CNN anchor John Berman says Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) comparison between the Holocaust and mask mandates makes him “sick.”
During CNN’s “New Day” on Monday, Berman played a clip of Greene saying, “You know, we can look back at a time in history when people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens, so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany.”
She added, “And this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about.”
Calling her remarks “abhorrent,” Berman explained, “It is also apparently allowable under House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who hasn’t commented on it and refused to punish Greene for past anti-semitic statements she made.”
Watch his comments below:
“As a rational Jewish person, let me just say to Marjorie Taylor Greene: Don’t you dare speak for me. Not if you’re going to compare health measures … to the Holocaust.”@JohnBerman says the GOP Rep’s remarks comparing House mask mandates to the Holocaust “make me sick.” pic.twitter.com/OkhRyGlUkl
— CNN This Morning with Kasie Hunt (@CNNThisMorning) May 24, 2021
Greene later doubled down on her remarks, “I said nothing wrong and I think any rational Jewish person didn’t like what happened in Nazi Germany and any rational Jewish person doesn’t like what’s happening with overbearing mask mandates.”
Berman responded, “I promise you that Congresswoman Taylor Greene, she thinks I’m Jewish. So as a rational Jewish person, let me just say to Marjorie Taylor Greene: Don’t you dare speak for me. Not if you’re going to compare health measures or anything to the Holocaust.”
He noted Greene tweeted, saying, “I’m sorry if my words make people uncomfortable.”
Berman fired back, “They don’t make me uncomfortable. They make me sick.”
Greene’s comments garnered reactions from Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), as IJR reported.
Cheney tweeted, “This is evil lunacy.”
Kinzinger also tweeted, “Absolute sickness.”