Fox News host Jessica Tarlov, who often serves as the dissenting liberal voice on the channel’s hit talk show, “The Five,” has continually ruffled feathers for her left-of-center takes. Numerous clips from the show’s segments have gone viral on social media, showing Tarlov engaging in fiery back-and-forth arguments with her various co-hosts on the panel.
Conservative commentator and self-professed “Mayor of Magadonia” Josh Dunlap recently asked his followers on X if they thought Tarlov was one of the “worst news reporters” on cable news. The post received varying responses, with some suggesting the commentator should not be employed at the network. Others pointed out she is merely an opinion commentator fulfilling her role to push back on her co-hosts.
“Fox needs to replace her,” one user said. Another person suggested that Tarlov would be a good commentator, but her liberal bias is too overt. “She could be good, but she’s over the top partisan & blind to her bias. That’s the only thing holding her back. It’s good to have both perspectives, but that can’t be at the expense of reality and truth,” another person said.
However, while expressing disagreement with Tarlov, one person acknowledged that Tarlov was hired for the exact reason that she sparks backlash among conservatives. Replying in the comments section, they wrote, “While I cringe at her remarks, she was hired for the role. Don’t be too harsh. She’s not a reporter. She is an editorial writer.”
Several other posts echo this sentiment. “She’s not really a news reporter. She’s an opinion person. We have to make a distinction between reporters and talking heads. Talking heads speak opinions and reporters report news. Tarlov, Laura Ingraham, Maddow, Joy Reid, these are all talking heads. Opinion vs real news,” another person said.
The American Tribune reported on a recent spat between Tarlov and co-host Greg Gutfeld after President Donald Trump’s inauguration last month. The two engaged in a heated back-and-forth exchange over Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship. “Americans voted for it, that’s the difference,” Gutfeld said. “I’m just telling you the reality.”
Tarlov pushed back asking him if he “voted to revoke birthright citizenship” for immigrants “who are here legally.” She added, “I think when Donald Trump was talking about it and disparaging people over here, he was talking about undocumented people who come and drop their anchor babies. He wasn’t talking about people who are students here, people who are on H1-B visas…”
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Gutfeld interjected, “You’re always going to choose this weird exception! The fact is the system is being gamed.” He then said, “The fact is, Americans voted for Donald Trump because they saw these systems, these institutions, being gamed. The asylum issue, the birthright citizenship issue, the Title IX issue. Every single part of society was being gamed by the left, and finally, Americans got pushed too far.”
Watch Gutfeld and Tarlov below:
Trump’s executive order, called Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship, states, “But the Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States. The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Consistent with this understanding, the Congress has further specified through legislation that “a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” is a national and citizen of the United States at birth, 8 U.S.C. 1401, generally mirroring the Fourteenth Amendment’s text.”
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