Several Fox News hosts on Wednesday praised a Florida restaurant owner’s decision to ban President Joe Biden supporters from eating at his establishment, saying it is “understandable” and that “it could lead to much more business for to her”.
With a conservative rage towards the Biden administration that reached fever after the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the owner of Debary Diner posted a poster on the outskirts of her business telling Biden voters not to enter after the terrorist attack in Kabul.
“If you have voted and continue to support and defend the useless, inept and corrupt administration that currently lives in the White House and is complicit in the deaths of our soldiers and women in Afghanistan, take your business elsewhere “says owner Angie Ugarte’s sign. “God bless America and God bless our soldiers.”
Discussing Ugarte’s customers’ ban on Wednesday’s noon program In lower number, co-host Emily Compagno, said the owner “means it” before turning to Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum, who expressed the segment’s only reservations about Ugarte’s decision.
“He has the right to do whatever he wants. It’s his thing, but I’d say this: I didn’t like it when employees of the Trump administration were kicked out of restaurants or denied while eating, “he said. “He says he has pictures of veterans all over his walls and a lot of veterans having dinner there, so I hope some of those supporters of the president come in and can learn something from some of the veterans who are sitting next to them.”
Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth, who has been a noisy and frequent critic of the so-called liberal “canceling culture,” immediately applauded Ugarte’s ban while he seemed to urge viewers to invest money in the restaurant.
“He’s expressing a feeling and speaking for a lot of people,” the Fox star stated. “I’m sure you guys have similar cases – my inbox is full of people saying,‘ Where can I give money and where can I go? What can I do?'”
After saying that there is “a lot of dismay” and that people “don’t know where to go,” Hegseth – a veteran of the war in Afghanistan who privately pressured former President Donald Trump to pardon accused war criminals – He added that Ugarte’s sign is like a “guttural cry” that I love my country “and” I do not respect “those who supposedly do not love America.
“So customers can choose, and in fact, I think that could lead to a lot more business for them than disappear,” he concluded.
“That’s a big point,” Compagno exclaimed before turning to the former White House press secretary who turned Kayleigh McEnany into a Fox News personality.
McEnany, another obsessive critic of “canceling the culture,” responded that he was “totally in agreement” with Hegseth, adding that the “anger of this woman and many others” is “understandable.”
Of course, even the most informal media observer is aware of how Fox News has devoted countless segments to rage against the perception that a “awakened” liberal mafia is “canceling” conservative values, airing segments of often misleading outrage about everything, from Dr. Potato even addressed the AP-style guide allegedly a victim of canceling the culture. The digital site of the network even has an entire section dedicated to the topic.
And as for the hypocrisy on this specific issue, Hegseth’s is more evident. In 2018, after Virginia Red Hen restaurant fired Sarah Huckabee Sanders, citing her role as “Trump spokesman,” Fox News host lamented on antenna: “What does the left say that they stand in solidarity with a business that expels a customer who pays only for his political position?”