The Immorality of Modern Conservatism

According to most news sources, it was a bad weekend for Fox News. One of their hosts, Jeanine Pirro, suggested that Rep. Ilhan Omar, who wears the hijab, opposes the Constitution — a document, interestingly, designed to ensure freedom of religion. A few hours later, a watchdog website unearthed audio tapes of Tucker Carlson, an even bigger Fox News star, making dozens of misogynistic statements, including defending a man who is serving a life sentence for sexual assault against a minor.

If the talent from another major media outlet had said such things, they would have been fired in a matter of hours, and calls for a boycott of the network would have sounded. It's a fair bet the blow-dried demagogues at Fox would have led the charge.

But there’s a reason Carlson has thus far brushed off these revelations. And it’s the same reason that Fox News didn’t really have that bad a weekend: because the world of modern conservatism is shame-proof at this point.