Right-wing media turned 2021’s National Read Across America Day into an epic culture war meltdown. All-day Tuesday, programming on Fox News and Fox Business ceaselessly fanned the flames of outrage about the purported “cancellation” of legendary children’s author Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr.
Seuss, as the latest example of woke liberalism run amok — conveniently ignoring the fact that Dr. Seuss has not, in fact, been canceled. “The cancel culture is canceling Dr.
Seuss,” Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade cried out, adding later, “It’s out of control.” “People are too scared,” co-host Ainsley Earhardt complained. “They don’t want to be involved in all of this, so they’d rather just cancel it all … the places we are going in this