San Francisco supervisors responsible for the sanctuary status of the city took a lesson from the White House on dodging a Fox News crew seeking answers into the death of Kate Steinle, telling the microphone-carting reporter: You don't work for a real media outlet.
Steinle was shot to death in broad daylight while walking a pier in San Francisco with her father. The man arrested in her murder, an illegal immigrant with a felony record who's been deported on several previous occasions, reportedly told law enforcement officials he was in San Francisco because he knew it was a sanctuary city and he wouldn't be deported.
Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly has said on several occasions the blame for Steinle's death rests with the local governing officials who put in place the sanctuary policy. And in a video of three Fox reporters trying to get answers from the local supervisors, he calls them "unrepentant" for their dismissive answers and obvious dodges.
One official, Jane Kim, told Fox News the real problem was "gun control."
Another, Katy Tang, stormed from the reporter and said, "Of course Fox News would be this rude." When the journalist followed and asked more questions, she dropped the F-bomb.
"You're interviewing the wrong [F-bomb] person," she said, the video showed.
And one more, Scott Weiner, dismissed Fox News as unworthy of his attention.
"Fox News is not real news," he said. "And you're not a reporter. I talk to real news only."
Weiner's statement is reminiscent of the White House's response to unfavorable questions from Fox News. In October 2009, then-White House senior adviser David Axelrod said on "This Week" on ABC that Fox was "not really a news station" and much of the broadcasts are "not really news."
In the years that followed, the White House cut out Fox News from several notable interviews and news stories, including conference calls about Benghazi and events that were attended by CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS, all while calling the cable giant not "legitimate."