UPDATE 12/9/21 7:07 PM EST: Spartan was on the scene Thursday evening outside Fox News Headquarters in Manhattan in the bitter cold – well it wasn’t that cold, it just sucks to be standing in 35 degree weather for 40 minutes without gloves – as liberal protestors who identified themselves as with Rise and Resist chanted “FOX LIES! DEMOCRACY DIES” and argued heatedly with “Let’s Go Brandon” MAGA bros. Spartan yelled “Come on! Why can’t you just say ‘Fuck Joe Biden’?!?” but garnered no response from the fanboys because they cheered for Greg Gutfeld.
A witness present at the ceremony Thursday night (whom a security guard claimed had actually filmed the arson early Wednesday, but she did not confirm nor deny this) stated that the suspect Craig Tamahana had been present at nearby Rockefeller Center – home to much larger and more famous Christmas tree – just prior to the Fox arson. The witness did not say if Tamahana had also attempted to light the Rockefeller tree, simply stating “He wasn’t getting anything done there”.
It was a merry good experience in beat reporting.