A Fox News panel flew off the rails on Thursday when Federalist senior editor and Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway falsely accused liberal pundit Marie Harf of comparing George Washington to late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during a discussion on the Black Lives Matter movement.During the noon broadcast of female-centric opinion show Outnumbered, Fox contributor Harf weighed in on the recent targeting of the monuments depicting Confederate leaders and historic figures who owned slaves.“I do think a process to re-evaluate the monuments is the best way to tackle this issue,” she said. “I lived in Charlottesville and they for years have gone through a process to talk about their Confederate statues and we, unfortunately, saw some of the fights that became physical over there.”Harf then suggested the taking down of Confederate monuments was akin to Iraqis pulling down Hussein statues after he was deposed.“One of the first things the United States military did when we invaded Iraq was, along with Iraqis, tear down statues of Saddam Hussein,” she said. “Because while they were only symbols, they were symbols of oppression. They were symbols of a leader who had killed so many ever his own people and tortured them. So symbols do matter.”The longtime Democratic operative went on to say there needs to be a “process to look at Confederate generals and leaders” before adding that protesters who tear down statues of Ulysses S. Grant “are stupid and are not a part of the broader conversation.” Later in the program, during a segment on the ongoing protests, Black conservative pundit Lawrence B. Jones explained that the Black Lives Matter movement has no real hierarchy despite some people claiming to be the head of it. The show’s host Melissa Francis admitted to being confused by that and dismissed the fact that BLM …read more
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