On today's broadcast of Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy ignored President Obama's repeated calls for an extension of the payroll tax cut to imply that the president has somehow been absentee on the issue.

The segment began with a discussion of the payroll tax holiday extension. After Doocy complained that the two-month extension passed by the Senate will be difficult to implement, his guest, Julie Roginsky, responded: “Well, you know, Obama wanted to make it a year, but the Tea Party guys said no way. And if you look at who [House Speaker John] Boehner's appointed to the conference, none of these guys, for the most part, supports an extension of the payroll tax cut.”

Doocy then replied, “Where's the president been on this?”

Where's the president been on the payroll tax cut? Apart from the fact that Doocy's own network has repeatedly covered Obama's remarks on the extension, it would be hard to have missed the countless occasions Obama has championed an extension of the payroll tax cut in the past few months.

Here's an article about Obama calling for an extension of the payroll tax cut on November 22 in New Hampshire:

President Obama plunged into the heart of Republican primary land on Tuesday to deliver a direct challenge to Congress to act quickly to extend and expand the payroll tax cut when lawmakers return next week from the Thanksgiving holidays.

Laying out his proposal in deliberately simple and stark terms, the president told an audience here that if Republicans in Congress vote no, middle-class families will have to pay an additional $1,000 in taxes next year when the temporary break ends.

“Next week, they'll get a simple vote,” Mr. Obama said. “No, your taxes go up. Yes, you get a tax cut. Which way do you think Congress should vote?”

The crowd cheered “yes,” as Mr. Obama went on to urge them to call their Congressional representatives and urge them to support the extension and expansion of the tax cut, which Congressional Republicans have previously rejected when it was part of the president's overall jobs bill. Now Mr. Obama is parsing out parts of the bill that he thinks have better chances of passage.

And here's Obama calling for the extension on November 30 in Pennsylvania:

President Obama cast himself as a populist fighter Wednesday during a quick trip here [in Scranton] as he tried to increase pressure on Congress to extend the payroll tax cut.

“We're fighting to make things right again,” he told about two thousand people packed into the bunting-draped gym at Scranton High School. “We're fighting to make sure that if you are working hard and you are carrying out your responsibilities and you're looking out for your family, that you can live a good, solid, middle-class life.”

Obama telling Senate Democrats on December 7 that he'll delay his Christmas vacation in order to see the payroll deal passed:

President Obama told Senate Democrats that he will delay the start of his Hawaii vacation if needed to ensure that lawmakers extend the payroll tax cut set to expire at the end of the month, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid said Wednesday.

Obama is scheduled to leave for Hawaii on Dec. 17, the day after Congressional leaders have said they hope to wrap up their legislative business for the year.

But Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters that Democrats plan to stay in Washington past Christmas if necessary to get the payroll tax cut issue settled. And he said Obama told Senate leaders at a White House meeting Wednesday that he'll do the same.

Obama telling the media, during a press conference on a different issue, on December 15 that Congress “should not and cannot go on vacation” before passing the payroll tax cut extension:

In some cases, building this kind of economy is going to require some action from Congress. And right now, Congress needs to make sure that 160 million working Americans don't see their taxes go up on January 1st. None of the workers who've joined us here today can afford a $1,000 tax increase next year. And it wouldn't be good for the economy. Every economist indicates that it's important for us to extend the payroll tax cut and make sure that unemployment insurance is extended. So this Congress cannot and should not leave for vacation until that -- until they have made sure that that tax increase doesn't happen. Let me repeat that: Congress should not and cannot go on vacation before they have made sure that working families aren't seeing their taxes go up by $1,000 and those who are out there looking for work don't see their unemployment insurance expire.

There's no reason why we shouldn't be able to extend these items -- the payroll tax cut, UI -- before the holidays. There's no reason the government should shut down over this. And I expect all of us to do what's necessary in order to do the people's business and make sure that it's done before the end of the year.

Obama interrupting a press briefing yesterday to further urge the House to pass the payroll tax cut:

Nearly the entire Senate -- including almost all of the Republicans -- voted to prevent 160 million working Americans from receiving a tax increase on January 1st. Nearly the entire Senate voted to make sure that nearly 2.5 million Americans who are out there looking for a job don't lose their unemployment insurance in the first two months of next year. And just about everybody -- Democrats and Republicans -- committed to making sure that early next year we find a way to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance through the end of 2012.

But now, even though Republicans and Democrats in the Senate were willing to compromise for the good of the country, a faction of Republicans in the House are refusing to even vote on the Senate bill -- a bill that cuts taxes for 160 million Americans. And because of their refusal to cooperate, all those Americans could face a tax hike in just 11 days, and millions of Americans who are out there looking for work could find their unemployment insurance expired.

The White House's website even has a clock counting down the seconds until the House needs to act to avoid a tax increase:

“Where's the president been on this?” He's been all over it, Doocy.

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