00:00The other big change is that the brown M&M has, quote, transitioned from high stilettos to lower
00:05block heels. Also less sexy. Welcome to WatchMojo. And today we're counting down our picks for the
00:13most provocative comments made by Fox News personalities. This guy has a social justice.
00:20He is going to set all of the wrongs of the past right. Number 10, Laura Ingraham's comments on
00:29David Hogg. In 2018, Laura Ingraham, host of The Ingraham Angle, found herself in hot water after
00:37a post on Twitter she made about Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting survivor David Hogg. Ingraham
00:43suggests that the gun control activist was whining about being rejected by top universities.
00:49In response, Hogg organized a boycott which involved more than 20 advertisers,
00:54forcing her to issue an apology within a day. It turns out it's not a good look when a cable
01:00news anchor on an influential network picks on a 17-year-old kid. Do you accept her apology?
01:07No. She's only apologizing after a third of her advertisers pulled out.
01:11Number 9, Tucker Carlson on green M&M's. M&M's, the candy company, has just announced that
01:17it's redesigning its cartoon characters to be more gender-inclusive. An entire video can be made
01:24based on the controversial things this former Fox News host has said. In January 2022, Carlson
01:31delivered a strange broadcast where he complained about how new changes from M&M's resulted in the
01:37green candy, in particular, losing her sex appeal. The green M&M, you will notice, is no longer wearing
01:43sexy boots. Now she's wearing sensible sneakers. The segment attracted ridicule on social media and
01:49inspired a Super Bowl commercial the following year where M&M's poked fun at the controversy.
01:55Carlson has made some outrageous comments in his defense of conservative values, but his M&M's comments
02:02came close to jumping the shark. And actually, if you look at him, the orange M&M does appear very
02:07anxious. Maybe he doesn't like all the ugly new shoes he sees around him. Number 8,
02:12white. Megyn Kelly says Santa Claus is white. In 2013, Kelly was hosting a roundtable discussion
02:21on a Slate article that questioned why Santa Claus is typically depicted as white. The host blasted
02:27the article, insisting that Santa was white, something she felt the need to reassure kids
02:33watching at home. And by the way, for all you kids watching at home, Santa just is white,
02:37but this person is just arguing that maybe we should also have a black Santa.
02:42Kelly's comments attracted attention on comedy shows like The Daily Show and Colbert Report and
02:47news shows like Rachel Maddow. Kelly would later claim that her comments were tongue-in-cheek,
02:53though her critics didn't buy it.
02:55For me, the fact that an offhand jest I made during a segment about whether Santa should be
03:00replaced by a penguin has now become a national firestorm says two things. Race is still an
03:07incredibly volatile issue in this country, and Fox News and yours truly are big targets.
03:13Number 7, Bill O'Reilly on George Tiller. A pro-life conservative, Bill O'Reilly was highly
03:21critical of the late George Tiller, a Kansas doctor known for performing late-term procedures.
03:26And so, during numerous broadcasts of his program in the late 2000s, the O'Reilly Factor host labeled
03:32Tiller with a highly-charged nickname. When Tiller was tragically killed in the foyer of his church in
03:382009, several outlets speculated that O'Reilly's allegedly heated rhetoric may have contributed to
03:44the incident. O'Reilly, however, denied that his words had any connection to the doctor's death.
03:51Number 6, Sean Hannity on the Seth Rich Conspiracy.
03:56In 2016, Seth Rich, a 27-year-old staffer working for the Democratic National Committee,
04:03was shot dead in Washington, D.C. Police said the killing appeared to be a botched robbery,
04:08though the case remains unsolved. In 2017, Fox News published a now-retracted story centered around
04:16a conspiracy theory that Rich had leaked Democratic Party emails to WikiLeaks before his death.
04:21Hannity has been pursuing this theory that Seth Rich was actually the person who leaked
04:28DNC emails to WikiLeaks and that he was assassinated by the party as a result of that.
04:33During this period, Sean Hannity ran numerous stories pushing the conspiracy,
04:38which resulted in several advertisers pulling their ads. In 2018, Seth Rich's family filed a
04:45lawsuit against Fox News. Out of respect for the family's wishes for now, I am not discussing
04:52this matter at this time. Number 5, Glenn Beck calls Obama a racist.
