Last night in New York, some lunatics set the Christmas tree in front of the News Corp. Building on fire.

The News Corp. Building in NYC contains the offices of the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, and Fox News. The tree stood in Fox News plaza where they shoot their morning show.

The New York Post has the story, including several images of the tree burning.

From the New York Post:

A man was arrested after setting fire to a Christmas tree outside Midtown's News Corporation building early Wednesday, police and sources said.

The holiday display was set ablaze shortly after midnight and the flames quickly spread up the tree in Fox Square outside the Sixth Avenue building that houses Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post.

What kind of person burns down a Christmas tree?

It's unclear whether or not this was politically motivated, but given that it was in front of the Fox building it wouldn't be a shock.

What is clear is that some lefties are going to make it political, regardless of intent.

Par for the course for an MSNBC guest, to take this as an opportunity to roast Fox News as "white supremacist" and "fascist".

If you disagree with the people on the network it's totally cool that they were attacked.

Here's another lefty celebrating the burning of the Christmas tree, in the typical tolerant leftist way.

This from, according to his Twitter profile, a believer in "common decency, the rule of law, & accountability."

Nothing says decency and rule of law better than celebrating that your political opponent's Christmas tree was destroyed in an act of arson and then going online to laugh and gloat about it.

I know we talk about a war on Christmas, but things are seriously getting out of hand.