Fox News has continued to push a story based on manipulated video, alleging that President Joe Biden had disrespected fallen U.S. troops by looking down at his watch during the dignified transfer ceremony at Dover Air Force Base.
An analysis by Media Matters found that Fox has mentioned Biden reportedly looking at his watch during the ceremony in at least 18 segments.
As others have also noted, by that point the ceremony had ended with the remains of service members killed during the evacuation of Kabul offloaded from the plane, and the vans carrying them were then departing from the tarmac. Everyone was then removing their hands from their hearts, and Biden shifted his arms before clasping them behind his back in the space of a few seconds.
And indeed, at the time a Fox News live panel consisting of co-anchors Mike Emanuel and Jacqui Heinrich, Fox national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin, and news correspondent David Spunt continued to deliver live commentary, remarking only on the solemnity of the ceremony and Biden’s role as “comforter-in-chief.”