Fox's Harris Faulkner attacks the media for abandoning their “responsibility to ask the tough questions” of Barack Obama

Faulkner once suggested it would be unfair to expect Trump to vet his campaign manager 

From the July 19 edition of Fox News' Outnumbered Overtime:

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DAVID BURSTEIN (FOUNDER, RUN FOR AMERICA): And I think news organizations -- if you look at the ad sales and the ratings -- have a lot to thank the president for at the end of the day. 

HARRIS FAULKNER (HOST): He's right about that -- when the president tells us that, right? 

BURSTEIN: That is true, that is absolutely true. 

FAULKNER: He is right about that. 

BURSTEIN: There is a principle in this country that I think is more important than any of that, which is about the respect of the free press. And I think this president has continually -- 

FAULKNER: Can I cut in for a second there? Because respect has to come with responsibility too. And what did we find out about the press corps and the Obama administration? That [former Deputy National Security Adviser] Ben Rhodes was looking around for maybe some friendly people among the press. And I'm not saying that it isn't within his right to do that, but there was a love affair for a while that was going on. There's responsibility to ask the tough questions too. 

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