Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

RandySF

(58,799 posts)
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 05:23 PM Mar 2022

Fox News Host Lara Logan Suggests Theory of Evolution Is a Hoax Funded by Jews

It wasn’t long ago that Lara Logan was a correspondent for CBS News, which is a little hard to believe considering the types of conspiracy theories she’s been pushing since she left the network. The latest came during an appearance on the right-wing podcast “And We Know,” during which Logan suggested that the theory of evolution is the result of a wealthy Jewish family paying Charles Darwin to devise an explanation for what gave rise to humanity.

“Does anyone know who employed Darwin, where Darwinism comes from?” Logan, now with Fox News’ streaming service Fox Nation, asked. “Look it up: The Rothschilds. It goes back to 10 Downing Street. The same people who employed Darwin, and his theory of evolution and so on and so on. I’m not saying that none of that is true. I’m just saying Darwin was hired by someone to come up with a theory — based on evidence, OK, fine.”

Logan rambled for a bit longer, but her point was that evolution is a “chicken or the egg” debate and “you can’t answer it scientifically” and, while we’re here, Jews are trying to control the world with their money. Media Matters caught the claim on Monday.

The Rothschilds, who Logan says is responsible for the theory of evolution, are a Jewish family that often shows up in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) famously wrote on Facebook that the Rothschilds funded a space laser that started the California wildfires.



https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/lara-logan-theory-of-evolution-anti-semitism-1328721/




