It is well known around these parts that Fox and Friends is the lead paint of news. It is where the network talking points of the day are first introduced, and where they are dumbed down to their most simplistic, guttural forms. It is where the network's stand-ins for all of society's ills are presented—a man who receives food aid despite not really needing it, or a single criminal immigrant, by name—and declared to be representative of the whole.