Someone Sets The Fox News Christmas Tree On Fire, And Here’s How The Internet Reacted (30 Pics)
Most people are worried they might accidentally burn the turkey in the oven, not have their Christmas tree set on fire. The 50-foot tall Christmas tree that stood outside Fox News’ Manhattan headquarters was set alight just after midnight on December 8. Thankfully, nobody was hurt. Meanwhile, the police quickly arrested the suspect. However, the story didn’t end there. The internet saw this as a meme-worthy opportunity and started making jokes about the incident, mostly due to Fox News’ reputation in the United States and globally.
Bored Panda has compiled a list of the most popular Fox News Xmas tree jokes flying around social media. You’ll find them below.
Entertainment, pop culture, and lifestyle expert Mike Sington went in-depth with Bored Panda about the incident and Fox News' reputation. "People are making fun of Fox News because they’re so angry at them for constantly pushing false information and conspiracy theories. It’s also ironic their Christmas tree was destroyed when Fox News keeps accusing the opposition of 'waging a war on Christmas.' Thankfully no one was hurt, but it seems the visual of the Fox News Christmas tree being destroyed, inspired a lot of people to mock Fox News," he said.
I also asked British comedy expert, author, and all-round creative Ariane Sherine to comment about the situation with the Fox News Christmas tree. According to her, it's a tricky situation when considering that the internet is having a lot of fun laughing at what happened, even though someone could have easily been hurt. "If it had been our own tree, we most likely wouldn’t find it funny—at least, not for a long time," she told Bored Panda. "But when we don’t like someone or something, we cease to have empathy for them and can therefore laugh. It’s human nature, but probably not the best part of it!"
Just to make it very clear, we don’t condone burning down *any* Christmas trees, no matter whom they belong to. Someone could have easily gotten hurt! And think of all the effort that went into putting up the tree in the first place. We do, however, think that bizarre situations like this one can inspire the internet to come up with some pretty funny roasts and hot takes. And everyone needs a laugh or two in these hard times, even if the humor might be too dark for some.
#BREAKING: The Fox News Christmas Tree is on fire in NYC pic.twitter.com/xfWdFgdQIS
— Leonardo Puglisi (@Leo_Puglisi6) December 8, 2021
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Funniest comment on FB yesterday was, "Tucker Carlson's pants catch Fox "News" Christmas tree on fire".
Funny thing, it was Ben Shapiro doing one of his "perhaps" segments. He was so embarrassed he quit and became a pilot. It's going to go how you expect.
I heard if you take a Bible into the Fox News building it comes alive and starts whacking everyone there up top their head.
The coup is already in process. Lobbyists have power exclusively due to low information voters. Low information voters base voting on the political ads they see in media. These ads are paid for and created by the same companies using the lobbyists. Voters became the product, when they stopped understanding the issues beyond a commercial on TV.
I guess the people who aren't laughing are either Trump voters or Fox news reporters.
Maybe I can have my son-in-law fix that up for me because that sounds good.
Jesus preached that "those who live by the sword will die by the sword" and he was a carpenter that died being nailed to planks of wood.
As always, Fox News reporters don't have a clue what they are talking about.
Is this how a fully vaccinated Satanic gay immigrant looks like? I'm digging that look!
Of course it is. Didn't you have a giant minorah and burn down several pine trees every night. We Jews take our war on Christmas very seriously.
And if this were ~2000 years ago, republicans would be ready to hire false witnesses and crucify him.
The burning of the tree was the starting point for negotiating Christmas' withdrawal from its illegal occupation of October and November.
I think there's something in the Bible about God disapproving of tree worship
I only wish I had heard when this was said "hey y'all watch this, it's gonna be epic!!!"
Fox nuts roasting on an open fire, ashes are tickling my nose, tiny brains with their minds all aglow, will find it hard to speak tonight. They say that evil had it's sway, and lit the giant fake Christmas tree today. But every responsible adult really knows, you can't overload a circuit that way........
Nothing gives us a shining view of Fox News and it's lack of fact finding than one of their reporters assuming that Christmas trees have anything to do with Hanukkah.
Huh…I thought Ryan’s account would be a troll account with only downvotes but they actually have a ton of points.
I don’t know which was more entertaining- the actual posts, or seeing every single one of Ryan’s comments getting downvoted to hell.
Nothing gives us a shining view of Fox News and it's lack of fact finding than one of their reporters assuming that Christmas trees have anything to do with Hanukkah.
Huh…I thought Ryan’s account would be a troll account with only downvotes but they actually have a ton of points.
I don’t know which was more entertaining- the actual posts, or seeing every single one of Ryan’s comments getting downvoted to hell.
