Outnumbered co-host Kayleigh McEnany defended Aldean and lamented that “songs about vilifying cops, well they’re OK.” Later, Fox contributor Sean Duffy added, “There is music all over the place where record labels and radio stations are making money about music about killing Black people.” He concluded: “You’re going to go after a song that holds up and says, you know, small towns are great, but I won't say anything about these other violent songs.” A chyron reading “Left silent about violent rap lyrics, videos” aired during the segment.Fox News Night host Trace Gallagher whined, “In today's society, if you sing about respecting police, the flag, and each other, it's a dog whistle for some nefarious intent” after mentioning some “rap song lyrics talking about killing cops, raping pregnant women, assassinating presidents.”.Hannity guest Kaylee McGhee White claimed the backlash to Aldean’s song was “pure hypocrisy” because she didn’t remember any “complaining about violence” in response to Snoop Dogg’s Lavender or Nas’ Cop Shot the Kid.Things that rhyme with ‘trigger.’ All sorts of things.” (Then-Fox host Kimberly Guilfoyle even went as far as saying the Secret Service should kill Snoop Dogg over the music video.) Faulkner added, “My whole thing is that, you know, there are a lot of songs out there with lyrics that are extremely offensive.
Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Fox personalities responded to the music video with outrage. On The Faulkner Focus, guest Lauren Conlin complained that the video for Snoop Dogg’s song Lavender, which features the rapper aiming and shooting a toy gun at a clown version of former President Donald Trump, was met with “silence.” Conlin’s assessment is incorrect, as then- President Donald Trump, Sen.Why?” (The song was met with a threatening letter from the FBI and faced censorship from the only reported radio station to play it.) The Five co-host Jeanine Pirro complained, “Let me tell you about a song that no one has protested, that we certainly are not talking about at this table, called F tha Police by N.W.A.” After reading some of the lyrics, she commented, “Now, I don't hear anyone talking about that.Fox then resorted to unrelated attacks of hip-hop music as “pro-crime.” The right-wing propaganda network dismissed the criticism, portraying the song as merely an “anti-crime” celebration of small towns, despite the obvious promotion of extrajudicial vigilantism in the lyrics, and even recruiting unhinged bigot Ted Nugent to defend him.
After Jason Aldean’s single Try That in a Small Town was criticized for racist undertones and pro-lynching imagery in its lyrics and video, Fox News passionately defended the country singer with anti-Black dog whistles attacking hip-hop music, continuing its pattern of smearing the genre.
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