Fox News host Lara Logan faces flak for comparing Fauci to Nazi doctor
Wednesday, 1 December 2021 (18:37 IST)
Washington: Prominent Jewish groups and the Auschwitz Museum condemned Lara Logan, a Fox News host for comparing White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci to Josef Mengele, a Nazi doctor who conducted heinous experiments on the detainees of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
During a Fox News news show on Monday night, Logan claimed "What you see on Dr. Fauci, this is what people say to me: That he doesn't represent science to them. He represents Josef Mengele. Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who did experiments on Jews during the Second World War and in the concentration camps. And I am talking about people all across the world are saying this."
Reacting swiftly, organizations called Logan's comments as reprehensible.
"Exploiting the tragedy of people who became victims of criminal pseudo-medical experiments in Auschwitz in a debate about vaccines, pandemic and people who fight for saving human lives is shameful. It is disrespectful to victims & a sad symptom of moral and intellectual decline,” the Auschwitz Museum said on Twitter.
The American Jewish Committee said the comments were “utterly shameful” and noted that Mengele earned his “Angel of Death” moniker by performing deadly experiments on Auschwitz prisoners, including several children.
Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the Anti-Defamation League, said in a statement that "there's absolutely no comparison between mask mandates, vaccine requirements, and other Covid 19 mitigation efforts to what happened to Jews during the Holocaust."
"This includes making outlandish and offensive analogies suggesting that somehow Dr. Anthony Fauci is akin to Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, known for his gruesome medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners," Greenblatt added.
According to a CNN report, Logan was formerly a correspondent for CBS News' famed program "60 Minutes." At the network, she faced significant scrutiny for errors in a report she did on the Benghazi attack, ultimately resulting in her apologizing for the inaccuracies and being forced to take a leave of absence. (UNI)
