It's not surprising that this sort of thing would get aired on Fox, as we've seen plenty of these on Hannity and elsewhere on that alleged 'news' network. What is unusual however is that this one wasn't cleared with upper management before it aired. Or so they said anyway.
via Dylan Stableford at Yahoo News:
"Fox & Friends" aired a nearly-four-minute video about President Barack Obama on Wednesday, drawing the ire of critics who say it looked, felt and sounded like a political attack ad.
"We decided to take a look back at the president's first term to see if it lived up to hope and change," co-host Gretchen Carlson said while introducing the video.
The video, produced by Fox News associate producer Chris White, attacks Obama's record on job creation and the unemployment rate, and it includes a dramatic, "Star Wars"-esque soundtrack. It aired twice on Wednesday's show.
"The package that aired on 'Fox & Friends' was created by an associate producer and was not authorized at the senior executive level of the network," Bill Shine, executive vice president of programming at Fox News, said in a statement to Yahoo News. "This has been addressed with the show's producers."
The video "resembled propaganda films from 1930′s Europe," Baltimore Sun television critic David Zurawik wrote after the segment first aired. "And the remarkable thing was the the witless crew on the couch that serves as hosts for this show had the audacity to present it as journalism and congratulate the producer who put it together."
