Fox News Freaks Out About 'Woke' Captain America Being Political

Fox News personalities had a freakout this week about Captain America - the comics version - "suddenly" becoming political. A new limited series is going to have Steve Rogers questioning whether the American dream is still viable, and that was enough to send Fox into a tailspin, whining about what they view as "Captain Woke." Farron Cousins explains why this may be one of the dumbest freakouts in recent Fox history. 

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Fox news loves a good outrage, even if they have to manufacture one themselves. And that's exactly what they did this past week with Marvel character, captain America,

Here's apparently what's happening,

I guess, in an upcoming Marvel limited series in the comics, not on a TV or movie or anything, uh, they're going to have captain America basically question whether or not the American dream

Is still viable. You know,

Can you achieve the American dream of,

You know, wife, kids,

Two dogs, white picket fence, all that kind of stuff. Right? We, we know that really that's no longer possible here in the United States. And so captain America is going to basically have a comic arc where they look into that. And of course, Fox news thinks that this means that captain America has gone woke by suddenly

Going political, right?

The comic book character who made his debut punching Hitler in the face is suddenly

Becoming political

Followed captain a hell. If you followed Marvel comics, you know that there were political overtones with near everything they do,

Right? There's

Stories about, as we mentioned, whether or not the American dream is still viable. There are stories about the war on drugs. There's stories about homophobia here in the United States. You know, masked is essentially the fear of mutants and the X-Men comics. And I don't want to get too much into Marvel Laurier. That's a different conversation for

A different show, really, but either way,

Fox news is off. So they create this fake outrage. They bring on a guest, Michael Loftus, who is a host of what the Loftus party, um, self-identified comedian. And here is what he had to say about woke captain America. It's so sad when captain America is like captain woke or captain propaganda, I'm done with captain America. He's dead. Did I miss an issue where he was kidnapped by liberal arts professors and was forced to move to Portland? It's just more proof. The left is going to come after everything that real Americans hold near and dear, they tried to cancel baseball, apple pie, and now captain America maybe they'll change his outfit. Maybe now, instead of a shield, he'll be armed with a laptop and we'll have exciting adventures where he sits in coffee shops and tweets mean things. And he's an active fact checker on Facebook. Oh, so you're saying that maybe he can give up, you know, violence and beating the crap out of people and instead work on debunking misinformation coming from people like you, because I'm actually okay with that for Catherine America. Again, though, these idiots don't understand the political overtones in comic books. Like this has been a thing since the very beginning and Marvel has done a phenomenal job of tackling issues using their characters, DORS,

The, the, these folks

Are ridiculous Fox news, but what they're doing again, they're trying to manufacture

An outrage, okay. Their base, their audience only stays

Engaged if they have something to be mad about, right. If Fox news were to go out there and actually tell the truth about what's happening in this country, Fox viewers would be like, oh, okay, well, yes, uh, no, not so bad. Right? Um, of course things are bad, but I'm not saying that everything's rosy in this country by any stretch of the imagination. COVID is spiking. Once again, uh, we have rampant income inequality. We have a jobs crisis here in the United States, wherein companies do not want to pay people, a living wage. We have a homeless problem. We have a homeless veteran problem. We have a massive climate change problem. So no everything is not rosy, but Fox news won't talk about any of those things because they represent the party. That's preventing any progress on any of those issues. So they make up these little fake controversies, get all mad at captain America and Marvel because they have nothing of substance to talk about.

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