I have written before about how FOX News makes people more ignorant, but apparently, it also makes you stupid. To back up this point, I refer to the comment recently made by Pete Hegseth, one of the meatheads on “FOX and Friends,” one of the dumbest shows on the dumbest network.
Hegseth claimed he hadn’t washed his hands in 10 years, because he didn’t believe in germs “because he couldn’t see them.”
When I first read the article, I had to look twice because I wondered if he really meant it, or if it was said in jest. But there it was printed in black and white and flashing around the Internet.
Hegseth is a good example of the curious habit of FOX News personalities dumbing themselves down. I suspect they do this because they know their audience is largely made of anti-science rubes from the Hinterland, and so they realize they have to behave ignorantly to identify with them. (However, in the case of some FOX News personalities, like Sean Hannity, it’s no act. He really is that dumb.)
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