A Fox News anchor is getting slammed on Twitter—and for good reason.
Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum recently received backlash for an insensitive rant she made on the air.
MacCallum, host of Fox News' segment The Story with Martha MacCallum, was interviewing former economic advisor Larry Kudlow.
Kudlow, the conservative economic advisor to former U.S. President Donald Trump, began discussing New Jersey's newly instated "Free Lunch Program."
The program mandates that all New Jersey school districts provide free breakfast and lunch to students, regardless of their family income.
During the interview, Kudlow suggested that "free lunches could buy votes...may have been true during the worst of the pandemic, but it's not true anymore."
MacCallum responded to this comment with a heartless tirade against giving free school lunches to children, saying the thought of it "kills" her.
Watch the clip here:
Fox anchor Martha Mac: "One of the things that kills me, there's a free lunch program in New Jersey, it's for everyone -- even if you don't need help to send your child's lunch to school. So those kids are all going to grow up thinking school lunch is free!" h/t @Payarm18pic.twitter.com/O4LsCigjOP— Lis Power (@Lis Power) 1633032257
"One of the things that kills me is that now, you know, there's a free lunch program in New Jersey. And it's for everyone. Even if you don't need help to send your child's lunch to school."
"So, those kids are all going to grow up thinking, well, school lunch is free, right?"
"And then god help the person who comes along and tries to take that away, Larry. You talk about free lunch...I mean, that will never—once that happens, right, once it's baked in there—never going to end."
This comment caused MacCallum to get absolutely slammed for its cruelty.
As the director of media intelligence of Media Matters, Lis Power, pointed out via Twitter:
"Her sympathy is to the person who will try to stop feeding the children. Classic."
"God help the person who comes along and tries to take that away! Free lunch, that will never -- once it's baked in there, it's never going to end." \n\nHer sympathy is to the person who will try to stop feeding the children. Classic.— Lis Power (@Lis Power) 1633032629
Hoards of other Twitter users agreed with Power.
imagine kids getting to have lunch is what "kills" you— Dan Price (@Dan Price) 1633033396
Omg free school lunch? What kind of world will they grow up in? A compassionate one? Dreadful!\n\nHere in Sweden all school lunches are free. Been for ages. Health care too. We don't have Fox News though.— \ud83c\udf0aGringo Covfefe 25.4 \ud83d\ude37 (@\ud83c\udf0aGringo Covfefe 25.4 \ud83d\ude37) 1633033203
can you imagine viewing kids eating for free as a negative? kids?? grosshttps://twitter.com/lispower1/status/1443668042232311811\u00a0\u2026— Andrea Russett (@Andrea Russett) 1633039799
In 2021, free school lunches keep her awake at night. Because she fears - wait for it - unhungry kids will grow up feeling privileged. Another moment Fox world becomes self parody.— Hal Corley (@Hal Corley) 1633035211
Um, its not free. Those of us who pay taxes (like me, but not Bezos or Trump) pay for it. And, guess what my child eats it, so I get a tiny portion of services back for my tax dollars. And other children who can't afford lunch also are well fed and therefore ready to learn.— Samster Smithy (@Samster Smithy) 1633034240
Imagine being worried that kids will grow up thinking adults should take care of kids.— \u26a1\ufe0fLiz Field\u26a1\ufe0f (@\u26a1\ufe0fLiz Field\u26a1\ufe0f) 1633043608
Imagine poor and brown kids going hungry and failing to thrive educationally as a result.\n\nTHAT is a conservative Utopia.— The Nicest Boy on this Website and App (@The Nicest Boy on this Website and App) 1633037042
Fox News anchor against giving poor kids food. This is like real dystopian villain stuff.https://twitter.com/LisPower1/status/1443668042232311811\u00a0\u2026— Molly Jong-Fast (@Molly Jong-Fast) 1633033042
Hey @marthamaccallum quick questions\n\nYou want abortion banned but kids starved based on their parents' income.\n\nHow kind of hypocritical monster are you?\n\nWhat ring of hell do you think you'll end up in?https://twitter.com/LisPower1/status/1443668042232311811\u00a0\u2026— Shannon in Ohio 4 (@Shannon in Ohio 4) 1633046400
Hey @marthamaccallum my kid gets free lunch along with every kid in her district. I pay it forward making lunch for my houseless neighbors. What she learns is that everyone deserves to eat & we help eachother. Free lunch "kills you"? Can you hear yourself?https://twitter.com/LisPower1/status/1443668042232311811?s=20\u00a0\u2026— Lydia Kiesling (@Lydia Kiesling) 1633035038
Kudlow, however, agreed with MacCallum.
"Common-sense Americans know this is not right."
"They don't want big government socialism, they don't want a welfare state we're all dependent on."
Although MacCallum and Kudlow seem to agree feeding children is somehow a bad thing, we can only hope the Free Lunch Program's support ultimately outweighs the opposition.
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