Fox Falls For A&W Root Beer’s “Woke” Mascot Joke

Mediaite reports:

Fox News got duped into taking an obvious joke about a root beer company’s beloved mascot and turning it into fodder for the endless culture war. A Fox Business article bore the headline “A&W Root Beer puts pants on ‘polarizing’ mascot bear Rooty after M&Ms ‘pauses’ spokescandies.”

Fox News also promoted the article on social media by describing A&W as “the latest company bowing to ‘woke’” On Fox Business program Mornings With Maria Wednesday, Cheryl Casone expressed outrage over the A&W statement.

“First it was M&M’s, now a bear has to wear pants,” she exclaimed. “This is the woke police. Cancel culture has gone ridiculous.” “Quit your crying!” Maria Bartiromo told the root beer company.

Read the full article. The outraged replies to the brand’s first tweet are entertaining.

Fox Business responded to this news by lamenting the “woke police cancel culture” https://t.co/qQVR7BLeiT pic.twitter.com/BlJ4ZVuJtA

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 25, 2023

Is now a good time to mention this is a joke? ?

— A&W Restaurants (@awrestaurants) January 25, 2023