“Men, real men, are tough,” he said.
“The Daily Wire” host Andrew Klavan called out Fred Rogers this week for not being manly enough, opening his show on the right-wing website with a rant against the beloved TV personality who created and hosted the preschool hit “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” for more than 30 years.
But Klavan called the show “absolutely intolerable, unless you happen to be a 3-year-old” — which, in the defense, many of the viewers were — “or a mom who needed to plant her 3-year-old in front of the TV while she took a cigarette break.”It only gets less PG from there, with Klavan expressing concern that Rogers was a poor influence on impressionable young men:
And here’s the money quote: “If you really want to have a beautiful day in the neighborhood, call John Wayne and tell him to bring his guns.” I’ll have you know Mr. Rogers would have prayed for you by name ever day until he died if he was still alive and saw that.— Daniel Windham 🧂 November 26, 2019 Others took issue with the “Daily Wire” personality’s narrow definition of masculinity, or pointed out that Wayne was playing a character. “Who ... still thinks John Wayne is the paragon of American masculinity? How old are these people?” tweeted a Chicago literary editor of the Iowa-born actor, né Marion Morrison.
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