DEMOCRATIZATION: "Say his nickname," the bosses said!

THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2024

The revolt from below on Fox: Late yesterday, in the 5 p.m. hour, the termagant kept it up.

As we've noted, the two of us went to high school in the same sunny western land. We ourselves graduated from Aragon High. He graduated from Serra, a Catholic high school located about a mile down the Alameda.

(About a mile down the Alameda de las Pulgas—a mile down "the road of the fleas.")

As a 13- and 14-year-old (and thereafter), we'd walk past Serra on our way to the house and home of our friend—to the house and home where we'd encounter this remarkable, somewhat scary man. 

That remarkable person suffered no fools, even if they were 13! Even if you were only 13, you had to be at your absolute sharpest when you entered that house and that home.

That said, this all occurred in a sunny and promising land—a sunny land from which the angry and weirdly coarse termagant unaccountably emerged. (It would be our guess that clinical personality disorders can emerge from any land.)

At any rate, yesterday afternoon, there he was! There he was, on The Five, very much keeping it up. 

The night before, he'd delivered the hint hint hints on his eponymous Gutfeld! program. In yesterday's report, we showed you the transcripts from that night's grisly performance. 

Tuesday evening, on that show, he had seemed to be delivering some possible hint hint hints. 

Yesterday afternoon, on The Five, he of course went there again. He started the hour by mocking "Tampon Tim." (More on that nickname to follow.) 

Now, at 5:27 p.m., he returned to one of his themes from the night before. Hint hint hint hint hint hint hint, the angry small termagant said:

GUTFELD (8/7/24): I get a weird vibe off of Walz. I feel like he's the husband of a missing spouse in a Dateline special. You know what I mean? 

And like (affecting the tone of a broadcaster), "He's the beloved—

JUDGE JEANINE: Is he a suspect?

GUTFELD: —"the beloved high school coach who held mandatory showers before practice." 

He just has a weird vibe.

What kind of coach makes the boys shower before they practice? The termagant seemed to be at it again. He's paid to do this by Fox.

As we noted yesterday, the termagant's subtext was fairly clear: Hint hint hint hint hint! And sure enough! Three hours later, on Jesse Watters Primetime, there they went again!

In this case, it was Watters himself, joined by the block of protoplasm-adjacent Joe Concha. The pair went on and on, then on and on, about the strange way Walz had hugged his wife—or had failed to hug his wife—at the Philadelphia kickoff event.

Also, by way of contrast, about the highly enthusiastic way he had hugged second gentleman Doug Emhoff.

Watters introduced the protoplasm. Hint hint hint, Watters instantly said, adding yet another nickname to the rapidly growing mix:

WATTERS (8/7/24): The Great Walz of China has a lot of red flags, but one is glaring—his body language. Here is Twitchy Tim on stage, waving profusely, in a very unsettling manner—very unsettling. 

Men should not move this way. It is not the way we move, and the handshake is probably the most telling.

This is Walz and his wife, shaking hands like business associates, followed by a weird hug. Now let's compare that to Walz's interaction with Kamala's husband, Doug. 

Interesting! What's going on here?

To watch this garbage, just click here. To his credit, the major block of protoplasm knew what he should do:

CONCHA (continuing directly): Jesse, you know I'm a D-list cable guy. The point being, I sometimes get invited to speaking events across the country, like you are. And when I'm done—

My wife usually comes with me, because it's like a mini-vacation. And I will give her a hug and a kiss, because you've met Mrs. C. and I'm a lucky guy. I'm not shaking hands with her like I'm at a state farm convention, right? But that's what we saw here with Tim Walz.

Some may call this weird. That's the only adjective that comes to mind. 

WATTERS: And the hug is not the way you hug your wife. You hug your wife from the body—you don't hug like this. Different than he hugged Doug!  

CONCHA: It was very sumo wrestling-like, almost. But boy! He liked Doug there!

There are many conclusions a person can draw. We would start with this observation:

Under current arrangements, this is the way these idiots behave during a "prime time" program on a major "cable news" channel!

