Less than two weeks ago, Fox & Friends was portraying public service workers as “takers” draining the coffers of the “makers.” It’s a common refrain on Fox. But now, in the wake of the awful shooting massacre at a Newtown, Connecticut public school, those “takers” were held up as heroes last night.

Last night, in a segment called, Stories of heroism emerge amid tragedy, at about 5:40, mentioned “the custodian being a hero” and “the lengths to which people went to protect these children was pretty, pretty amazing.”

Later, at about 9:00, he talked about some of the narratives that had grabbed him:

A custodian that was running up and down the halls doing everything that he could do to warn people. We have a teacher – numerous stories of teachers that were hiding kids in closets and doing everything they can do – and locking doors and putting them in the lavatories and locking doors.

He played a clip of the teacher talking about taking her kids into a bathroom and barricading the door.

These heroes are the same people Fox makes a point of smearing day after day, night after night – in an effort to get them to forego pay raises and pension benefits so that Fox Newsies and their one percenter cronies won’t have to pony up more in taxes.