Why Fox News has gone wobbly on anti-Semitism
Erik Wemple, Media critic, November 15, 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/15/why-fox-news-has-gone-wobbly-anti-semitism/

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Sample No. 2: On Wednesday night, conservative attorney Joe diGenova appeared on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” to discuss the impeachment proceedings, which feature testimony from State Department officials involved in U.S. policy toward Ukraine. George Kent, a top State official, testified before the House Intelligence Committee about Trump’s attempts to tie U.S. military aid to Ukraine to an investigation by that country into the Bidens. Dobbs expressed skepticism about Kent, saying that he’d tried to limit an inquiry into a Soros-backed entity in Ukraine. That was diGenova’s cue:

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Well, there’s no doubt that George Soros controls a very large part of the career Foreign Service at the United States State Department. He also controls the activities of FBI agents overseas who work for NGOs, work with NGOs. That was very evident in Ukraine. Kent was part of that. He was a very big protector of Soros. … The truth is George Soros had a daily opportunity to tell the State Department through Victoria Nuland what to do in Ukraine. And he ran it, Soros ran it. He corrupted FBI officials, he corrupted Foreign Service officers. And the bottom line is this: George Soros wants to run Ukraine and he’s doing everything he can, to use every lever of the United States government to make that happen — for business interests, not for good government.

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The response from Fox News/Fox Business? Silence. The attempts of the Erik Wemple Blog to extract a statement from the network have failed. The Washington Examiner’s Mike Brest and CNN’s Oliver Darcy have commented on the non-response.

In both cases, Farrell and diGenova were propagating anti-Semitic notions that wealthy Jewish people are puppet masters who control all the powerful institutions around the globe — media, finance, government, etc. Though Fox News recognized the offensiveness in its condemnation of Farrell, its silence over the diGenova comments, which were far more wide-ranging, cries out for an explanation.


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@Sanguine @Tinker @All

This is what I mentioned in the Live thread yesterday.... I had heard Glenn & Stu say that FBN condemned DiGenova for his comment this past Wednesday.... I can't find anything like that, I think they mistakenly saw an article on Thursday (WaPo) that mentioned FBN condemning JW's Chris Farrell's statement on Dobbs' show earlier this year. That article also mentioned that Farrell was banned from FBN, but I think that I saw him once in the past week or so on Dobbs' show....


It seems that there is quite a lobby in the US that is running a lot of protection for GS.....

I better see Victoria Toensing & Joe DiGenova back this coming Wednesday evening on Dobbs' show.....