Before the "democratization of media," people like these would never have gotten within a hundred miles of a prime time TV news program. Now, they primp and they prance across the screen night after night after night after night, helping us see that "democratization" may sometimes arrive with some downsides.

We would also draw this second conclusion:

Be careful who you call weird! Once you've introduced that term into our nation's pseudo-discourse, it's very easy for others to turn the game around—to turn your framework against you.

Continuing, we'd say this:

Is it possible that these idiots really were engaged in the business we're describing as hint hint hint? 

You'll have to judge that for yourself! But no large modern nation can seriously hope to function under the arrangements which have brought us to this point.

Meanwhile, the last few days present several obvious questions about the work of the mainstream press, and about the challenges which will be facing the Harris campaign itself.

One obvious question is this: Will Candidate Harris be able to win November's election? 

We'd say that's completely unclear. As it turns out, the selection of Walz has unleashed a bevy of attacks:

Attacks about tampons in public schools. Attacks about alleged "solen valor." Attacks about allegedly being in thrall to the Chinese Commies. 

But also, attacks about the way Walz hugs his wife. Attacks according to which he doesn't move the way we men do.

Also, attacks about the way he makes a certain disordered being think about high school coaches who make the boys take showers before they practice! Attacks about thoughts like that!

Mark Twain is said to have said it, though he probably didn't:

A lie gets halfway around the world while the truth is just getting its boots on.

In this case, we're dealing with the speed with which an attack line can move through the communication networks which now exist thanks to the "democratization od media." 

The arracks have come thick and fast on the corporate propaganda entity known as the Fox News Channel. At present, there's no way to know whether these lines will take hold.

Full disclosure! As we recently noted, more people watch the Fox News Channel than watch MSNBC and CNN combined. Here were the primetime viewership numbers for the month of July:

Average primetime viewership, July 2024
Fox News Channel: 3.45 million
MSNBC: 1.18 million
CNN: 856,000

"Cable news" is only one part of our current communication system. But it's an important part. 

Through their mannered idiocy, Watters and Gutfeld dominate The Five, then host hour-long, primetime shows of their own. Many more people watch these peculiar performers than watch Blue America's stars.

For now, two final points:

When mainstream media try to push back, how skilled are the people in question? 

Tomorrow, we'll take a look at that question. Again, we'll suggest that Jennifer Rubin may have been right when she said that a "bizarre double standard" exists with respect to the coverage of Candidate Donald J. Trump.

Our last final point would be this:

Last night, we saw Walz mocked as "Tampon Tim." On The Ingraham Angle, we saw him described as "Totalitarian Tim" (and as "the Manchurian Candidate") because of the way he's obviously owned by the Chinese Communists.

As we've shown you, he was also mocked as "Twitchy Tim" because he doesn't move the way men do. Also, he seems to like hugging Emhoff more than he likes hugging his wife!

 Hint hint hint hint hint! On last evening's Gutfeld! show, the relentlessly horrible Charly Arnolt kept this age-old theme alive, describing Harris and Walz:

ARNOLT (8/7/24): Really, when you look at the two of them, I mean they are truly just made for each other. You have a cackling, ugly-pants suit wearing, former mistress alongside a low-key soy beta, and it really just makes that much sense.

"A low-key soy beta?" Frankly, we had to google the term. This is what came up first:

Soy boy

Soy boy is a pejorative term sometimes used in online communities to describe men perceived to be lacking masculine characteristics. The term bears many similarities and has been compared to the slang terms cuck (derived from cuckold), nu-male and low-T ("low testosterone")–terms sometimes used as insults for male femininity by online communities.

Soon thereafter, this:

SOY BOY BETA CUCK - Classy Novelty Shirt

$19.99

We'll guess that we're getting the picture! At any rate, this is the revolt from below, and it's not going to stop. Also, this is the actual shape of our flailing nation's prime time "cable news" universe.

We have one more final point:

The finer people at our finer news orgs don't report or discuss what happens on Fox.

The highly educated folk at the New York Times are much too fine for that! In such ways, ugly revolts have found a way, through the annals of time, to succeed from way down below.

Tomorrow: Stolen valor / stolen elections