TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2025
...this is what we mean: Watching the Gutfeld! show is a constant exercise is a type of fascination.
Having said that, we want to be frank. We're speaking of Conrad's famous phrase from The Heart of Darkness:
"The fascination of the abomination."
We're in the grip of that type of fascination. Admitting a bit of prejudgment, we'll try to be fair in what follows.
For today, let's start with a quick look at the remarkable coarseness which defines this extremely peculiar "cable news" TV program. Also, let's get clear on what we mean when we call this a propaganda messaging program—a propaganda program which delivers its corporate messaging under cover of comedy stylings.
Last night, the program's host started in the usual way—with 2-3 minutes of jokes.
After that, he delivered his opening "issue monologue." But first, he delivered the following quips, some of which you may not "get" if you aren't a regular viewer of this extremely coarse messaging program.
Here's how the program started:
GUTFELD (11/24/25): So, Thanksgiving is Thursday. And we have the inside word on what everyone's favorite politicians and celebrities are giving thanks for on this holiday
Hunter Biden is grateful for Black Friday savings on hookers.
AUDIENCE: [Laughter]
GUTFELD: Jill Biden is grateful for Febreze.
AUDIENCE: [Laughter]
GUTFELD: Hillary Clinton is grateful for strong, reliable rope.
[PHOTO of a noose]
AUDIENCE: [Laughter]
GUTFELD: Annnnnd—Kim Kardashian is grateful for dark meat. [Chuckles]
AUDIENCE: [Laughter]
GUTFELD: She loves a good drumstick.
[Pretending to apologize] I don't find the humor in that.
[...]
GUTFELD: Anyway, scientists at the Department of Energy have determined the perfect household temperature—and it's 68 degrees.
It's also the perfect temperature to keep meat from decomposing.
[PHOTO of President Biden]
AUDIENCE: [Laughter]
So the ghoulish fellow went. At 10:02 p.m., after a joke about Dolly Parton's enormous breasts, he thrilled the studio audience with this:
GUTFELD: A fashion designer claims he's using the wool of gay sheep at a New York fashion show.
How did he know they were gay? Well, their dicks tasted like [BLEEP].
AUDIENCE: [Groans, laughter, applause]
GUTFELD (modestly): Thank you.
At 10:03, he closed with a joke about—oh, never mind. But if you want to see last night's three minutes of jokes, you can do so by clicking here.
Now for the rest of the story:
The Fox News Channel once observed the prevailing conservative cultural norm known as "family values." With the addition of such stars as Gutfeld, whose style was developed in the dead hours of night, the channel has adopted a remarkably different tone—a tone which is often remarkably coarse.
Some people find this change refreshing. Even for those who do, it's a major change in the way the nation's news gets delivered on primetime "cable news" shows. Newspapers like the New York Times should be reporting this remarkable shift in the nation's journalistic landscape.
Regarding last night's jokes, let's explain the point of the jokes for people who may be new to this very unusual program:
For starters, you'll note that Gutfeld clings to old Democratic Party targets.
He continues to talk about the Bidens. He continues to talk about Hillary Clinton. That's where his sallies are aimed.
In this respect, he's much like the sitting president to whom he's been said to be servile. President Trump still focuses on Biden and them. So does the Fox News Channel's Gutfeld.
Regarding last night's jokes, let's offer these quick explications:
As the Gutfeld! audience knew, Jill Biden was said to be grateful for Febreze because of the way her husband is said to be constantly soiling himself, along with his clothing and any nearby furniture.
Dating back to President Biden's time in the White House, this has long been a treasured theme on this remarkable "cable news" show.
The joke about Hillary Clinton and the rope is a nod to the constant theme according to which Hillary Clinton murders her opponents. Three decades after Jerry Falwell traipsed around peddling the Clinton Chronicles tape, this remains a constant theme on this nut-ball's "cable news" program.
The joke about Kim Kardashian and the dark meat represents the constant allure of slippery racial insinuation. (Gay-baiting and trans-baiting are also quote common on this braindead TV show.)
The joke about 68 degrees and President Biden is the latest example of this ghoulish fellow's creepy death cult—his love of imagery in which President Biden is finally known to be dead. References to President Biden's hearse are remarkably common.
Regarding the taste of the d*cks of gay sheep, we don't know what word this idiot's producers chose to BLEEP.
In part for that reason, we ourselves don't understand that joke at all. That said, Gutfeld's studio audience plainly loved the joke, as did several panelists. This is not your grandfather's Fox News Channel. That channel disappeared long ago.
Hillary Clinton murders people. We can't wait to see Joe Biden dead.
Joe Bidne is constantly pooping and soiling himself. Barack Obama is secretly gay. His wife is a secret man.
This is the garbage that spills forth the Fox News Channel's CEO pries the lid off the can at 10 p.m. Eastern each evening. A panel of flyweights has been assembled to cheer this nut-ball on.
Some people find this palette refreshing. We'll say this:
To each his own.
People are free to indulge their own taste. That said, Greg Gutfeld has become a major "cable news" star by offering Fox News Channel viewers this highly repetitive fare. Let's go ahead and say it again:
This is a major fact about the changing face of American journalistic culture—a fact which should have been reported and discussed, long ago, by major Blue American news orgs.
Instead, those orgs avert their gaze from this nightly behavior. It seems to us that our major Blue American orgs simply don't want to tangle with Fox. Instead, they defer to the powerful Murdoch org and to the braindead garbage it peddles.
