In footage first aired Wednesday night on Fox News’s Jesse Watters PrimeTime, Fox Business correspondent Hillary Vaughn doggedly ran down Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) earlier in the day over video from a Dearborn, Michigan event inside her district which featured chants of “death to America” and “death to Israel”.
Not surprisingly, the far-left, raging anti-Semite declined to condemn the chants and instead accused Vaughn and her Fox colleagues of being “Islamphobic” people engaging in “racist tropes”.
The footage began with Vaughn only being able to call out to Tlaib before the Michigan Democrat shouted back, “I don’t talk to Fox News! I don’t talk to Fox News!”
Vaughn nonetheless asked her question as a staff member tried to move Vaughn out of the way and Tlaib reiterating she wouldn’t speak to Fox: “At a rally in your district, people were chanting death to America. Do you condemn?”
When Tlaib again said she wouldn’t talk to Fox News, Vaughn asked again why she wouldn’t “condemn chants of death to America.”
Clearly flustered, Tlaib dodged the question by claiming she doesn’t “talk to people that use racist tropes” even though it’s a known fact it was indeed chanted and pointing that out isn’t “racist”.
“Why can’t you just say whether or not you condemn people chanting death to America,” Vaughn wondered, to which Tlaib played a broken record, “[b]ecause I don’t talk to Fox News.”
As the first elevator Tlaib and a staffer had rushed to hide in wouldn’t open, they rushed to try another close by. Vaughn kept following them and tweaked her question to reflect Tlaib’s screeching: “Why are you afraid to talk to Fox?”
Tlaib’s answer sounded like it was curated by her friends at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR): “Fox News is not nice. Listen, using racist tropes towards my community is what Fox Tunes [sic] is about and I don't talk to Fox News.”
Vaughn tried one last time: “Is death to America racist? Is chanting death to America racist?”
Tlaib restated her position of ignoring Fox and, as she finally walked into an elevator, The Squad member reiterated her Fox smear and called the network “Islamophobic”: “I’m talking about your guys’s racist tropes. You know, you guys are — you guys know exactly what you do. And I know you’re Islamophobic, but you guys gotta go deal with it on your own selves, not going to use me.”
This was not the first run-in between these two. For example, back on October 10, Vaughn chased Tlaib down and called out her silence on some of the most brutal atrocities committed by Hamas during their animalistic attacks in Israel on October 7.
To see the relevant exchange from April 10, click “expand.”
FNC’s Jesse Watters PrimeTime
April 10, 2024
8:25 p.m. EasternHILLARY VAUGHN: Congresswoman Tlaib —
CONGRESSWOMAN RASHIDA TLAIB (D-MI): I don’t talk to Fox News! I don’t talk to Fox News!
TLAIB STAFF MEMBER: Excuse me.
VAUGHN: At a rally —
TLAIB STAFF MEMBER: Sorry.
VAUGHN: — in your district —
TLAIB: I’m not talking to Fox News.
VAUGHN: — people were chanting death to America. Do you condemn?
TLAIB: Do not talk to Fox News.
VAUGHN: But do you condemn chants of death to America?
TLAIB: I don’t talk to people that use racist tropes.
VAUGHN: Why can’t you just say whether or not you condemn —
TLAIB: Because I don’t talk to Fox News.
VAUGHN: — people chanting death to America?
TLAIB: [Inaudible]
VAUGHN: Why are you afraid to talk to Fox?
TLAIB: Fox News is not nice. Listen, using racist tropes towards my community is what Fox Tunes [sic] is about and I don't talk to Fox News.
VAUGHN: Is death to America —
TLAIB: [Inaudible]
VAUGHN: — racist?
TLAIB: — never speak to Fox News.
VAUGHN: Is chanting death to America racist?
TLAIB: No — [inaudible] — I’m talking about your guys’s racist tropes. You know, you guys are — you guys know exactly what you do. And I know you’re Islamophobic, but you guys gotta go deal with it on your own selves, not going to use me.
