Fox News continues to make hay out of out-of-context lines from last week's United States of Captain America #1 (by Christopher Cantwell and Dale Eaglesham) by bringing out Kevin Sorbo, star of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, to join fellow 1990s TV star, Dean Cain, in denouncing Marvel, Disney and "the left" based on some misleading quotes from the comic book.
The issue in question opens with Steve Rogers reflecting upon the fact that he has often noted that he does not stand for the American government but rather for the American Dream, but here he thinks about how the "American Dream" is misunderstood and too easily turned into Nationalism, and when that happens, the "American Dream" becomes a lie, since the dreams of many often excludes the poor, immigrants and other "others," so it is not a real dream.
Fox, naturally, latched on to the lines "The first American dream is the one that isn't real" and "A good dream is shared. Shared radically. Shared with everyone. When something isn't shared, it can become the American lie" and then brought on guests to react to Marvel saying that the American Dream is "dead" and "a lie." Sorbo went on Fox Business' Varney & Co to denounce the cherry-picked lines he was asked to respond to, noting "We keep reaching new levels of insanity" and that "America is a great country. This is just another example of lies from the left."
Sorbo also took issue with how the comic book could be used to influence American youth, adding, "Walt Disney said back in the 1950s… movies and television will influence our youth. Look at what's going on in the streets across America today, especially in all the blue states and the blue cities, and all the anger and hate and violence going on out there."
Cain, the former star of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, also appeared on Fox and Friends a couple of days earlier to also respond to the clipped quotes, stating, “I love the concept of Captain America, but I am so tired of this wokeness and anti-Americanism. In my opinion, America is the greatest country in history. It’s not perfect. We are constantly striving for a more perfect union, but I believe she’s the most fair, equitable country anyone’s ever seen, and that’s why people are clamoring to get here from all over the globe.”
Cain later admitted that he had not read the actual comic book, just the out-of-context lines that he was told on the air, but that he still stands by everything that he said.