Fox contributor downplays COVID-19 Thanksgiving concerns: “What we do inside of our homes is our business”
Rachel Campos-Duffy: “Big government Marxism, this is the one space they've been trying to penetrate for a long time, which are American families”
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Citation From the November 23, 2020, edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends
AINSLEY EARHARDT [CO-HOST]: Rachel, what do you think of Kate Brown? She's the governor of Oregon. She said call the cops if you see people violating COVID restrictions. She said, “This there is no different than what happens if there's a party down the street and it's keeping everyone awake. What do neighbors do? They call law enforcement because it's too noisy. This is just like that. It's like a violation of of a noise ordinance.”
I understand, you know, that if there is a party, yeah, that's not allowed. But what if, in your case, you have a family of 11 — what if the restrictions are 10, and someone called the cops because —
STEVE DOOCY [CO-HOST]: Sorry, Sean [Duffy] — beat it.
RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY [FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR]: Yeah, well, we're already violating all kinds of — not just Thanksgiving rules, but apparently, you know, we're environmental terrorists, too, for having this many children. So, there's a lot of things that the Duffy family has violated.
Look, they also turn people, their neighbors in, in China and in the Soviet Union. This is so un-American. And right now, just keeping your family Thanksgiving traditions seems like an act of civil disobedience. I say, you know, the home is sacred. What we do inside of our homes is our business. And I want the government out of it. And believe me, big government Marxism, this is the one space they've been trying to penetrate for a long time, which are American families.
I can tell you this, Brian, Ainsley, and Steve — Americans care more about their grandmothers and their parents more than the government. They know how to take the right precautions to care for grandma whether it was — I know people who are self-quarantining ahead of Thanksgiving holidays. They're driving instead of flying. People know how to do this, and they don't need the government or nosy neighbors turning them in.
BRIAN KILMEADE [CO-HOST]: Well, meanwhile, that's the same state, I believe, according to reports, where Portland is located — where, “Go ahead and loot, don't report, and let's defund the cops. But let's call them because the Johnsons are violating the mask policy.” Sounds great.