After Fox News contributors spent several days criticizing the Obama administration's response to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's failed attempt to bring down a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day, Fox News responded to the administration's January 7 press conference about its handling of the incident and by ... cutting away to Glenn Beck's attack on the progressive movement and its "hundred-year time bomb."

Fox showed only a third of the press conference. By contrast, MSNBC and CNN broadcast the entire press conference, which continued an additional 28 minutes after Fox cut away.

In the past two weeks, Fox News personalities have criticized the administration for being “off the stage” for several days after Christmas, claimed the administration was reluctant to acknowledge the war on terror, and speculated that the administration was diverting intelligence resources away from counterterrorism in order to spy on global warming. Moreover, Fox News has been on a mission to see Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano fired for her response to the incident, which made it puzzling to see the network cut away from Napolitano's remarks about the administration's response: