RACE: The termagants say she's really a man!

FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2026

They slime the first lady—of France! Is the UFC's Josh Hokit a racist? 

Asking a slightly different question, was his pitiful statement on June 14 a racist act? 

We don't know much about Josh Holit. For that reason, we aren't sure how to answer your questions.  

Who the heck is this person, Josh Hokit? We direct you to these elements from the thumbnail account offered by the leading authority on the person in question:  

Josh Hokit   

Joshua Seth Hokit (born November 12, 1997) is an American professional mixed martial artist who currently competes in the Heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He formerly competed in Bellator MMA. As of June 20, 2026, he is #5 in the Meta UFC heavyweight rankings.

Prior to competing in MMA, Hokit was an All-American wrestler, and played American football as a tight end and fullback in college football, at Fresno State. 

[...]  

Hokit has a history of controversial remarks during post-fight interviews, dating back to his tenure in Legacy Fighting Alliance (LFA). Following wins in LFA, Hokit made several controversial remarks, including labeling former first lady Michelle Obama "a man" and criticizing the participation of transgender women in sports, stating that they "belong" in the octagon with him "because you need to get your ass whooped."

This pattern continued following his TKO victory at UFC 324—the first UFC event to be streamed live on Paramount+—where Hokit responded to the idea of "losing in a fist fight" by stating, "N-word, please." During the same interview, he called out Waldo Cortes-Acosta, labeling him a "deadbeat father not to one kid, but to nine," and concluded by stating, "And P.S., Brittney Griner is a man."

The UFC 324 remarks drew laughter and cheers from the live crowd; post-fight interviewer Joe Rogan responded while laughing, "Brittney Griner catching strays. She doesn't deserve that." However, the interview was widely criticized by media outlets, and Dana White, CEO of the UFC, later expressed disapproval...

In a post-fight interview with Joe Rogan following Hokit's win at UFC Freedom 250, [Hokit] commented, "Now listen, Alex Pereira, I'm going to chama on your mama, and lastly, Michelle Obama is a man! Am I right, America?" Dana White later condemned the remarks.

Somehow, Rogan always seems to be on hand when this conduct occurs. Rogan, an influential podcaster, can be numbered among the many strange fruits which have emerged from the ongoing "democratization of media."   

At any rate, the leading authority thereby offers a first draft of history regarding Hokit's attitudes and behaviors. As a source, the authority links to an opinion piece by Brian Bell at the OutSports site:

Even UFC’s Dana White didn’t like Josh Hokit’s transphobia at ‘UFC 324.’

The UFC’s debut on Paramount+ Saturday night gave the MMA promotion’s new broadcasting partner a speedrun of the peaks and valleys inherent to the UFC experience.

“UFC 324” saw a major fight pulled due to injury, a prelim fight pulled due to betting irregularities, another prelim fight cancelled after a fighter collapsed after weigh-ins, an action-packed main event that saved a fairly lackluster main card, UFC CEO Dana White seemingly throw his injured heavyweight champion under the bus during the post-show presser and the emergence of the UFC’s latest up-and-comer who substitutes try-hard transphobia and racism for having a personality.

[...] 

Hokit the fighter put forth an exciting fighting style infused with a level of brashness that is like catnip to fight fans, capping things by giving Freeman the middle finger and walking away as the referee stopped the fight. It was just what the stagnant UFC heavyweight division needed: a younger, undefeated fighter with an edge in how he fights.

Then, Hokit threw all of that in the dumpster when Joe Rogan interviewed him after the fight.    

Bell continues from there. He accuses Hokit of racism, but Hokit also stands accused of a second form of bigotry. Right there in the headline atop this piece, he stands accused of transphobia. 

Full disclosure:  

At this site, we discussed Hokit's pitiful conduct on the White House lawn the next day, on Monday, June 15. For whatever reason, Nicolle Wallace skipped the topic in her two-hour Deadline: White House program that day.   

