In an accidental demonstration of just how pervasive the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory blaming secret Jewish plotters for orchestrating a "caravan" of Central American refugees, the Fox Business Network issued a condemnation of network guest Chris Farrell, of Judicial Watch, after the network unthinkingly re-ran last Thursday's episode of Lou Dobbs Tonight Saturday evening, less than a half-day after a white supremacist promoting the same broad conspiracy theory as Dobbs' guest murdered eleven Jewish worshippers in a Pittsburgh synagogue.
Judicial Watch is a Trump-allied fringe group that has enjoyed much attention on Fox and in other media circles in recent years. Farrell here is explicitly referencing a white supremacist theory that Jews, in this case the omnipresent supposed plotter George Soros, are secretly controlling or "occupying" federal government agencies. Why Farrell felt he could casually drop that particularly odious bit of anti-Semitism in a televised conversation with Lou Dobbs is, so far, an unanswered question.
The rebroadcast of the segment in the immediate aftermath of the anti-Semitic synagogue attack was widely condemned, resulting in a statement distancing the network from those views by network Senior Vice President of Programming Gary Schreier.
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