Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson. Image by YouTube

By Aiden Pink September 29, 2017

The Daily Caller, a right-wing news website founded by Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson, published a bizarre video Thursday mocking the use of Yiddish by a Jewish reporter.

Titled “New York Times’ Glenn Thrush Has KHOUTSPA,” the video shows Thrush being interviewed on MSNBC, before continually repeating Thrush’s use of the word “chutzpah” — while the song “Hava Nagila” plays in the background.

The video was taken down soon after attracting the attention of reporters.

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Condemnation of the video was swift from across the political spectrum:

This is out and out anti-Semitism. https://t.co/AqD900pzNG

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) September 28, 2017

So this is some straight up anti-Semitism https://t.co/GSDvjtiZid

— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) September 28, 2017

casting aside dog whistles for bullhorns now https://t.co/jLOohqmgwX

— ಠ_ಠ (@MikeIsaac) September 28, 2017

Carlson left his role as editor-in-chief of The Daily Caller when he began hosting a nightly Fox News show, but he is still listed as the chairman of the Daily Caller News Foundation, a not-for-profit whose headquarters is on the same floor of the same building as the website and reportedly employs most of the journalists who write for it.

Contact Aiden Pink at [email protected] or on Twitter, @aidenpink

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