WORK SONGS: The Fox News Channel Work Song Group!

MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2025

Campos-Duffy, playing with fire: Rachel Campos-Duffy is part of the Fox News Channel Work Song Group.

Ever since May 2021, Campos-Duffy has been a lead singer on the newly reorganized TV program, Fox & Friends Weekend. In recent works, vast change has come to the program's set.

In recent weeks, Fox & Friends Weekend lost co-host Pete Hegseth to a role in government service. It saw co-host Will Cain take over the Fox News Channel's recently abandoned 4 p.m. weekday spot.

(At 4 p.m., Neal Cavuto is OUT and Cain is IN. That will change this 4 p.m. weekday hour from news to mandated "opinion.")

At any rate, of the previous three co-hosts, Campos-Duffy alone remains. On Saturday morning, bright and early, she was singing a favorite song. 

She was making one thing very clear:

Campos-Duffy doesn't care a whole lot for a certain killer of millions.

In fairness, everyone at the Fox News Channel knows the words to this particular work song. Yesterday, at 7:14 a.m., sounds of John Henry's hammer seemed to ring out as Campos-Duffy sang one of the channel's group songs.

As she started, her song concerned a recent (fairly minor) change of assessment within the CIA. We'll offer more detail tomorrow. As you can see by clicking here, this is part of what Campos-Duffy said:

CAMPOS-DUFFY (1/26/25): ...Red flag? Hello! And also, the Wuhan lab was doing Covid and coronavirus studies. Like, duh? 

CHARLIE HURT: [Chuckles appreciatively]

CAMPOS-DUFFY: And this was all deliberately, you know, hidden by Fauci. And this is what concerns me, you guys. 

It's not just the lack of transparency—it's the lack of accountability. The fact that Fauci got a pardon, and he will never have to bear responsibility, at least from a federal level.

[Turning to former Rep. Jason Chaffetz]

When I talked to you, you said he could still face state charges. But this man did a huge disservice—responsible for hundreds, millions of deaths—and he will still not be held responsible. That's a problem.

("I'm not in the CIA! And I knew this right way!" the all-knowing cable host said, with respect to the relatively minor change in the CIA's assessment.)

At any rate, so the cable star said, early on Sunday morning:

[Dr.] Fauci is responsible for millions of deaths—but he will never be held responsible for what he has done, at least not on the federal level.

At this point, Campos-Duffy was continuing a diatribe about "Fauci"—a diatribe she'd started early in the 6 o'clock hour, with accusations that seemed perhaps a bit more intense than the one we're recording here.

As the week proceeds, we're going to show you more of what Campos-Duffy said this Sunday morning. She was singing the old Fox News Channel songs—the songs the various members of the Work Song Group sing out, for all to hear, on a 24-hour basis.

Already, by 7:15, Campos-Duffy had sung the songs about the Wuhan lab leak which "Fauci" deliberately hid. She had sung the familiar old song about Dr. Rachel Levine, who thinks that she's a woman.

She had sung the songs about Tulsi and Bobby, saying that she doesn't know what the objections to these nominees are. She had sung the song about the fact that we don't need more IRS agents.

Also, the song about the way the IRS "has guns!" ("I never knew that before," the Fox News chanteuse said.) She had already sung a couple of songs about the Panama Canal. She had told Fox News Channel viewers about the "cesspool in the FBI."

Forgive us for saying this, but we'll admit that we wondered, at various points, if Campos-Duffy had any real idea what she was talking about. 

She did know the lyrics to the various songs which are sung by the workers at Fox. But if her various claims had been challenged, could she have produced an informed discussion of any of these mandated tales?

On yesterday morning's show, Campos-Duffy was joined by the dull-as-dishwater Charlie Hurt. He has been named as a new co-host for this weekend program.

Will a third co-host be named? We can't tell you that.

For today, we thought it made sense to start with Campos-Duffy's remarks about Dr. Fauci, who she said is responsible for millions of deaths. If forced to guess, we'd guess that Campos-Duffy doesn't much know what she's singing about. 

But she knows the lyrics to the songs, and she seems like a true believer.

Campos-Duffy is extremely genial—until she starts singing these tribal songs. At a time when a certain possible madman has withdrawn protection from Dr. Fauci, it seemed to us that she's playing with a ring of fire as she advances her comments about the millions of people he killed.

That said, this is the pseudo-journalism we have chosen with our new journalistic arrangements. We'll be revisiting those key points as the week proceeds.

For the record, the singers to whom we refer today aren't found on a Texas chain gang! Before he humbly accepted his transfer to government service, Hegseth was being paid two or four million dollars per year, for just eight hours of weekly work!

Yesterday morning, Campos-Duffy was heatedly saying that "Fauci" was responsible for millions of deaths. The night before, we had seen the reinvented Lisa Boothe say, on the spectacularly stupid Big Weekend Show, that the Covid vaccine didn't work.

We wondered if either one of these workers knew what she was talking about. In fairness, each of these workers is conventionally telegenic and starts out with a genial affect.

One final point:

On yesterday's Fox & Friend Weekend, Campos-Duffy and her friends were singing the tribal songs of the current victors. On a different "cable news" channel, certain memorized songs are still being sung, though those are the mournful dirges of the recently vanquished.

The Fox News Channel employs Campos-Duffy. Who insists on continuing to put some of those shouters on our own Blue American air?

Tomorrow: More from the very same program