FOX & Friends hosts have meltdown after the FOX Christmas tree is set afire

Last night, the imaginary “War on Christmas” that FOX News invented to push absurd culture war narratives came home to roost as a vandal lit the FOX News Christmas tree on fire in New York City outside of their headquarters.

#BREAKING: The Fox News Christmas Tree is on fire in NYC pic.twitter.com/xfWdFgdQIS

— Leonardo Puglisi (@Leo_Puglisi6) December 8, 2021

Subtext and subtlety once again proved they are long dead in the post-Trump world as the symbol of conservative hyperpatriotism and conservative culture war was turned into a fiery inferno.

The FOX and Friends hosts predictably held a public meltdown during their Wednesday morning show as they grappled with the incident, immediately painting themselves and all FOX News-watching Americans as victims of the War on Christmas.

Ainsley Earhardt: "This is personal to you too at home now. The Fox Christmas tree, vandalized. Arson. And that's personal to you. It's personal to us. This is an American icon. This is our Christmas tree." pic.twitter.com/mXmTxKmcbq

— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) December 8, 2021

Ainsley Earhardt on the Fox Christmas tree: "It's a tree that unites us. It brings us together. It's about the Christmas spirit. It is about the holiday season. It's about Jesus. It's about Hanukkah. It is about everything that we stand for as a country." pic.twitter.com/fV8Hg2juHI

— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) December 8, 2021

Brian Kilmeade on the Fox Christmas tree fire: "It's just part of the rampance. No city is safe. No person is safe, from the subway on down. … It tells the bigger story. This city is so out of control. Especially midtown Manhattan." pic.twitter.com/97P8OjQnEd

— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) December 8, 2021

Predictably, this story became both part of the “War on Christmas” narrative and also part of their “CRIME IS OUT OF CONTROL” narrative being pushed day in and day out by right-wing propagandists, despite the fact that statistics show property crimes are lower than they’ve been in over a decade.

Violent and property crime rates in the US continue their long-term decline, per new data from the @FBI. The violent crime rate fell 28% between 2000 and 2019, while the property crime rate fell 42%. Declines happened under both Obama/Biden and Trump. https://t.co/8xzLcXPcoy pic.twitter.com/tK3GtOJosP

— John Gramlich (@johngramlich) September 30, 2020

While nobody is pleased to see a Christmas tree burn, you can’t help but feel like perhaps this is some kind of karmic message being delivered to the psychotic propagandists at FOX and Friends, who have spent the past two years pushing anti-vaccine conspiracies on a daily basis. The only real downside is that now their victimhood complex has some real meat to work with, and we won’t hear them shut up about this for the next five Christmases.