"We checked in earlier ... with the ideological bent of the Capital, which is one of the oldest newspapers in the country," he said during the breaking news segment.

"This newspaper, we kind of looked into the editorial board, who's on it, what topics they covered," he went on, before concluding that they were "very much a local newspaper."

"They endorsed a moderate Democrat," Gallagher said, before concluding again that Fox News supposedly found the paper doesn't have "a major ideological bent" in case "that plays into the motive of it all."