Fox News host, GRE Gutfeld earlier this week created quite the controversy for the network.
When he made a comment about Jewish people being slaughtered in the Holocaust, where
he openly suggested that, Hey, those who learned skills in the concentration camps, they weren't
killed. You know, it was just a method of survival. And the reason this conversation
even happened on the five, which is the program this was aired on on Monday, is because they
were, of course, trying to defend Ron DeSantis new education department decree in the state
of Florida that says that teachers are now required to teach students that slaves, slaves
during slavery in the United States learned some pretty helpful skills that helped them
later in life, later in life, as if slaves were allowed to retire or simply quit being
slaves to go start their own business. Hey, I learned how to be a blacksmith.
Why don't I do this for profit? That's not a thing that happened. Okay? Just so we're
a hundred percent clear. Slaves weren't allowed to retire. They weren't allowed to quit. They
were slaves. They were viewed legally as the the property of other human beings. That's,
that's how they were treated. So it doesn't matter what they learned, they weren't able
to use it later in life to make a better life for themselves. But that's what teachers in
Florida have to talk about now. That's what they have to tell their students, and that's
what Fox News was trying to defend on Monday when this exchange took place between Jessica
Tarlov and Greg Gutfield. Jessica Tarof said, obviously, I'm not black, but I'm Jewish.
Would someone say about the Holocaust, for instance, that there were some benefits for
Jews, right? While they were hanging out in concentration camps, you learned a strong
work, work ethic, right? Maybe you learned a new skill. That's when Greg Gutfeld interjected
and said, did you ever read Man's Search for Meaning? Vic Frankel talks about how you had
to survive in a concentration camp by having skills. You had to be useful. Utility. Utility
kept you alive.
So not necessarily a defense of the Holocaust, but a bit of, a bit of a whitewashing of the
Holocaust. And of course, you've had President Biden's team come out and admonish these statements.
You have had the Holocaust Museum come out and admonish these statements. You've had
everybody come out and talk about how horrific these statements from Greg Gutfeld were. But
now, according to a new report from Mediaite staffers at Fox News, speaking anonymously,
of course, are talking about how horrendous these comments were. In fact, this is actually
from Mediaite, but originally from The Daily Beast. You had one staffer that said, quote,
obviously, it is a disgusting thing to say. Same with Jesse's remarks on the matter. Just
generally speaking, I'm amazed that Fox has any ability to retain employees from multicultural
backgrounds. Our workplace is
Shockingly diverse, given the vitriol that often makes it to the air, understand that
they're likely here for the same reasons I am. These jobs are scarce, but I can't help
but feel awful for them because they undoubtedly see this nonsense and can't do anything to
stop it. Another one simply told the Daily Beast when asked for comments. Yikes, ,
another one said that there's a lot of internal worry about the comments, and another said
at any other place, his career would be over, according to one Fox News Insider. And that
is absolutely true. You try to make comments like this while working at a bank, working
at a law firm, working at a school outside of Florida, obviously, yeah, you're gonna
get canned pretty quickly, rightfully so, but not at Fox News. But here's what gets
me about all this. You know, you had that one staffer, I quoted them talking about like,
look, we got a multicultural group of people working here at Fox News, and yeah, the jobs
are scarce.
They need jobs, they need to put food on the table for their families, for themselves,
all of that. I get that. But here's the thing, at the end of the day, y'all are still producing
this horrific content. You are in fact complacent with it. You have a role in creating this.
I understand the need to take care of yourself and to have a job. I get that. But at what
point does your moral compass kick in? Okay, Fox News in New York City is not the only
news outlet there. We've got budding news outlets popping up across the country. Go
get a job at News Nation, maybe see what's happening over at N B C M S. N B C C N B C.
Hell, there's a lot of NBCs for you to choose from. See what's going on over at Peacock,
another N B C property, check out C N N. They seem to be having trouble keeping people on
staff, so they've gotta have some job opening somewhere. But as long as you remain there,
again, I understand the need for the job, but as long as you stay there and you keep
producing these segments, you keep making graphics for these segments, you keep writing
script for these segments, you can't sit there and complain about it when you are helping
to create this content.