On Tuesday, June 16, Wallace discussed the UFC event with Maya Wiley and two other guests on Deadline. By then, it was clear that a consensus interpretation was forming within elite Blue America—a consensus which held that Hokit's behavior that night was an example of racism.   

We're prepared to admit that we were surprised to see that consensus take shape. If memory serves, that interpretation hadn't occurred to us until we saw it emerge.

That interpretation hadn't occurred to us. In large part, that's because we try to monitor the primetime, "cable news" Gutfeld! program on a regular basis.  Also, because we have a passing acquaintance with the lunacy of the MAGA underworld, as chronicled in this news report from last December:

‘Brigitte Macron Does NOT Have a Penis!’ Piers Morgan Gets Heated With Candace Owens Over Claim French First Lady ‘Pees Standing Up’   

Piers Morgan became heated with Candace Owens during an interview on Wednesday after Owens insisted that French First Lady Brigitte Macron was secretly a man with a penis who “pees standing up.”

After Morgan accused his guest of “weaponizing deliberate lies for money,” Owens claimed, “Brigitte Macron has a penis. I really want you to know that, Piers.”

“No, Brigitte Macron does not have a penis!” shouted Morgan.  

“Brigitte Macron has a penis. I’m sorry,” replied Owens.

Sad.

Pathetically, the discussion continued from there. Owens, a high-profile player, is also numbered among the strange fruits of the democratization of media.

If you watch the (heavily watched) Gutfeld! show, you know that the termagant host of that transgressive program routinely traffics in insinuations to this effect:   

Michelle Obama is secretly a man, and Barack Obama is gay.   

That said, you've also seen him trash the AFT's Randi Weingarten as a man with a great deal of frequency. It's one of the many plays in his long list of standard insults

Beyond that, you may have been watching on the night when the Fox News kingpin and his guests devoted an entire segment to Candace Owens's insistence that Mme. Macron is a man. In short, you're aware of the fact that, within the MAGA universe, a great many people, Hokit apparently included, are deeply invested in cries and whispers about the existence of people who are transgender. 

(In fairness to that Gutfeld! panel, they explicitly decided that night that Owens is mentally ill.) 

Within this flailing universe, the French first lady is said to be a man. So is our own (very popular) former first lady.   

In the disordered halls of the Gutfeld! show, Weingarten is also a man. Two of these women are white. One of these women is Black.   

In our view, the disorder displayed on the Gutfeld! program is relentless and never-ending. It's astounding to see Blue America's journalistic elites refuse to report the highly unusual conduct which is the lifeblood of this influential "cable news" program.

We try to stay away from standard verbal bombs at this site, but any sane person could see that the very strange host of this disordered program seems to be misogyny-adjacent.  As with much of incel and manosphere culture, an undisguised contempt for women seems to animate his show.

That said, there's nothing which seems to disturb the show's host more than the idea that transgender people really exist. 

At this site, we rarely see the host behave in ways which suggest a racist orientation. His contempt for women is unmistakable—but more than anything else, he's enraged by current Blue American views concerning transgender issues.  

We're saddened by the strange behavior of this furious, 61-year-old man. But largely because we monitor his show, it had never occurred to us that his persistent jibes at Michelle and Barack Obama should be regarded as racist: 

To appearances, it's contemporary gender issues which trigger the ugly fury to which he gives voice each night. He suggests that a lot of people are gay, and that several women are men.

After Hokit's stupid performance, the power elite in Blue America turned to "racism" as its instant interpretation. Provisionally, we think of what Shakespeare once jotted:  

 There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

We also think of the somewhat younger Dylan, on one of the albums where major parts of his earlier attitude had plainly seemed to darken. We don't recommend the contempt which was voiced in this song, but we do recommend the larger suggestion:   

Ballad of a Thin Man

[...]   

You’ve been with the professors
And they’ve all liked your looks
With great lawyers you have
Discussed lepers and crooks
You’ve been through all of
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s books
You’re very well read, it’s well known

But something is happening here
And you don’t know what it is 
Do you, Mr. Jones? 

We don't recommend the fury. We do recommend the idea that lurks all through that song.

