Rotund yellow fruit

The Elongated Yellow Fruit* is only the beginning! Stay tuned for the existential threat:

Over two pages, Markay and Suebsaeng explain that Trump would interrogate his former chief of staff Reince Priebus about the black, white and grey creatures.

The questions would arise at such opportune moments as “when Priebus was attempting to brief the president on matters of healthcare initiatives, foreign policy, or Republican legislative agenda”, they wrote.

“Are they mean to people?” Trump reportedly asked Priebus, perhaps thinking of badgers’ very long claws, which they use to dig the burrows that make their home. “Or are they friendly creatures?”

Trump would also demand to see photos of badgers, ask Priebus to give details on how badgers “work”, and wanted to know if they had a “personality” or were boring.

Priebus was also called upon to explain “how the critters function and behave, what kind of food they like, and how aggressive or deadly they could be when presented with perceived existential threats”. 

Sounds like he's asking whether badgers could get Mexico to pay for WALL if they said "caravans!!1!!11!1!!!" often enough. Securitization theory isn't clear on that, but that doesn't mean it's not a good question.

* Thanks to Q. Pheevr, from the northeastern reaches of Our Southern Neighbor. 

Soaring and cratering

As you might have imagined, the Fair 'n' Balanced Network lost no time making sure we know who won the confrontation in the Persian Gulf -- and, of course, who got us there. (Hint: OBAMA!!!!1!11!1!!11!1!!!) But it's worth spending some time to tease out the different sorts of lies that Fox employs; more specifically, the proportion of lies to bullshit needed to achieve a properly balanced Fox page.

In the lead position, even though the president is (in the words of one critic) "lying relentlessly," the transitive property of journalism means Fox is telling the truth: it's passing along an authoritative figure says. Fox's job then is to show that it's done its due diligence in assessing the claim:

It’s unclear exactly how the missiles used in the attacks were funded. But other Republicans have connected the Iran settlement money to the attacks, with GOP Texas Sen. Ted Cruz saying on Fox News' "Hannity" on Tuesday night, “In a very real sense, the missiles that we saw fired at U.S. servicemen and women tonight were paid for by the billions that the Obama administration flooded the Ayatollah with."

 Well, that settles that. 
 
The second story also appears to be a reasonably faithful reproduction of what was said, though it runs into hat pesky maxim of relevance: Is this assertion relevant to the discourse in the way its positioning suggests? You make the call:

After President Trump declared that Iran “appears to be standing down” in the wake of Tuesday's missile strikes on Iraqi airbases, Fox News senior strategic analyst Gen. Jack Keane said that Trump had executed a diplomatic strategy that could enable the U.S. to negotiate with Iran without further military action.

The story is as much Trump as Keane, but it least it allows for promoting another Fox personality without having to support his assertions:

“It changed from the strategy of appeasement under the Obama administration to confrontation using economic pressure to do that,” Keane told “The Daily Briefing” Wednesday.

But the pick of the litter is the No. 3 story, "Oil craters." If you're a sportsball fan,

you're probably comfortable with the idea that whether a 2-point difference means the winning team "squeaks" or "breezes" past its foe is largely a matter of Zip code. So it is here (timelines from CNN). Light crude seems to have cratered back to about a dollar below where it was at the beginning of the month and Trump's bumbling foray into global strategery, and over the past year, it's up more than 20 percent.


It's been a pretty busy few days at Fox, having to pivot from the Impeachment Hoax to the #RegimeOfTerror while still keeping an eye on the socialist menace and those pesky Democrats. Indeed, for a network that's basically been ignoring substate political violence since Trump vanquished ISIL in single combat, it must have taken some effort to dust off all the terror tropes. Good to see that the starting lineup is back in the game here.

Today in existential threats

What's the existential threat weighing on the minds of Col. McCormick and his enterprising stable of cartoonists on June 30, 1941? 

The hanky that "enterprising widow" Europe is waving is labeled "Union Now" -- the roughly two-year-old "federal union" movement for a transatlantic state (or, as the Tribune put it a day earlier, "the scheme for an immediate union of the United States and the six still-free democracies of the British commonwealth of nations"). This, as you can imagine, was not the Trib's idea of preserving the exceptional American way of life.  I mean, just look at Europe's little friends there.

