TV show Fox & Friends repurposes the BioShock Infinite logo with a "Defending The Homeland" title replacement during a special on immigration. Zachary Comstock would be proud!
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As you may or may not know, BioShock Infinite deals with an alternate universe early 20th century America where a whites-only floating city called Columbia ruled by veteran Zachary Hale Comstock has seceded from the US. An underground resistance movement headed by a black lady called the Vox Populi represents the other side of the coin.
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There are so many ways to parse this Fox & Friends gaffe.
Is this proof that on every show, whatever its political slant, people work behind the scenes who just want to make a buck and don't necessarily agree with or care about the message the show they're working on is conveying? An apolitical or liberal gamer who thought it was a lark to equate Fox & Friends with the racist supervillains from BioShock Infinite? Simply a Photoshop artist who had no idea about the contents of the game and saw a nice bit of easily repurposed Americana imagery?
And let us not forget the possibility that it might actually have been a gamer who thought the Comstock-ruled Columbia was the lesser of two evils, considering the lengths BioShock Infinite tried to go to in order to convince us that it would be just as bad with the Vox Populi in charge.
Whatever the case, creator Ken Levine took to Twitter and responded with humor and good grace, saying "it's not the irony of that Fox News thing that bothers me so much. It's the typesetting (sic)". You'd think the sub-Toy Story 1 Statue of Liberty that accompanies it would be the main offender!