Is it possible? Is something happening in MAGA America that our Blue elites don't understand? Do they fail to understand what's happening here because they haven't been willing to pay attention to what's actually goin' on?

We'd say that's a real possibility, and we'd say it's politically dangerous.  

When Hokit staged his pathetic performance, Blue elites turned to racism as the explanation. Is it possible that we're enabling our own tribal demise when we insist on familiar themes which may no longer capture what's happening?   

In our view, we Blues were possibly failing to keep up with the times when we insisted on the "racism" explanation. We've had a similar reaction to the way official Blue America has reacted to those recent Supreme Court decisions about congressional districting procedures.

Next week, we'll return to those decisions. In closing today, we'll say this:  

In his final interviews, the late Barney Frank seemed to suggest that Blue America has moved in ways which haven't been politically wise concerning transgender issues—in ways which the larger society wasn't prepared to understand or accept.

Transgender panic—transgender loathing—lies at the heart of a great deal of MAGA fury. So does "masculinism," the latest form of pushback against modern feminism.

Is there something happening here which Blue elites may not understand? And when we fall back on familiar theories which may not be accurate, is it true that thousands of wavering MAGA adherents decide to hang onto their wings?

THURSDAY: Navarro wants to lock him up!

THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2026

Every know-nothing a king: Where did Covid-19 come from? What was the origin of the virus?  

On Tuesday night, the Fox News Channel assembled a group of specialists to discuss such matters on Gutfeld!   

Except wait a minute—actually, no! This was the gaggle of experts which loudmouthed on the first segment of that evening's show:  

Gutfeld!: June 23, 2026
Joe DeVito: comedian
Kat Timpf: comedian
Greg Gutfeld: host
Brian Kilmeade: co-host, Fox & Friends
Tom Shillue: comedian

Three comedians, plus one Fox "friend!" With an expert panel like that on hand, how could the analysis go wrong?   

In yesterday afternoon's report, we suggested that the analysis had perhaps gone very wrong. The following morning, on Fox Business, Peter Navarro discussed the same topic, seeming to channel the various points the comedian/experts had elucidated the night before.

For David Gilmour's report, click here. Here's part of what Navarro said on Mornings with Maria:   

NAVARRO (6/24/26): The American people need to de-canonize "Saint Fauci." 

What we know very clearly is that Fauci played God. He basically gave money to the Wuhan lab for the express purpose of using gain-of-function research to create a deadly virus for the purpose of then creating vaccines to kill the virus. 

How did that go, Anthony?   

And then, when that thing leaked from the lab, he conducted a misinformation campaign, using some of the most prestigious academics in the world, to insist that it wasn’t from the lab, it was the zoonotic theory – from nature. And the biggest lie of omission was the fact that he funded the virus to begin with.

One million Americans died, millions worldwide! He needs to be held accountable.  

It almost seems like Navarro is getting his stuff from comedian Tom Shillue!

Full disclosure! We know of no reason to believe that any of Navarro's accusations are accurate. According to the leading authority, Navarro's performance with respect to Covid in real time proceeded along like this:  

Peter Navarro

[...]  

On March 27, 2020, [President] Trump appointed Navarro to coordinate the federal government's Defense Production Act policy response during the coronavirus pandemic. In this position, Navarro promoted domestic production of coronavirus-related supplies in addition to a general nationalist agenda...

In February 2020, biologist Steven Hatfill became Navarro's advisor with regard to the coronavirus pandemic. Hatfill was a strong promoter of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID, even though the drug's effectiveness was unproven. By April, Navarro, and the president himself, were touting the drug as a lifesaver. Navarro clashed with Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, over whether the administration should promote the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat the virus. In July 2020, Navarro touted a widely criticized study as showing that hydroxychloroquine was an effective coronavirus treatment; public health experts pointed to limitations with the study and to the fact that multiple randomized controlled trials failed to conclude that hydroxychloroquine was an effective treatment.

