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Fox obsesses over Obama-Chavez handshake, but ignored Bush's handshake with Uzbekistani president

April 20, 2009 11:58 pm ET

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SUMMARY: Fox News hosts and contributors have criticized President Obama for shaking hands with Hugo Chavez, but a Media Matters search of the Nexis database found no examples in 2002 of Fox News personalities criticizing President Bush's handshake with Uzbekistani President Islam Karimov, whose government the State Department has condemned for human rights abuses.

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