Fox Liberal Pundit Pushes Back on Network’s ‘Woke’ SVB Narrative

Jessica Tarlov, co-host of the Fox News roundtable show The Five, took issue Tuesday with conservative pundits—some on her own network—placing the blame for Silicon Valley Bank’s failure on diversity initiatives in the workplace and prioritizing “woke-ness” above financial concerns.

Tarlov began by referencing a New York Post story from Monday in which a tech insider told the Republican-friendly outlet that SVB was “the bank of the Democrats.” “If it was the Bank of MAGA, what are the chances it would be bailed out?” the person added. “There’s not a chance in hell.”

SVB “basically was” a “MAGA” bank, Tarlov said, citing the involvement of billionaire Republican political donor and venture capitalist Peter Thiel, whose Founders Fund suddenly withdrew all of its money from the bank last week before the government took it over, as Bloomberg reported. Thiel, Tarlov noted, supported Trump-allied Senate candidates J.D. Vance and Blake Masters in last year’s midterms.

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