Matt Drudge attacks at Fox News during a segment devoted to political civility

Matt Drudge, founder of the highly influential conservative news website Drudge Report, strongly criticized Fox News on Monday for what he described as an insensitive segment on the political implications of recent terrorist attacks, including the Pittsburgh synagogue shootout. Saturday, during which 11 people were killed. .

Drudge focused on a segment of the "Outnumbered" show in which Fox News hosts Melissa Francis and Harris Faulkner appeared with Republican strategist Josh Holmes, Fox News collaborator Rachel Campos. -Duffy and Fox Business animator, Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, on the creation of national political unity.

Drudge, a relatively lonely figure whose aggregated link website rivals the New York Times website in terms of web traffic, responded to the segment with a series of heavily formulated tweets.

"An article on Fox News this morning where hosts laughed and joked while discussing the political impact of the terror was bizarre," tweeted Drudge. "Not even 48 hours after the blood flowed to the synagogue? Check your soul in the makeup chair!"

Drudge, who regularly removes her tweets, focuses on Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, who misses Kennedy, displaying a screenshot of her on the series with the text "Is this really funny?"

He also tweeted a series of screenshots of other panel members with the text "Hysterical!"

In the segment, Francis explained how she told her children that politics was like football and that each party "spoke sometimes" from the other side.

Faulkner joked about Francis using the term "talk smack", which caused laughter among the group. Cryon of the network read: "Questions about the impact of the bomb attack on a correspondence, an attack of the synagogue on mid-term voters in eight days".

The segment can be found here.

Fox News issued a statement that organizers did not shed light on recent violence.

"Kennedy did an unbound piece of paper at the end of the segment that was centered on the unit.There was absolutely no joke or laugh about the events of this weekend and a catch his smile screen is hardly revealing the entire segment, "said the company. "The bottom third should not have been in place for the duration of this segment because it did not fully reflect what the panel members were discussing."

Matthew Lysiak, who writes a book on Drudge titled "The Drudge Revolution," is said to be surprised by the tweets.

"I do not know where it came from," Lysiak said. "The people I've talked to are surprised, but Matt Drudge has always had an extremely independent trend and when people feel that they know where his allegiances lie, we've seen him do half a dozen things. -tower."

Drudge did not answer a phone call or an e-mail asking for a comment.

Fox News and Fox Business Network have been sharply criticized following the synagogue attack and the arrest of a man accused of sending explosive devices to various critics of Trump and CNN.

Media critics spoke of guests and discussions on Fox TV channels about conspiracy theories, including one about the "migrant caravan", a group of thousands of refugees marching from Honduras to the US border. -Mexican looking for an asylum. On Monday, Fox Business Network condemned the statements of a guest of "Lou Dobbs Tonight," who said the caravan had been founded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros, a Jew.

The shooter of the synagogue published conspiracy theories about the caravan and its links with a Jewish humanitarian group.