78 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Fox News Host Lara Logan Suggests Theory of Evolution Is a Hoax Funded by Jews (Original Post) RandySF Mar 2022 OP
First Ingrahack and now this fool. FIX really likes the blonde antisemites Hassler Mar 2022 #1
I R An Investigative Journalist TheBlackAdder Mar 2022 #14
Would someone please get this woman some much needed help? Ray Bruns Mar 2022 #2
It's not help she needs; it's basic human decency. She's antisemitic. And pro-Putin. muriel_volestrangler Mar 2022 #5
She's on to us! OrangeJoe Mar 2022 #38
Is that you.... SergeStorms Mar 2022 #75
Tell me why Traildogbob Mar 2022 #45
... hand wave ... Trump the expert hacker ... foiled their plans ... muriel_volestrangler Mar 2022 #48
🤔😬 Traildogbob Mar 2022 #49
I do remember that she COL Mustard Mar 2022 #13
i wouldnt be surprised. mopinko Mar 2022 #18
I do hope that she has gotten whatever help she needs, or that she will get it. COL Mustard Mar 2022 #20
I used to have a lot of respect for her, but her turning point seemed to be after Egypt. NBachers Mar 2022 #57
Yep, I'm with you COL Mustard Mar 2022 #63
Probably MustLoveBeagles Mar 2022 #74
The REAL hoax, Lara, is... The Unmitigated Gall Mar 2022 #3
I have heard some people say that breathing air is a hoax - try carbon monoxide instead Lara. Moostache Mar 2022 #10
The need to breath is all a fake news hoax promulgated by Big Oxygen. n/t royable Mar 2022 #47
I believe Einstein wrote the theory of gravity,of course it's just a theory gravity may not be real Walleye Mar 2022 #33
And Einstein's secret space laser theory was funded and developed by the Rothschild-Soros family. Marcuse Mar 2022 #58
Aha! Walleye Mar 2022 #59
And Einstein was Jewish! And he was German, so also clearly a ... Bismarckian? Rabrrrrrr Mar 2022 #64
A scientist and a mathematician, They really hate that too Walleye Mar 2022 #66
Oh, yeah! I didn't think to just go with the obvious - he was smart. Knew facts. They hate that. Rabrrrrrr Mar 2022 #70
So, if she's correct, what was the payoff for funding this theory? bucolic_frolic Mar 2022 #4
Apparently evolution skipped over her family. lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #6
Logan is proof that evolution doesn't always mean a more refined end product gratuitous Mar 2022 #7
I was going to say that she was proof.... lastlib Mar 2022 #26
I thought she was a respected journalist COL Mustard Mar 2022 #8
Can't she come up with better lies than Rothschild conspiracy theories over 200 years old? Ziggysmom Mar 2022 #9
Fox, the paranoia channel. Aussie105 Mar 2022 #11
She'll do anything and play any role as long as she's getting a paycheck. mobeau69 Mar 2022 #12
Yup. grumpyduck Mar 2022 #21
IAATB as always. XacerbatedDem Mar 2022 #67
Can you picture the degenerate bag of assholes at fox that come up with and approve this shit ? CentralMass Mar 2022 #15
Did they mention that the Rothschild paid Wallace and all of the other scientist Chainfire Mar 2022 #16
Wasn't she a 60 Minutes correspondent? Shame CBS, shame dem4decades Mar 2022 #17
She wasn't like that when she worked for CBS, at least at first. Ocelot II Mar 2022 #25
I liked her on 60 Minutes Shermann Mar 2022 #30
Her 60 Minutes story on Alex Honnold was one of the best ever. Too bad she's fucked up now. mobeau69 Mar 2022 #34
Maybe that's why she "left" CBS. paleotn Mar 2022 #41
Nazi Hoax much? jpak Mar 2022 #19
Dear Christian bigots, Jesus was a Jew. Not a white Christian with blue eyes. LakeArenal Mar 2022 #22
Science itself is all a big HOAX Lara, a big HOAX Blue Owl Mar 2022 #23
She was assaulted in Egypt and then cut from CBS after botched 60 Minutes Benghazi story. IA8IT Mar 2022 #24
I straight up pity all members of the Roshschild family that have to put up with this shit. Coventina Mar 2022 #27
Did they not teach biology in South Africa? dalton99a Mar 2022 #28
BWAHAHAHA lpbk2713 Mar 2022 #29
Is For-Profit Media just unwilling to even consider opening a text book? Torchlight Mar 2022 #31
Instead of invading Ukraine, Putin should have gone after Fox News NickB79 Mar 2022 #32
I think she was more seriously hurt in that attack than we know. oldsoftie Mar 2022 #35
I used to have such a huge crush on her. Now I know her politics, she looks hideous! nt Quixote1818 Mar 2022 #36
Maybe she's got secret fantasies about her and Adolf?? Justice matters. Mar 2022 #37
Um, the creation story was originally a Jewish story. paleotn Mar 2022 #39
And the Rothschild family isn't nearly what they used to be anyway oldsoftie Mar 2022 #40
Darwin was a Jew? The Voyage of the Beagle was a Jewish plot? Was Gregor Mendel secretly... Hekate Mar 2022 #42
Fox News Host Lara Logan is . . . Aussie105 Mar 2022 #43
"[Insert Name] needs attention" should be the headline for these assholes. chowder66 Mar 2022 #44
And there it is!!!! Grins Mar 2022 #46
Logan, "Does anyone know who employed Darwin, where Darwinism comes from?" Botany Mar 2022 #50
Darwin had no connection to the Rothschilds Shoonra Mar 2022 #51
The EGG CAME FIRST you idot! And yes, it's SCIENTIFIC! All mutations happen within the egg. TeamProg Mar 2022 #52
Something is wrong with her. Beacool Mar 2022 #53
K and R. Thanks for posting...Yes, There Is Always More, and More, and Even .."MORE" Stuart G Mar 2022 #54
...and, George Soros went back in time and paid Einstein 5,000 bitcoin to... LudwigPastorius Mar 2022 #55
Oh for fuck's sake!!!! calimary Mar 2022 #56
Jesus was a Jew. Maybe they could punish him again? keithbvadu2 Mar 2022 #60
Bother. Idiot. Their hate and ignorance are as annoying as they are dangerous. Solly Mack Mar 2022 #61
The Jews wrote the Creation Story they're so fond of... Wounded Bear Mar 2022 #62
If Christian Evangelism ever defeats democracy, 70sEraVet Mar 2022 #65
Didn't she used to be able to pretend she was a sane journalist? JHB Mar 2022 #68
It's concerning a large political segment in this country is completely batshit and mentally gone. Oneironaut Mar 2022 #69
I guess the Rothschilds forgot to grease the palms of Erasmus Darwin, Charles's grandfather. Aristus Mar 2022 #71
Kick BlueWavePsych Mar 2022 #72
She is an ill-informed IDIOT. The evidence is clearly there to see the adaptations over eons..... usaf-vet Mar 2022 #73
OMG! Really! The ignorance, bigotry, and audacity of these people boggles the mind, Martin68 Mar 2022 #76
I thought she had some smarts when she was covering Egypt Raine Mar 2022 #77
Darwin was independently wealthy: he got onto the Beagle only because struggle4progress Mar 2022 #78

muriel_volestrangler

(101,311 posts)
5. It's not help she needs; it's basic human decency. She's antisemitic. And pro-Putin.
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 05:30 PM
Mar 2022
Fox Nation host Lara Logan shares conspiracy theories about “Putin’s purge of the Rothschild money changers,” Jewish people masterminding U.S. Civil War

