Fox News deceptively edited a clip of White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre pointing out an old Fox social media post celebrating Transgender Day of Visibility.
On April 1, The Five co-host Dana Perino introduced a segment on the fabricated, right-wing media controversy criticizing Biden for recognizing Transgender Day of Visibility, which fell on Easter Sunday this year. In the introduction, Perino included a clip of Jean-Pierre’s response to the controversy; the clip omitted the press secretary’s note that Fox had previously recognized Transgender Day of Visibility in a 2021 post.
A side-by-side view of The Five’s version of Jean-Pierre’s remarks compared to her full remarks illustrates Fox News’ brazen editing.
“We were, at first — I want to be very clear — confused on their coverage,” Jean-Pierre noted in the unaired portion of her statement. “We’re grateful that Fox agrees with President Biden about the importance of recognizing Trans Day of Visibility.” Jean-Pierre then read the 2021 tweet from @FOXTV, which reiterated the company’s support for transgender people: “We see you and stand with you.”
Several other Fox News and Fox Business programs also aired clips of Jean-Pierre’s remarks that omitted her inconvenient callout. Most of the programs chose to air short but uninterrupted snippets of the remarks, but Fox Business’ The Bottom Line with Dagen & Duffy followed The Five’s suit, splicing together cherry-picked clips of Jean-Pierre to exclude her callout.
