Leave it to Fox News to get pissed that a movie starring a Greek demi-goddess isn’t American enough... and this isn’t even the first time.
During Friday’s episode of
Your World with Neil Cavuto, host Cavuto got into it with guests Dion Baia and Mike Gunzelman about about actor Gal Gadot’s lack of red, white, and blue on her
Wonder Woman costume... well, technically just the white (man, Fox News is really obtuse about
double-meanings, even when they’re accidental).
“Nowadays, sadly, money trumps patriotism,” Baia said. “Especially, recently, I personally feel like we’re not really very patriotic, the country, in a certain sense.”
“I think the Hollywood aspect, we see this time and time again, it’s cool to hate America these days,” Gunzelman added.
Barring the fact that teaming up with an American to save our European allies during a World War is the quintessential definition of not hating America (even if
they changed which world war it was), this analogy fails to address or even acknowledge what Diana’s original costume meant, and how it’s changed over the decades. In the character’s earliest appearances in the silver age of comics, Wonder Woman wore the flag as her costume because, in-universe, she was representing the Amazons to America... and out of universe, we were in the middle of World War II.
