Fox News has long been a right-wing echo chamber, veering from conspiracy theorist looney bin during the Obama years to bluntly terrifying state TV during the first few years of the Trump administration.
The network’s blunt defense of Trump and Sessions’ torture of immigrant families — the placing of children in concentration camps and tent cities, never to be reunited with their parents — has sent them beyond parody, into the well-lit terrorist broadcaster.
Look at what Ann Coulter said about crying children on Sunday, even before the ProPublica tapes were released and the network went into overtime peddling hate on Monday:
Ironically, she said she was worried about Trump getting all his news from TV — of course, she meant all TV but Fox. She also warned against the New Yorker — “not a conservative publication” — and said this:
“A New Yorker article, The New Yorker is not a conservative publication, they describe how these kids, these kids are being coached," she said. "They’re given scripts to read by liberals, according to The New Yorker. Don’t fall for the actor children.”
The New Yorker did publish a story on Monday about how the Trump administration has no plan to reunite families, but nothing about child acting coaches.
Then, Laura Ingraham said this about those camps — the camps where children are being kept in cages, away from their parents, under murals of President Trump.
Then they had Jeff Sessions come on air last night to defend his evil policy — and the best he could do is a historically flawed argument that he wasn’t as bad as the Nazis.
Later in the evening, Trump’s late-night phone buddy Sean Hannity repeated the lie that this was on Congress to fix:
Then Tucker Carlson — the man who dressed for TV every day like it was a fucking Kentucky Derby party — had the gall to say Democrats were “elites” who didn’t care about Americans:
Obviously, they’re targeting their programming right to Trump (as well as the 58% of Republicans who agree with this policy), hoping to keep his spine stiff and the racist torture going. It’s morally appalling.
We have to fight it. Right now, we have to fund groups doing the hard work at the border, fighting for immigrants’ rights and working to reunite parents and children.
You can donate to several of those groups here. You can also help some of the Democratic challengers of the odious Republicans who support these actions, both on the national level (like the Democrat challenging bigot Rep. Steve King) and in Texas (where two seats flipped can return some balance to the state senate lawmaking process), by donating here.