The Five were sure it wasn't them!

THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2024

Also, Greg Gutfeld got something right: On Tuesday afternoon, four members of the cast of The Five were sure it wasn't them. As a matter of fact, they were adamant.

The White House had begun to claim that Red American orgs were airing misleading videotape about President Biden.

Four members of The Five were scandalized. Greg Gutfeld responded first:

GUTFELD (6/18/24): When we see something, we vet it. The media does not. They are the engine behind their hoaxes. They are lucky we don't match their dishonesty. We could. We don't.

We don't have to, because basically we don't have to make up crap. Apparently, though, they hold us to a higher standard than they hold themselves. Only they can cheat. because they believe they have a moral high ground and that moral high ground allows them to do anything immoral they want...

They can say anything. They can lie, because they have the moral high ground. The most dangerous person is one that excuses their bad actions in the name of the good, especially when the good never materializes.

WATTERS (smirkingly): Very well said, Greg.

GUTFELD: Thank you, Jesse.

Several minutes later, Judge Jeanine went off. Harold Ford has said he doesn't like it when either side engages in misleading presentations. 

Ford serves as one of the program's punching bags. Judge Jeanine had a better idea:

PIRRO: You know, when you talk about both sides? I don't think it's both sides. The political correctness started with the Democrats. when they wanted us to say things in certain ways... All the Democrats do is say you've got to shut up. You can't say it that way and you mustn't change that...The only thing that's going on is Joe Biden is losing his mind, stumbling, mumbling and tripping. That's all.

The four panelists were quite sure—nothing misleading is ever said on a program like The Five. Comically, The Five is a program where "fair and balanced" has come to mean four dogmatic Red American pundits beating up one lone Democrat.

Four on one is the definition of "fair and balanced" on this "cable news" program! In the very next segment, Watters was pounding his right fist into his left palm, suggesting that this is what should be done to the demonic Anthony Fauci.

("They're treating this guy like royalty. He should be really [SMACK] put the screws to," the silly fellow scarily said, suggestively pounding his fist.)

The four panelists were adamant—nothing misleading or erroneous has ever emerged from Red America's side of the aisle. But in the midst of all the clowning, Greg Gutfeld broke every rule in the book:

He made a valid point!

He has now been stating his point for several days, on The Five and on the Gutfeld! program. You can see him make the point Tuesday afternoon on The Five, as the segment came to an end.

His presentation started like this. Sadly enough, this overwrought presentation is basically valid:

PIRRO (6/18/24): ...The only thing that's going on is Joe Biden is losing his mind, stumbling, mumbling and tripping. That's all.

GUTFELD: Jesse, can I make one simple point? That Joe Biden ran on one simple fake fact, that Trump called Nazis "fine people." 

When anybody called that out on the media and said it wasn't true, they were putting their careers in danger. There were only a handful of people that said, "Trump didn't say that. Trump didn't say that." And still CNN, and other networks, would run for it. If you called it out, you got harassed. So this is bullsh*t.

As you may recall, the endlessly cited phrase in question was "very fine people on both sides." That said, Gutfeld's overwrought complaint is basically well founded.

Yesterday afternoon, on The Five, he went into more detail, some of which was helpful. Basically, the highlighted statement is accurate:

GUTFELD (6/19/24): ...The fact is, all of the Trump hoaxes have turned out to be false. All of the Biden mishaps are obviously true. 

So I'm going to go back, because I sound like a broken record, to the "fine people" hoax. The was the media / Democrat op that edited Trump's words to make it sound like he said Nazis were fine people...Any journalist could have looked at this transcript and debunked it, but they didn't.

Gutfeld went on and on in overwrought fashion, but the highlighted point is valid. In the transcript in question, Trump clearly said, two or three times, that he wasn't including white nationalists or the like in the "very fine people" comment.

Gutfeld's highlighted statement is accurate! Any journalist could have reviewed the transcript and seen that Trump made those statements. Indeed, journalists should have done that.

We ourselves have done a full presentation of this matter several times. But we the people of Blue America are every bit as unsuited to running "our democracy" as are the people of Red America, the neighbors and friends Over There.

We humans are good at building tall buildings—tall building which rarely fall down. Also, when you hit the light switch on the wall, the lights almost always come on.

We the humans are much less skilled at almost everything else. By temperament and basic wiring, we're poorly suited to the complex task of engineering a serious discourse within what we call "our democracy."

As humans, we instinctively know that our own tribe is intelligent, honest and right. We also know that those found in the other tribe are stupid, dishonest and wrong.

Four of The Five play this game every day. But it isn't just done on Fox.

We humans! We simply aren't built for the tedious task of trying to run "our democracy." We Blues have displayed this shortcoming again and again. It isn't just the four irate folk who strut and fret and expound Over There.