Yesterday, the news broke that conservative filmmaker James O'Keefe may have tried to pull an odd and ill-advised prank on CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau. O'Keefe and his organization Project Veritas allegedly set up a boat with overtly sexual props, and planned to lure Boudreau on to the boat and videotape her being “seduced” by O'Keefe. The story led to condemnations by (most) conservatives, but not the ones on Fox News. A search of Fox's primetime shows and this morning's Fox & Friends showed no mentions of the O'Keefe scandal (to be fair, Fox's sort-of comedy, sort-of news show Red Eye did cover the story, at 3 AM).

It's not as if Fox has no idea who O'Keefe is, they obsessed for months over his ACORN videos. Hannity called O'Keefe a “pioneer in journalism,” O'Reilly said he should receive a congressional medal, and Beck called him “courageous.” Fox & Friends even hosted O'Keefe in a pimp costume on their After the Show Show:

I suppose a story depicting O'Keefe less as a “courageous” “pioneer” of conservative journalism, and more of an immature and creepy kid doesn't quite fit into Fox's narrative.

So what did Fox & Friends cover instead of this breaking news story? Well, they continued their obsessive freak out about Stephen Colbert's congressional testimony from six days ago, apparently taking co-host Gretchen Carlson's promise to make him the lead story of the show for the days following his testimony very, very seriously: