Critics pounce after Fox panel complains about 'political' rock stars

A Fox Business panel on Monday complained about iconic punk band Green Day after they changed the lyrics of their song "American Idiot" to target former President Donald Trump and his supporters.

During a segment on Green Day's performance, panelist Cherise Trump called out the band for saying it opposed the "MAGA agenda" and insisted that meant the band members supported high crime and a cratered economy.

Host Cheryl Casone, meanwhile, said that Green Day was making a big mistake by politicizing their song, despite the fact that it was originally written in 2004 to protest then-President George W. Bush and his decision to invade Iraq.

"To change it, to continue to make it political, you're just alienating people!" she exclaimed.

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Many critics, however, were quick to point out that Fox News rushes to hype up and cover popular musicians and other celebrities if they happen to come out in support of Republicans or conservative causes.

"This same network gets analysis from Fabio and Pauly D," pointed out national security attorney Bradley Moss.

The anti-Trump Lincoln Project made a similar point and posted a screen cap of Fox News' Jesse Waters inviting DJ Pauly D on his program to opine about inflation.

Progressive commentator Brian Taylor Cohen, meanwhile, pointed to the times that Fox personalities have interviewed Trump-loving singer Kid Rock, who even got an invite to the White House during Trump's presidency.

And one Twitter user expressed bafflement that Fox hosts apparently didn't understand the original meaning of the Green Day song in question.

"The song was already (very unambiguously) about how much a republican and his supporters suck, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills," they wrote. "Did they think it was a song about a random idiot going on adventures?"

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