But if Ailes is a master of media culture to such an extent that he's invulnerable to cultural attack, his relationships within the broader Fox family may be of greater concern, and not just with Carlson.
There wasn't much intellectual content to this debased and often histrionic line of cultural attack; it was to a serious debate over values what McCarthyism was to anti-Communism.
So when people online began condemning Kondo and her KonMari method, the disparaging memes and criticism read to me less as a simple sentiment of "eh, not for me" and more as an outright cultural attack.
However, it's worth remembering that not too long ago, we witnessed a targeted cultural attack on Muslims from then Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney when they tried to ban the niqab from citizenship ceremonies.
In actuality it was Prince's album "Purple Rain" that triggered Ms. Gore's outrage over rock 'n' raunch, an indignation that led to the Parents Music Resource Center, Senate hearings about dirty minds and government regulation, and eventually her wider pop-cultural attacks.
Attacks against cultural heritage are attacks against the very identity of communities.
Morris dancing, for example, is an easy target, which doesn't deter Meades because his answer is to thwack it with heavy vocabulary and cultural learning, attacking its bogus folklore as "the clumsily terpsichorean analogue of a Voysey house or a Gimson settle".
Attacking him is like attacking fathers, attacking cultural authority.
That's the Fabian MO, relentless cultural and journalistic attacks on everything that is, and then a hard pitch for the hope of what might be.
News of the systematic persecution of ethnic and religious minorities, attacks against cultural heritage and education in Iraq has become part of our daily fare.
The rooms were lined with expensive woods that remained intact until Mary Schmidt Campbell, a former cultural affairs commissioner, attacked them with hammer and nail in a befuddled attempt to create offices.
