WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2024
...and hints of Caligula's horse: It's hard to get one's head around the inanity and the moral squalor surrounding the culture today.
It's true—Greg Gutfeld is still working his primetime beat on the Fox News Channel. That said, it isn't entirely clear what century this strange man thinks he's in.
Last night, he opened his program with a series of six (6!) jokes about (imagined) sexual misconduct by—who else?—Bill Clinton.
These priapic politicians today! There was no mention of Matt Gaetz or of Pete Hegseth. Gutfeld was entertaining the rubes with the greatest hits from the long-ago 1990s.
Question:
Has this 60-year-old termagant ever done a joke which turns on the sexual (mis)conduct of a fellow named Donald J. Trump? We can't say that he ever has! These are the wages of human inanity, but also of the modern "journalistic" practice known as "segregation by viewpoint."
As always, Gutfeld opened with a few minutes of jokes. After that, he delivered his opening issue-based monologue.
Last night, the handful of opening jokes was finished at 10:02. His monologue dealt with the horrific defeat the Democrats suffered this month.
Inevitably, this was the very first statement of his issue-based discussion:
GUTFELD (11/19/24): It's been fourteen days since the Democrats had to face the truth—they stink worse than the Capitol's men's room after Jerry Nadler's lunch of curry clam soup.
AUDIENCE: Whooaaa!
The misogyny and the fat jokes never stop on this primetime "cable news" program. On many nights, body parts and bodily waste will seem to be all this little guy knows.
Largely as a matter of choice, this seems to be all this idiot has. At some point, we'll make ourselves go into more detail, but we hope you'll excuse us today.
For the record, Gutfeld's squalor-based inanity has been a very big seller on the Fox News Channel. What Trump is currently doing may turn out to be much more consequential, but it's all a part of the cultural inanity which has been gripping our failing society for the past quite a few years.
Trump may end up as a Caligula—but with the New York Times averting its gaze, people like Gutfeld have spent years showing the way.
This idiocy goes on every night. Along with everyone else in Blue America, the Times keeps averting its gaze.
Full disclosure: The Internet Archive hasn't returned to full, round-the-clock taping of "cable news" programs. For that reason, we can't link you to last night's Gutfeld! show.
Maybe someone asked Gutfield how he can differentiate between neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and fine people on the Right, so he told a shitty joke to distract from the fact there is no way to tell.
ReplyDeleteAnonymouse flying monkey 5:54pm, tell the anonymices that you need a week off. Get some down time. When you’re back maybe you’ll be less lame.,
DeleteTake in a drone show.
DeleteListen to the Speaker of the House talk.
Delete6:14,
DeleteSending thoughts and prayers your way.
Gutfeld may be trans for all we know -- the word termagant is gender-specific to women who are scolds. Yet it was supposedly all the woke Democrats who were excessively scoldy, according to Somerby. How then does Gutfeld get away with scolding his red viewers night after night, without alienating them and sending them all over to vote for Harris? Inquiring minds want to know what Somerby is thinking when he says things that make no sense like this. You can't have this all ways at once.
ReplyDeleteAnonymouse 6:52pm, the only thing relevant as to be worth saying is that if you look up the definition of termagant, “anonymouse” should be the first word in the first sentence.
DeleteYou get bent out of shape over bathrooms (with private stalls) but don’t care when Somerby pretends Gutfeld is a woman (to insult him). Your gender priorities are messed up.
DeleteAnonymouse 8:30pm, yeah, it would be concerning to have a strange guy in the bathroom with me, in the way that some guy calling another guy “nagging bitch” is not.
DeleteYour bugaboos are all politically oriented. That’s why you have “gender priorities” and I have sensibilities.
That's the first time I've seen "human rights" called "bugaboos".
DeleteAnonymouse 9:45pm, men don’t have the right to go into the ladies room and vice versa.
DeleteThis reminds me of the time Republicans elected a rapist with a long history of pedophilia, who ran on a policy of teenage genital inspections, to be the President.
DeleteCan't say it's not "on brand'.
Anonymouse 10:12pm, so is your anonymouse flying monkey lack of logic.
Delete10:12,
DeleteIt's funny, because it's so true.
Here's my question about Trump:
DeleteIs his raping supposed to distract us from his bigotry, or is his bigotry supposed to distract us from his raping?
8;44 pm,
DeleteSeems you've bought into the media's framing that politics is a game without real-world consequences.
I'll pray for you.
Cecelia has been in a bathroom before. No one goes into the stall with you unless you invite them. It is private and only the sinks are shared. There are co-ed bathrooms all over the world.
DeleteAnonymouse 10:41pm, pray that a man never walks into the ladies room with me. Best pray for him.
Delete10:49,
DeleteWhat are you going to do about it? Make a good faith statement? LOL.
