The Mainstreamed Pathology That is Fox & Friends

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From Fox & Friends Weekend:

Allisyn Camerota: Meanwhile, we have to tell you this crazy story from the Occupy Wall Street (inhales, as if trying to maintain control of herself) gang. There is a Florida mother of four children. Two weeks ago, she left her family and her husband in Florida because she felt motivated and compelled to come up and occupy Wall Street…

Dave Briggs: I want to reiterate what Allie mentioned, this 38-year-old Hessler mother of four says ‘Military people leave their families all the time, so why should I feel bad? I’m fighting for a better world.’ That is more disgusting than any of the, filth, down there on Wall Street…

Describing people you dislike as “filth” isn’t just hatred. It’s pathological hatred. Normally it’s relegated to extremist blogs, political website commenters, or late night talk radio, but here it is folks, all tricked out in business clothes and offered in a steaming heap on a trowel on national TV.

But really, they’re doing this because they’re concerned! What about the children? Who are at such tender ages…

Camerota: She’s clearly having a mid-life crisis of some sort…Her children by the way are 17 years old, 15 years old, and 7 years old. She says she has talked to them three times in the two weeks since she left. These are tender ages, obviously, to be without your mother…

Clayton Morris: …There’s some suggestions right now that she’s living right now with a waiter up here...

Camerota: You say that she’s living with a waiter. Sort of. They are occupying the same quare cement block.

Morris: The same tarp.

Camerota: She says that they are not romantically connected, but they are, um, providing warmth… We should also mention that her husband’s a banker. That would also offer a window into her psyche. She may be protesting something else besides just capitalism...

That’s right. Camerota, Briggs, and Morris are sooo concerned about the Hessler children that they’re reviling their mother in public and snidely implying that she’s having an affair. Good job, guys. I bet those kids really like snuggilng down in that warm fuzzy “concern” of yours.

Fox and Friends Weekend were pretty keen on getting viewer feedback on the mother. One comment that they reaad on camera:

I can’t believe this 'mother' compares what she does to being in the military. There is no one shooting at her and she’s not defending anyone’s life.

Well, hey, now that she’s been publicly denounced as filth and declared an unfit mother, that could change, especially given the rising hysteria on the right about the Occupy Wall Street movement. One OWS site has already been targeted with a Drano bomb. Fox friends kept urging viewers “tell us what you think,” and with that in mind I checked out the Fox Nation article about Hessler.

Funny thing. The comments have been closed and aren’t visible.

Golly. I wonder why.



Crossposted from Thought Crimes