Hold that thought, you guys

Well, that didn't age so gracefully.

It's July 1941, and the World's Greatest Newspaper is scoffing in a frontpage editorial at the mere prospect of an attack on this continent. Col. McCormick and his cartoonists have been busily going after the liberal plot to merge the United States with Great Britain. So far, so good when it comes to Mussolini taking on South Carolina or Franco setting out to burn the topless towers of Manhattan, but: "Is the badly shaken Japan about to assault Hawaii or even the Philippines?"

Hold that thought.

Fear and balanced: The week in AOC

It wouldn't be the Week in AOC without some AOC -- here's an especially nice double-dip from in which Fox changes its mind over a few hours about how best to illustrate Tuesday's investigative gem from the Daily Caller -- but the real story last week seems to be another candidate moving up in the Fear and Balanced rankings. Indeed, there was no AOC until Tuesday, because Monday was all Beto, led by the ever-popular "faces questions":

 Reuters is facing ethical questions after admitting that reporter Joseph Menn sat on an unfavorable story about media darling Beto O’Rourke until after his crucial Senate race against Ted Cruz.

... But the reporter, it turns out, knew about this history since 2017 -- and sat on it. According to Menn, members of the hacking group were protecting O'Rourke's identity and wouldn't confirm his affiliation unless the reporter promised not to write about it until after the November election. They apparently struck a deal.

We seem to have been over this one before, back in the days when Fox News still worshiped John McCain: When you get information by giving a promise, you have an obligation to keep that promise. You're welcome to your own view about how to weight that against other duties, but if you were expecting Fox to win a prize from the ethics division this year, you might want to keep waiting a while longer.

Anyway, former Rep. O'Rourke had two other appearances Monday: A fairly standard commentary and a reminder of why things aren't always as rosy as they seem:

Beto O'Rourke raised a whopping $6.1 million in his first 24 hours as a presidential candidate, while drawing big crowds -- and a herd of reporters -- as he campaigned across Iowa and Wisconsin after launching his 2020 bid.

But despite riding a wave of media fanfare, the former three-term congressman from Texas has stumbled out of the gate with a string of apologies and clarifications.

Hang on for more about those apologies and clarifications; they're back on Tuesday as Beto has to share the front with other Democrats ("called out" is sort of a passive version of "faces questions"):

If you already thought the Democratic 2020 candidates were a frightened pack of cocktail weenies, get a load of Beto, a guy as sturdy as a gummy worm.

You want pathetic? Here's pathetic: He felt he had to apologize...over a joke he made about his wife.

Though clearly other Fox commentators take a different view:

 ... The usual cries of “white male privilege” and O’Rourke’s almost ritualistic admission of guilt make it easy to dismiss the issue as just another example of social justice warriors and the radical left overreacting with criticisms of every little thing any public figure says. But although I’m generally inclined to defend people who are under attack from the "PC police," I think O’Rourke’s liberal critics have a fair point.
On the bright side, Fox has found some reason to write about Elizabeth Warren besides channeling its masters' barely veiled racism. So that's something.

O'Rourke provides an especially striking lead story on Wednesday, though as usual some other outfit has done the legwork:

Beto O’Rourke didn’t eat crow, humble pie or even his words after losing to Ted Cruz. He ate dirt instead.

O’Rourke, who came up short in his bid to unseat Sen. Cruz, R-Texas, despite raising $80 million for the Senate push, told the story of his earthy snack in a sprawling 3,000-word profile published by The Washington Post.

He also rates another commentary and manages to get in a little lese-majeste against one of Fox's most important friends:

PLYMOUTH, N.H. - Beto O’Rourke is taking aim at embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, claiming the steadfast ally of Republican President Trump “has openly sided with racists.”

The Democratic presidential candidate and former congressman from Texas – on the campaign trail in New Hampshire – also criticized negotiators ostensibly trying to end the generations-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“Right now we don’t have the best negotiating partners on either side. We have a

prime minister in Israel who has openly sided with racists,” he charged.

