Fox News hosts accidentally forget they are supposed to be against free college

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Fox News hosts accidentally forget they are supposed to be against free college
After weeks of mocking Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-MA) plan to cancel college debt, Fox is now cheering a philanthropist's move to do so.
Josh Israel
May 20, 2019, 9:23 am


Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) recently unveiled a plan to help give young people and their families a leg up by cancelling much of their college debt. Fox News has aired a series of segments talking down the popular idea as unrealistic and unfair to the privileged who have already paid their tuition in full.

But the hosts of FOX and Friends accidentally contradicted that argument on Monday when they did a jubilant segment cheering a billionaire philanthropist’s announcement that he would pay off the entire student loan debt for Morehouse College’s class of 2019.

Robert F. Smith, a private equity investor and honorary degree recipient at Sunday’s commencement at the all-male historically black college in Atlanta, surprised his fellow graduates with the news that he and his family would personally pay off the student loan debt for the entire graduating class. The gesture is estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars.

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On Fox News on Monday morning, the hosts celebrated this as “good news.”

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https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-hosts-praise-robert-smith-morehouse-college-paying-student-loan-debt-free-college-7b1774a0f5be/

[hatrack]

1. But this example does fit the Fux Nooz narrative:

"See! Those beneficient billionaires! They're going to save us all!"

[Hortensis]

2. They're cheering billionaire charity to the embattled middle class.

!!!

Oh, our wonderful, wonderful billionaires. They really love us and we love them too. Just watch all that wonderful charity trickle down! Carefully allocated to the deserving, unlike incompetent big government that rewards shiftlessness.

Maybe not entirely a slip? Any more than Mika and Joe slipped when they showed what nice, charming guys the Koch brothers really were?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Wrong. They're a fan of individual solutions to collective problems, which this is.

Don't get me wrong, it's an amazing, generous thing to do. Kudos to him. There are layers, however, and this should not be seen as a solution to the issue of college debt. It's like celebrating a little kid making a lemonade stand to get their parent a kidney. Like...yay that we live in a country that this is necessary?