Fox host: Arkansas restaurateurs who asked Gov. Sanders to leave are “culinary tyrants” exercising “Soviet hospitality”
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From the March 20, 2026, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (FOX HOST): I'm going to say this, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is right, this is not southern hospitality, this is Soviet hospitality. It's very revealing of who they are. And the owners of this restaurant, who are LGBTQ, and angry about these kinds of things, they are culinary tyrants. It's not that they are snowflakes and they can't handle it -- no, no, no -- they're tyrants. So if you don't agree with their political ideas or ideology, they are going to dehumanize you, they're going to kick you out of their restaurant, they're going to humiliate you, and that's just the most tolerable of the punishments they have for you. By the way, every conservative, prominent conservative, who goes into a liberal restaurant wonders if their food is going to be spit on, everyone knows that. But that's not the only thing, if you don't agree with them, BLM, they will burn your business down. If you don't agree that you want to take a vaccine during COVID, they'll take away your job or tell you your kid can't go to school. And it goes all the way up to Charlie Kirk who was basically killed for his political ideas.
And so I think it's really important that Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the governor of Arkansas expose this. The reason is we have a decision to make as citizens, what kind of country do we want to live in? Do we want to live in a country run by people like this, who have no tolerance for other people's opinions, who don't even think someone should come in and have a meal without being harassed because they don't agree with them, or do you want to live like we lived basically back in the '80s, where we agreed to live peacefully with each other and we didn't have to agree on everything. So, I'm glad she exposed it.