Miami-Based Restaurant Asks Fox News Analyst To Leave Over Conservative Political Views, Interaction Resembles ‘Jim Crow South:’ Commentator Says

Fox News political analyst Gianno Caldwell criticized North Miami, Florida, restaurant owners Sunday after the food establishment asked the conservative commentator to leave the eatery due to his political views.

Paradis Books and Bread owners kicked Caldwell out of the restaurant Saturday morning, claiming the “behavior” and “words” of the group he dined with made the employees and other patrons in the space “very uncomfortable.”

Caldwell explained the situation to “Fox & Friends Weekend” host Rachel Campos-Duffy, noting that the group had discussed several topics, including working at the legacy media outlet, values, violent crime, and progressive district attorneys.

Restaurant owners then approached Caldwell and his companions, saying they were “not welcomed there because we aren’t politically aligned.”

“This situation reminds me of something that MLK said in 1963, a very simple truth,” he said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere — and what I experienced yesterday, me and some of my neighbors, who I’m just getting to know, was an injustice.”

“It was a grave injustice,” he added.

Caldwell further compared the situation to the Jim Crow South era — a group of laws that legalized racial segregation.

“If this was not the Jim Crow South, I can’t tell much of a difference,” he said, “There’s a target on the backs of people who happen to be Black — who happen to be conservative — and it needs to come to an end.”

After the interaction, Caldwell called Paradis’ handling of the situation “outrageous” on social media, garnering approximately two million views.

“They said, ‘Are you a conservative?’ I said, ‘yes,'” Caldwell said. “In fact, I have a book called ‘Taken for Granted: How Conservatism Can Win Back the Americans That Liberalism Failed.’ You should get the book.'”

Caldwell told the owner about his brother, who was shot and killed in Chicago, Illinois, last summer.

Recently, Caldwell spoke with congress members on Capitol Hill about seeking justice for his brother and other violent crime in America, which he claims to have further explained to the restaurant owners.

Paradis responded on Instagram, saying that Caldwell’s group had been “talking about women in degrading ways, as well as using eugenic arguments around their thoughts on Roe v. Wade.”

“Once it was clear that they were finished with their meal, we told them that our views don’t align, and that the language they were using was unwelcome in our space,” the statement reads. “One person in the group said, ‘That is your business model, and I respect that.'”

“As a space co-owned by black folks and women, we firmly stand by our zero tolerance policy,” the statement added.

 

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Nancy Pelosi Blames NY Governor Kathy Hochul For Democrats Losing The House

Former House Speakeri Nancy Pelosi is blaming Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) for the Democratic Party’s failure to retain control of the House of Representatives in the 2022 midterm elections.

Although Democrats fared better than they were expected to in the midterms — and Republicans only squeaked by with a slim majority — Pelosi claimed that Democrats could have kept the majority if Hochul had realized sooner that crime was a key issue with voters in her state.

Pelosi made the case in an interview with Maureen Dowd for The New York Times, arguing that down-ticket Republicans fared better in New York because Hochul had not had longer coattails.

“She said that she believed the Democrats could have held onto the House in November if top New York pols had realized that the key issue in that state was crime,” Dowd explained.

“The governor didn’t realize soon enough where the trouble was,” Pelosi said of Hochul, adding that the issue should have been addressed much sooner.

Hochul took a lot of heat from Republicans — not the least of which was her opponent in the 2022 gubernatorial race, Lee Zeldin (R-NY). In addition to calling Hochul out repeatedly for not addressing the issue, Zeldin found himself at the center of a couple of crime stories that he then used to great effect to bolster his point.

During one campaign stop, Zeldin himself was physically assaulted — however, he and several others were able to subdue his attacker and hold him until police arrived to take him into custody. Zeldin, who was unharmed, resumed his speech on bail reform after the man was taken away — but his attacker’s quick release from jail only served to back up Zeldin’s claims that New York was not doing enough to put violent criminals behind bars and keep them there.

Later in the campaign, a shooting took place just outside Zeldin’s Long Island home — while his teenaged daughters were in the house doing school work.

“After my daughters heard the gunshots and the screaming, they ran upstairs, locked themselves in the bathroom and immediately called 911,” Zeldin explained. “They acted very swiftly and smartly every step of the way and Diana and I are extremely proud of them.”

The shooting was reportedly unrelated to Zeldin personally.