In May 2020, Navarro criticized stay-at-home orders, arguing that the COVID-19 lockdowns would kill "many more" people than the coronavirus. He frequently referred to the virus as the "China virus" or the "CCP virus" and, in May 2020, accused the Chinese government of sending Chinese citizens to other countries to "seed" the virus. In July 2020, USA Today published an editorial by Navarro under the headline "Anthony Fauci has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him on," after which White House officials disavowed Navarro's attacks. Under criticism for the editorial, the newspaper later published an apologetic statement that read, in part, "several of Navarro's criticisms of Fauci – on the China travel restrictions, the risk from the coronavirus and falling mortality rates – were misleading or lacked context. As such, Navarro's op-ed did not meet USA Today's fact-checking standards."   

You know—basic stuff like that! On a topic which may be easier to assess, Navarro soon moved on to such brilliance as this:  

In October 2020, two weeks before the presidential elections, Navarro's office in the White House had begun preparing allegations of election fraud. In December 2020, Navarro published a report alleging widespread election fraud. The report repeated discredited conspiracy theories claiming election fraud, including allegations that had been dismissed by the courts and Trump's own election security task force...

On January 2, 2021, Navarro, along with Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows, participated in a call with Georgia election officials in which Trump urged them to overturn the results of the election. During a January 2, 2021, appearance on Jeanine Pirro's Fox News program, Navarro asserted, "[t]hey stole this and we can prove it," and falsely asserted Joe Biden's inauguration could be postponed to allow for an investigation.  

"We can prove it," the firebrand said. More than five years later, no one has even tried to present evidence in support of this never-ending inflammatory claim.   

For ourselves, we'd be very slow to assume that Navarro is right about anything regarding Covid. We can think of zero reason to assume that Gutfeld's panelists knew what they were talking about in their astonishing presentation on Tuesday night.

Three comedians, plus one "friend!" It never seemed to occur to Gutfeld that it might be a little bit strange to drag a group of comedians out to issue inflammatory claims about such a difficult technical matter. He made no attempt to examine a basic question:  

Do these mutts have ANY idea what they're talking about? Why should anyone think that they do?

On the one hand, this is a description of the present-day Fox News Channel at work, operating in a world where they get a total pass from Blue America's high-end mainstream news orgs.   

Also, this is the "democratization of media" in full flower, with every potty-mouthed non-specialist nitwit now fashioned as a king.   

What happened on Gutfeld! was simply astounding. Also, did you hear the one about the way the women of The View resemble a bunch of whales?

RACE: Our nation's dead souls have been pimping this swill...

THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2026

...for a very long time: In our own view, Greg Gutfeld, 61 years old, is a person who needs some help.  

We'd even say the fellow deserves some help, along with all members of struggling / suffering humanity.   

We'd say the fellow needs some help because we watch his primetime imitation of a "cable news" program on the Fox News Channel. With apologies for posting his words again, we'd say a grubby little mutt like this could plainly use some help:   

GUTFELD (6/23/26): In economic news, Nancy Pelosi's net worth is down $8 million. 

Worse, her boobs are down nine inches.  

PHOTO: [Pelosi in bathing suit]   

Remarkable! When a 61-year-old fellow offers such jokes, we'd say he's badly in need of help, as are the corporate cretins who pay him $9 million per year to go on TV and behave like that.  

(Blue America's stars refuse to discuss this behavior—Rachel and Lawrence and all the rest. This is the nation-devouring garbage they too have apparently chosen.)   

We'd say he could use some help. We'd also make that assessment based on Neal Gabler's report.

Gabler's report appeared in The Nation—in October 2012! The squalor of an ailing person like Gutfeld has been with us for a long time:

What’s Behind the Right’s ‘Obama Is Gay’ Conspiracy

You probably know by now that President Obama is a Muslim who professes socialism and that he was born in Africa, which makes him ineligible to occupy our highest office. But here is something you may not know: Obama is gay. Not only is he gay; he frequented gay bath houses in Chicago along with his former chief of staff and current Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel. And not only did he frequent those bath houses; he was under the influence of a “transgender nanny” when he lived as a boy in Indonesia... 

