Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld sparked outrage Tuesday with an on-air comment about Nazis and “the Blacks.”
During a segment on “The Five,” co-host Gutfeld pushed back at current right-wing figures who are being compared to Nazis with an offensive comparison.
He said:
“This is why the criticism doesn’t matter to us when you call us Nazis. ‘Nazi this and Nazi that.’ You know, I’m beginning to think they don’t like us. You know what? I’ve said this before. We need to learn from the Blacks, the way they were able to remove the power from the n-word by using it. So, from now on, it’s, ‘What up, my Nazi? Hey, what up, my Nazi? Hey, what’s hanging, my Nazi?’”
“Nazi, please!” replied fellow panelist Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, the former MTV VJ who now goes by Kennedy.
Gutfeld cracked up at the comment, then responded: “Thank God you did a hard ‘i’ there.”
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The moment was condemned online.
Online streamer and political commentator Hasan Piker wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “We’ve officially gotten to the point where Fox News commentators are comfortable calling themselves Nazis.”
Journalist Mehdi Hasan, formerly of MSNBC, added: “These quotes — even if said in jest — would destroy the careers of any other journalist on any other mainstream national media platform. But Fox doesn’t employ journalists and doesn’t have any journalistic (or decency) standards.”
Others called it deeply disrespectful to both Holocaust victims and the Black community.