Joe Perticone: “The debate turned out not to be an attempt to reverse course at Fox so much as it was just a routine continuation of the network’s standard operating procedure. Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum moderated by spreading false narratives, enabling demagoguery, and going all in on anecdotal culture-war fodder under the guise of real kitchen-table issues.”
“To gauge the seriousness of the debate, just look at how it started and ended: The opening question was about the song ‘Rich Men North of Richmond.’ The last question was about aliens and UFOs. And everything in between just showed the blurriness of the supposed line between Fox’s supposed ‘straight news’ talent and its opinion hosts.”
