MEDIA WINNER: Fox News' Jessica Tarlov Jessica Tarlov, co-host of Fox News’ The Five, pulled no punches while discussing former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's announcement that she was leaving the Democratic Party. On Tuesday, Tarlov's fellow hosts asked her how it feels to be “down one” Democrat following Gabbard's departure from the party. Her lengthy answer elicited strong responses from two of her co-hosts. Tarlov argued that Gabbard has not been supportive of the Democratic Party for a while now, calling the former representative "vindictive and spiteful and angry towards Democrats." “I’m certainly not going to sit here and say that she has any direct ties to Russia, but I don’t know how you end up in a position where they refer to you as ‘our girlfriend’ on Russian state TV,” Tarlov said, referencing a March appearance by Gabbard on Tucker Carlson’s show, which was later shown in Russia. She then correctly pointed out a serious blemish on Gabbard's record: her unauthorized trip in 2017 to meet with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a meeting that sanitized a war criminal who at the time was murdering civilians en masse and with impunity. So much for objecting to "war-mongers" as Gabbard claimed in her statement announcing her exit from the Democratic Party. Tarlov's comments prompted outrage from Judge Jeanine Pirro,who condemned Tarlov for criticizing Gabbard despite her time serving in the Army. “I thank her for her service, but because you served, it doesn’t mean that you are free of criticism for the rest of your life,” Tarlov said, concluding her apt and fact checkable reproval of the former Democrat. |