{"id":50584,"date":"2021-09-01T17:57:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T00:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50584"},"modified":"2021-09-01T17:57:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T00:57:47","slug":"fox-news-hypocrite-embraces-cancel-culture-when-florida-restaurant-bans-biden-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50584","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Hypocrite Embraces Cancel Culture When Florida Restaurant Bans Biden Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of years ago Fox News popularized a thoroughly manufactured variant of political correctness that was labeled “cancel culture.”<\/em> It referred vaguely to the criticism of any person or policy embraced by Fox News or their right-wing Republican confederates. And like the proponents of cancel culture, no hypocrisy was too great to prevent flinging it at who or whatever was the outrage of the moment.<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday morning’s episode of Outnumbered<\/em> on Fox News, the panel introduced a segment about the DeBary Diner<\/em> in Florida. The restaurant had gained local notoriety for posting a sign in the window that told anyone who had voted for Joe Biden to “take your business elsewhere.”<\/em> This was received enthusiastically by the Fox News crew. The sign read in full…<\/p>\n

“If you voted for and continue to support and stand behind the worthless, inept and corrupt administration currently inhabiting the White House that is complicit in the death of our servicemen and women in Afghanistan, please take your business elsewhere.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gee, they seem nice. Never mind that they are blaming Biden for a bombing carried out by terrorists, while Biden had actually presided over an unprecedented airlift of more than 120,000 people – Americans and Afghan allies – to safety out of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Although the sign is actually the sort of hospitality one might expect in state that is currently the nation’s hot zone for the coronavirus, and whose governor couldn’t be more pro-COVID if he tried (and he is trying). It’s a state where asking patrons to wear face masks to protect themselves and others from a deadly virus is tantamount to communism, but banning them based on who they voted for gets a big thumbs up<\/p>\n

When co-host Pete Hegseth was asked to comment on the subject he babbled an entirely predictable endorsement of the restaurant’s anti-Biden policy. He said that…<\/p>\n

“Yeah, it\u2019s a free country for now, and she’s expressing a sentiment and speaking for a lot of people. And ultimately a statement like that is a guttural scream that ‘I love my country. I love the troops that defend it. And I don’t respect those who don’t stand by that.’ So customers can make a choice and I actually think this will lead to a lot more business for her than those that turn turn away,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Right. It’s a free country , except if you voted for the “wrong”<\/em> person. Then you can be denied service. And that’s acceptable to Hegseth, even though denying service to people without masks is abominable. But what’s even worse is that Hegseth is contradicting remarks made on Fox News back in July of 2018, when a restaurant declined to serve Donald Trump’s press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. The person contradicting Hegseth was … that’s right… Pete Hegseth:<\/p>\n

“What does it say about the left that they stand in solidarity with a business that kicks out a paying customer just because of their political position?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Fox News, then and now. pic.twitter.com\/1MU2AkZsZm<\/a><\/p>\n

— Media Matters (@mmfa) September 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n