Given that AIPAC has said more or less the same thing about Netanyahu's preferences in coalition-building, you'd think Fox would want to tone it down a bit. Then again, lots of things about the fractious Near East seem kind of new to Fox:

... O’Rourke once again called for a “two-state solution” between Israel and the Palestinians to achieve peace in the Middle East. “I believe in peace and dignity and full human rights for the Palestinian people and the Israeli people. The only way to achieve that … is a two-state solution,” he emphasized.

He's back to the lead on Thursday, with some friends (and a Clinton story below, in case anyone has forgotten who the Main Enemy is):

 ... but Fox can't pass up the chance for a "mockery on social media" moment for a lesser-known Democrat:

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., a 2020 presidential candidate, is facing blowback on social media for sharing a video of herself working out during a return campaign visit to Iowa.

The clip shows Gillibrand, 52,  lifting weights at a gym in the Hawkeye State, wearing a shirt that reads, “Just trying to get some ranch.”

... On Wednesday, Gillibrand’s tweet was the subject of mockery on social media, with some Twitter users accusing her of trying too hard to “relate to the average American.”

And the apologies are back on Friday!

Pretty impressive week for O'Rourke there, but Fox also made space for AOC. In addition to Tuesday, she made the front page Wednesday by being the subject of a Republican ad:

Less than three months after taking office, New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose favorability numbers have plummeted in some recent polls, is already front and center in a GOP congressional candidate's upcoming campaign advertisement.

Actually, that'd be one "recent poll" (the link is as provided by Fox), and it found that her "favorability" had risen by 7 points against a similar pre-election poll, but that's just Fox lying about other people's statistics again.

AOC has three appearances on the frontpage Friday, starting with a lead:

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., appeared on a late-night comedy talk show Thursday night but was stone-cold serious in her defense of the Green New Deal, the cornerstone of her progressive agenda.

When asked by “Late Night” host Seth Meyers if President Trump’s claims that “cows farting” and “hamburgers” would be outlawed were true, Ocasio-Cortez firmly answered “No.”

The same program is good for another story later:

Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., compared President Trump to a worm during an interview on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” on Thursday -- but you'd need your dictionary to know that.

The 29-year-old congresswoman used an obscure term to take a swipe at Trump toward the end of her appearance, when Meyers asked her about winning the second-place prize as a teen in her high school science competition.

“Science was my first passion,” said Ocasio-Cortez. “I studied microbiology and the impacts of antioxidants on a model organism known as the C. elegan, which is of the nematode family.”

Meyers compared Ocasio-Cortez’s interest in science to that of Trump, interjecting “I think he did that, too.”

“Because he’s a nematode?” she retorted while the crowd roared in laughter, comparing the president to the roundworms found as parasites in animals and plants.

And, of course, illustrating a story about her party's Stalinist tendencies (as is often the case, she's not mentioned late -- here, the eighth paragraph).

The Green New Deal is back on the front Sunday, which also features the return of arch-villainess Ilhan Omar:

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar faced hundreds of protesters Saturday outside a Southern California fundraising event for the local chapter of a major advocacy group representing Muslim-Americans.

“Burn the Quran!," “Ilhan Omar, go to hell!” and “Shame on you, terrorists!" were among some of the messages shouted outside a Woodland Hills hotel where the Minnesota Democrat spoke at a fundraiser for the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) of Greater Los Angeles, according to a report. The town is about 25 miles northwest of downtown L.A.
 
Weird. You'd think Fox might have other stuff to worry about on Sunday besides reminding everybody that Islamophobia is its favorite indoor sport. To each his own, one supposes.

You have to call this a pretty good week for young O'Rourke, though AOC is still looking like the consensus Rookie of the Year. And some ideas start to suggest themselves for narrowing down the primary field at debate time. Maybe they could all just sit around and watch Fox slideshows until they fall over laughing.

Who is Fox scared of this week?

OK, trick question. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is last week's Scariest Person on Planet Fox -- but keep an eye out as the week wears on for some new entrants in the fear field. First, though, a lead story from March 11:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D, N.Y., said workers should be excited by the prospect of job automation and blasted capitalism as irredeemable at the South By Southwest festival in Austin this weekend.

