Fox Information host Bret Baier is trying to do harm management on his fame, saying on Thursday {that a} deceptively edited clip he used throughout his interview with Vice President Kamala Harris was aired by “mistake.”
Throughout his Wednesday interview with Harris, Baier performed a clip of Donald Trump by which the previous president was making an attempt to clear up a remark he had made by which he warned that Democrats are the “enemy from within.” Trump’s authoritarian suggestion that Democrats are much more harmful than international adversaries, similar to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, has drawn widespread condemnation.
Baier mentioned Thursday that he was anticipating the clip he aired to incorporate the unique “enemy from within” feedback in addition to Trump’s rationalization of why he made these feedback from the Wednesday city corridor hosted by fellow Fox Information host Harris Faulkner.
“I did make a mistake,” Baier mentioned on Fox Information on Thursday. “When I called for a sound bite, I was expecting a piece of the ‘enemy from within,’ from Maria Bartiromo’s interview, to be tied to the piece from your town hall, Harris, where you asked the former president about the ‘enemy from within.’ It just had the piece from the town hall.”
Baier’s mea culpa got here as mainstream media shops referred to as him out for his adversarial interview with Harris, by which Baier seemed to be making an attempt to bait Harris right into a “gotcha” second by pushing Republican speaking factors.
His apology is a far cry from the pat on the again he gave himself instantly following the interview, by which he accused Harris of making an attempt to throw him off by exhibiting up about quarter-hour late to the scheduled sit-down.
“I’ll give you a little behind the scenes here, I know you love this. … You know when the kicker in football, they call a timeout right before he is going to kick the field goal. They’re icing the kicker,” Baier mentioned, including that he thought Harris was making an attempt to throw him off by exhibiting up a bit later.
However even former Fox Information hosts weren’t shopping for Baier’s apology.
“Newsflash: When wrong clips run (which happens) hosts can easily say ‘Sorry that was the wrong clip.’ He or his producers would have known it was the wrong one right then,” former Fox Information host Gretchen Carlson wrote in a put up on X on Thursday.
In the end, regardless of Baier’s finest efforts to bait Harris into making a mistake, Harris did nicely within the interview. She didn’t fall for Baier’s traps, together with when he tried to get her to name Trump voters “stupid”—which Harris refused to do.
Harris did so nicely that even Fox Information hosts lamented the truth that she stayed on message.
