Fox News Anchor Scolds Ex-Congressman For Calling Hamas ‘Bad People’
Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner came down hard on former Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA) after he described Hamas as “bad people,” arguing that the term was not harsh enough to describe the group.
The discussion centered around President Joe Biden and his administration putting pressure on Israel over its offensives in Gaza. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) this week accused Biden of being “an anti-Israel president” because of his warnings to Israel about its war in Gaza.
Murphy said of Biden, “We absolutely need to understand that he is in a vise, in a sense, because we have to bring Hamas to justice.”
The former congressman, a veteran of the Iraq War, continued by laying out the pressure on Biden from Israel’s critics:
We have to make a priority of the 130 hostages, including Americans. We gotta get them there. And, so, the debate really isn’t really about bringing them to justice — and by the way, Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. They are bad people.
The problem is, is that on the other side, and this is why people are upset with the uncommitted vote, is the fact that there’s been 32,000 innocent folks that are not part of Hamas that have been killed. Two-thirds of which are women, and that is the vise that you are talking about, and that’s the part of leadership, that’s the part of being the President of the United States.
Faulkner jumped in to scold Murphy for his use of “bad people” to describe Hamas: “You know what, describing Hamas — and you served in the military — so, it boggles my mind why you would describe them simply as ‘bad people.’ They put babies in ovens. They tortured women. And those women who were raped —”
“I can’t say what I really want to say about them ’cause we’re on TV,” Murphy replied.
“You can say whatever you want,” Harris shot back.
“Well, I don’t want to curse,” Murphy said.
“Well, we can say the truth without cuss words. The women who were raped, who survived, were not even believed by the United Nations for months,” Faulkner said. She continued:
This is more than just the vise on the other side or some bad people who done some things. By the way, that 130 plus number, my heart is with you, my heart and prayers are with those families, but yesterday Hamas said they probably couldn’t come up with 50 to meet the release agreement. I don’t know if that means the rest are dead, they can’t find them, they’ve sold them off to Islamist Jihad and these other groups. We are playing with the devil here. So that’s what’s on one side…It seems like an easy thing to do as an ally. If he wants to struggle as a human being that sounds like personal time.
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