In response to a question from the audience about the threat of automated labor, the firebrand liberal said workers should be "excited" about having their jobs automated, but were not because of larger systemic issues in American society.
Read more »

Another week in Very Scary People

It's another banner week for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the Fair 'n' Balanced Network: the lead story on five days, with frontpage appearances every day of the week. You'll notice that several familiar themes and tropes weave their way into the narrative, according to Fox's needs and the flow of news. Let's start with last Monday (Feb. 25) and its combination of newly fabricated stories and rehashed fictions:

Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said young people have to ask a “legitimate question” in the wake of climate change and mounting student loan debt: “Is it okay to still have children?”

Well, no:

... In an Instagram Live video over the weekend, Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., welcomed supporters into her kitchen—and gave a “special hello to my haters”—while she made chili and poured herself a glass of white wine.

“Our planet is going to face disaster if we don’t turn this ship around,” she said, as she chopped sweet potatoes. “And so it’s basically like, there is a scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult and it does lead, I think young people, to have a legitimate question. Ya know, should—is it okay to still have children?”

Earlier, she was debunking the previous week's three-byline New York Post exclusive:

Freshman New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday night confirmed The Post’s reporting that she’s relocated to a new Bronx apartment in her neighborhood.

A day after residents at the Democratic congresswoman’s listed address told The Post they’d never seen her around, her spokesman on Sunday said she moved recently to a larger apartment “a block and a half away” with her boyfriend.

She's the lead story again on Tuesday, with the Photoshop functioning as the equivalent of the old-fashioned 1A editorial cartoon after a few contortions in the second graf:

Amazon could be facing a New York-style backlash in response to its plans for a massive second headquarters in Virginia.

Inspired in part by the success of community activists and elected officials like New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a group of advocates calling themselves "For Us, Not Amazon" is demanding that Northern Virginia reject the tech giant's plans for a second headquarters in Arlington.

Later, a familiar columnist checks in to follow up on the previous day's fiction, now with added Socialism® ("diktat," geddit?).

Following on to another lead story about the disarray in the Democratic party, another Fox commentator checks in to point out, again, that she's proclaiming herself the leader of the party:

Republicans have described Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., as the leader of her party, the boss of the Democratic Party. And there's a reason that they are saying that -- because she is. She said so herself while discussing her budget-busting "Green New Deal" in an interview on Friday.

Wednesday starts with a follow-up to several previous fictions, this one moving into the realm of reality because, well, someone has filed something:

EXCLUSIVE – A Republican group filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday alleging that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's campaign may have illegally funneled thousands of dollars through an allied PAC to boyfriend Riley Roberts.

Stay with it, though:

... Wednesday's complaint comes after a blog post on Medium by political consultant Luke Thompson, who first flagged the payments to Roberts.

His screed prompted pushback from Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti as it also included unverified speculation of legal impropriety and an incorrect claim that the Democrat’s campaign raised only about $3,000 while spending nearly $28,000 by October 2017 – ignoring that the campaign also raised more than $33,000 from small donors.

You can see why people aren't eager to return phone calls from Fox seeking comment. But Ocasio-Cortez moves into the lead position again Wednesday in a truly unusual fashion:

You'd almost think she was a real congressperson doing a real job or something:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Wednesday asked President Trump's onetime personal attorney Michael Cohen if Trump had intentionally devalued his real estate assets to reduce his tax bills, to which Cohen responded, "Yes."

Too bad there was no room for that in the hed, huh?

Thursday, she's back to her hypocritical ways (even as CPAC is hearing about the Stalinist plan to outlaw hamburgers):

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., lashed out at an anonymous shutterbug who “creepily” snapped a picture of her at a restaurant with an aide who was feasting on a juicy burger -- an image that soon made the rounds on social media, as it was taken days after she questioned whether Americans needed to eat so much meat.

