Some things are almost as predictable as the sunrise. It's hot in July, Americans pay taxes, people argue on Twitter, and the White House fights with Fox News.
The Biden Administration has identified a new target ripe for controversy on Fox News (FOX) -) following a controversial comment made on the hit cable news show "The Five" on Monday evening.
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While discussing Florida's new school curriculum about slavery, which suggests African Americans benefited from slavery, Fox host Jessica Tarlov likens the teachings to her Jewish background.
"I’m not Black, but I’m Jewish,” Tarlov said. “Would someone say about the Holocaust, for instance, that there were some benefits for Jews? That while they were hanging out in concentration camps, they learned a strong work ethic? That maybe you learned a new skill."
Co-host Greg Gutfeld then suggested there might be some truth to her statement.
"Did you ever read 'Man's Search for Meaning?'" Gutfled asks Tarlov, referencing Viktor Frankl's memoir about the Holocaust.
"Vic Frankl talks about how you had to survive in a concentration camp by having skills. You had to be useful,” Gutfeld said. “Utility! Utility kept you alive!”
Tarlov responded that middle schoolers might not be ready to discuss heavy topics like the nuances of slavery, Gutfeld shot back, "What about gender?"
Greg Gutfeld downplayed the horrors of the Holocaust by paraphrasing Viktor Frankl. "Jews survived by being useful." Gutfeld leaves out that millions died in concentration camps the day they got off the trains. Gutfeld said this to his Jewish co-worker Jessica Tarlov. pic.twitter.com/tSsrLW6nJe
— Decoding Fox News (@DecodingFoxNews) July 24, 2023
The White House responded shortly thereafter.
“In defending a horrid, dangerous, extreme lie that insults the memory of the millions of Americans who suffered from the evil of enslavement, a Fox News host told another horrid, dangerous and extreme lie that insults the memory of the millions of people who suffered from the evils of the Holocaust,” deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement about the panel.
“Let’s get something straight that the American people understand full well and that is not complicated: there was nothing good about slavery; there was nothing good about the Holocaust. Full stop,” Bates said. “Americans deserve to be brought together, not torn apart with poison. And they deserve the truth and the freedom to learn, not book bans and lies.”
