salon | In another segment, Doocy — who earlier noted that flag-burning is
protected speech — asked Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr.
whether flag-burning is protected speech. “Burning the flag is protected
by the Constitution,” Johnson said, “but there are laws in New York
that say you can’t be burning stuff without a permit, and certainly not
in a park.”
“This group, Disarm NYPD, is the essence of anarchist
values that seek to destroy this country,” Johnson continued, apropos of
nothing. “‘But Peter,’ people say, ‘you wear a flag pin and are on Fox
News.’ These folks are the cultural cousins, the cultural brothers and
sisters and that maniac racist murderer in Charleston, South Carolina,
who decided that he was going to burn the flag and show it on social
media.”
“There’s little difference between they propose to do and
what he did,” Johnson added, apparently forgetting that Dylann Roof also
murdered nine people. “They’re on different ends of the same continuum
of crazy, demented, un-American behavior that we all need to condemn.”
In yet another segment,
Brian Kilmeade spoke to Fox News Medical A Team’s psychiatrist Keith
Ablow, who blamed the Disarm NYPD protest on President Barack Obama.
“These
folks have been led down the wrong path by a president, a former
attorney general, and a mayor of New York City, who encourage people to
hate others, who encourage people not to see in this country the
evolving story of tolerance and brotherhood, but instead to see in
history elements that were ugly,” he said. “When you elect a president
who attended a church with a pastor tells people America’s reprehensible
and people vote for him anyhow because he has a nice smile, this is
what happens — you fracture your culture.”
