LOS ANGELES (AP) – Banter by two Fox News Channel hosts about video showing football player Ray Rice hitting his future wife is under fire.
The “Fox & Friends” hosts, Brian Kilmeade and Steve Doocy, made their on-air comments Monday while discussing newly released video showing Rice hitting Janay Palmer in an elevator in February.
Kilmeade said that the lesson to be learned was, in his words, “take the stairs.”
Doocy responded that the message is to remember that elevators include cameras.
The comments, which were criticized as inappropriate by media observers and in online posts, will be discussed on Tuesday’s “Fox & Friends,” the channel said.
Rice was let go by the Baltimore Ravens on Monday and suspended indefinitely by the NFL after the video’s release. His lawyer, Michael Diamondstein, declined to comment.