Note that the Cohen follow-up manages to keep Rashida Tlaib front and center as well, and there's yet another take on the existential threat posed by those 2020 Dems:

On Friday, Ocasio-Cortez's Soviet-style domination of the party is the lead story again ("Dem darling is a throwback to those days of August when she was still a new figure in the Fox pandaemonium):

After more than two dozen moderate Democrats broke from their party's progressive wing and sided with Republicans on a legislative amendment Wednesday, New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reportedly sounded the alarm in a closed-door meeting Thursday and said those Democrats were "putting themselves on a list."

Those pesky Democrats and their doomed platform reclaim the lead position later, but another Fox commentator manages to point out Ocasio-Cortez's threat to yet another American institution:

How many catches and throws will baseball superstar Bryce Harper make for the federal and local state governments every year? Given his newly inked deal with the Philadelphia Phillies for $330 million over 13 years, if the “socialist Democrats” get their way, close to 90 percent of his work could be for free.

If you hang on until the ninth graf, Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar both show up then. A little later, though, we have her malign, mesmerizing influence leading the party to its doom, even though she doesn't illustrate the frontpage presence:

The 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have served a combined 48 years in the Senate. They’ve served an additional 27 years in various mayoral offices and governor’s mansions across the country. Their total time in the House of Representatives adds another three decades of service. When you factor in likely candidates who have not yet declared or formed exploratory committees, those numbers rise to 108, 73, and 76 years, respectively. Yet who leads this historically broad and experienced presidential field? A 29-year-old bartender just wrapping up her first month in office.

To be sure, New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is too young to launch her own bid for the White House. Nevertheless, the freshman congresswoman controls an entire primary pack of candidates too craven and opportunistic to offer any ideas themselves.

By Saturday, we seem to have figured out which picture should have been used in the first place:

And for Sunday, the dystopian-steampunk illustration from Monday is back in the lead, this time following another hard-hitting exposé from the New York Post (building -- now let's not always see the same hands -- on a familiar fabrication):

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded Saturday night after a published report excoriated the freshman congresswoman for pushing her Green New Deal initiative while still traveling on airplanes and using ridesharing services -- instead greener travel methods such as public transportation.

The piece mentioned the New York Democrat’s call in January for more sustainable energy solutions: "The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,” she said at the time.

All in all, it's a week of familiar roles for Rep. Ocasio-Cortez in Fox World. She's  a communist hypocrite who's imperiling the American way of life at every turn, she's a Svengali wresting control of her failing party from the adults, and she scoffs at the laws and restraints that keep the political process in line. (Often, we should note again, based on fictions that people eventually grow tired of debunking.) The only familiar role that doesn't seem to be evident over the past week is being schooled, rather than schooling: getting a lecture on how the world really works from those who know better. But it's still barely midafternoon Sunday.

The week in Very Scary People

And the streak is back at one, sports fans, because there were no recorded stories about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez among the top 5 on the foxnews.com homepage Saturday!

Of course, she was back on Sunday (above), in a triple-byline effort lifted from the New York Post. And she and a number of other existential threats to everything Fox News holds dear made regular appearances throughout the week. Shall we have a look?

Friday morning, we have an opinion column lifted from the Washington Post, though by afternoon we were back to last week's adventures with Amazon (with a side of EWWWW scary lady eats salad with COMB!!11!1!1!1!11!! -- also, it's worth noting, not original to Fox):

On Thursday, she's the No. 2 story, a followup to last week's nearly-true story of privilege and skulduggery. But the real star Thursday is Bernie Sanders:

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., entered the 2020 presidential race this week promising to transform America with a left-wing vision of economic and environmental justice. But the self-described democratic socialist’s high-end income, multiple houses and fondness for air travel have already opened him up to criticism that his lifestyle doesn't always match the rhetoric.

You should probably expect to see this one a few more times as the campaign season lumbers on:

3 Homes for Bernie! Sanders Reportedly Buys $600K Vermont Lake House (8/9/2016)

Bernie Sanders Buys $575,000 Lakefront Vacation Home in Vermont (8/12/2016)

Bolling: Free advice for Jane and Bernie Sanders (7/17/2017)

Bernie Sanders' income tops $1M for second year in row, reports say (6/24/2018)

Anyway, just so you know, Fox is also scared of guys every now and then. But not nearly as scared as Fox is of girls! Look who was the lead story on Wednesday:

 

And back Wednesday evening (along with a sideswipe at Kamala Harris). Note that even Fox can't quite hide the shell game behind the mystery billboards:

Ocasio-Cortez tweeted a screen grab of the group's Wikipedia page that says it is funded "mainly by corporate executives and conservative foundations including the Mercer Family Foundation." However, sometime after the congresswoman's tweet was sent early this morning, the organization's Wikipedia page was edited to remove the line about its funding.

