Stacey Dash Earns 'Clueless' Jokes After Failing to Condemn Nazis in Disastrous MSNBC Interview

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Stacey Dash is working hard to live up to the title of the only movie people remember her from.

The actress-turned-pundit-turned-politician inspired more "Clueless" jokes this week after her first televised interview as a California congressional candidate. After fumbling through topics such as gun control and health care, the aspiring Republican representative told MSNBC's Ari Melber that Trump was "absolutely right" in his response to the deadly violence that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year at a high profile white supremacist rally.

Melber noted that White House chief economic advisor Gary Cohn -- who recently resigned -- said he almost left the administration due to Trump's "blame on both sides" remark. Melber then asked Dash if the president was wrong, prompting her to suggest it is an "extreme" to oppose Nazis.

"No, I think he's absolutely right," she said. "There were two extreme sides. And here's what it boils down to: our right. They had a right to assemble. Both sides had a right, but they were both extremes. And here's where I said in the beginning: We have to listen to each other. If we do not listen, there will be no solutions. It's just a bunch of banter and noise."

When Melber pressed Dash to explain the "extreme" she felt was being perpetuated from the side opposite the white supremacists, she said, "I'm not saying that I'm justifying the hate on the other side, what I'm saying what their constitutional right was -- they were excising that. There should be no hate at all. Hate is not the answer for anything."

Dash went on to say that Trump "wasn't siding with the neo-Nazis," and added that she's "not here to judge" them.

"I'm not here to judge. The only one who can judge is God," she said. "Do I know every person in the neo-Nazi party? If they have a good heart or not? No, I don't. Do I know every member of a gang? If they have a good heart or not? No, I don't. Do I know every heart of a man in prison? If he has a good heart or not? No, I don't. I'm not here to judge."

Naturally, viewers were stunned at her refusal to simply condemn Nazis, and their jaws dropped even further when Melber managed to get Dash to admit, "Of course I'm a 'Clueless' person." Yes she was talking about the movie, but the chorus of critics crying out on Twitter after watching the interview took that statement at face value. See how average joes, media personalities and celebrities, alike, trashed Dash for her most recent blunder.