SILOS RED AND BLUE: Silo Red, Silo Blue!

MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2025

Large nation, coming apart: On this sprawling campus, we were glad to see what Hillary Clinton said. It was Hillary Clinton the policy person, not Hillary Clinton the candidate.

She wasn't built to be a candidate, as her husband was. We don't mean that as a criticism. Very few people are built that way. It involves a very rare set of attributes and skills.

She wasn't built to be a candidate. She was built for intelligent statements. When she spoke with Norah O'Donnell on Saturday, we were glad to see her say this:

O'DONNELL (10/11/25): Secretary Clinton, let me start with you. Does this diplomatic breakthrough make you hopeful about what's next?

CLINTON: Norah, it does. It’s a really significant first step, and I really commend President Trump and his administration, as well as Arab leaders in the region, for making the commitment to the 20-point plan and seeing a path forward for what’s often called "the day after."

Most importantly, the conflict hopefully will end with the ceasefire. The hostages will be returned. And then the very hard work of rebuilding Gaza, of finding the kind of security that Israel and the Palestinians, after Hamas, deserve to have, moving forward with the other points in the plan, trying to create an opportunity for Palestinians to have a better life and for Israel to have greater peace and security. I am very hopeful...

To see the video, just click here. For The Hill's news report, click this.

To us, that was a grown-up statement. It could still be offered, even today, in this age of the twin towering silos

To us, that was grown-up speech. We had the same reaction when Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) appeared on CNN, speaking with Dana Bash:

BASH (10/11/25): How much credit does President Trump deserve for this deal?

KELLY: I think he should get a lot of credit. I mean, this was his deal. He worked this out. He sent Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner over to negotiate this. And so far, it’s gone well. Hopefully, the hostages get released here—might not be within 24 hours—but certainly, I think, by Monday. And that’s, that's progress. And now we’re going to have to see what happens next.

You know, my hope is the Saudis, the Emiratis, they step up and they do what they said they would do, which is invest in rebuilding Gaza, which 90 percent of the homes have been destroyed. It is such a tragic situation. It’s good to see these 600 aid trucks. That should have been happening over the last two years.

To see the tape, visit this report from Mediaite. 

To us, Senator Kelly doesn't necessarily look like an American president, but he almost always talks like one. And no—we don't really believe that the way "back out of all this now too much for us" involves saying that Stephen Millers acts like he's 4-foot-10.

Amazingly, we first saw that tape from Hillary Clinton on Saturday morning's Fox & Friends Weekend. Inevitably, it was accompanied by a lengthy harangue about the way other Democrats are refusing to give credit to President Trump for what is happening today.

What's happening today is gift from the gods to a set of families, but it's also quite limited. Somewhat cynically, we're inclined to refashion Charlie Hurt's reference to a "peace deal" in this way:

No Buildings Left to Knock Down

We'll admit it. We're inclined to perform that translation, though it may not be fully insightful.

Within the American context, residents of Gaza have long been a forgotten / disappeared people. We were happy to see Clinton and Kelly join with others to talk about the need to rebuild what's left of their war-ravaged land.

Meanwhile, this:

To see the complaints of the friends on Fox & Friends Weekend, you can just click here. It was 6:05 on Saturday morning, but the proselytizing had already begun.

Producers had assembled a list of major Democrats who had allegedly failed to give President Trump his due. The discussion had started in the mandated way—with bitter complaints that the Nobel Prize committee had failed to name President Trump for a ceasefire / hostage release which hadn't happened—which hadn't even started to happen—back at the deadline for nominations for this year's award.

In time, it fell to Hurt, the eternal teen, to read the names of the Democratic miscreants. We haven't checked to see what these six people actually said, but one name may have stood out:

HURT (10/11/25): The idea that you would take a moment like this where you have the biggest, the best shot at true peace that maybe we've ever seen in the history of Israel, and you have people who are looking at it through a political lens, noting that—you know, celebrating the peace deal but refusing to give credit to Donald Trump because they hate Donald Trump more than they love the idea of peace. 

People like former president Barack Obama; Bernie Sanders; Mark Warner, senator from Virginia, supposedly a purple state; Jackie Rosen, a senator from Nevada; [Rep.] Josh Gottheimer from New Jersey; Hakeem Jeffries are among those who would rather—are more upset about the fact that Donald Trump has achieved the peace than they are that peace has broken out.

For the record, "peace" has not yet broken out in the land in question. Over the weekend, we saw Lindsey Graham acknowledging the dangers moving forward, in much the way Hillary Clinton did as she continued her statement.

That said, we thought that one name stood out! Producers had built a giant wall on the Fox & Friends Weekend set showing the six Democrats who hadn't sufficiently credited President Trump for the ceasefire / hostage relief. 

Hurt complained about the way they were looking at the ceasefire "through a political lens," even as he and the other two friends did the same thing in Saturday morning's first segment.

Is it true? Does President Obama "hate Donald Trump more than he loves the idea of peace?" We're willing to guess that the answer is no—but in stepped Rachel Campos-Duffy, so genial among her own:

CAMPOS-DUFFY (continuing directly): Obama's so jealous. 

