Giant Christmas tree outside Fox News headquarters set afire

[George II]

Source: Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — A man was charged with arson and other crimes Wednesday for setting fire to a 50-foot (15-meter) Christmas tree in front of Fox News headquarters in midtown Manhattan, police said.

The artificial tree outside of the News Corp. building that houses Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post caught fire shortly after midnight, police said.

“This is the Fox Square in New York, outside of Fox headquarters,” Bream said. “It appears that our giant Christmas tree there, just a couple of minutes ago, was completely engulfed in flames.”

A 49-year-old man who police said was homeless was arrested on charges including criminal mischief, arson and trespassing. It wasn’t clear if he had an attorney who could comment on the charges.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-crime-new-york-arrests-fires-08c9e8579b7c0ea806b1c6adc1a94e3b?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP

[Alexander Of Assyria]

1. Ironic. Artificial plastic tree covered in fake ornaments and spray paint and Fox, same thing.

Up in flames, rhetorically ofc, for the other decorative tree would be ok….maybe a sign of things to come?

[Cha]

73. Totally! FAKE "news" FAKE tree.

[BradBo]

2. I love to see the homeless contributing to the betterment of society.

[jimfields33]

15. Not cool at all. Could have spread and killed people

This is not funny it cute.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Pic of it

Link to tweet

TEXT

Leonardo Puglisi
@Leo_Puglisi6
#BREAKING: The Fox News Christmas Tree is on fire in NYC
12:54 AM · Dec 8, 2021

[George II]

4. Fox News, right wingers AND Meghan McCain were going crazy over this. She tweeted this and then....

...deleted it when people got outraged by her ridiculous reaction:

[Rebl2]

5. Go away Meghan

[Marthe48]

6. One arsonist doesn't equal an insurrection

You want to talk about lunatics, just look at the rwnj who attacked the U.S. Capitol, killed cops and wanted to hang the V.P. That wasn't hijinks, you stupid woman and your revered Dad is spinning in his grave.

[DENVERPOPS]

17. Agreed

it is hardly a fair comparison. One homeless guy vs 5000 agitated and aggressive seditionists storming the U.S. capitol, many armed, killing and injuring gov't police, and trashing an entire building......compared to one tree?

A true comparison would honestly be a thousand people storming Fox during a workday, Vandalizing the entire building and taking part in destroying the five top executives.............

The best line in your commentary was your last one............She has done irreparable harm to her father's legacy....

Once again, an old adage comes to mind. Probably Mark Twain or Abraham Lincoln?
It is better to be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
The Republican Party seems to be overflowing with jerk wads who should think about that statement.......
However, the truth is simply that many of them are too ignorant and stupid to understand what that statement means.....

LOL MAYBE THEY REALLY ARE aliens from a different planet, walking around disguised as humans, and it is just a inter-galactic game to them to see who can destroy planet earth........

[Marthe48]

22. same as greene comparing Covid-19 to cancer

The comparisons just don't equate. Mst of r's arguments wouldn't get used on a high school debate team. I don't want to see violence escalate. I hope it turns out that the homeless man was trying to stay warm and started a Sterno fire in the wrong place.

I wondered the other day if someone started a rumor that the Covid vaccination makes humans taste bad to aliens, if some of the dolts would get the shots.

[DENVERPOPS]

39. I have to laugh at some of the current issues

We were arguing the Electoral College issue when we were in Jr. High Debate class.

Also, abortion, religion in the schools, etc etc etc

It the old: What's old is new again, over and over and over.

Now, they have added vaccinations to their old: GAYS - GUNS- GOD tripe........

[George II]

75. Since it was a Fox tree, she didn't claim the fire was started by Jewish space lasers.

[StClone]

7. At FOX a burning cross is acceptable

[BumRushDaShow]

11. It's ironic that as much as the Rockefeller tree gets all the press

I had no idea that Faux had their own.

And apparently the suspect was homeless.

[wcollar]

12. Yes, Megan, there are!

And most of them are in the Fox News(?) building

[Cha]

74. Shut Up you ugly

fucking Radical Fascist *****

[melm00se]

8. The police have some damning

evidence.

He had a lighter in his possession. OMG!!! No one else, within 1000 miles had a lighter in their possession.

I am sure that the lighter will be subject to civil asset forfeiture.

I hope that they have more than just the lighter as their evidence.

[twodogsbarking]

9. They should have raked their leaves.

[FailureToCommunicate]

42. I get it.

[paleotn]

44. Ha!

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

47. Beautiful!

[COL Mustard]

10. Please Don't Celebrate This.

Destruction of property, even if it's owned by Faux News, isn't cool. Please don't feed into the narrative. Be better than they are.

[Paladin]

13. That "Be better than they are" sentiment is a gift to the right wing.

trump and his brain-dead hordes are goose-stepping their way back to the White House---and kicking what's left of our democracy into a ditch---because they have absolutely no fear of us. We are in fact better than they are---but we still need to fight them.

[COL Mustard]

14. Fight Them, Fine....

But don't celebrate things like this.

[Paladin]

16. WE'RE the side that still clings to outdated Good Conduct Rules.

THEY'RE the side that flushed those Rules down the toilet years ago---and they've been winning, ever since.

I've got a problem with that.

