Fox
News host Andrea Tantaros suggested on Tuesday President Barack Obama had used
a “raw onion” to produce fake tears for shooting victims during his press
conference on gun violence.
Following
Obama’s announcement that he was taking executive action to expand background
checks and gun safety measures, the hosts of Outnumbered argued that the
president was violating the separation of powers doctrine in the U.S.
Constitution.
But
it was the president’s emotional reaction while speaking about gun violence in
Chicago that irked host Melissa Francis.
“What
was really upsetting was the tears that he wiped away again and again,” Francis
opined. “You want that for — I mean, we feel frighten about what’s going on
with ISIS. And he can’t pull that kind of passion for anything about this.”
“I
feel bad about those kids in [Newtown,] Connecticut,” she added. “Your heart
breaks for them. But it’s only about this that he gets so upset about. And
never about terror!”
After
a commercial break, Fox News replayed a clip of Obama with tears flowing down
his face.
Tantaros
said that she didn’t buy the emotion because “he would have spoken out a long
time ago.”
“This
is how many years? Almost eight years, he’s almost at the end of his term,” she
continued. “And you haven’t heard him go to Chicago and really speak out about
this issue.”
“So,
I would check that podium for like a raw onion or some No More Tears,” Tantaros
quipped. “It’s not really believable. And the award goes to… we are in awards
season.”
Co-host
Meghan McCain agreed: “It just didn’t seem horribly authentic. And maybe it is,
I don’t know him at all.”
“Go
to your hometown of Chicago instead of talking about God-fearing Americans when
ISIS is coming to their hometown,” McCain advised.
Francis
said that she couldn’t understand how the president could cry for kids in
Chicago but not the recent terror attacks in Paris.
“They
say he’s just cool, that’s the way he is, that he doesn’t get emotional,” she
explained. “We haven’t seen this in a very long time and it’s about something
that feels political, that feels somewhat insincere, that feels like it’s not
going to make a huge difference.”
“It’s
like bad political theater,” McCain concluded.
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