Fox Nation host Lara Logan used her Gettr account to promote a piece that claimed that Jewish people are behind “a one world government" and “central banking and big corporate money" and are the “divider and conqueror” and “the aggressor, yet always the victim." The post Logan shared also claimed that the Rothschilds engineered the U.S. Civil War and the assassinations of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, and that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin purged "the Rothschild money changers.”
...
On her verified Gettr account on March 15, Logan shared a piece on the fringe conspiracy theory website Political Vel Craft that pushes numerous antisemitic conspiracy theories. The article included the following image (posted with the file name “zionists-jews.jpg”) featuring a star of David and the headline, “What Would Zionists Do?” The list included the claim that Jewish people are “behind a one world government” and are the “‘divider and conqueror,’” “Federal Reserve, Wall Street, central banking and big corporate money,” “the MSM, Hollywood, tabloid journalism and pornography,” and “the aggressor, yet always the victim.”

https://www.mediamatters.org/lara-logan/fox-nation-host-lara-logan-shares-conspiracy-theories-about-putins-purge-rothschild

The antisemitic conspiracy theories she was spreading include:

The Civil War and the Lincoln and JFK assassinations. The piece claimed, “The Rothschild’s use their money power to foment the bloody U.S. Civil War, 1860-1865.” It also said the JFK and Lincoln assassinations were “BY OBAMA PUPPET MASTERS ~ THE ROTHSCHILDS.” (Emphasis in original.)

“Putin’s Purge Of The Rothschild Money Changers.” The piece portrayed Putin as fighting the Rothschilds and purging “the Rothschild Money Changers.” (The text about Putin was posted prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.)

OrangeJoe

(337 posts)
38. She's on to us!
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 07:00 PM
Mar 2022

Damn, we tried so hard to keep all of this on the QT but she sussed out our secrets. Well I guess we might as well give up, she's got us dead to rights.

SergeStorms

(19,201 posts)
75. Is that you....
Tue Mar 29, 2022, 12:40 PM
Mar 2022

OrangeJoe Rothschild?

Yep, Lara Logan is hot on your trail. She'll stop at nothing to bring your evil schemes to an end. Try as you may, you'll never escape the all-seeing eye of......... LARA LOGAN!

Traildogbob

(8,732 posts)
45. Tell me why
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 07:27 PM
Mar 2022

The Jews are not killing the hell out of Putin and his clowns with this space lasers. That could easily close the skis over Ukraine. Jewish Ukraine’s are being slaughtered. Zap those damn Russians from space. Take out all their satellites. There, problem solved. Get to shootin those lasers Soros.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,311 posts)
48. ... hand wave ... Trump the expert hacker ... foiled their plans ...
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 07:39 PM
Mar 2022

... about to have all the evil people in the world arrested ... all part of his brilliant plan ... start a thousand years of perfection ... no wait, why are you running away, I have so much more to tell you!

COL Mustard

(5,897 posts)
13. I do remember that she
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 05:38 PM
Mar 2022

Had the crap beaten out of her in Egypt in 2011, and was pretty roughly handled by the crowd. I wonder if that incident had something to do with what she's doing now. Seriously.

COL Mustard

(5,897 posts)
20. I do hope that she has gotten whatever help she needs, or that she will get it.
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 05:45 PM
Mar 2022

I'll reserve harsh judgement based on that incident, until I know more. But damn...if you didn't get the help, Lara, please, get it now!!!

NBachers

(17,108 posts)
57. I used to have a lot of respect for her, but her turning point seemed to be after Egypt.
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 08:09 PM
Mar 2022

I can’t find myself as angry at her as I am at some of the other Q poison spreaders. I think the incident in Egypt damaged her, and every time I read some more disturbing comments from her, I feel disappointment and pity.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
10. I have heard some people say that breathing air is a hoax - try carbon monoxide instead Lara.
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 05:33 PM
Mar 2022

These people are too much. It makes me really wish "teh stoopid" burned...

Marcuse

(7,479 posts)
58. And Einstein's secret space laser theory was funded and developed by the Rothschild-Soros family.
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 08:18 PM
Mar 2022

Rabrrrrrr

(58,349 posts)
64. And Einstein was Jewish! And he was German, so also clearly a ... Bismarckian?
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 08:25 PM
Mar 2022

I don't know - whatever fucking thing FOX is against today.

lastlib

(23,224 posts)
26. I was going to say that she was proof....
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 05:57 PM
Mar 2022

... that some of the monkeys came out of the trees head-first.......hit their heads on rocks.

Aussie105

(5,395 posts)
11. Fox, the paranoia channel.
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 05:34 PM
Mar 2022

Too easy to make up an evil cabal of people to blame stuff on.

