At issue was Scaramucci’s ill-considered — and later deleted — tweet of Wednesday night, in which he appeared to be accusing White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus of leaking information on him: “In light of the leak of my financial disclosure info which is a felony. I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept #swamp @Reince45.”

Taking this matter very seriously, “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade said, “Essentially, the tweet is in response to the fact that his financial disclosure, which is not supposed to come out until late August, got leaked out, again, obviously against his will. But instead of playing defense, he played offense.” The show also highlighted Scaramucci’s subsequent tweet, which sought to calm fears on Twitter that he was siccing the authorities on Priebus:

“Fox & Friends” rolled the tweeted allegations into a bigger, and somewhat incomprehensible, lesson about the stakes involved in info-control. “There’s a firm belief that somebody close to the president of the United States is leaking out the most vital secrets of the administration — things that tactically could help them be successful, as if somebody on the inside is working against somebody on the outside. Uh, somebody inside is working against the president so he’s not successful.”

The difficulty with this framing was its framing. The whole issue with the “leak” of the disclosure form came from Politico’s Lorraine Woellert, who had obtained the document through a request.

Brad Dayspring, Politico’s spokesman, pressed “Fox & Friends” for some help:

“Fox & Friends” responded with the weaselly journo-classic “update”:

Dayspring: