{"id":16383,"date":"2026-07-25T03:52:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=16383"},"modified":"2026-07-25T03:52:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:52:51","slug":"jessica-tarlov-snaps-as-co-hosts-call-gop-blacks-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=16383","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Tarlov Snaps as Co-Hosts Call GOP &#8216;Blacks&#8217; &#8216;Better&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body\">\n<p>Fox News\u2019 <strong>Jessica Tarlov<\/strong> exclaimed, \u201cI\u2019m out,\u201d after co-host <strong>Greg Gutfeld<\/strong> remarked that \u201cours are better than yours\u201d in reference to Black people who vote Republican on Friday\u2019s edition of <em>The Five<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The spat started over a discussion about the threats that President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> faces in comparison to those Democrats face, with Tarlov citing the case of Minnesota Democratic lawmaker <strong>Melissa Hortman<\/strong>, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/just-in-minnesota-man-learns-his-fate-in-fatal-shooting-of-melissa-hortman-and-her-husband\/\">killed<\/a> along with her husband last June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one knows who that is,\u201d claimed co-host <strong>Jesse<\/strong> <strong>Watters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump didn\u2019t say, \u2018Go out there and get in their face,&#8217;\u201d added Gutfeld.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pipe bomber who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2018\/10\/27\/cesar-sayoc-was-someone-lost-then-he-found-father-trump-family-attorney-tells-cnn\/?utm_term=.6d367e036519\">said in court<\/a>, \u2018I was inspired by Donald Trump,&#8217;\u201d Tarlov retaliated, referencing <strong>Cesar Sayoc<\/strong>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/21\/nyregion\/cesar-sayoc-trump-mail-bomber.html\">pled guilty<\/a> in 2019 to mailing 16 bombs to politicians he considered enemies of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich pipe bomber? The Black guy?\u201d asked Watters, talking about <strong>Brian Cole Jr.<\/strong>, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/suspect-arrested-jan-6-pipe-bomb-case-sources\/story?id=128093323\">charged<\/a> with placing pipe bombs outside of the DNC and RNC headquarters the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. \u201cRemember when we found out he was, like, some random Black guy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh my God, ha ha ha, random Black guy!\u201d mocked Tarlov. \u201cYou have no Black people, so I get it, on your side. Is that what you\u2019re trying to say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a few,\u201d clapped back Watters. \u201cWe\u2019re working on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWork harder,\u201d Tarlov demanded, before Gutfeld added, with a laugh, \u201cOurs are better than yours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot touching that,\u201d Tarlov said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe actually won more Blacks than we did last time,\u201d insisted Watters. In the 2024 election, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/09\/21\/trump-black-voters-2026-election-00568650\">won<\/a> 15 percent of Black voters, up 8 percent from four years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Tarlov responded, \u201cYou got, like, one percent more and you think it\u2019s \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll take it!\u201d exclaimed Watters. \u201cYou keep losing whites! Rather have the whites, statistically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m out!\u201d Tarlov finally conceded. \u201cI am racially out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJesse, do not get into an argument with somebody who keeps score of skin color,\u201d Gutfeld offered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said, \u2018We have better Blacks than you,\u201d Tarlov stressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I didn\u2019t say that,\u201d Watters countered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said that,\u201d admitted Gutfeld.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re mixing up the white guys again,\u201d joked Watters, \u201cbecause we all look alike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch the clip above via Fox News.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>New: The Mediaite One-Sheet &#8220;Newsletter of Newsletters&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News\u2019 Jessica Tarlov exclaimed, \u201cI\u2019m out,\u201d after co-host Greg Gutfeld remarked that \u201cours are better than yours\u201d in reference to Black people who vote Republican on Friday\u2019s edition of The Five. The spat started over a discussion about the threats that President Donald Trump faces in comparison to those Democrats face, with Tarlov citing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screen-Shot-2026-07-24-at-6-32-38-PM-scaled-e1784932398790.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}