Hannity about it. Is he an Obama supporter? [/QUOTE] Kilmeade ran away because he was asked something about Obama that he didn’t want to answer. This is not bullshit, and it is not unfair - it is called “asking the tough questions”. And it is the same thing that all the other candidates are getting, and are going to get. Any member of the press who simply expects to curl up in Obama’s lap and go to sleep is not doing his or her job. It is just as fair and just as important to ask a black candidate about his racial positions as it is to ask a white one. I see nothing unfair in FoxNews’ coverage of this. Maybe Obama can expect nothing but softballs from the rest of the press. Fortunately, there is an alternative that does not fall on its face and worship at the shrine of Obama’s wonderfullness. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-news-co-host-walks-off-his-own-show/442389/15 "2008-03-24T14:47:50Z")
Jeez, **Shodan** - apparently the sky is red in your world. That video clearly shows that they didn’t _care_ what his answer to the question would’ve been. They were talking over him, and clearly had an agenda in mind when they asked him what he thought about it. Apparently, you’re so blinded by your hatred of “Saint Obama” that you see any defense of him as blind worship. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_and_a_Half_Inches_of_Fun)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-news-co-host-walks-off-his-own-show/442389/16 "2008-03-24T14:58:46Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] Kilmeade ran away because he was asked something about Obama that he didn’t want to answer. This is not bullshit, and it is not unfair - it is called “asking the tough questions”. [/QUOTE] Watch the video, again. The question that made him walk off the set was, “Would you be offended if I called you a typical sports guy (or something close to that).” The question was not a tough question about Obama that he could not answer. I think the walk-off was an awkward joke. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-news-co-host-walks-off-his-own-show/442389/17 "2008-03-24T15:07:40Z")
[QUOTE=Lightnin’] Jeez, **Shodan** - apparently the sky is red in your world. That video clearly shows that they didn’t _care_ what his answer to the question would’ve been. They were talking over him, and clearly had an agenda in mind when they asked him what he thought about it. Apparently, you’re so blinded by your hatred of “Saint Obama” that you see any defense of him as blind worship. [/QUOTE] In a word, horseshit. This is exactly the same treatment every other candidate gets. He was not being talked over - he got a full block of time to present his position, and, the instant they failed to accept it without question, he blew up and walked off. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-news-co-host-walks-off-his-own-show/442389/18 "2008-03-24T18:47:44Z")
I agree that the two other pundits were insipid empty suits, but I think the walker-offer overreacted. He could’ve easily said “I made my point” and sat there; walking off like that just made him look childish. Not that this has any relation to Obama’s campaign itself, of course. These are pundits, not official representations of Obama. I find it hard to imagine Obama curling up and crying when asked a tough question (of course, when Hillary does it, it’s a good thing). ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-news-co-host-walks-off-his-own-show/442389/19 "2008-03-24T19:09:22Z")
[QUOTE=Two and a Half Inches of Fun] I think the walk-off was an awkward joke. [/QUOTE] No An Awkward joke is him walking off camera then sitting there to the side and pretending to sheepishly come back or come back with a grin, not leave the studio altogether. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-news-co-host-walks-off-his-own-show/442389/20 "2008-03-24T19:13:12Z")
[QUOTE=Yumblie] I find it hard to imagine Obama curling up and crying when asked a tough question (of course, when Hillary does it, it’s a good thing). [/QUOTE] Actually, she got choked up when asked a question about her hair and how she keeps campaigning. It wasn’t the toughest question in the world. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faux-news-co-host-walks-off-his-own-show/442389.md?page=2)