It's been almost a full week since the shooting involving an ICE agent in Minneapolis, and the story shows no signs of going away. Also here to stay for the foreseeable future is the left-wing media narrative that ICE is breaking the law, and the protesters that confront ICE agents with automobiles, bottles, rocks and more, are just innocent, average law abiding, concerned citizens looking to make a stand against brutality. That kind of argument didn't go over well on Tuesday's edition of The Five on the Fox News Channel.
During their segment on the continuing protests in Minneapolis, Dana Perino addressed the lone liberal on the panel, Jessica Tarlov, about the women who are dominating the opposition to ICE.
PERINO: There is a New York Post article today about some of the women who have decided to go and one of them said that she drove all the way there because she wanted to feel the energy... I don't know if you had a chance to see it but Kat Rosenfield at at the Free Press today said this is not a movie. People imagine, oh, like this will happen and then it will be fine and then you will be like talking about it at dinner that night. But that's not what happens when there is interference like that.
Tarlov began her response with a common sense observation, but in the next breath she was giving us all what we might have expected from her.
TARLOV: It definitely has very dangerous consequences, so it's an R-rated movie if that's the analogy... But I think that talking about the thousands of people that have been out protesting across the country, as all blue haired, wine-mom kooks is completely misguided and makes you look a little bit blind.
If you look at the people who are standing outside of Somali-owned businesses, for instance, or if you listen to Jesse Ventura, the former Governor of Minnesota, the Trump administration trampling on the Constitution... you can not conclude that this is just about a bunch of people radicalized online so they can be part of this group and 'feel the energy.'
Quoting Jesse Ventura as a distinguished public servant might be viewed as a bit desperate, but Tarlov continued on her two minute plus rant.
TARLOV: Americans are seeing these videos. They're seeing one of the images we just showed, a woman being pulled out of her car. She was on her way to the doctor's appointment. 82% of Americans have seen Officer Ross's video of what happened with Renee Good there, and 53% think that he should face criminal charges...
But at this point, we have a story that Rene Good is a domestic terrorist ( Of course the New York Post reported Renee Good was indeed a member of ICE Watch) and Officer Ross is allowed to do whatever he wants, and all of these ICE Agents. If you can't see there are people behaving badly here that they are using teargas on them, that they are pulling people out of their cars, pulling kids out of their jobs at Target.
At this point Tarlov's fellow panelist Greg Gutfeld had heard enough, but Tarlov refused to go quietly.
GUTFELD: You create the environment and then you complain about the consequences. When you kick over a beehive don't complain when the bees come after you. When you poke a bear don't say I can't believe the bear's chasing me.
TARLOV: You have a right to stand there and yell at officers.
GUTFELD: ..You guys are deliberately creating an environment so that there is chaos, and when there is chaos, you go, oh, my G-d, someone gets hurt. What do you expect in chaos?
TARLOV: You don't think they (ICE) are trying to create chaos?
GUTFELD: These organizations desire chaos. How naive are you?
TARLOV: There are Americans who were pulled out of their cars. Americans!
Now it was Jesse Watters turn to respond to Tarlov's nonsense. "They are getting in the way. Why do you think she got pulled out?"
Tarlov then claimed that the woman who was pulled out of her car in Minneapolis earlier that day, was on her way to a doctor's appointment, and Watters said that was a hoax.
WATTERS: Watch the videos, Jessica. It's mostly women. You can't deny it's mostly women... It's mostly women, crazy-looking women, trans women, and then the guys are like the Trantifa guys....
Benny Johnson said last night on my show, something very interesting, very interesting theory. A lot of these women are single and so you have this instinctive motherhood that's really not been able to be expressed, so they're are trying to wrap their arms around the immigrant community and protect them. And it's very, very dangerous, Jessica. And sometimes women have to be protected, whether they like it or not...We will protect you, but we're not going to protect the killers who came in from Mexico, sorry.
Tarlov's rant and views were outlandish, but Fox News allows an opposing view to be heard, unlike MS NOW or PBS. Then that opposing view faces the forceful challenge that liberals don't get on other channels.
