A Fox & Friends clip has elicited a Twitter Moment this morning after critics noticed that the show aired footage of the MOAB explosive hitting its ISIS target in Afghanistan, while set the Toby Keith song, Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue:
So Fox News aired footage of the MOAB explosion to the tune of Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" pic.twitter.com/5QTUnYaBLa
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) April 14, 2017
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“One of my favorite things in my 16 years of being at Fox News is when bombs drop on bad guys,” said Geraldo Rivera after the video played.
It was almost like Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers predicted in a tweet yesterday: “Stand by for certain news voices to to pound out hype songs and war-toy cheers.”
Do you think it was wrong for Fox & Friends to use that song with the video? Let us know in the comments.