Fox News has picked a peculiar new target to criticize. Anchors from the network's Fox & Friends program have recently spoken out against Marvel Superhero Captain America; saying that the current iteration of the character is pushing an anti-conservative agenda on readers.
In the present-day comic book continuity, the mantle of Captain America has been picked up by Sam Wilson; who moviegoers will recognize as the Falcon from the Avengers franchise.
Clayton Morris, one of the hosts of the show, said that naming the African-American Wilson as the new Captain America was nothing more than a 'PR stunt' from Marvel. He continues, saying that the new interpretation of the character no longer fights against traditional foes such as the Red Skull and Hydra but instead targets conservative minded foes.
Morris and his co-hosts Heather Childers and Tucker Carlson point to Cap's current adversary in the books, an organization known as the Sons of Serpent - and their leader the Supreme Serpent. The group is a militia that tries to prevent illegal immigrants from crossing the US-Mexico border.
Carlson goes on to say:
The whole theme is the same, which is: out there, in the middle of the country between Malibu and Georgetown, everyone is an ignorant snake-handling bigot, and they need to be held in place, or else they'll turn this country into Nazi Germany. It's like, the people who run this country, a lot of them actually believe that. I live near them! They really think that!
The three anchors see this whole story arc as an attack on conservatism, and wonder why the Captain isn't busy fighting Islamic extremists or terrorists. Vulture points out that the Fox crew fails to mention that the Sons of Serpent have been a part of the Captain America universe since the 1960's.
