Fox & Friends Pledge of Allegiance Segment is Just as Bizarre and Unnerving as One Might Expect

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Fox & Friends has been criticized as “state-run tv” due to its fawning and remarkably coordinated coverage of the Trump administration. But Friday morning’s segment dedicated to honoring the Pledge of Allegiance feels like something one might see on the North Korean equivalent to cable news morning show (if such a thing actually existed.)

Hard to describe this bizarre segment in a pithy manner, but is easy to imagine future historians pointing to it as the peak (or nadir) of a larger culture war, the winner of which will determine the outcome.

Featuring James Robbins, author of Erasing America, who warned that some schools are no longer compelling students to take the pledge, which is the dystopian future consistent with gold-coin buying viewers of the conservative morning show.

The segment also, naturally, features host Pete Hegseth posing the classic strawman argument that the American Flag “is seen by some as a dividing or divisive symbol,” before adding that he believes “it should unify.” Shocker that Robbins agreed, just before Hegseth turned to the on-set school children that critics might see as props for this ridiculously jingoist virtue signaling of false patriotism.

“Keep loving this country,” Hegseth told the children.

Sunshine soldiers and summer patriots indeed.

Watch the clip above, courtesy of Fox News.

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DailyCloserToDeath on December 29th, 2018 at 16:59 UTC »

"Progressives are teaching bad things about this country."

True things? Or false things?

HyperactiveBSfilter on December 29th, 2018 at 15:46 UTC »

Very bright and well rehearsed children. I assume the first girl is parroting what her church has taught her, which is just one more lie added to many. I hate how the addition of "under God" has played into the hands of Christian nationalists, just as they intended.

Jdubshack on December 29th, 2018 at 15:21 UTC »

Not really faulting the girl here but it’s funny how they just clarified that “under god” was added in the fifties during the Cold War, yet 10 seconds later she answered that the same phrase taught her that the founding fathers believed we should answer to god. Can’t really blame the young girl since this is what millions of these people think and what she was lead to believe, but just so frustrating to listen to