And on and on from there. 

The sickness was already quite widespread as of 2012. Gabler's third paragraph went like this:

Citing a remark by Fox News host Greg Gutfeld that “Obama is now out of the closet” after the president announced his support for gay marriage, former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum blogged at the Daily Beast, “You cannot ‘get’ Gutfeld’s joke unless you ‘get’ that a large part of his audience ardently believes that Obama is in fact gay, that his marriage is a sham, and that Mrs. Obama leads a life of Marie Antoinette–like extravagance to compensate for her husband’s neglect while he disports himself with his personal aides.”  

In the minds of many under-developed souls, Barack Obama, the sitting American president, was already gay! On the brighter side:

Based on Frum's remarks about Gutfeld's "joke," it may be that Michelle Obama wasn't yet being scored as a man.   

(As we noted yesterday, that second soul-draining theme may have started with Joan Rivers in 2014. At the very least, it got a wide airing there.)

Was Gutfeld just kidding—was he just speaking metaphorically—when he made the quoted remark? If so, he's truly come a long way! Here he was, sharing his marvelous humor, on his primetime "cable news" show in April of last year:   

GUTFELD (4/10/25): And finally, Michelle Obama openly admitted that she and Barack sleep in separate bedrooms. 

Here's how it works. She sleeps downstairs, and he likes men.   

The former president likes men! Surrounded by panels of defectives—knowing that no Blue American star will ever say boo about his behavior—the creepy crawler sustains this messaging on a regular basis. 

He messages millions of people each night. Along the way, a second bit of messaging had already been folded in, and his audience knew what it was: 

GUTFELD (2/21/25): Divorce rumors continue to escalate for the Obamas.  

Hopefully, they can settle it like men. 

AUDIENCE: [Laughter, applause]  

GUTFELD: Terrible! It's terrible that you would applaud that!

The studio audience knew what the termagant was saying. Hiding behind one of his several beards, the cowardly fellow pretended to scold them for applauding his pitiful slime.  

In our view, this cable star could use some help, as could our failing nation. On our third most-watched "cable news" program—his ratings dwarf those of MS NOW—the creeper continues to toy with this bit of twinned messaging:

 Barack Obama is secretly gay. Michelle Obama's a man.

This deeply strange man and his cast of defectives routinely traffic those messages, along with a long, extremely ugly list of other themes. 

As a manifest nutcase, he can't stop talking about the way [NAME WITHHELD] likes to shove gerbils up his asp. He pictures Joe Biden in his grave. And several women, not Michelle Obama alone, are said to be secretly men.

Absent help, this seems to be the best this manifest nutcase can do. Suzanne Scott makes money off this. Rachel and Lawrence and David French all refuse to report and discuss it. 

(Bret Stephens doesn't seem to watch Fox. Nicolle Wallace keeps her mouth shut too.)

Two Sundays ago, on June 14, a UFC fighter blurted it out, right there on the White House lawn. We'll guess that he doesn't know any better, but here's what he happily screamed:

"Michelle Obama is a man! Am I right, America?"

No, you can't get dumber than that. But waste meat like Gutfeld will try, enabled by willing panelists.

"Michelle Obama is a man," the hapless UFC fighter screamed. Perhaps because of the venue in question, Blue Americans finally complained. 

On Monday evening, June 15, Senator Warnock went on The Last Word and said the conduct was racist.  

"This is bigotry," the senator said. "This is evil come alive in the world."  

Senator Warnock is a good, decent person. So is Maya Wiley.  

On Tuesday, June 16, Wiley appeared on Deadline: White House. "Let me start by saying this," she told Nicolle Wallace. "This is racist."

"It's bigotry," she later said. "And it must be called out for that."   

The moral and intellectual squalor in question has been underway for a long time. But is it clear that it's mainly racist? Is it clear that it's racist at all? 

Is it clear that this squalor is based upon race? And is it possible that we Blues may be hurting Blue prospects—in this and perhaps in other circumstances—by insisting on that potent theme?   

