Billy Graham’s grandson, and Ken Ham, the Christian fundamentalist founder of the Creation Museum, which teaches a literal interpretation from the Book of Genesis as to how the world was created. His guests included Will Graham, the Rev. Indicative of how far to the right he is on reproductive rights, here’s one of his tweets from Tuesday: “Foul, feminist monsters call unborn babies "medical waste." Todd Starnes was featured from noon to 3 p.m. There were lots of images of studios with microphones on the site. Most of the live content I found involved a camera pointed at hosts from Fox News Radio as they did their shows. This is on demand, and like Netflix, what you find on your screen are tiles with program titles and personalities’ names. One of the most pointed critiques of their commentary came from Jemele Hill, columnist for The Atlantic, who wrote on Twitter, “What in the Step It and Fetch It is this?”ĭon’t come to Fox Nation looking for the steady flow of live content you get on Fox News. The duo (Ineitha Lynnette Hardaway and Herneitha Rochelle Richardson) started the New Year off by blasting congressional Democrats for “playing games” instead of giving Trump $5.7 billion to build his wall. That’s her act.Īnd then, there are Diamond and Silk, the YouTube stars who are weekly contributors to Fox Nation. But she delivers such dubious claims against Democrats, whom she rhetorically links to “far left lefties,” with an air of great outrage, righteousness and belligerence. I am not sure where any of those acts, especially the one that involves “trekking through the desert,” is defined as distinctly Christian except in Lahren’s mind. And it’s Christian to protect your citizens.” And it’s Christian to deter families from trekking through the desert. “Actually, it’s Christian to establish boundaries,” she said, as if lecturing Pelosi. “Apparently, she’s an expert on morality,” Lahren said sarcastically of the speaker. “Isn’t it funny how a government shutdown and a deep desire for open borders have suddenly spurred the Democrats to become so Christian, pro-military and pro-veteran?” she began her commentary Monday morning.īut do the Democrats really “give a hoot about the military and Jesus Christ?” she went on to ask rhetorically.īut she was only warming up for her slam on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for calling Trump’s wall “immoral.” She put air quotes with her fingers around the word when she said it. In her “First Thoughts” Monday commentary, she set herself as arbiter of who was and wasn’t rightfully able to call themselves a Christian and mocked congressional Democrats for doing so. But what made Lahren’s words so troubling to me is that she is speaking them to a new generation. She is tapping into the same “whitelash” that former President Obama aide Van Jones pointed to on election night 2016 in explaining Trump’s victory. She learned she could be rewarded by Fox for replicating that kind of behavior on this new digital platform. Yeah, she learned something all right from that KKK tweet and the denunciation of it on CNN in 2016. Who needs Russian bots and trolls trying to exploit racial tensions and divides in this country when you have Lahren and Fox Nation doing it with such passion? “All of that and more undermine the movement.” “That movement undermined itself when members remained quiet after the Black Lives Matter rally in Dallas when a black man set out to kill white cops and killed five,” she added, her intensity rising with each of the three charges she leveled against the group. She raised her hands to put the word “protests” in air quotes. “That movement,” she said referring to Black Lives Matter, “undermined itself when it perpetuated the false narrative of ‘Hands up, don’t shoot.’ It undermined itself when members started burning and looting neighborhoods and communities in ‘protests.’ ”
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