HURT: Yeahhhh.

CAMPOS-DUFFY: Such an ugly look.

It was "such an ugly look," she said. 

We humans are strongly inclined to be tribal—to look for ways to live inside our tribal silos. This particular Fox & Friends Weekend friend is spectacularly genial, but only among her own. 

We feel sure that she could do better. We're hoping that day will come.

At that point, we didn't know that President Obam was already being criticized for failing to credit President Trump for the ceasefire / hostage release. On the other hand, we were aware of the kinds of facts we had noted in our most recent reports.

The previous evening, on one of the most-watched programs in all of American "cable news," two of the clowns the CEO sent had told Fox viewers what you see below. Those viewers had also been told to be upset about the Nobel committee:

GREG GUTFELD (10/10/25): ...Some previous presidents certainly won it for doing a lot less than Trump did. Think about it. 

Barack Obama? He won it before he even sat down to pee in the White House bathroom.

[...]

EMILY COMPAGNO: Obama was awarded it nine months after taking office—as you point out, before he even sat down to pee.

That's the garbage which crawls from the can on the channel which employs the trio of weekend morning friends. As we noted, during that same Gutfeld! show, Red America's viewers and voters were also told this:

GUTFELD: That's Trump's [means of] persuasion—[he's a peacemaker] until you piss him off. 

Then you wake up with a horse in your bed—or a cow in your Irish pub.

[PHOTO of Rosie O'Donnell]

AUDIENCE: [Applause]

We still plan to return you to the podcast Rosie O'Donnell recently authored with Nicolle Wallace. With respect to our own reaction to O'Donnell's presentation, we will tell you this:

She had us when she cited Anne Frank. We were blown away by her account of the way she felt, back when she herself was still a child, when she saw footage of college students having food poured over their heads as they sought the right to be served at a public lunch counter during one of the sit-ins of the 1960s civil right era.

Back to Barack Obama, who sits down to pee. On Gutfeld!, the defectives routinely say that his wife is really a man, and that he himself is either gay, or perhaps is just a woman.

On Saturday night, we also saw a pair of ranting nut-balls on Life, Liberty and Levin assailing him as "a criminal"—nor had we forgotten the fact that President Trump's nut-ball Director of National Intelligence had accused him of taking part in "a treasonous conspiracy" near the end of his second term.

Also this:

For four or five years before he started running for office, President Trump had paraded about on the Fox News Channel, pretending that President Barack Hussein Obama had actually been born in Kenya. Rachel Maddow's drinking pal had been Trump's caddy in that endless, bad-faith assault on the American project. 

More recently, the man Obama failed to credit had told the world that President Obama's political party is "the party of Satan." As best we can tell, the New York Times—like the Fox & Friends Weekend friends themselves—didn't think that astonishing statement was even worth reporting.

Does there possibly come a time when a person who's been slimed in such ways stops feeling the need to honor the nut-ball who's performed and ordered this array of nut-ball conduct? People, we're just asking!

Yesterday, we struggled, all day long, trying to settle on the appropriate format for this week's reports. The questions we'd ask would be this:

How did it ever get this far? 

With that question in mind, once again, riddle us this:

How did it ever reach the place where circus clowns are sent out onto one set of "cable news" shows to spew such garbage as this?

GUTFELD (10/10/25): ...Barack Obama? He won it before he even sat down to pee in the White House bathroom.

[...]

COMPAGNO: Obama was awarded it nine months after taking office—as you point out, before he even sat down to pee.

How did it ever reach the point where a couple of nut-balls said that? Also, where a graduate of Harvard Law School laughs as she pretends to be looking at videotape of a famous person's colonoscopy, right there on the nation's most-watched "cable news" program, right there on the Fox News Channel?

How did it ever get that far? How did it ever reach the point where clowns like those spew garbage like that in the guise of a "cable news" broadcast?

That, of course, is only half of our ongoing question. The second half of our question goes exactly like this:

How did it ever reach the point where nut-balls spew such garbage night after night within Red America—and over here, in Blue America, our tribal elites neither report nor discuss that astounding, destructive act?

We former Americans now live inside a pair of silos—in silos Red and Blue. 

Within one silo, the CEO sends in the clowns. Within the other silo, it's the silence of the lambs. 

Everyone in Silo Blue agrees not to notice or care about what happens in Silo Red. It doesn't matter what the Reds do. We Blues avert our gaze.

How did it ever get this far? Tomorrow, we'll continue to explore the way Silo Red seems to have come into being.

The remarkable culture of Silo Blue is a bit harder to nail down. It's easier to see what's being said than to see what's being avoided.

Long ago and far away, Walter Winchell addressed his early TV gossip reports to "Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea."

Today, we'd like to issue a challenge to the citizens of that failing nation. We'll borrow from President Reagan's famous demand:

"Mr. and Mrs. America, tear down those silo walls!"

Tomorrow: The leading authority's unintentionally comical thumbnail on "Human"