Something's happening here, Dylan famously said. Are we sure that we know what it is?

Tomorrow: At the tender age of 13, she was described as a dog    

WEDNESDAY: Gabbard performed her last document dump!

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2026

Suzanne Scott took over from there: Just when you think you've seen it all, it turns out that you actually haven't. We refer to the remarkable claims made in the opening segment of last night's Gutfeld! program.   

The program started in typical fashion, with a handful of jokes on the standard smut-rich themes. One joke compared the women of The View to whales. 

Then too, viewers were handed the standard critique of Nancy Pelosi: 

GUTFELD (6/23/26): In economic news, Nancy Pelosi's net worth is down $8 million. 

Worse, her boobs are down nine inches.  

PHOTO: Pelosi in bathing suit 

Yes, that was one of the jokes. The studio audience laughed. 

This is the garbage can CEO Suzanne Scott opens each night on the Fox News Channel. Given the uniform silence of Blue America's major news orgs, this is also the garbage can our morally vacant Blue elites have uniformly chosen.   

Mercifully, this swill was concluded by 10:03. At that point, the host of the show started his "issue monologue" for the program's opening segment. 

For reasons which may seem weirdly obvious, Fox producers dropped all but the last two minutes from the videotape of the monologue which they posted on YouTube. As you can see by clicking here, that monologue started at 10:03, and it started like this:   

GUTFELD (6/23/26): All right. So on her way out the door, Tulsi Gabbard drops a nuclear document dump exposing Anthony Fauci's filthy legacy. And the mainstream press, those gutless, ball-less, nut-less, tit-less traitors, treat it like two points on a driver's license.   

That's what this nutcase said. 

Sounding a bit like a North Korean propaganda writer, the cable star said that Gabbard had exposed Dr. Fauci's "filthy legacy." But the tit-less traitors in the mainstream press were refusing to report what she'd done!

That's the way the cable star talks, and that's the way he started. Once again, it was time for Gutfeld and his all-star panel to brand Dr. Fauci as a mass murderer who needs to be shipped off to prison.  

The discussion had been triggered by Gabbard's latest, and mercifully last, document dump as DNI—a document dump which Fox News Digital has largely ignored, perhaps for obvious reasons, along with their nut-less associates in the treasonous mainstream press.

For the record, Gabbard's latest document dump, and her accompanying accusations, have been fact-checked by CNN's Daniel Dale (just click here) and, in greater detail, by Lawfare's Renée DiResta (click this). On the other hand, Gutfeld had comedian Joe DeVito on hand, and DeVito told the world this: 

DIPAOLO: I think, look—we were all locked down all this time [during Covid]. He should be locked down for a while too. 

He should be put in jail. I just wish I had faith that would happen, but when it comes to serial killers, seven million is a pretty good score—way better than Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy. That's the company Anthony Fauci is in.  

Yes, that's what he said. We know of no reason to believe that DeVito, or anyone else on Gutfeld's panel, had any idea what they were talking about—had any realistic way of offering a serious analysis of the complex subject matter involved in this endless hunt.  

For the record Gutfeld's panel was composed of three comedians, plus Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade. As is the requirement on this imitation of life, all four voiced agreement with the indictment voiced by the program's host in the opening monologue==the monologue the Fox News Channel didn't seem to want to post.

Having said these things, we'll now strongly suggest that you should watch the presentation by comedian Tom Shillue, the panelist to whom Gutfeld turned first. You can do so by clicking here, then by continuing to click as Shillue's astounding indictment of Fauci proceeds. 

We know of no reason to believe that Shillue knows what he's talking about in any serious way. As for Gabbard herself, let us offer this excerpt from DiResta's fact check for Lawfare:  

DIRESTA (6/23/26): Gabbard’s “Fauci Files" follow the same playbook as her past document drops: Put the desired conclusion in the headline. Use “declassification” as a credibility signal. Present a large, mixed dump of documents as if they were a prosecutor’s exhibit. Convert ordinary government processes—expert consultation, grant oversight, whistleblower routing, intelligence disagreement—into evidence of conspiracy. Then push the accusation on social media, where few people will read the underlying documents closely enough to notice the gulf between the documents and the claims. 

