Lara Logan attends the 2013 TCA Winter Press Tour CW/CBS panel held at The Langham Huntington Hotel and Spa on January 12, 2013 in Pasadena, California.
Lara Logan.Photo by Tommaso Boddi/WireImage
  • Over the years, she has made controversial comments.

  • She was a war correspondent at CBS for 16 years.

  • She lost her broadcast career when she began speaking more openly about her political views.

The South African-born journalist who made a name for herself covering the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has sparked controversy recently with her opinions on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Lara Logan in 2015.Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Helping A Hero

There are a number of controversial comments made by LOGAN.

  • According to Media Matters for America, during a March 8 appearance on His Glory TV's "Take Five,"Logan called the Ukrainian President a "useful puppet" that was installed by the CIA.

  • MMFA said that she believed the Capitol riot was a fake.

  • According to MMFA, during an appearance on the "And We Know" radio show on March 24, Logan said that Darwin was hired by the Jewish Rothschild family to come up with the theory of evolution. Many people found his comments antisemitic.

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She was accused of comparing Dr. Anthony Fauci to a Nazi doctor.

Dr. Anthony Fauci raises right hand as he testifies at a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is US President Joe Biden's chief medical officer.Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images

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Her comments on Fauci caused Fox News to end their relationship with the journalist. In March, she admitted that she had been dumped by Fox.

Lara Logan is seen hosting Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News in September 2021.Fox News

During an appearance on Fox News Primetime, she commented on Fauci. She hasn't been on the network since the uproar over her comments.

Tucker Carlson's prime time show was filled in for byLogan, who had been making regular appearances on Fox shows.

She was in charge of a series on Fox Nation. The old episodes of "Lara Logan Has No Agenda" are still available on the Fox Nation website.

She said on the show that she had been dumped by Fox.

After Fauci's comments, the Hollywood Reporter learned that UTA dropped her. In January, a UTA representative told the outlet that it had cut ties with LOGAN.

During the 2000s and early 2010s, a false story hurt her image at CBS. She hosted a show on Fox Nation after leaving the network.

Lara Logan in Iraq in 2006.Chris Hondros/Getty Images

According to an old biography on the CBS News website, she worked as a senior producer at CBS News from 1992 to 1996.

Lara Logan in 2004.Evan Agostini/Getty Images

Insider was able to see an archive version of that bio.

After moving to London in the mid 1990s, she began to get attention for her work as a reporter for CNN during the conflict in the Balkans, as well as for her work on the breakfast show GMTV.

Lara Logan in 2007.Margaret Norton/NBCU Photo Bank

According to Women's Wear Daily, the suit was thrown out in 2020 because it had been filed too late.

According to New York Magazine, Logan convinced her bosses to allow her to travel to Afghanistan to report on the invasion of Afghanistan.

Lara Logan during a "60 Minutes" report in 2010.CBS News

The magazine is from New York.

News networks fought to hire a glamorous beauty with a smoldering presence in the war zone as a result of the reports from Kabul. She landed a million dollar job at CBS.

Logan is seen with CBS News anchor Bob Schieffer, left, and fellow correspondent Mark Strassberg, right, in 2006.David Handschuh/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images

The magazine is from New York.

She made a name for herself by reporting from the frontlines and securing interviews with major military figures.

Lara Logan questions US soldiers in Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq on November 17, 2006.Chris Hondros/Getty

Her military ties blurred the lines of professionalism. During the Iraq War, she started dating her current husband, who worked for a firm hired by the government to push pro-military stories.

Lara Logan and husband Joseph Burkett at the 2013 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.Walter McBride/Corbis via Getty

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She covered the ousting of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak. She said she was raped by a group of men after being separated from her crew.

Egyptian anti-government protesters celebrate at Cairo's Tahrir Square after president Hosni Mubarak stepped down on February 11, 2011 — the same night Logan said she was raped by a mob while covering the news.MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images

The experience for CBS News was talked about byLogan.

New York Magazine reported that it was around this time that she began to express her political views.

Michael Hastings in 2012.Jeff Neira/CBS via Getty Images

The general was relieved of his position as the top US commander in Afghanistan by the president in June of 2010 after Michael Hastings published an article about the president and his team.

In an appearance on CNN's Reliable Sources, Logan speculated that Hastings published comments made off the record, and that they were not meant for publication. Hastings told CNN that no ground rules were laid out for the story and that he assumed his talks with McChrystal were recorded.

