I've wondered the same thing when I've read comments like that. I usually have Fox News on all day, from morning until night, and I haven't gotten that impression at all.
“How are they propping Rudy up?”
Softball pieces focusing exclusively on 9/11 and ignoring his many far left positions.
The interviews have been deferential in the extreme. No one has commented on his footwear or the fact that he used a golf cart or flubbed a line in a speech. Is that enough examples?