Fox News Hosts' Hypocritical Takes On Jan. 6 Insurrection Laid Bare In CNN Montage

CNN ’s “New Day” on Tuesday laid bare Fox News ’ hypocritical coverage of the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot.

The show compared the private pleas that personalities Sean Hannity , Laura Ingraham and Brian Kilmeade made to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to get then-President Donald Trump to call off the violence with their cynical post-insurrection spin. 

Text messages pleading with Meadows were lined up alongside footage of the TV personalities later downplaying the Jan. 6 riot.

The on-screen chyron read: “Fox Hosts condemned violence privately, whitewashed publicly.”

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John Avlon said the texts offered a rare glimpse at “what people were thinking in real time” and ripped “the curtain back on the Trump-Fox feedback loop.”

But “hours later they were back in hyperpartisan, distortion land” and viewers “were once again being played for fools.”

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