There is an apparent and dangerous double standard at Fox News, cable television’s most-watched network. Inflammatory rhetoric, and even the incitement and praise of violence, is simply laughed off under the auspices of humor and pushed aside by a brief or private apology.

“There is nothing funny or ironic in calling for the bombing, the gassing, the destruction of this building,” United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric explained to reporters after Fox News host Jesse Watters said the United Nations building in New York should be “bombed” or “gassed” after President Donald Trump experienced technical problems — a malfunctioning escalator and teleprompter that Watters called sabotage and an “insurrection” — during his General Assembly address last week.

“What we need to do is either

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