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Fox News' Response To O'Keefe Arrest: A Handful Of Brief Reports, Utter Silence On Prime-time 'Opinion' Shows

[media id=11669] Don't you just love how, whenever a liberal figure or a non-Fox media outlet (also known as "the liberal media") is caught in any ki

arrested by the FBI for attempting to wiretap the offices of Sen. Mary Landrieu.

There was a brief report on Shep Smith's news show (in which the reporter assured us that we would need to get some context first), followed by a similarly brief overview on Special Report with Bret Baier, and then wrapped up a short segment on Greta Van Susteren's show, in which she mentioned that O'Keefe had appeared on Fox "many times."

But on Fox's prime-time opinion shows, its big ratings drivers, the shows that had most avidly promoted O'Keefe and his brand of "investigative journalism" -- Glenn Beck, The O'Reilly Factor, and Hannity -- there was nothing. Not. A. Single. Word.

Color me surprised.

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