Holocaust survivor: It's disgusting to compare Fauci to Mengele 3:24
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Dr. Anthony Fauci charged Fox News Thursday night for remaining silent after one of his personalities and streaming anchors, Lara Logan, compared him to an infamous Nazi doctor.
Speaking on MSNBC with host Chris Hayes, Fauci said: "What strikes me as surprising, Chris, is how you don't get any kind of discipline from Fox. How can you let her say that without any comment and no comment? disciplinary action. I'm in awe of it. "
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Logan has been condemned by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Auschwitz Museum, and the American Jewish Committee (AJC) for comparing Fauci to Nazi physician Josef Mengele, known as the Angel of Death for conducting brutal experiments with those in the Auschwitz death camp.
Fauci's comparison to a Nazi doctor is "absurd and disgusting"
When asked about it on MSNBC Thursday night, Fauci said the comparison was "absurd and disgusting."
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"What he said is inconceivable," said Fauci, calling it an insult to all Holocaust victims.
"She was being totally slanderous to me and, as always, I had no idea what she was talking about."
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The ADL and AJC have further singled out Fox News for being silent on the matter.
The ADL said Fox News appears "to be immune to shame and allergic to remorse."
And the AJC said the "silence from Fox News has been deafening."
However, the right-wing television station has declined to comment, despite the avalanche of criticism it has received.
On Thursday night, following Fauci's criticism of the channel, a representative for the network again declined to comment.
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Other critics continued to lash out at the network Thursday for its unwillingness to condemn Logan's extremist rhetoric.
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Eric Fingerhut, director of the Jewish Federation, said on CNN's "New Day" that it was a "scandalous comparison" and argued that networks like Fox should explain to their audience why this is the case.
Logan, for his part, has shown no remorse for his rhetoric.
Amid a major backlash against him, he insisted with the same message earlier this week on Twitter.
Logan also expanded an attack on the Auschwitz Museum, retweeting a user who criticized the organization for its comments.
A representative for the Auschwitz Museum told CNN on Wednesday that, in the meantime, he had blocked the organization's Twitter account.
Logan was previously a correspondent for the famed CBS News show "60 Minutes."
On the network, she faced significant scrutiny for the errors of a report she made about the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which ended up causing her to apologize for the inaccuracies and was forced to ask a license.
Logan left CBS News in 2018 and joined Fox News in 2020. He told the Los Angeles Times when he joined that he was not "trying to be a person of opinion" but has since become a more conspiratorial figure on the network. right.
Fauci is scheduled to appear on Fox Business for an interview this Friday.
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