Fox News host: 'Why is MSNBC devoting time' to sexual assaults instead of IRS?

Fox News host Andrea Tantaros wants to know why MSNBC is "prioritizing" sexual assaults in the military over a scandal at the Internal Revenue Service.

As competing hearings in the Senate Armed Services Committee and the House Appropriations Committee were underway on Tuesday, Tantaros said on her radio show that she couldn't understand why MSNBC wasn't devoting more time to the House Republicans' fourth IRS hearing.

"What are they the place for breaking? Breaking wind? Breaking what? I mean, what are they doing over there?" she asked. "Sex crimes in the military, they are a real issue. There's no doubt about that. I'm not going to just poo-poo it. What baffles me, though, is the way they prioritize these issues, the timing and tone of this."

"Why is MSNBC devoting time to this issue?" Tantaros, who also hosts Fox News' The Five, wondered. "There are so many other issues to deal with."

"And MSNBC has been on this sexual assaults in the military, like, basically all afternoon, every day for weeks," Tantaros' co-host added. "They're devoting, like, and inordinate amount of time to this. They're obsessed with it, because that's what they see when they look at the military."

"Yeah, you're right," Tantaros agreed. "I mean, it's the way that they prioritize these things. It's unbelievable what they consider to be priorities. And by 'them,' I mean the administration and MSNBC because they are the same thing. MSNBC is an arm of the administration."

A Media Matters analysis of Tuesday's cable news coverage found that MSNBC devoted 1 hour and 21 minutes to sexual assaults in the military, while spending 1 hour and 13 minutes on the IRS hearings. Fox News spent almost 4 hours on the IRS hearing and less than 14 minutes on sexual assaults in the military.

Last month, Tantaros instructed her radio listeners to find anyone who voted for President Barack Obama and “punch them in the face.”

Listen to the audio below from The Andrea Tantaros Show, broadcast June 4, 2013.

(h/t: Media Matters)