Michael Hastings has never served his country the way McChrystal has done.

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Then came what The Daily Beast described as a "provocative" speech at the annual lunch of the Better Government Association in 2012.

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According to New York Magazine, the correspondent "inoculated the network against charges of a left-wing agenda."

Logan is seen with fellow CBS journalist Bob Schaeffer at the GLAMOUR Women of the Year Awards Dinner on November 5, 2007.NEIL RASMUS/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images

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She was forced to apologize for making false statements in a "60 Minutes" story about the attack in Libya.

Lara Logan apologizes on "CBS This Morning" for her Benghazi report.CBS News

Dylan Davies, a security contractor, claimed to have responded to the attack at the government compound.

David Folkenflik said at the time that the report presented a narrative in which American authorities were possibly cavalier about taking security concerns seriously.

The New York Times discovered that the story was a lie to sell a book for a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster.

Simon & Schuster's New York City headquarters in 2016.Robert Alexander/Getty Images

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After an internal review of the story found it to be deficient in several respects, CBS put the reporter and producer on leave.

Lara Logan in 2017SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images

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The Hollywood Reporter says that the man returned to work on "60 Minutes" seven months later.

CBS headquarters in New York City in 2012.Mario Tama/Getty Images

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She left CBS just as quietly as she came back. Variety was the first to report that she was no longer with the network.

Lara Logan in 2018.Amy Harris/Invision/AP

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She came to stories with strong biases in British media, but producers and crew members of CBS didn't think of her as particularly political, according to a profile of her written by the man.

Logan in 2005.Larry Busacca/WireImage for AWRT

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Peter Klein, one of her former producers, wrote in an op-ed that he found her to be a good reporter despite her comments on Fauci.

Dr. Anthony Fauci directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.Alex Wong/Getty Images

Klein is the executive director of the Global Reporting Centre and a professor at the University of British Columbia.

My phone and inbox have been filled with questions from friends, colleagues and strangers, asking if she was always this way Klein wrote in The Globe and Mail on December 3 that there was no.

"Lara tried to push the envelope, but there's a system in place that keeps journalists in check," Klein said.

"Lara was a good reporter." She listened and knew how to tell a good story. While she did her share of pieces that glamorized the US military, she was also open to critique, as was seen in our story Dissension in the Ranks, which looked at service members refusing to redeploy to Iraq due to their concerns about how the war was being run by the

Two years ago, Klein saw a new version ofLogan emerge, and he's watched as she's made controversial comments that keep her relevant.

After she left CBS News, she did a stint at the conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group, before launching her Fox Nation show.

Lara Logan is seen making an appearance on Fox News Primetime in September 2021.Fox News/YouTube

There were episodes on the rise of socialism in America, the Taliban's recapture of Afghanistan, and privacy issues in Big Tech.

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Her appearances on Fox News made headlines before she commented on Fauci.

Lara Logan is seen hosting "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on Fox News in September 2021.Fox News

It has been suggested that communists may be behind attacks against white police officers, that the Biden administration is hiding evidence of vaccine side effects, and that someone may be spreading disease in the US.

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She hasn't appeared on the network since she made her comments about Fauci.

Lara Logan in 2008.Jemal Countess/WireImage

In an interview with Eric Metaxas, she said she was pushed out of Fox News.

"Precisely, I was pushed out," he stated. There is absolutely no question about that. They don't want people who think outside the box. People who follow the facts regardless of politics are not wanted by them.

When Insider first published this article, neither the production company nor the show's creator responded to Insider's requests for comment.

The November 29th episode of Fox News Primetime is not available on the internet.

During an interview with Newsmax, she went on a rant.

Lara Logan, then a correspondent of the TV show '60 Minutes Sports,' attends the 2013 TCA Winter Press Tour CW/CBS panel on January 12, 2013 in Pasadena, California.Tommaso Boddi/WireImage/Getty Images

During an interview on the right-wing channel Newsmax on October 19th, the man talked about conspiracy theories like QAnon.

She said during the interview that the open border was Satan's way of taking control of the world.

They might think that they're going to be gods. They tell us that they want us to eat insects and roaches. Correct, those are the people.

The conservative news network said it wouldn't interview the former broadcast journalist again after condemning his on air comments.

According to a CNN report, a network spokesman said that Newsmax condemns in the strongest terms the reprehensible statements made by LOGAN. We don't plan to interview her again.

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