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Every once in a while a Fox personality says something so
outlandish he shocks himself. Such was the case when Fox Business host
Charles Payne got amped up over Michael Moore’s American Sniper criticism and unleashed a bizarre reading of
America’s overseas military efforts. “We have saved the planet,” he
shouted at the camera, to the visible discomfort of his cohosts, “and if
we go away as America’s policeman, it will be hell to pay.”
The
statement was outrage click-gold, but its virality obscured a crucial
quality: even a market-drunk paleocapitalist like Payne doesn’t actually
believe the American-produced quagmire in Iraq was the real-world
equivalent of the Avengers.
Payne’s outburst followed a
solid week of escalating rhetoric against Moore, Seth Rogen and other
critics of the film. Fox hosts first mounted defenses of Chris Kyle,
then of snipers, then of the military, and finally of the Iraq debacle.
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