Gabbard played this game of innuendo and accusation with her so-called “Russiagate” declassifications, accusing President Barack Obama of a "treasonous conspiracy” and “coup” (he has yet to be charged). A few weeks ago she followed the playbook with a document dump on biolabs, reframing biological threat reduction work, much of which was already public, as nefarious. In each case, the underlying materials contain some facts, but they are often decontextualized, and the framing asks readers to take a much larger conspiratorial leap.   

And so on, at length, from there. Needless to say, Gabbard's earlier claim—her dramatic claim that President Obama engaged in treason—still hasn't been acted on. We're going to guess that this latest effort is headed for the dumpster too, except on the truly deranged imitation of "cable news" performed on the Fox News Channel.    

We'll close by stating the obvious. The issues here are too complex to be accessible to all but a handful of citizens. In such circumstances, analysis becomes a game of "Who Do You Trust?"   

Gutfeld tells millions of people that they shouldn't trust the work of the tit-less traitors found in the mainstream press. Also, Rep. Pelosi's boobs have fallen nine inches, and the women of The Views are so fat they resemble whales. 

Suzanne Scott puts this swill on the air. Rachek Maddow won't say a word, Neither will the New York Times, or the Atlantic, or any of the opinion writers at those citadels of the Blue press.

Seriously—go watch what Tom Shillue said! This is the "democratization of media" at its craziest and most dangerous.  

We leave you today with a question. Has a nation which tolerates this gong-show conduct already become a failed state?

RACE: The pitiful fighter's pitiful claim...

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2026

...dates all the way back to Joan Rivers: On Sunday evening, June 14, a UFC fighter made a strange, inane remark right there on the White House lawn. 

As we noted yesterday, the news report in the Washington Post started off like this:

After White House bout, UFC fighter disparages Michelle Obama as ‘a man’

UFC fighter Josh Hokit used his post-bout interview Sunday night at the White House to disparage former first lady Michelle Obama.

In a post-fight interview, the heavyweight fighter praised President Donald Trump for hosting the event, which was intended to celebrate America’s 250th birthday.

He then insulted the mother of one of his rivals, thanked Jesus and ended by shouting: “And lastly—Michelle Obama is a man! Am I right, America?”   

Some in the audience laughed at Hokit’s remark, which is rooted in a baseless far-right conspiracy theory. Right-wing podcaster Joe Rogan, who was conducting the post-fight interview, did not follow up with Hokit on the comment.

Searching for the appropriate term, Amy Wang initially said that the nitwit Hokit had "disparaged" the former first lady. Much later in her report, she explicitly described Hokit's screeching statement as an "insult." 

In some ways, Hokit screaming statement can almost seem like a strange sort of insult. We say that for this reason:

Presumably, there's nothing "wrong" with being a man. Similarly, it's routinely believed, within the broad expanse of modern American culture, that there's also nothing "wrong" with being a woman. 

On the other hand, gender identity has always tended to play an important role in the vast sweep of the planet's human societies. It almost automatically seems like an insult for a woman to be called a man, or for a man to be called a woman.  

Then too, there's the burgeoning throwback movement known as "masculinism"—the throwback movement currently sweeping substantial portions of the Red American male world. Within this realm, the claim that the former first lady was really a man would be recognized, by one and all, as an attempt at an ugly disparagement—as an ugly (if dimwitted) insult. 

So it probably seemed to those who laughed that night. Hokit had insulted the former first lady, or at least he had "owned the libs."

In her report, Wang somewhat oddly said that Hokit's idiotic behavior was "rooted in a baseless far-right conspiracy theory." It's unfortunate that Wang had to dignify Hokit's inanity that way, but she was trying to describe disordered behavior, her somewhat peculiar statement can almost be said to be right.   