Illuminati, Masons, Jewish conspiracy - pick one, blame everything you believe is not right with the world, and spin a story.

It doesn't need to be true, it just needs to feed the paranoia some people feel.
(If you believe any of this, seek help!)

Keep up the good work, Fox!

mobeau69

(11,144 posts)
12. She'll do anything and play any role as long as she's getting a paycheck.
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 05:36 PM
Mar 2022

This was intended to satisfy evangelicals.

CentralMass

(15,265 posts)
15. Can you picture the degenerate bag of assholes at fox that come up with and approve this shit ?
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 05:40 PM
Mar 2022

The stench in that room must be unbearable.

Chainfire

(17,536 posts)
16. Did they mention that the Rothschild paid Wallace and all of the other scientist
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 05:41 PM
Mar 2022

that came after the pair? Did the Rothschilds carefully plant fossils all over the world for crooked anthropologists, who all acted together in some grand conspiracy, to find and study.

I will be damned if I ever cared enough about money to make such and ass of myself as the "journalists." Why would anyone prostitute themselves like that?

Ocelot II

(115,683 posts)
25. She wasn't like that when she worked for CBS, at least at first.
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 05:56 PM
Mar 2022

She did some controversial reporting during the Iraq war but she didn't really begin to jump the rails until after she was assaulted in 2011. I wonder if there's some PTSD or brain damage involved - although plenty of people have become weird AF even without that explanation.

paleotn

(17,912 posts)
41. Maybe that's why she "left" CBS.
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 07:07 PM
Mar 2022

So many times I've heard of people "leaving to pursue other opportunities", which in corporate speak means they were told not to come back.

IA8IT

(5,554 posts)
24. She was assaulted in Egypt and then cut from CBS after botched 60 Minutes Benghazi story.
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 05:51 PM
Mar 2022

Chewed up and spit out she went after "Liberal Media" I felt bad for her then but now ten years later she will say anything no matter how weird.

And Happy 51st Birthday tomorrow Lara!!

Coventina

(27,115 posts)
27. I straight up pity all members of the Roshschild family that have to put up with this shit.
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 05:59 PM
Mar 2022

Any time Jews succeed in a world that hates them, they suddenly are suspected of demonic powers.

Honestly, it's so sad and stupid.

When is humanity going to grow out of these delusions?



on edit: grammar

Torchlight

(3,331 posts)
31. Is For-Profit Media just unwilling to even consider opening a text book?
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 06:04 PM
Mar 2022

Capt. Fitzroy of the Beagle (and also a man of letters and scientist in his own right) appointed Darwin as an attendant on the trip to avoid loneliness and have a gentleman of letters to talk to during the ship's mission: surveying of particular areas of the Pacific (Capt Fitzroy had two close relative, both members of the British navy commit suicide while serving the empire; and the previous captain of the Beagle also committed suicide, though I don't remember why).

As to who paid for Darwin's trip and efforts? His uncle (MP and abolitionist), the same uncle who persuaded Chuck's dad to let him go, as Darwin Sr. was initially against the trip.

NickB79

(19,236 posts)
32. Instead of invading Ukraine, Putin should have gone after Fox News
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 06:08 PM
Mar 2022

Would have gotten more Nazis there.

oldsoftie

(12,533 posts)
35. I think she was more seriously hurt in that attack than we know.
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 06:56 PM
Mar 2022

Far as I know, she was beaten as well as sexually assaulted. She could have had brain injuries

Justice matters.

(6,928 posts)
37. Maybe she's got secret fantasies about her and Adolf??
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 06:59 PM
Mar 2022

Or maybe she sees the Charlottesville incels and dreams of marrying one?

paleotn

(17,912 posts)
39. Um, the creation story was originally a Jewish story.
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 07:05 PM
Mar 2022

Guess her small mind can't wrap itself around that. Christians simply coopted it, like they coopt everything. Saturnalia, Samhain, the list goes on. They're simply not very creative. That speaks volumes about them. Brian would certainly agree.

Hekate

(90,674 posts)
42. Darwin was a Jew? The Voyage of the Beagle was a Jewish plot? Was Gregor Mendel secretly...
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 07:15 PM
Mar 2022

… a Jew hiding out in a Moravian monastery? The mind reels.

Also my brain and stomach both hurt.

Aussie105

(5,395 posts)
43. Fox News Host Lara Logan is . . .
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 07:25 PM
Mar 2022

just another reason to blow up Fox.

(In a legal, non violent way of course, but if you insist . . .)

Seriously folks, Fox must have a think tank of drugged up conspiracy theorists generating these ideas and the talking heads are programmed to spew them, just to see which ones take root.

