Fox News’ “The Five” co-host Judge Jeanine Pirro erupted during the show on Thursday after the five-member panel’s token liberal, Jessica Tarlov, insanely attempted to defend a comment made by President Joe Biden during his gaffe-filled visit to Maui.
As background, President Biden, during the visit, which occurred about two weeks after a wildfire devastated the island, leaving more than 100 people dead and around a thousand missing, along with thousands of cars and houses burned in its wake, tried to connect a small house fire he experienced to the devastation that tore through the island,
Trying to relate to the stricken Hawaiians, Biden said, “I don’t want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, of what it’s like to lose a home. Years ago now, 15 years ago, I was in Washington doing ‘Meet the Press.’ It was a sunny Sunday. Lightning struck at home, on a little lake that’s outside of our home — not a lake, a big pond — and hit a wire that came up underneath our home into the heating ducts, air conditioning ducts.”
It was what he said next that got commentators and Hawaiians, particularly those on Maui, mad. He said that his vintage sports car was almost damaged in the blaze, saying, “To make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my ’67 Corvette, and my cat.”
Predictably, Biden was widely panned for that comment, with many on Maui attacking him for talking about a sports car when their family members were missing or dead. But, bizarrely and somewhat surprisingly, FNC’s token liberal Jessica Tarlov moved to defend Biden when the subject came up during “The Five.”
Responding to the outrage on the right and on the part of the Hawaiians about what Biden said, Tarlov said, “He was talking to a dog whose paws are on the ground!”
That, in turn, set off decidedly non-liberal Judge Jeannine Pirro, who responded by ripping Biden and blasting Tarlov for trying to defend him and his insensitive comments about his car to the devastated people of Maui.
Responding to Tarlov, Pirro said, “Are you kidding me? This is a guy who goes to an infern, an inferno, where a thousand people and children are missing. He talks to a dog, and he talks about the fact that he almost lost a cat!”
Continuing, she added, “This guy has been lying from the moment he came on the political scene. He has a lack of empathy, he is egocentric, he’s got a condescending smirk whenever anybody asks him a question from the press. He is lying, and he’s narcissistic.”
She then argued that Biden didn’t go to the scorched island because he cared about the people, but rather to “make it about himself.” Then, emphasizing what it is that the Biden administration is promulgating, she said, “The bottom line is he systematically lies.”
Watch the angry back and forth here:
More of Jessica Tarlov defending the indefensible Joe Biden.
Pirro let her have it. pic.twitter.com/ZauQj6N6eM
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