An episode of Lou Dobbs Tonight featuring a guest who leveled an accusation of a “Soros-occupied State Department” will be removed from Fox’s rotation after a re-airing sparked social media outrage in the wake of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.
The pushback followed both Saturday’s deadly massacre in Pittsburgh synagogue and a string of pipe bomb packages were attempted to be delivered to prominent democrats and Trump critics — including George Soros.
“We condemn the rhetoric by the guest on Lou Dobbs Tonight,” senior vice president of programming for Fox Business Network, Gary Schreier, said in a statement to Variety. “This episode was a repeat which has now been pulled from all future airings.”
The broadcast in question features Chris Farrell, a director of Judicial Watch, a conservative activist and watchdog group that investigates misconduct by government officials. Farrell claimed that a caravan full of migrants currently traveling through South America and into Mexico was funded by Soros. His citation was seen as a continuation of a conspiracy theory that critics call anti-Semitic.
Farrell’s episode originally aired Thursday and then repeated again on Saturday night, hours after the shooting that claimed the lives of 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue.
The decision to pull the episode also comes after Dobbs posted and then deleted two conspiracy tweets last week that suggested news reports about the bomb delivered to Soros were fabricated.
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