04:59During a 2009 appearance on Fox & Friends, Beck called Barack Obama, the first African-American
05:05president, a racist who had a deep-seated hatred of white people and white culture.
05:12This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep
05:18-seated
05:19hatred for white people or the white culture. I don't know what it is.
05:23In response, dozens of advertisers pulled their ads from Fox News.
05:27This guy is, I believe, a racist.
05:31Beck apologized repeatedly for his comments on more than one occasion, most notably in a 2010 interview
05:38with Chris Wallace and in a 2016 New Yorker piece profiling him.
05:47However, he took back his apology and doubled down on the comments during an interview with Tucker Carlson
05:54in 2021.
05:56Number 4, Greg Gutfeld's comments on the Holocaust.
06:01Playing to his brand of edgy humor, Gutfeld has been known to put his foot in his mouth for shock
06:07value.
06:08In 2025, he flippantly suggested conservatives start calling each other Nazis to take the sting out of
06:15left-wingers giving them that label.
06:17So from now on, it's, what up, my Nazi? Hey, what up, my Nazi? Hey, what's hanging, my Nazi?
06:23Another inartful comment was in 2023, when he cited Holocaust survivor Frankel in claiming
06:30that in order to survive the camps, Jewish inmates had to learn useful skills.
06:36Vic Frankel talks about how you had to survive in a concentration camp by having skills.
06:41You had to be useful.
06:42The comment immediately received backlash online, and the Auschwitz-Bierkenau State Memorial
06:48and Museum put out a statement to refute Gutfeld's comments, characterizing them as
06:53oversimplifying, complex history.
06:56Number 3, Brian Kilmeade on Involuntary Lethal Injection.
07:01During a 2025 broadcast of Fox & Friends, Kilmeade and his co-hosts were discussing the
07:07stabbing of Iriana Zeruska, a North Carolina woman, by DeCarlos Brown Jr., a mentally ill man.
07:14The story prompted the co-host to debate how law enforcement should interact with the mentally
07:19ill to ensure public safety. Kilmeade suggested that if mentally ill people rejected help from
07:25shelters or institutions, they should be given Involuntary Lethal Injection.
07:30Or Involuntary Lethal Injection or something, just kill them.
07:33After a few days of public outcry condemning this suggestion as horrific and inhumane,
07:39Kilmeade delivered an on-air apology.
07:41I wrongly said they should get lethal injections. I apologize for that extremely callous remark.
07:47Number 2, Tucker Carlson on The Great Replacement Theory.
07:52It's common when you tune in to Fox News to hear commentators rail against immigration,
07:57but Tucker Carlson took it a step further on his show. He pushed the idea that large swaths of
08:03non-white people were brought into Western countries like the U.S. by shadowy forces to
08:08demographically supplant white majorities.
08:11Great Replacement Theory, anyone? These people are lunatics.
08:16Known as the Great Replacement Theory, the idea has allegedly motivated mass shootings such as
08:22the Buffalo grocery store in 2022 and the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings.
08:29The Great Replacement? Yeah, it's not a conspiracy theory. It's their electoral strategy.
08:35Several groups, such as the ADL, have called the Great Replacement Theory
08:40anti-Semitic propaganda and called for Tucker Carlson to be deplatformed for pushing these
08:45dangerous views. In political terms, this policy is called the Great Replacement,
08:49the replacement of legacy Americans with more obedient people from faraway countries.
08:53Number 1, the 2020 election. The 2020 U.S. presidential election has been a source of contention in
09:01several conservative circles who claim that the election was stolen from Donald Trump.
09:06Shortly after the election, Fox News ran several stories that claimed that elections in several
09:11states weren't on the level. However, trouble soon began when anchors such as Lou Dobbs and Maria
09:17Bartiromo and certain guests started accusing Dominion and Smartmatic of rigging the voting machines.
09:23But they also used an algorithm to calculate the votes they would need to flip and they used the
09:29computers to flip those votes. In response, Dominion sued Fox News and the news organization
09:36ended up settling for more than $785 million. Moments ago, we learned there is a settlement,
09:44a settlement in the high stakes trial between Dominion voting systems and Fox. What news outlet do you trust
09:51nowadays? Let us know in the comments.
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