We're speaking here of this program's coarseness. As we do, we're skipping past the various instances. performed last year, in which Gutfeld offered wonderful quips on this entertaining theme:
Now that President Biden is virtually dead, has Hunter Biden started "banging" or [BLEEP]ing first lady Jill Biden yet?
During the election campaign, that was also part of the fun, and along with that the misogyny flowed. Night after night after night after night, the five women of The View have been compared to cows, to pigs, to whales, to dogs, to horses, to cattle, or more generically to "livestock."
Joy Behar is 83 years old. Nany Pelosi is 85. Gutfeld has pounded away at them for years, insisting that Behar is much too fat and that Pelosi has had too many facelifts.
Also, that they aren't sufficiently attractive to satisfy this gnome's demands. This has long been standard fare on this garbage can program.
Within the last week, Blue America's journalists reacted strongly to the incident where President Trump referred to one colleague as "Piggy." There's no obvious reason why they shouldn't have.
That said, over the course of the past few years, this sort of "conservative insult comedy" has been constant on the Gutfeld! show. Blue America's major pundits have agreed to defer to this nightly behavior—and in several profiles of Gutfeld! in the past year, some pundits even tried to wish this behavior away.
(For the record, the comparison of The View's women to cows / pigs / dogs has seemed to disappear of late. Has this disordered little mutt been fleeing outside criticism?)
We can't answer that sensible question, but this has all been part of the shape of this ugly, astounding "news" program. The various posers who sit on Gutfeld's panels cheer his inanity on.
In last Friday's report, we posted links to five profiles of Gutfeld or the Gutfeld! show which have appeared this year. By our count, at least three of those profiles actively worked to misdescribe the ugliness and the apparent misogyny which form such an obvious part of this braindead "cable news" show.
One of those profiles was different. In late August, John A. Daly (BernardGoldbeg.com) published a guest piece at Mediaite which took a whole different approach. You can click for it here:
Mediaite: August 26, 2025
Opinion
How Greg Gutfeld Went From Fox’s Most Irreverent Host to Its Most Servile
Daly critiqued and criticized Gutfeld as President Trump's most servile cheerleader. He also took us back to the days when this very same Greg Gutfeld was aggressively anti-Trump.
As he spews his venom around, Gutfeld serves as a major fan boy for President Trump. The four stooges who surround him on the set each night support him in this act of corporate messaging.
That said, how did this woman-hating attack-dog ever end up in the pro-MAGA camp?
An earlier profile may give us an answer to that. Tomorrow, we'll review John Daly's profile, and we'll look at an earlier hint which may explain how Greg Gutfeld's winding road ended up taking him there.
Tomorrow: Gutfeld gets the word
ReplyDelete"Also, let's get clear on what we mean when we call this a propaganda messaging program—a propaganda program which delivers its corporate messaging under cover of comedy stylings."
Any messaging is propaganda, Bob. According to one popular scientist, all of animal communication is manipulation of signal-receiver by signal-sender.
Consequently, your blog here is just as much a "propaganda messaging program" as anything produced by Fox News or, for that matter, by any idiot-Democrat minion, your comrade.
A comment devoid of meaning.
DeletePeople communicate for a variety of purposes. Calling it all propaganda is ridiculous.
DeletePropaganda definition: "information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a particular cause, doctrine, or point of view"
DeleteNot all people communicating with an audience are equally biased or misleading. For example, the govt used to communicate health info from the point of view of medical science, but when Trump came in, that was replaced by biased and misleading info that can harm those who follow it. Was that propaganda in both cases? Was it equally harmful?
DeleteWhat's devoid of meaning is calling a tv show (or a blog, or any other communication) "propaganda", as if there was some other kind.
Actually, it's not devoid of meaning. It's propaganda.
Assuming that Somerby is actually concerned about immigration, here is a description of the system used by Denmark, which has the support of liberals and conservatives and is working so well that other European countries are thinking about adopting it:
ReplyDeletehttps://hartmannreport.com/p/did-denmark-find-the-answer-to-immigrationwhile-add
Gutfeld is focusing on old targets (Hillary, Biden) because they are safe and unifying for conservatives. There is a lot of turmoil and controversy among Republicans these days, so joking about someone current (even on the left) may be divisive to right wing viewers.
ReplyDeleteFor example, you can't mock Mamdani if Trump and he are now bros. What are the safe targets now?
Gutfeld has no real impact on anyone's life (except his own). But someone like JD Vance is Vice President and arguably has an impact on government and thus people's lives. We could rephrase that headline Somerby quotes as:
ReplyDelete"How JD Vance Went From the right's Most Irreverent politician to Its Most Servile"
JD Vance once called Trump "America's Hitler" but now he is fully on board with any stupid thing Trump does. It is amusing to hear vance make an initial independent response and then correct it to align with whatever Trump is saying. Other Republicans do this too, but it is most visible with Vance because he doesn't have years of this behavior under his belt, so he is more obvious and less adept at waiting to speak until he knows the right line, and correcting himself gracefully.
I do not understand why Somerby limits his criticisms to Gutfeld when all the guys on the right do the same thing, for the same reasons. They all know that Trump will throw any one of them under the bus if they don't fall in line. He made an example of MTG because none of his male followers will mind if he abuses her. But Trump considers all of his lackeys expendable if they step out of line.
Somerby must know this, so why is he focusing on Gutfeld for doing what any man would do to protect his job and family, and if he is really concerned about servility (and civility), why does he confine his criticism to Gutfeld? There is no bite to his jokes because no one cares about Hillary and Biden any more.