Former hailed 60 Minutes journalist and CBS News war correspondent, turned Fox News ratings-chaser, Lara Logan, is stepping up her COVID-19 conspiracy theories and comparing top infectious-disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci to Nazi sociopath Josef Mengele.
Logan’s derailed comments came blurting out during an interview with Fox host Pete Hegseth, a vehement critic of coronavirus vaccine and mask mandates, who accused President Joe Biden’s administration of being overly concerned about the new omicron variant.
“What you see on Dr. Fauci—this is what people say to me: that he doesn’t represent science to them. He represents Josef Mengele,” Logan said.
Adding: “Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who did experiments on Jews during the Second World War and in the concentration camps. And I am talking about people all across the world are saying this, because the response from covid, what it has done to countries everywhere, what it has done to civil liberties, the suicide rates, the poverty, it has obliterated economies. The level of suffering that has been created because of this disease is now being seen in the cold light of day.”
Mengele was an SS physician known by the name “Angel of Death” or sometimes the “White Angel.” During World War II, “Mengele performed a broad range of agonizing and often lethal experiments with Jewish and Roma (Gypsy) twins, most of them children,” according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Tuesday, the Auschwitz Museum condemned Logan’s outrageous comments calling them “shameful” and “disrespectful.”
“Exploiting the tragedy of people who became victims of criminal pseudo-medical experiments in Auschwitz in a debate about vaccines, pandemic, and people who fight for saving human lives is shameful. It is disrespectful to victims & a sad symptom of moral and intellectual decline.”
Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League organization, issued a statement to The Washington Post Tuesday saying: “there’s absolutely no comparison between mask mandates, vaccine requirements, and other covid-19 mitigation efforts to what happened to Jews during the Holocaust.”
He added, “This includes making outlandish and offensive analogies suggesting that somehow Dr. Anthony Fauci is akin to Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, known for his gruesome medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners.”
The GOP isn’t unfamiliar with comparing the Nazis regime to those trying to mandate initiatives designed to keep communities healthy.
In October, Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker was on his way to a fundraiser in Parker, Texas, co-hosted by dubious figure Bettina Sofia Viviano-Langlais, a vehement right-wing anti-vaxxer who had a very interesting symbol gracing her Twitter profile until she was called out: a swastika.
Viviano-Langlais herself defended the symbol on Twitter, though she changed the profile picture, saying (verbatim), “It’s insane to think that pic was Anti-Semetic. Desperate actually. It was a pic showing what happens when fascists demand people insert foreign material into their body they don’t want...”
In August, The Holocaust and Human Rights Center (HHRC) of Maine condemned remarks from Republican Rep. Heidi Sampson after she compared members of Democratic Gov. Janet Mills’ administration to Nazis.
While speaking at a rally, Sampson compared the governor’s vaccine mandate for health care workers to medical experiments by Nazis in World War II, according to ABC News WMTW-8.
“We have Josef Mengele and Joseph Goebbels being reincarnated in the state of Maine. I will let you figure out who is in what role but I will just say, Mengele, we probably have two of the same last name and one is the Governor," Sampson said.
HHRC Executive Director Tam Thanh Huynh released the following statement:
“There are those alive today in Maine and across the country who have experienced the atrocities and horrors committed by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. From gas chambers and concentration camps to the systematic persecution of Jews and state-sponsored antisemitism, the lived experiences of Holocaust survivors and the horrors of that dark chapter should not be exploited for political gain or to make political statements.
“This is exactly why more education and understanding about the events leading up to and during the Holocaust is so critical in this time of deep political division.”
Logan was born in Durban, South Africa in 1971. I guess you can take the girl out of the apartheid, but not the apartheid out of the girl.
Logan’s derailed comments came blurting out during an interview with Fox host Pete Hegseth, a vehement critic of coronavirus vaccine and mask mandates, who accused President Joe Biden’s administration of being overly concerned about the new omicron variant.
“What you see on Dr. Fauci—this is what people say to me: that he doesn’t represent science to them. He represents Josef Mengele,” Logan said.
Adding: “Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who did experiments on Jews during the Second World War and in the concentration camps. And I am talking about people all across the world are saying this, because the response from covid, what it has done to countries everywhere, what it has done to civil liberties, the suicide rates, the poverty, it has obliterated economies. The level of suffering that has been created because of this disease is now being seen in the cold light of day.”
Mengele was an SS physician known by the name “Angel of Death” or sometimes the “White Angel.” During World War II, “Mengele performed a broad range of agonizing and often lethal experiments with Jewish and Roma (Gypsy) twins, most of them children,” according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Tuesday, the Auschwitz Museum condemned Logan’s outrageous comments calling them “shameful” and “disrespectful.”
“Exploiting the tragedy of people who became victims of criminal pseudo-medical experiments in Auschwitz in a debate about vaccines, pandemic, and people who fight for saving human lives is shameful. It is disrespectful to victims & a sad symptom of moral and intellectual decline.”
Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League organization, issued a statement to The Washington Post Tuesday saying: “there’s absolutely no comparison between mask mandates, vaccine requirements, and other covid-19 mitigation efforts to what happened to Jews during the Holocaust.”
He added, “This includes making outlandish and offensive analogies suggesting that somehow Dr. Anthony Fauci is akin to Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, known for his gruesome medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners.”
The GOP isn’t unfamiliar with comparing the Nazis regime to those trying to mandate initiatives designed to keep communities healthy.
In October, Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker was on his way to a fundraiser in Parker, Texas, co-hosted by dubious figure Bettina Sofia Viviano-Langlais, a vehement right-wing anti-vaxxer who had a very interesting symbol gracing her Twitter profile until she was called out: a swastika.
Viviano-Langlais herself defended the symbol on Twitter, though she changed the profile picture, saying (verbatim), “It’s insane to think that pic was Anti-Semetic. Desperate actually. It was a pic showing what happens when fascists demand people insert foreign material into their body they don’t want...”
In August, The Holocaust and Human Rights Center (HHRC) of Maine condemned remarks from Republican Rep. Heidi Sampson after she compared members of Democratic Gov. Janet Mills’ administration to Nazis.
While speaking at a rally, Sampson compared the governor’s vaccine mandate for health care workers to medical experiments by Nazis in World War II, according to ABC News WMTW-8.
“We have Josef Mengele and Joseph Goebbels being reincarnated in the state of Maine. I will let you figure out who is in what role but I will just say, Mengele, we probably have two of the same last name and one is the Governor," Sampson said.
HHRC Executive Director Tam Thanh Huynh released the following statement:
“There are those alive today in Maine and across the country who have experienced the atrocities and horrors committed by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. From gas chambers and concentration camps to the systematic persecution of Jews and state-sponsored antisemitism, the lived experiences of Holocaust survivors and the horrors of that dark chapter should not be exploited for political gain or to make political statements.
“This is exactly why more education and understanding about the events leading up to and during the Holocaust is so critical in this time of deep political division.”
Logan was born in Durban, South Africa in 1971. I guess you can take the girl out of the apartheid, but not the apartheid out of the girl.