Internet Blasts Leading Conservative Website for Posting Video Loop of Jewish Reporter Saying ‘Chutzpah’
‘Wut? The Daily Caller Is Anti Semitic? I’m Shocked I Tell You, Shocked’
The conservative website The Daily Caller is under fire for posting a video of New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush, who is Jewish, saying the Yiddish word “chutzpah,” in a video loop that replays for 24 seconds. The traditional Israeli folk song “Hava Nagila” plays in the background.
“The video is Thrush’s Wednesday night appearance on ‘The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell’ in which he noted President Donald Trump’s ‘chutzpah and the political genius of declaring everything a victory even if it is a loss,'” Raw Story reports.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson is the co-founder of The Daily Caller, which has a history of giving a platform to at least one white supremacist.
Outrage was swift and forceful, and the video was soon removed. No apology has appeared.
The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman posted this tweet asking for confirmation of what the video contained:
Am I seeing this correctly and the Daily Caller made a vid of Thrush saying “chutzpah” w hava nagila playing? https://t.co/myW0bwnNVc
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 28, 2017
Daily Caller editor-in-chief Geoffrey Ingersoll confirmed the video:
You are seeing quite correctly. https://t.co/rbBlKSVy27
— Geoffrey Ingersoll (@GPIngersoll) September 28, 2017
While it’s been removed, this apparently is a copy:
Don’t worry, I ripped it. pic.twitter.com/p4aW3UdC1w
— Aléx Young (@AlexYoung) September 28, 2017
The video description read: “Watch Glenn Thrush demonstrate his intellectual and linguistic superiority.”Â
On Twitter, many attacked the right wing website:
Imagine being this anti-Semitic https://t.co/wo8kyLCdCl
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) September 28, 2017
Okay, the Daily Caller’s ridiculously antisemitic video has been taken down apparently. Interesting that even DC thought it was too awful.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 28, 2017
Glad to see that the Daily Caller is open courting fans of the Daily Stormer.
— Rachel Dzanashvili (@rachel_dz) September 28, 2017
Calling out @dailycaller for this anti-Semitic video/attack on a Jewish journalist. Take it down. Apologize to @glennthrush https://t.co/9nnltm1NFQ
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) September 28, 2017
This @DailyCaller video is one of the most openly Jew-hating things I’ve ever seen, and I’ve read tons of actual Nazi propaganda. https://t.co/pIF92MukdM
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) September 28, 2017
In this 24-second video, the @DailyCaller mocks @GlennThrush for being Jewish and that’s it. That’s the whole thing. https://t.co/vdx2cve9iO
— Kriston Capps (@kristoncapps) September 28, 2017
He gonna also demand Daily Caller apologize to all other minority groups they demonize every day? They have a “Black Crime†story tag FFS
— George (@WishartG1981) September 28, 2017
Wut? The daily caller is Anti Semitic? I’m shocked I tell you, shocked. https://t.co/Vom3lawRiu
— ((Molly Jong-Fast)) (@MollyJongFast) September 28, 2017
whenever I did google news searches, I thought the same thing. Daily Caller headlines not too different from Stormfront
— Joshua (@joshuasomething) September 28, 2017
Fuck the Daily Caller, those Antisemitic ass hats https://t.co/yNNsejfkkk
— Dan Freimark (@Danfreimark) September 28, 2017
Daily Caller really going all-in on anti-semitism https://t.co/9VXhtFRWwz
— Iowa Starting Line (@IAStartingLine) September 28, 2017
@TheDailyCaller @TuckerCarlson Is the Daily Caller an actual Nazi website, or just imitating one?
— Frank Phillips (@NorSweDenLLC) September 28, 2017
The caption is all dogwhistles too in case there was any problem for the audience
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) September 28, 2017
WTF?!?!?!! Also, accepted spelling is Chutzpah https://t.co/6rXEOTGEXm
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) September 28, 2017
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