A Fox News host apologized ‘to the entire world’ for the supposed misinformation cable news ‘exports,’ while facing renewed calls to be fired from the network.
Jessica Tarlov, who serves as the sole liberal panelist on The Five, made the astonishing remarks on the Prof G podcast, which she co-hosts with Scott Galloway.
The two were speaking with Larry Sabato, the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics founder and director, when Tarlov asked what issue enrages him the most.
He then replied that he rages about a lot of issues these days, which he attributed to the effects of cable news.
‘I watch more TV news that I ever have before,’ Sabato admitted.
‘TV funnels what’s selling on social media, I think, more than the reverse. That makes me rage.’
Tarlov agreed, and said, ‘As someone who’s on cable news, I apologize to the entire world for what we export.’
She did not clarify what she meant, but her comments made Sabato start to laugh as he lamented how social media is driving political discourse.
Jessica Tarlov astonishingly apologized for being on cable news
Tarlov (second from left) serves as the sole liberal voice on Fox News’ The Five
‘There’s nothing we can do about social media,’ he said.
‘The one thing I’ve been waiting for that I was promised as a young person was a time machine, I gave up on flying cars,’ Sabato continued. ‘We still don’t have one, ’cause I’d love to go back and make it impossible to create social media.
‘I don’t know how I’d do it,’ the political analyst added. ‘But I would try to do that.’
The exchange comes as Tarlov is facing backlash on social media for remarks she made on Friday’s episode of The Five.
The panel had been discussing the possibility that the Biden White House covered up his cancer diagnosis, when she turned her attention to President Donald Trump’s crypto dinner – and falsely claimed he made 40 percent of his wealth from cryptocurrency during his presidency.
‘Greg mentioned a “staggering level of corruption” and I just got to note, though that the staggering level of corruption from last night’s meme coin dinner,’ Tarlov said on Friday’s broadcast.
She then doubled down on her comments as the other panelists on the show scolded her for changing the subject.
‘I’m talking about who is corrupt and who is profiting off the American office,’ she said in an apparent bid to defend herself.
The exchange comes as Tarlov is facing her own backlash on social media for remarks she made on Friday’s episode of The Five
But, Greg Guttfeld, noted: ‘You’re defending an administration that covered up a dying leader and you’re sitting here going “but meme coin, meme coin.”‘
The exchange led some on X to call on Fox News to fire the panelist, with some claiming she would be more suited at The View.
Others also hit out at Tarlov for her false remarks, with one user saying she is ‘dumb as a doornail.’
‘Why does Fox News even employ her?’ he asked. ‘She brings nothing to the table and Jessie [Watters] and Greg [Guttfeld] call her out on all her lies, dumb liberal!!!’
Another user, though, suggested Tarlov may be a ‘a paid actress’ because ‘nobody could be that dumb.
‘Trump is the only president to lose money in office and the only one to donate his salary,’ the user wrote.
‘Obama never made more than $400K, yet he is a multimillionaire. Biden as a senator never made more than $175K.’
Many X users called on Fox News to fire Tarlov for her recent remarks, while others called her ‘dumb’ for suggesting President Donald Trump made 40 percent of his wealth in office
Still, Tarlov is not the only cable news host who has rebuked the system in recent years.
Just last month, former Meet the Press host Chuck Todd told Mediaite he had grown demoralized by cable news content years before he left NBC News.
‘I had it on in my office all the time,’ he said. ‘But most cable news felt like a whole bunch of people trying to game an algorithm. It stopped being informational.’
Former Fox News star Megyn Kelly also said on her podcast last year that after watching cable news during the 2024 presidential election cycle, she was disappointed that ‘nothing’s changed.
‘The people don’t look as good – that’s changed,’ she joked.
‘But they’ve changed nothing. They’re having the same stilted, guided, fake conversations that last four minutes long with, like, the stupid panels.
‘It’s amazing how out of date they are,’ Kelly said.
For Larry Sabato, the University of Virginia ‘s Center for Politics founder and director, the issue with cable news is an inability to hold Trump accountable
For Larry Sabato, though, the issue with cable news is an inability to hold Trump accountable.
He claimed to the Daily Beast that most networks were ‘sane-washing’ the president, arguing that they underestimate Trump’s penchant for retribution – like his ongoing lawsuit against CBS News.
‘I’ve personally seen the effects of Trump’s intimidation of media companies, law firms and yes, universities,’ Sabato said.
‘The solution they’ve adopted seems to be “Let’s keep our head down, stick to a lot of both-sides coverage and then Trump will target others.”‘
In fact, the top brass at ABC News and its parent company Disney have reportedly asked the ladies of The View to dial back their constant complaining about the president.
‘It hasn’t dawned on some that Trump will eventually get around to slamming them too, as well as misusing the power of the government to exact revenge,’ Sabato claimed.
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