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Fox "News" has never been anything but a right-wing propaganda outlet, a place for conservatism's laziest hacks to be their hackiest. But they've been getting frothier and frothier in their claims since Donald Trump landed on the scene and finally proved to Republicans that, yes, you really can lie about everything, and the paranoid and hateful base will love you for it.
At this point, Fox is well within "Pizzagate" territory when it comes to pushing hate speech; see for example Fox calling President Biden a "WANNABE DICTATOR" for having the audacity to exist while federal law enforcement officers caught Trump doing crimes. The Fox "News" meltdown over the White House flying a Pride flag during Pride Month, though, is even more over the top.
A reporter, an editor, and God only knows how many other Fox hacks had to work to assemble this particular bit of drivel. There may have been animal sacrifice involved; we can't say for sure. It takes a truly amazing amount of vitriol to come up with even the watered-down version of this hack job.
The chain of events here is this: The White House put up a Pride Flag, specifically the "Progress" Pride Flag that includes an extra chevron at the top representing transgender persons and non-white persons, and some sentient bag of hammers at Fox created from this a story under the banner "White House flew controversial new transgender flag that promotes grooming and pedophilia, say critics," which is the sort of absolute garbage you get when the intellectuals of your movement have been reduced to Christopher Rufo, Charlie Kirk, and a leaking nitrous tank where Tucker Carlson's old office used to be.
