Less than two months have passed since Joe Biden’s inauguration, and the network is already responding to the country’s new era by obsessing over similarly absurd and imaginary battlefronts.
While America has changed drastically since Obama’s first term, Fox News has not. The network’s popular host Sean Hannity aired a segment warning against Sesame Street’s “soft bigotry” toward conservatives and its supposedly gay, liberal agenda Glenn Beck set his sights on Glee, suggesting the popular musical series was a “nightmare” contributing to the destruction of “the values we grew up with” and then-Fox News contributor, Keith Ablow, claimed in 2011 that a J.Crew ad depicting a mother painting her son’s toenails could lead to the total abandonment of gender roles and cause young men to stop “ the nation by marching into combat against other men and risking their lives.” When the last Democratic president, Barack Obama, took office more than a decade ago, Fox News seized on inane culture-war fodder intended to outrage its viewers.
