Fox frames the mosque murders.

Even the murder of 40-plus Muslims at a mosque by a white supremacist can be massaged into the Fox News narrative. 

"Worshippers Attacked" fits the Fox frame.

Remember: The Fox frame is that white Christians are victims, under relentless attack in a hostile world.

Solution: Re-describe the victims, then change the subject.

Look at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Beto O'Rourke and Chelsea Clinton!!!

The news shows on every channel lit up Friday morning with breaking news of a mass shooting at a mosque in New Zealand. As the story developed it became clear that there was a political/religious motive. The shooter's goal was to terrorize and kill Muslims and make a big splash while doing it. The people apparently involved were active in white supremacy social media. The shooter was proud. He posted a manifesto and live streamed it.

The story developed further with an odd shout-out by the apparent shooter, urging the public to subscribe to a YouTube channel by PewDiePie, a Swede with YouTube followers.

Really. Apparently there is an ethnic competition between this celebrity and a Bollywood group, a  Swede vs. Indians. 

It all seems crazy. 

One thing that seemed clear and straightforward was that the shooter was a bad guy and the Muslim worshipers were the victims. But that creates a problem for fox since it reverses the normal polarity for Fox stories. On Fox, white guys are the people picked upon and Muslims are scary.

The solution for Fox was to headline and focus on the shooting victims as worshipers, as people of faith, not as Muslims. And the shooter was crazy, not purposeful. There is no "motive" when person is crazy.

But the real solution for Fox is to change the subject to criticism of the usual suspects.

Friday and Saturday had extra helpings of stories about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez-Cortez.

Plus there was criticism of some fiction Beto O'Rourke wrote as a 15 year old in a writing group. 

Fox rounded things out on Friday by reporting on an interview a Fox host had with an in-house physician commentator. He said he watched Beto O'Rourke's presidential announcement and said "something is not right" about Beto O'Rourke. The host asked what it was.  Well, nothing, actually, the doctor admitted,  but "something in my gut," the doctor says, but he doesn't know what, just "something." On that basis, Fox puts the comment into a headline that fits.

On Saturday, Fox added a new villain, Chelsea Clinton.

Something tragic and newsworthy happened in New Zealand on Friday and Fox is covering the villainy of the world: AOC, Beto, and Chelsea.