[ancianita]

41. We all have a problem with their destructions. The solution isn't to succumb to being like them.

We're the ones trying to build back better, not destroy.

This is not about them. This is about who we are.
Making this about them, and tit for tat behavior empowers their win-lose outlook on all things.

We are about win-win. And they know that.
They're so guilt ridden they look for any flimsy excuse to point the finger hysterically.

I'm angry with you, but I refuse to be in a party that justifies tit-for-tat violence.

[inthewind21]

65. Please

They know nothing other than "we" will let then continue on their rampage of destruction and NOTHING will be done about it. Because it's not polite.

[BlackSkimmer]

49. Arson is not something to celebrate.

But surely you know that.

[NH Ethylene]

28. Agree. I don't care who owned the tree.

First, it's a bad thing to do to destroy someone's property and just generally spread misery.

Also, it represented the joy of the season. Do we really have so much joy that we can afford to render any of it to ashes?

[COL Mustard]

36. Thank You. It's The Spirit Of The Season.

I despise Faux News and everything they stand for, but really....that is a bridge too far.

I know I sound like an old fart, but c'mon, man...

[Voltaire2]

63. - celebrating this -

[Polybius]

18. Now that's a real war on Christmas

Seriously though, hope he gets time.

[Traildogbob]

25. Right!!!

O’Reilly did it. Wanted to “reignite” his annual War on Christmas battle to be relevant. The Baby Jesus is crying again. Damnit. Mary just got him quite and back to sleep in the Manger. Damn you Bill.

[JustAnotherGen]

19. Gonna be a cold day in the tri-state area

The man now has food and shelter on a snowy day.

[Cha]

76. omg.. that's where

my mind went!

[rockfordfile]

20. Good for them. Did anybody bring the marshmallows?

[turbinetree]

21. Thoughts and Prayers.....

[dchill]

29. ...And a Merry Foxmas to all.

[oldsoftie]

23. What an asshole. Wonder if he's got mental problems. nt

[Ford_Prefect]

24. Isn't is amazing just how loudly some people whine when their Sacred Cow is getting barbequed.

[Deminpenn]

26. Or perhaps this is a message from the God

in whom they all claim to believe. Think about it...

[Sucha NastyWoman]

31. God sent this homeless man to throw the moneychangers out

[Deminpenn]

32. He works in mysterious ways

nt

[rockfordfile]

59. I agree

[Cha]

77. I literally just thought

that before I read your post.. ".. an act of God.."delivered by the Homeless man"

Isn't that what they're always claiming about Reality Based People?

[Judi Lynn]

27. Ohio Players did it.

[0rganism]

30. tree? looked more like a weird giant cone-shaped parasite draped with glitz

Christmas Cones -- the leading edge of Santa's infiltration squads

[dchill]

33. Apparently not even a real tree. Just a cone shaped metal frame.

Assault on Foxmas.

[robbob]

54. Wait a sec...

Why would an artificial tree be so flammable? That doesn’t make sense. Whatever material that decoration was constructed out of should have been 100% non-flammable…

[dchill]

55. Satan can cause ANYTHING to burst into flames!

[Slammer]

58. O Christmas tree

They can be made out of non-combustible material. But apparently it's not a law that all artificial trees have to be made out of those materials.

[Zorro]

34. Heard it was the work of Santifa

Ho Ho Ho!

[George II]

35. That's THE best response!!!

[FailureToCommunicate]

43. Nice!

[gfwzig]

37. Is there a "go-fund-me" for his legal fees?

[infullview]

38. +1

[twodogsbarking]

40. It looked rather fake.

[paleotn]

45. Just like their news, it is...well...was.

[LakeArenal]

46. I really don't care. Why do U?

Poor homeless guy burns insignificant plastic tree.

[BlackSkimmer]

50. Fire is dangerous

Nothing funny about this.

[LakeArenal]

51. Who's laughing?

If some poor homeless guy burned down a City park tree it wouldn’t be news.

Social Services more than charges.

[BlackSkimmer]

52. Maybe you've missed all the "jokes" about it.

You’re lucky.

[LakeArenal]

53. I guess.

[rockfordfile]

60. Even more reason not to put a flammable tree like that there.

Should've just brought marshmallows.

[BlueIdaho]

48. Bill O'Reilly

In the alley, with a lighter.

[NotANeocon]

56. FalseFlag operations should be less conspicuous

[lapfog_1]

57. Light em up up up

[TrevEB]

61. Copycat crime, Oakland Tree burned first.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/jack-london-square-christmas-tree-set-on-fire-oakland-fire-department/2749216/

[George II]

62. The man that's been accused of setting the fire (intentionally or not) is homeless, so I doubt....

...he spends enough time on the internet to have known about the Oakland fire.

[inthewind21]

66. It's NYC

Never been there huh

[George II]

67. Um.....get real.

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[Budi]

68. Omg! 😂

Haa. I'm gonna ask him to walk us down NY memory lane...

I think he even went to Woodstock!

[George II]

69. Indeed, but to be honest it's really not worth it. The stories I could tell!

[Budi]

70. A lot of now famous people have crossed paths with you.

You have some cool NY stories to tell, too.

Now me? Nope never been there.

[George II]

72. Alas, crossed paths and rubbed elbows with but never reached their level of fame or notoriety.

[mcar]

71. Oh boy!