On Tuesday we learned that the FBI had thwarted an attack targeting Sunday's USC Freedom 250 event, which took place on the White House South Lawn, arresting five suspects, who were planning to use drones equipped with explosives, which would have targeted nearby buildings, with the ultimate intent of storming the White House during the ensuing chaos.
On Tuesday's edition of Fox News's The Five, it was not surprising to see leftist Jessica Tarlov and Greg Gutfeld go at it once again, this time over which political side poses the biggest threat of violence in the country, even with V.P JD Vance at the table as a guest.
When it was her turn to weigh in, Tarlov felt the need to immediately turn the conversation to Barack Obama.
TARLOV: This has been a problem for a long time and is growing exponentially. Obama got three times the number of threats and 11 credible assassination plots. Then it went up under Trump, and Biden had some but not as much, and then Trump again. So obviously we have a real problem with this. I think also the amount of conspiracy theorists and conspiracy theories that are flying around on the left and the right when things like this do happen like Butler for instance or what we saw at the White House Correspondent's Dinner where people thought that that was staged. It's an unhealthy place for us to be as a country.
And as often happens, Gutfeld responded and the fireworks started.
GUTFELD: I don't know. I mean when I hear you talk about Obama's threats, and I know that's been debunked.
TARLOV: What?
GUTFELD: Hundreds and hundreds of threats. We're talking about--
TARLOV: Eleven credible assassination plots.
GUTFELD: We can go through that in the break and you'll find out that a lot of these threats were just like e-mails and phone calls. We're talking about people that tried to kill leaders. There's been nothing like this in the history of this country. The tell for this, is whenever you're talking to a liberal, they galvanize that evidence. They're so intent trying to tell you it's both sides. That tells you that it's not. We know that it's just one way.
In May, Snopes reported that there were 14 assassination attempts against Obama, thankfully, only one involved an actual shooting attempt. Gutfeld continued with hardcore observations.
GUTFELD: Dana (Perino) points out the language used. Capitalist elites, billionaires, AIPAC, Jews, right? I didn't know Platner and Hasan Piker had time to plan this. Because that's the same language they use. The motive, the rhetoric, is directly related to the inflammatory rhetoric of the mainstream left, which has become so mundane because you're supporting some asshole with a Nazi tattoo on his chest. This is why liberal outrage has no credibility. I can say bad things about Joy Behar, but no right wing group is going to go burn down her house.
A wrestler can call Michelle a man. I doubt a right wing group is going to her house in Hawaii. But you do a repetition of demonization about Nazis and fascists and white supremacists. Is it no surprise that Charlie Kirk gets killed? Is it no surprise that Trump gets shot at? Is it no surprise there are these large terror plans that end up being thwarted? We're lucky they got thwarted.
He then addressed Tarlov, and the two of them went back and forth.
GUTFELD: You can look it up, go look up Obama. Google actual--
TARLOV: Oh I'm happy to look it up, this break is going to be amazing on the Google machine. There are Melissa Hortman who was killed, the pipe bomber, the people who are shooting up Walmart, that kind of rhetoric, listen to the rhetoric.
GUTFELD: Do it side by side, it's one way
TARLOV: Communists. That sounds like Donald Trump talking about leftists. Calling people vermin, scum. Like, what, that we're traitors --
GUTFELD: : You're comparing that to a repetitive rhetoric, that's been going on for ten years.
TRALOV: It's been a broken record for ten years.
GUTFELD: Where people are called Nazis and deserve to die. That's what conservatives hear every single day. Save it!
Then, as they usually do, things ended on a lighter note.
TARLOV: I hear terrible things every single day on this show.
GUTFELD: That's just from me.
Tarlov turning the conversation to Obama, during a discussion on a planned massive attack at a major White House event is nothing more than intellectually vacant leftist trash. Expect much more to come.
