Farmers: "The Crops Are Rotting In The Fields!" AGAIN, This Time Due To Coronavirus
05/04/2020
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There's a weekend Fox News host, John Scott, who's a nice guy, but he did something on Sunday, April 26, 2020, that no journalist should ever do.

He permitted farmers to sing their favorite aria, "The crops are rotting in the fields!," without singing counterpoint.

Pavarotti Singing "The Crops are Rotting in the Fields!" aria, aka "Nessun Dorma," from Puccini's Turandot

At least once per year, during a harvest, farmers sing us that song. Previously, it was always to support their demands for cheap, illegal alien labor.

A real journalist would have countered, "But sir, you and your colleagues have been saying the same thing, word for word, for years. How do the crops rotting in the fields under the coronavirus differ from the crops rotting in the fields without it?"

 

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