Track record on that isn't all that good to be honest.

I can't wait until they tap into the 'aliens are amongst us, watching, controlling us', area 51 mystery, alien mind control, causing wars, global warming.

Few other possibilities too, could get interesting!

Poor Lara! Moved up the pay scale by joining Fox, but at what cost to her sanity, credibility, and future employment prospects, when Fox self destructs or gets blown up? (See disclaimer at the top of this post.)


chowder66

(9,067 posts)
44. "[Insert Name] needs attention" should be the headline for these assholes.
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 07:26 PM
Mar 2022

Or better yet just ignore them.

Grins

(7,217 posts)
46. And there it is!!!!
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 07:32 PM
Mar 2022

After all the George Soros anti-Semitism for years, it took them longer than I thought.

Botany

(70,502 posts)
50. Logan, "Does anyone know who employed Darwin, where Darwinism comes from?"
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 07:57 PM
Mar 2022

Chickens Darwin besides his scientific work was an active member of the Anglican Church.

Logan rambled for a bit longer, but her point was that evolution is a “chicken or the egg” debate and “you can’t answer it scientifically."

Evolution does not say there is or there isn't a God but it is the change of gene frequency over time and sex shuffles the deck.

Shoonra

(521 posts)
51. Darwin had no connection to the Rothschilds
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 08:00 PM
Mar 2022

The three-volume collection of The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin does not even mention the Rothschilds.

I cannot imagine why a banking and investment family like the Rothschilds would have the slightest interest in the primordial origins of the human species. How could it improve their investments?

TeamProg

(6,124 posts)
52. The EGG CAME FIRST you idot! And yes, it's SCIENTIFIC! All mutations happen within the egg.
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 08:00 PM
Mar 2022

Changes to DNA, adaptions for evolution, all happen in the egg.

So yes, the egg came first.

Scientifically, only the smallest of brains is required to understand this.

Beacool

(30,247 posts)
53. Something is wrong with her.
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 08:03 PM
Mar 2022

The first time I heard of her was when she worked for CBS and was attacked by a mob in Egypt. She was off the air for a while and seemed to be traumatized. Is her conduct of the last few years a product of that attack or was she always a bigoted kook?

LudwigPastorius

(9,139 posts)
55. ...and, George Soros went back in time and paid Einstein 5,000 bitcoin to...
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 08:03 PM
Mar 2022

come up with the Theory of Special Relativity.

...which Albert promptly used to construct a time machine to come to the present day, cash out his bitcoin, and drop off the time machine blueprints to Soros.


keithbvadu2

(36,793 posts)
60. Jesus was a Jew. Maybe they could punish him again?
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 08:20 PM
Mar 2022

Jesus was a Jew. Maybe they could punish him again when he comes back?

He died an observant Jew.

???

70sEraVet

(3,496 posts)
65. If Christian Evangelism ever defeats democracy,
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 08:25 PM
Mar 2022

this country is going to make every futuristic horror movie look like a trip to Disneyland.

Oneironaut

(5,494 posts)
69. It's concerning a large political segment in this country is completely batshit and mentally gone.
Tue Mar 29, 2022, 09:20 AM
Mar 2022

These people can be manipulated. If they believe this, they’ll believe anything.

Aristus

(66,328 posts)
71. I guess the Rothschilds forgot to grease the palms of Erasmus Darwin, Charles's grandfather.
Tue Mar 29, 2022, 09:57 AM
Mar 2022

Erasmus Darwin was writing papers and poems about evolution before his grandson was even born.

usaf-vet

(6,181 posts)
73. She is an ill-informed IDIOT. The evidence is clearly there to see the adaptations over eons.....
Tue Mar 29, 2022, 11:38 AM
Mar 2022

... that demonstrate living life forms evolve to survive in changing environments.

Martin68

(22,794 posts)
76. OMG! Really! The ignorance, bigotry, and audacity of these people boggles the mind,
Tue Mar 29, 2022, 04:26 PM
Mar 2022

For one thing, Darwin was never "employed," period, He was independently wealthy.

Raine

(30,540 posts)
77. I thought she had some smarts when she was covering Egypt
Tue Mar 29, 2022, 04:46 PM
Mar 2022

but she was either faking intelligence or when she was beaten and assaulted her brains became addled.

struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
78. Darwin was independently wealthy: he got onto the Beagle only because
Tue Mar 29, 2022, 05:16 PM
Mar 2022

he could pay his own way. His wealth originally traced to the Wedgwood pottery company, founded by his grandfather, but Darwin seems to have been a smart investor

Latest Discussions»General Discussion»Fox News Host Lara Logan ...