After Fox News reached out to the Job Creators Network for comment on Ocasio-Cortez's tweets, the Wikipedia page was subsequently edited again and it now includes the line that was in the New York congresswoman's tweet: "It is funded mainly by corporate executives and conservative foundations including the Mercer Family Foundation."

Another lead story on Tuesday:

And, of course, a lead with Amazon on Monday:

The Che story is worth noting because it's foreshadowed in this one from earlier Monday:

Tune in again next Sunday for This Week In Fox Is Scared of Girls! Every streak has to end sometime, after all.

Now let's not always see the same hands

It's Sunday, so it must be time for another installment of Fox News Is Scared Of Girls! Naturally, we're going to start with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, even though she's not mentioned in Sunday morning's No. 2 story (putting her in the company of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the sort of supervillain who can exemplify an issue without appearing in the text). But this week is going to include a few more Scary Girls than usual -- see Elizabeth Warren, above.

The big AOC story of the week, of course, is Amazon's decision not to plant its second headquarters in New York. Fox's feelings were still hurt on Saturday:

Is it a little strange that all of a sudden, the umbrella organization of the Amazon Washington Post has become the good guy at Fox? Well, read on. The same composite was a lead story on Friday:

And somehow Cher joined the list of the Fox faithful:

There was, of course, a bigger Ocasio-Cortez lead story on Friday:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is facing ethics questions after revelations the freshman lawmaker's office gave her boyfriend a congressional email account.

The democratic socialist waded into the issue in response to a tweet alleging boyfriend Riley Roberts had been put on staff. The tweet included a screenshot of an official House email address. Ocasio-Cortez insisted that he was only given the email account so he could access her calendar.

Though as is often the case, the fun seems to diminish after Fox talks to someone who doesn't work for Fox:

... Asked about the arrangement, David O'Boyle, the spokesperson for the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer, told Fox News: "From time to time, at the request of members, spouses and partners are provided House email accounts for the purposes of viewing the member’s calendar."

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's single-handed victory over Amazon was the lead on Thursday:

As, of course, was the expected slamming:

... though you'll note that the text seems a little less definitive:

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo lambasted politicians such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others over Amazon's decision to leave New York City. Opponents of the deal with the tech giant had "put their own narrow political interests above their community," he said.

"[A] small group [of] politicians put their own narrow political interests above their community -- which poll after poll showed overwhelmingly supported bringing Amazon to Long Island City -- the state's economic future and the best interests of the people of this state," Cuomo said in the statement, which did not mention Ocasio-Cortez or other lawmakers by name. "The New York State Senate has done tremendous damage. They should be held accountable for this lost economic opportunity."

(And don't miss the sideswipe at Ilhan Omar; she's on the Fox list too.)

Earlier Thursday, there's sort of a standard Fox commentary, in case you've forgotten what the real threat is:

Another lead story on Wednesday:

But Ocasio-Cortez is a secondary story by afternoon, given that Rep. Omar had dared to question the (ahem) "credibility" of Elliott Abrams on issues related to Latin America:

(Enjoy it, just for the fun of seeing Fox forced to mention things like Iran-contra and El Mozote.)

Another lead story on Tuesday:

And a secondary story on Tuesday, along with a reminder that Fox hasn't forgotten its own bag of antisemitic tropes:

And that green background was there again to kick off the Week in AOC on Monday:

 

You could be wondering why the Murdoch products suddenly took the side of Amazon, given how vigorously the New York Post had attacked the project, its impact on the community and the ruin it threatened to bring to the New York dating scene. And indeed, by week's end, Fox had found other sources of outrage. These are from Saturday and Sunday:

 

And with that, another new week is upon us.