Pastors, pundits torch Fox News host's vulgar attack on Christian journalist: 'Pack of creepy weirdos'
Christian pastors and pundits expressed outrage toward a Fox News host who vulgarly attacked a Christian journalist Tuesday for questioning the morality of homosexual surrogacy.
Daily Wire reporter and commentator Megan Basham drew the ire of Fox News host and former MTV VJ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, also known simply as Kennedy, when Basham weighed in on a viral New York Post story regarding Fox News contributor and political analyst Guy Benson announcing that he and his husband welcomed a baby girl last week.
"Benson is an incisive pundit. But there is nothing conservative about deliberately creating motherless children," Basham said. "I pray Benson and those like him on the Right would consider what they are telling the world about how unnecessary they believe mothers (or if we're talking about two women, fathers) are to the needs of children."
"Because that is what they’re declaring when they create these children through the surrogacy process. That mothers and fathers serve no specific purpose," Basham added.
Kennedy replied to Basham with an X post that said: "Bless your heart, Megan. While you're at it, go replace the batteries in your vibrator."
Kennedy's post prompted a torrent of backlash from Christians and other conservatives, some of whom suggested the libertarian pundit's remark is symptomatic of an attitude rampant at Fox News that is antithetical to the values of its core audience.
"What a pack of creepy weirdos they have over at Fox News. Who talks like this?" asked Federalist senior editor and Pagan America author John Daniel Davidson. "And who honestly thinks it's normal and healthy for a gay couple to purchase children through surrogacy? Creeps, that's who. Anyone who isn't morally insane knows that surrogacy should be illegal."
Morally insane may be a little over the top; perhaps morally obtuse would be a better fit.
"When people have no intelligent rebuttal, they turn to low-browed gutter language," evangelist Justin Peters replied to Kennedy.
"You're a pervert," replied J. Chase Davis, lead pastor of The Well Church in Boulder, Colorado.
"Batteries do need to be replaced, but they would be the ones in [Kennedy's] 'Don't Be Low Rent Monitor,'" said Douglas Wilson, senior pastor of Christ Church (CREC) in Moscow, Idaho.
Nick Freitas, a Christian who formerly served in the Virginia House of Delegates, replied to Kennedy by noting "the role of unfunny female comic has already been filled by Chelsea Handler," and urged her, "if you're going to insult someone to show everyone how cool you are at least make it clever."
"Not to mention Megan is spot on and gay couples paying women to have their babies is weird. [D]epriving a child of a mother because your sexual preference prevents creating children with your partner is abnormal and damaging to the kid," Freitas added.
Christian cultural commentator Peachy Keenan called Kennedy's retort "gross and twisted."
"Popular Fox News pundit to a conservative Christian woman (who has been undergoing major cancer treatment for several years) because she is not in favor of motherless babies. Lovely," Keenan said.
"Wow. This is what letting being on Fox News go to your head looks like," said Nick Searcy, a conservative Christian actor and director whose documentary was featured by Fox News Digital in 2020.
Conservative Christian attorney Jenna Ellis denounced Kennedy's post as "a disgusting comment that totally misses the point, like most of your vulgar commentary." She also suggested Kennedy was lashing out because she felt personally attacked by Basham.
"Kennedy officiated Guy's homosexual 'wedding' btw — that's why she's defending him, because she's defending herself too. She's all in on the degeneracy. It's her brand," Ellis said.
Auron MacIntyre, a columnist and podcast host with The Blaze, suggested Kennedy's attitude is not isolated to her at the supposedly conservative news network.
"It's really important that you understand how much Fox News hates conservatives. It's a [vile] hive of scum populated by homosexual baby peddlers and shrill spiteful girl bosses," he said.
The debate over Basham's comment came three years to the day that The Blaze and former Fox News host Glenn Beck reported that whistleblowers inside Fox News revealed that Fox Corporation was willing to match individual employee donations of up to $1,000 to far-left charities.
The charities eligible for matching included Planned Parenthood, which profits from abortion; The Trevor Project, which supports castrating minors; the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is facing federal criminal prosecution for alleged fraud; and The Satanic Temple, which has distributed satanic literature to children and filed multiple lawsuits challenging state abortion restrictions on religious grounds.
"Fox pretends to care about Christians, but some of the stuff they push internally suggests otherwise. Glory holes, trans surgeries for kids, and potential donations to Satan are a huge slap in the face to every Christian at the company, and we resent it," one whistleblower said at the time.
Fox News reportedly never responded to The Blaze's requests for comment on their findings, though The Satanic Temple was pulled from the company's charity matching portal days after Beck exposed it.
The Blaze story came a month after Daily Wire host Matt Walsh reported that Fox Corporation was endorsing an organization that offers cross-sex hormones to homeless youth, hosting a Pride-themed ice cream party at the New York headquarters of Fox News and recommending LGBT literature to its employees, including a book featuring a "glory hole."
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