Right now, Republican Todd Akin is the 6th hottest Google search in the United States, thanks to an uproar over his anti-abortion comment, "If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole (pregnancy) thing down." But you'd probably not know that if you get your news from Fox. In fact, some might say the 'fair and balanced" network is deliberately ignoring a very bad day for a Republican senate candidate. UPDATED
I spent about an hour today watching America Live and while there was lots of talk about President Obama and an abandoned dog, there was nothing about Akin.
It turns out that was not an anomaly. Think Progress noted:
While CNN and MSNBC — the two other main cable news channels — led with the Akin statement, Fox steered clear of the comments completely until 9:19 AM, referencing them in a loaded segment with Karl Rove without playing video of his remarks. The network didn’t air the remarks until 12:10 PM — showing the the clip well after Republicans (including GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney) harshly condemned the GOP Senate candidate from Missouri.
I just looked at the Fox Nation page and - nada. Well, nada about Akin. Plenty of posts designed to make President Obama look bad, though.
So I looked on Fox's video page and - nada. Funny how there always seems to be space and time for reports that are unflattering to Democrats, though.
FoxNews.com does have the story, although you'd have to look hard to find the name "Akin." And for some reason, Fox buried news about Republicans getting drunk and swimming or skinnydipping in the Sea of Galilee underneath it - though there's no relationship to the two stories other than that they're both sensational scandals about Republicans. But again, a story with a negative headline about Obama came first.
Buzzfeed posted a Twitpic of grabs from the three news networks. Guess which one was talking mergers and acquisitions?
UPDATE: 5:59 PM - There is now a video about Akin featured on Fox News' video page. FoxNews.com looks unchanged, as does Fox Nation.
UPDATE 2: 6:48 PM: Special Report just discussed this story with panelists saying "He's got to go." So you know it's probably as good as done now.