FRIDAY: "Greasy Savior," the chyron said!

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2025

No Shedding of Cells Left Behind: It fell to Jesse Watters to open the show. It was 5 p.m. sharp in the East. 

Watters is 47 years old. An imitation of life was about to begin. 

We were struck by the way this program started. Yesterday, the most-watched program in American "cable news" started exactly as shown:

WATTERS (12/11/25): Hi, everybody. I'm Jesse Watters, along with Kennedy, Harold Ford Jr., Dana Perino and Lawrence Jones. It's 5 o'clock in New York City, and this is The Five.

Looks like the Democrats' greasy savior has risen to the top of the pack. The New York Times anointing California governor Gavin Newsom as the party's 2028 front-runner...

For the interview piece to which Watters referred, you can just click here. As Watters spoke, the Fox News Channel chyron beneath him was thoughtfully saying this:

GREASY SAVIOR
NYT: NEWSON BECAME THE DEMS' 2028 FRONT-RUNNER

Watters was speaking about Governor Newsom, the Democrats' "Greasy Savior." Before long, Dana Perino was referring to Newsom as "Governor U-Haul." 

At any rate, that was the opening statement of our nation's most-watched "cable news" show. It's a show which frequently traffics in the use of disparaging nicknames. 

As we've long noted, Watters refers to Governor Tim Walz (D-Minn.) as "Tampon Tim," or simply as "Tampon." On this, our most-watched "cable news" show, few brain cells ever get left behind.


22 comments:

  1. Wow!!! That was the opening to the Five?!?

    Did anything interesting happen after that or did you stopped watching? lol

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  2. Money is one measure of management effectiveness. E.g., the fact that Musk is operating X [twitter] just as well as the prior management, but with a much smaller number of employees tells us that the prior management was doing a poor job. Similarly, California residents' per capita tax is more than double Florida or Texas. Yes, our schools are mediocre and our highways stink.

    Newsom has been a terrible Governor. Unfortunately, our media generally doesn't report in a way the the public sees his bad performance in terms of results. I think Newsom has a good chance to be elected President in 2028. I shudder for what will happen to our country under his leadership.

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    1. Newsom is termed out. That means he was elected not once but twice. Apparently the majority of voters liked his performance as gov. David needs to move to a red state where the kind of governor he likes gets elected.

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    2. We get tired of debunking David’s lies only to have him repeat them again the next day.

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    3. Newsome got 62% of the vote in the 2022 gubernatorial election. Almost 2 out of every 3 voters. In an election that was a referendum on his success his first term.As usual DiC is an outlying reality denying MAGAt. If he live in Florida he would have voted for Medicare fraudster Rick Scott, and white boots DeSantis who diverted millions of Medicaid dollars to his wife's favorite charity.

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    4. If I lived in Florida I could afford to be out on my yacht instead of posting comments here.

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    5. Or teeing off with Phil Michelson.

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    6. The residents of Texas and Florida, states unlike California, that take in more federal dollars than they contribute, thank you for your service.

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    7. You're lying as usual, Soros-bot. Neither Texans nor Floridians receive more federal dough than is taken from them by the feds.

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    8. There is no Republican voter who isn't a bigot.
      You've been played!

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  3. Name-calling doesn’t impress thinking people. The audience for The Five is old guys like Somerby.

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    1. Anonymouse 7:40pm, so you mean the group of people who consistently go to the polls.

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    2. 8:36,
      Only if they vote straight Republican.

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  4. Quaker in a BasementDecember 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM

    Governor U-haul?

    I don't know what that means.

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    1. Number of one-way trucks rented and driven out of the state.

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    2. Supply and demand is the only reason a home in San Francisco costs so much.

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    3. Yeah, right, demand.

      "Historically, the development of the San Francisco Bay Area (Silicon Valley) tech industry was heavily financed by
      U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) research and development (R&D) contracts and grants, particularly from agencies like the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the precursor to DARPA."

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    4. If people didn't crave living under "San Francisco values" a house there would be as cheap as they are in Iowa.

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  5. Wow, remind me to never eat Chicken Alfredo with sauerkraut again! My cheeks were flappin and clappin for hours! My dog even left and sat on the other side of the room.

    Fanny White

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  6. "It's a show which frequently traffics in the use of disparaging nicknames. "

    Puhleeze Bob. He's a Democrat, this "newsome" character. What other disparaging names do you need?

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  7. In which King Orange J Chickenshit asks the question: "How stupid are my maggot cult fans?"

    President Donald Trump claimed that he is granting a “full pardon” to Tina Peters, a former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk who was sentenced to nine years on state-level charges related to election interference during the 2020 election.

    However, the president does not have jurisdiction over state charges, and Colorado officials are pushing back, contending that the president’s promise of a pardon is unconstitutional. Trump’s announcement, which he made on social media Thursday, now likely sets up a legal battle for Peters, who has been seeking a pardon from Trump.

    Peters was convicted in August 2024 for giving an individual affiliated with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a Trump ally, access to the election software she used for her county. Screenshots of the software appeared on right-wing websites that promoted false theories that the 2020 election was fraudulent.


    You can't make this shit up.

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    1. Trump's outright disdain for Republican voters is something all great Americans should emulate.

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