Fox News’ Katie Pavlich just can’t stand the fact that American millennials are liberal. So she tried to explain it away by smearing young people as brainwashed dopes.

On Outnumbered, cohost Andrea Tantaros announced that a UCLA survey found that college freshmen are almost as liberal now as they were when the Viet Nam war was winding down in 1973. 33.5% identify as liberal or far lefts vs. 21.6% as conservative or far right, she said.

Tantaros asked “resident millennial” Katie Pavlich, a Fox News contributor, to discuss her generation “leaning so far left.”

Pavlich jumped right in with just the kind of mean-girl rhetoric we have come to expect from her:

PAVLICH: I think it’s interesting that the numbers are so similar to the Viet Nam war. Because who do you think has been teaching the generations coming up since the Viet Nam war? The same people who were protesting the Viet Nam war, the far left radicals who grew up in the 60s, into the 70s. They’re the ones who’ve been in the education system. Not just at the college level, but starting in kindergarten, that’s where it starts. But I do want to say although young people lean left, there are some conservative young people doing very good things.

…So I would say going into college, they’ll either be more liberal when they leave or they’ll get out and get their job and see their taxes taken out of their paycheck and maybe go a little more conservative.

Besides Pavlich’s over-the-top hatred for America’s education system, she was also essentially arguing that America’s youth are too stupid to think for themselves. Not surprisingly, none of Pavlich’s four cohosts challenged her.

Tantaros suggested it’s the culture. “You know, the music industry, entertainment, it’s like the air you breathe is liberalism, so it’s so hard, I guess, not to.”

Cohost Kennedy went back to bashing academia. “It’s like the ills of socialism and communism are not properly taught,” she complained, suggesting that that was enough to color students’ entire political views. Kennedy claimed academics, “by and large” have “never existed in the real world.” As if being a VJ and television pundit is more “real world” than working with students.

Let’s see: millennials, academia, teachers, public education, the music industry, the entertainment industry… there’s no way to watch this and not conclude that these Fox News talking heads hate America.

Watch it below, from the February 16 Outnumbered.