Fox Insiders Shudder at Gutfeld’s Latest Holocaust Controversy: ‘Yikes’

Fox News star Greg Gutfeld, whose latest book debuted on Tuesday, is currently under fire over his recent observation that Jewish people “had to be useful” in order to survive concentration camps, prompting the Auschwitz Museum to rebuke his comments as an “oversimplification” of the Holocaust.

Fox News staffers and insiders also told The Daily Beast that it was a “disgusting thing” for the network’s resident “comedian” to say, adding that “at any other place, his career would be over.”

On top of that, the White House condemned the Gutfeld! host’s remarks as an “obscenity,” while the Anti-Defamation League said it was unclear if he was spewing “nonsense” or arguing a “well-documented” point.

In recent days, several Fox News personalities—including Gutfeld’s new primetime colleague Jesse Watters—have rushed to defend Florida’s new and controversial education curriculum, which teaches children that slavery helped Black people develop skills, thus providing them a “personal benefit.” Amid widespread criticism over the “anti-woke” lesson plans, meanwhile, Florida governor and GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has doubled down, while suggesting slavery was a beneficial experience for some slaves.