The folks at Fox News Channel have decided to spend day after day covering the alleged abduction of Nancie Guthrie, the mother of anti-Trump media personality Savannah Guthrie, and its constant, tiresome coverage of the subject, which isn’t really national news, has angered and alienated a notable portion of the Fox News viewership base, which got very annoyed online over the coverage FNC is devoting to the family life of an anti-Trump personality.
The online eruption from MAGA over what Fox News Channel has been up to came thanks to a tweet from FNC host Jesse Watters on February 5. Posting a clip from his show in which he was commenting yet again on the alleged abduction of Nancie Guthrie, the mother of anti-Trump media personality Savannah Guthrie.
Captioning the video with a summary of the situation on X in an utterly absurd post, Watters said, “🚨 BREAKING: The alleged kidnapping case grows MORE CONFUSING by the hour 🚨 There is STILL NO proof of life Blood trails from the house to the driveway 🩸 Security cameras were DISABLED 📹❌”
Continuing with more brain rot commentary on the alleged abduction, Watters then said, “If this was about money… You don’t go to TMZ You don’t make it NATIONAL 🌎 Investigators are now focused on proof of life Another deadline is approaching ⏰ Nothing adds up. Praying she’s alive 🙏”
Commenters were generally annoyed with the wall to wall covereage in which Fox News has engaged during this whole incident. One commenter on Watters’s post, for example, wrote, “Fox News is unwatchable the past 2 days, wall to wall coverage about this. Meanwhile, normal citizens go missing daily with no coverage, elites, but not others, got it. 🙄”
Similarly, another commenter noted that this situation is local news at best, not something for FNC and Watters and Fox News to spend all day, every day on. That commenter said, “Can’t believe Jesse has wasted a full show yesterday on this and most of today. If this was not tied to a TV personality, it would barely make the local news. It’s insane how much ‘national’ time is spent on this ‘local’ issue.”
Still another said, making much the same point about how absurd the whole spectacle has gotten with FNC covering it constantly, “It’s like there is nothing else to report on. I think last night was 3 solid hours of just this! Why?!!! It’s not of national interest. It’s like Baby in the Well 5.0 Give it a rest!”
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And yet another commenter who chimed in noted that the constant coverage Fox News was devoting to a subject that has no national importance and, in any case, involved a notoriously anti-Trump media hack about whom the supposedly conservative press shouldn’t really care, saying, “Why is @FoxNews spending 24/7 on this topic for a family that hates Trump, lies about him and bashes him every day. Is Trump gonna send the head of the FBI to search for victims of regular people? Would CNN do this if this was in the other side? Nope.”
Agreeing with that perspective, a commenter on the comment said that even CNN is less bad right now that Fox News, which is saying alot, writing, “I actually switched to CNN to see if they were doing 24/7 coverage and they were reporting news. It hurt to watch CNN, but it was a needed break from ridiculous Fox News.”
Watch the segment that sparked the revolt here: