Longtime Fox News host Greg Gutfield drew ire from the White House, the Anti-Defamation League and the Auschwitz Memorial this week after saying that Jewish people “had to be useful” to the Nazis to survive the Holocaust. Gutfeld's comments drew swift condemnation from a number of advocates, including from the White House. “What Fox News allowed to be said on their air yesterday — and has so far failed to condemn — is an obscenity,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement to CNN. “We couldn’t let this one stand,” White House communications director Ben Labolt later said on Twitter. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Source: Fox News July 26, 2023 18:25 UTC