Fox News Christmas Tree Catches Fire in Manhattan

[liberal N proud]

A 50-foot-tall Christmas tree caught fire outside the Fox News headquarters in New York City early on Wednesday, prompting a race to extinguish it and leading to one arrest.

The tree had been ceremonially lit in the network’s “All-American” Christmas special on Sunday. One of the network’s hosts announced the fire in a live broadcast.

“This is the Fox Square in New York, outside of Fox headquarters,” the host, Shannon Bream, told viewers shortly after midnight. “It appears that our giant Christmas tree there,


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/nyregion/fox-christmas-tree-fire.amp.html

[Throck]

1. I heard a tree got torched in California too?

Lighting strike?

[Throck]

2. California tree arson.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article256386452.html

[Haggard Celine]

3. Too bad they didn't tie Tucker Carlson to the tree before it caught fire.

Or Laura Ingraham, at least. Kind of a waste of wood.

[Busterscruggs]

4. Why

Does it only have to be one?

[Haggard Celine]

8. Good point. They could have had a bonfire.

The could have called it their Christmas Bonfire of Vanity. Light up several of them and wait for Papa Noel like the Cajuns do.

[WHITT]

7. Don't Think It Would Have Worked

with Ingraham. Requires a stake through the heart.

[Haggard Celine]

9. Yeah, she is a hard case.

[unweird]

12. Witches don't burn

So much for that idea.

[captain queeg]

5. The war on Christmas? I'm sure that's what faux will think.

[underpants]

11. I'm checking Empty Greene's twitter to see if she has any ideas on how this happened.

⚡️🔥

[Goonch]

6. ;-{)🖖‍

[WHITT]

10. Not Gonna Hear

any of the usual suspects claiming it was you-know-who striking out at evil.

[underpants]

13. I know it's bad but thanks for the morning giggle

I’m sure George Soros and maybe some space lasers were involved.

[Doc Sportello]

14. Police are calling it arson and have made an arrest

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/man-custody-christmas-tree-fox-news-building-set-fire-rcna7995

[Best_man23]

15. I was about make a comment on Faux possibly burning their own tree

Given their fake annual "War on Christmas" meme, I could see a scenario where they burn their own Christmas tree, then blame liberals.

We'll see where this goes.

[Midnight Writer]

16. FOX is "reporting" that a man used paper to light the tree on fire.

Don't worry, though. They will not let this assault on Christmas deter them. They are going to have an even bigger, better tree in place soon.