Fox News received criticism for its encapsulation of the solar eclipse phenomenon, at times shaping its coverage around the immigration issue at the southern border. MSNBC host Jen Psaki said it’s the latest in a long line of fear-mongering from the network.
“A Fox News alert, a rare celestial event collides with a policy failure on the ground. The southern border will be directly in the path of totality today when the moon covers the sun for nearly four minutes,” America’s Newsroom host Dana Perino said while presenting coverage of the eclipse before it hit the United States Monday.
Many took umbrage with the idea that a celestial event could be tied to “policy failure”, but Psaki was unsurprised by the network’s antics.
“The funny thing is, back in 2017 — the last time there was a solar eclipse in the U.S. — no serious person was trying to spin it this way,” said Psaki. “But in the larger context of the language that the right is pushing — seven months out from Election Day, by the way — fearmongering about invading migrants and livable cities and Donald Trump warning about a bloodbath if he is not reelected.
“This is just another example of the fear that they are all too eager to inject into anything and everything under the sun,” Jen Psaki concluded.
