By Erik Wemple
Washington Post
December 4, 2019
In October 2018, a guest on his Fox Business program — Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch — made a bizarre claim about a connection between the Central American migrants moving through Mexico and Hungarian-born Jewish philanthropist George Soros. The migrants, he said, “have affiliates or are getting money from the [George] Soros-occupied State Department and that is a great, great concern.” The comment horrified viewers when it re-aired after the mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue; the suspect in the case, Robert Bowers, “frequently reposted anti-Semitic content that alleged Jews control the nation,” according to the New York Times.
The resulting outrage was loud enough to prompt a rare, on-the-record response from the network. “We condemn the rhetoric by the guest on Lou Dobbs Tonight,” said Gary Schreier, Fox Business Network’s senior vice president of programming, in a statement. “This episode was a repeat which has now been pulled from all future airings.” The network signaled that it wouldn’t invite Farrell back on the air. (Fox News and Fox Business are both part of Fox News Media.)