‘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:
Daily Caller editor-in-chief Geoffrey Ingersoll confirmed the video:
While it’s been removed, this apparently is a copy:
The video description read: “Watch Glenn Thrush demonstrate his intellectual and linguistic superiority.”Â
On Twitter, many attacked the right wing website:
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