A spat on Fox News Channel’s “The Five” from mid-September came back up on X, with commenters using it to torch FNC’s resident leftist, Jessica Tarlov. In the clip at issue, Tarlov got obliterated by Judge Jeanine Pirro, who used the spat to sound off on the sort of political culture Democrats pushed after Trump got elected in 2016.
As might be expected, commenters, particularly on Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter), used the opportunity to torch Tarlov for her leftist views and for her ridiculous claims on the subject at hand, which mainly centered around whether Vice President Kamala Harris sould refer to Donald Trump as “selfish” during the then-highly anticipated debate.
Tarlov, when the issue was broached, said, “For sure. Because Trump is selfish.” Firing back, co-host Dana Perino said, “Why would you say that?” Similarly, Gutfeld snapped at her and commented on the assassination attempt on Trump, saying, “He just got shot, running for president! Boy, that’s selfish! He almost died for this job!”
Holding her ground, Tarlov fired back, “If you look at all of what’s coming out of these court cases and the evidence, he’s stiffed everyone from contractors, he’s cheated on everyone that he’s been married to, he demeans people, he can’t even stop demeaning someone he’s been found liable of sexually assaulting.” She added, “He’s been in… donor meetings with, for big oil saying I’m gonna make it right for you. Rich people, you need me for tax breaks. It’s all about the self with Donald Trump and he preys upon people who believe this toxicity.”
Still not done, she went on to say, “The point is, there is a discomfort with Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton putting out factual realities…There’s no way that Donald Trump would be campaigning, calling Kamala Harris ‘Kamabla,’ unless there were in his party that he thought that would appeal to. Or J.D. Vance and this Haitian immigrant story, that he’s promoting this complete false lie that Haitian, legal migrants, are eating-”
At that point, Judge Jeanine Pirro erupted, saying, “You hate them personally and the Democrats hate Republicans! As soon as he got elected, Republicans were unfriended by all the Democrats, they wouldn’t speak to us anymore.” Soon afterward, she added, “The Democrats are the party that said, ‘He’s a Putin asset, he’s a Russian puppet.’ The Democrats are the ones who signed affidavits and lied to a court so that they could spy on a President of the United States.”
Returning to the Democrats, she said, “The Democrats are the ones who said that we’re destroying democracy. Donald Trump is one of the most generous people you’ll ever meet. He does all kinds of things that people have no idea about. And by the way, if he were selfish, he’d take his money and tell all of us to go ‘F’ ourselves based upon the way this country has treated him. This guy got shot! Don’t tell me he’s selfish!”
Commenters went nuclear on Tarlov as well, not just Judge Jeanine. One, for example, said, in response to a mid-October post that brought the clip back up and captioned it, “Judge Jeanine Goes nuclear,” wrote, “That’s because Jessica Tarlov has been getting out of hand on ‘The Five”’ I wouldn’t let her speak either. All she does is lie and make up stuff.”
Another commenter said, “I can’t stand Jessica. I’m not sure who I really trust on Fox News anymore besides Judge and Gutfeld.” Others wrote, “Good I can’t stand Jessica.. She is about the stupidest host I have ever seen other than Juan Williams,” and “I don’t know why they even have her on the show. She’s so whiny and annoying. Sandpaper to my brain.”
Watch the spat here:
Still other commenters joined in and praised Judge Jeanine’s handling of Tarlov, saying things like, “Once again Jessica got put in her place by the judge. Not sure why she even tries argue with the judge because she always loses” and “I love it when the Judge lets her have it. They all went after Harold Ford today. I was cheering while I was cooking, it was great.”
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video
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