Should men be outraged if a woman uses their bathroom? If so, why? The only men going in women’s bathrooms are transgender, and they aren’t there to molest women. They’re trying to “be” a woman, in some sense. Why does this bother you so much? This ridiculous furor is also a reason why gendered bathrooms are becoming a thing of the past, especially if they’re single occupancy. Many people are just fed up with the conservative bullshit about it, and most women don’t have a problem with it because they aren’t hung up on this shit.
DeleteAnonymouse 12:44am, yes, ifs just inconceivable why the sexes would have separate bathrooms. The anonymouse manta is that women are the pathetic victims of tyrannical men 24/7 in our culture, no one more so than Bob who shows his brutality and contempt for women in every word he writes. But by golly it’s just fine for women to walk into a bathroom where men are urinating at urinals (why not?), watching them in the mirrors, checking them out as they go into stalls. Men morph into hormone-free teddy bears via transgender ideology and what woman would mind to have a man hear her pee?
DeleteYou’d throw women into volcanoes for this brain dead ideology. It’s not enough to be tolerant of transwomen, you must let them surpass and even injure you in sports. You must call them women or men when you know they are not those things. You must consider them to be like you as to a shared physicality and experience, although their chemistry and their societal experiences have most certainly had to differ from yours, and yours from theirs.
It’s a given that liberals are going to insult contrarians by calling them bigots AND homosexuals . Anonymices call me a tranny daily. It’s expected of you and it’s comical. However, the only way you’re going to get your druthers in making people dance to your Orwellian thinking in trans ideology is by force, duress, authoritarianism. You’ll have to do that. You’re up for it as readily as you’re up carrying out a decades long jihad on an “obscure” blog. It’s your religion and you’re anything if not feverous.
Cecelia,
DeleteShould people who aren't you have human rights?
DeleteHere in India we all shit in the same ditch, equally.
Welcome, liberal perverts and soros-bots, you'll be gladly accepted here! Bring some cash!
Honest question: don't a lot of colleges and universities offer coed bathrooms for undergrads?
DeleteI like that Cecelia became a big-government fan, once a republican won the Presidency.
DeleteAsk her about the deficit, and watch her feign ignorance.
Anonymouse 9:00am, everyone should have human rights. However, we don’t assent to the notion that the moon is made of cheese because a human says it.
DeleteTrump is going to use lawfare on immigrants to protect white people from losing jobs to them on the job market.
DeleteLet's see if Somerby notices.
Ceceia,
DeleteNo human said Haitian immigrants were eating pets (it wasJD Vance---who no one could confuse with a human-- and some other ghouls). Is that why you felt comfortable believing it?
Cecelia is a Republican voter. No one gets her to believe lies.
DeleteLOL.
DeleteMonkeys shit in the same ditch with us! Here in India! Equally! Soros-trained monkeys are welcome! Come again!
They don't have urinals in co-ed bathrooms.
Delete9:30,
DeleteThat won't work on white people.
They don't think they should have to shit in the same ditch with the immigrants, who totally outclass them on the job market.
Anonymouse 9:23am, I felt that it could be a possibility due to the experiences told to me by an uncle ( who was Cuban) who had worked in Haiti via a business owned by his father,
DeletePlus confirmation bias.
They don't have urinals in the women's restrooms in the Capitol either.
Delete
DeleteRacist soros-bots hate Haitians for their cat-eating gender identity. Ay, ay, ay.
Anonymouse 10:32am, I didn’t claim that.
Delete"but it's all a part of the cultural inanity which has been gripping our failing society for the past quite a few years"
ReplyDeleteThere is a lot more to our culture than what appears on Gutfeld or Fox. And there is a lot that is admirable, that reflects well on human beings, that is artistically sophisticated, literature, plays, music and dance, that transcends what red viewers who like Gutfeld can appreciate. Demeaning our culture by equating it with adolescent partisan propaganda is about Somerby's speed these days. Our society doesn't deserve this kind of evaluation, but Gutfeld does, and so does Somerby for ignoring the efforts of those others who produce the better works that the rest of us enjoy and think of when someone mentions culture.
Our society is not failing. Trump is incapable of doing anything but fail, and the rest of us will have to clean up his mess, as Biden did during his term in office. Somerby really needs to watch something else besides Fox 24/7. The world is bigger and better than he acknowledges with these morose essays day after day. We get it that he is chronically depressed and blames us for his condition. That doesn't make anything he says about our "failing" society true. There are pills he can take for whatever is making him so depressed he cannot read a good book and recognize that the red voters who put Trump into office are not all our society has to offer.
Thom Hartmann outlines an argument that Trump's incompetent appointments are trojan horses put into place to destroy not only the agencies they head but also America's capacity to oppose Russia in its plan to regain control of Eastern Europe. Putin and Trump may be actively trying to destroy America's power. See if you find his arguments plausible:
ReplyDeletehttps://hartmannreport.com/p/are-trumps-appointees-the-trojan-b16
In Trump's defense, he's far too stupid to have seen he was being set-up by Putin to be blackmailed, when it happened.
DeleteHow can people be blackmailed over things that are public knowledge already?
DeletePutin has a photograph of Trump treating a black child with kindness.
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