Tomi Lahren puts NY Times on notice for lamenting 'Little Mermaid' lacked 'kink': 'We are done playing'

OutKick host Tomi Lahren said on "Fox & Friends First" Tuesday that conservatives will protect children from being "sexualized and exploited" by the left.

TOMI LAHREN: It's completely disgusting that they would associate this with a children's movie. But when these writers, these institutions, these publications tell you who they are, believe them. And again, this is just another notch in the belt with these leftist organizations sexualizing, exploiting children. And we're talking about the FBI. We're talking about the debt ceiling. We're talking about border security, all things that unfortunately, Republicans and conservatives don't have a lot of intestinal fortitude, at least up until now, to follow through on. But the left has found one area. They have found the hill that conservatives and decent folks are willing to die on, and that is protecting children. And we will do it every single time, ask Target, ask Bud Light, ask Kohl's. We will protect children. We will keep them from being exploited. We will do it every time. Do not mess with us. We are done playing with this.

The Times is taking heat online for its review of the new live-action children's film and complaint that "kink" was missing.

"The new, live-action ‘The Little Mermaid’ is everything nobody should want in a movie: dutiful and defensive, yet desperate for approval," movie critic Wesley Morris wrote in a review for The Times.