A few years ago, Saturday Night Live had a recurring joke needling Fox News for the advertisers it lost any time the on-air talent made controversial remarks. In 2018, after Laura Ingraham had ridiculed some of the Parkland, Fla., shooting survivors, the show imagined the network was resigned to promoting “Warm Ice Cream,” “My Hemorrhoid Donut,” and Fox News host Brian Kilmeade’s new book, “Andrew Jackson and the Battle for Hillary’s Emails.”
But if Fox News was having difficulty drawing advertisements for products other than, say, “Trumpy Bear,” they may have figured out a way to move product within the confines of their own programming. Earlier this week, host Sean Hannity and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. enjoyed a televised meal at Steak ’n Shake, a fast food restaurant that just announced it would, as RFK Jr. has urged, begin cooking its french fries in beef tallow instead of seed oils.
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