During an episode of “The Five,” liberal co-host Jessica Tarlov, who is not finding much favor with the Fox News viewing audience, got into a verbal altercation with her colleagues, Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld over the issue of racism in the United States. Watters got the ball rolling on the topic by bringing up charges of fraud against the SPLC, a civil rights advocacy group that tracks so-called “extremist” groups.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has accused the SPLC of providing funds on the sly for the groups it’s allegedly fighting against. Watters referred to racism in the U.S. as a “big fat psyop,” going on to say that folks actually “all love each other” and “they don’t want us to love each other, but we do anyway.” Tarlov was not on board with the remarks, especially referring to racism as a psyop, which she said was “ridiculous.”
“That’s not what I said,” Watters broke in to say. “You just did, you literally said psyop, roll the tape!” Tarlov shot back. As Tarlov continued speaking, attempting to provide evidence that shows racially motivated attacks happening in America, Gutfeld, clearly exasperated by the conversation, tossed his head back and sighed. “It’s true somewhere!” he cried out sarcastically. “That’s the argument.”
“What hoax have you actually seen here?” Tarlov argued, according to Yahoo News. “You don’t think that hundreds of people showed up at the Unite the Right rally that weren’t this informant?… You don’t think it’s real?” Gutfeld shouted back at her, “I don’t know! I wasn’t there! All I know is, I never heard of it until the day that it happened!”
The newly crowned king of late-night then said he could explain everything with a simple analogy. “This is like when somebody says, on average, men are taller and weigh more than women, and then one woman goes, ‘But what about her?!’ And they point to a WNBA player,” he said. “Yes, Jessica, I’ll give you, there probably is a bigot somewhere.”
“But you guys created a false flag, that there was this immense movement going on in this country that then put targets on people like Charlie Kirk’s back, and he’s dead!” Gutfeld continued. He then said that Tarlov is holding to a belief that she was “tricked into believing,” making the case that the intention behind the trick was to create a way to allow the left to go after white people.
Tarlov responded to Gutfeld’s assertion by claiming that his implying that victims of racially motivated crimes don’t exist is an insult. “The 23 people who died in the Walmart in El Paso, going to Buffalo, going to the Tree of Life synagogue, those were all killed…” she started before being interrupted by Gutfeld. “That is not part of the psyop or the false flag!” he retorted.
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One individual who commented on the viral video clip of the back-and-forth said, “You should learn to be quiet after you lose an argument. Doubling down doesn’t work anymore.” Another individual responded to Tarlov in the comments, saying, “Not even what they’re saying at all. You need to slow down and listen to the other side. No one is saying that racism doesn’t exist. They’re saying this is manufactured political activity and the SPLC is up to their necks in it.”
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