Fox News’ “The Five” co-host Eric Bolling on Friday suggested that liberals who have been showing solidarity with Charlie Hebdo following the Paris attack are hypocritical for now championing free speech.
“The Five” co-host Greg Gutfeld referenced instances in which conservatives like Condoleeza Rice have backed out of speeches on college campuses after student protests to argue that liberals squash free speech in the U.S.
“Right now the left is leading the charge against free speech on campuses, through speech codes and hate speech, it’s not Republicans,” Gutfeld said.
Bolling agreed, and then said that “the left” is more like terrorists than French magazine Charlie Hebdo.
“The people who at Brandeis University, Rutgers, Harvard, Berkeley, this year alone, who have killed free speech, who have actually had people disinvited to speeches they were going to make on their campuses, align more closely with the terrorists in Paris than they do with the people from Charlie Hebdo,” Bolling said.
“These same people want to go ahead and wear these pins and tweet, ‘Je suis Charlie, I am Charlie.’ No you’re not. You’re not. You’re the opposite. You’re more al Qaeda than you are Charlie,” he said.
“You didn’t really mean that,” co-host Dana Perino jumped in.
But Bolling did not back down.
“I’m talking about the people who kill free speech. Who have Hirsi Ali not speak, who have Condi Rice not speak because they don’t line up with their ideology. They have them thrown off campus, rather than hearing the First Amendment free speech that they have to deliver,” he said.
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