The inane remark by the UFC performer does, in fact, enjoy a type of privileged status within the contemporary far-right "manosphere." On the far-right "cable news" TV show Gutfeld!, the notion that Michelle Obama is really a ma is frequently floated by the program's 61-year-old misogyny-adjacent host. 

On that show, the notion that Mrs. Obama is a man is typically accompanied by a second disparaging claim, this time about the former president. Is this "the baseless conspiracy theory" to which Wang somewhat awkwardly referred?   

Wang never explained what she meant by that statement, but the pair of disparagements / insults date back at least to the increasingly sour work of Joan Rivers in the year 2014.    

If memory serves, it seemed to us that Rivers, who had always been an insult/shock comedian, grew a bit less pleasant with age. In a news report filed on July 4, 2014, CNN reported her latest attempt at mirth. 

For whatever it may be worth, Rivers had just turned 81. Way back on July 4, 2014, pithy headline included, CNN's instructive report started off like this:

Joan Rivers jokes Obama is gay, first lady is transgender

Who needs Fourth of July fireworks when you have Joan Rivers around?

The comedian known for her lack of self-censoring recently officiated a same-sex wedding and was asked by a photographer if she believed the United States would ever see the first gay or female president. Her response was typical Rivers.

“We already have it with Obama, so let’s just calm down,” she said. “You know Michelle (Obama) is a trans.”

When asked to further explain Rivers said, “A transgender. We all know it.”

Those are the things Rivers said.

Barack Obama is gay, we the people were stupidly told. In this formulation, Michelle Obama wasn't exactly a man. Instead, she was "trans"—"a transgender," River said.

"We all know it," she added.  

Pathetic? Pitiful? Hapless? Sad? What exactly is the word for such dimwitted conduct? Whatever the answer might be, we can tell you this:

To this day, this twinned pair of disparagements is routinely floated by the mutt who hosts the Gutfeld! program. He's sent out to do so by the Fox News Channel's Suzanne Scott. Perhaps for the obvious reason, the major organs of Blue America refuse to report or discuss such facts.   

Blue stars speak up when Hokit does it. Fox News is given a pass.

At any rate, is this the "conspiracy theory" to which Wang referred in last week's report in the Post? We don't know, but as she spoke with CNN back in 2014, Rivers concocted this braindead explanation for her twin disparagement:   

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A representative for Rivers released the following statement to CNN from the comic about her remarks to the photographer:

“I think it’s a compliment. She’s so attractive, tall, with a beautiful body, great face, does great makeup. Take a look and go back to La Cage Au Follies (sic). The most gorgeous women are transgender. Stop it already … and if you want to talk about ‘politically correct,’ I think this is a ‘politically incorrect’ attack on me because I’m old, Jewish, a woman and a ‘hetty’—a heterosexual … and I plan to sue the reporter who, when he turned off his camera, tried to touch me inappropriately on the a**—luckily he hit my ankle. Read the book … if you think that’s silly, wait to (sic) you see what I say about FDR and Eleanor!”  

[...]  

Of course, this latest dust-up coincides with Rivers’ book, “Diary of a Mad Diva,” which was released on July 1. Rivers’ representative told CNN, “These are all funny jokes. The book is hysterical. The prologue says if anyone takes anything in the book seriously (he or she) is an idiot. And (Rivers) says if anyone has a problem with that, they can feel free to call her lawyer Clarence Darrow.”

Truly, that statement by Rivers was completely pathetic.   

That statement was pathetic. But is that where this "conspiracy theory" got its start? We have no idea.  

That said, many people in the world are insecure and angry, and this "theory" has never died. Sadly, PolitiFact has posted at least three reports in recent years debunking claims within our poisonous social media—debunking posts in which people claimed that Mrs. Obama is transgender and/or a man. 

(These claims were scored as Pants On Fire. As a starting point for your walk on the wild and profoundly stupid side, you can just click here.) 

Joan Rivers, who had a book to sell, peddled her dimwitted claims in The Summer of 14. She was frequently reported to be a registered Republican. Did she mean for her claims to be directed at the Obamas as political targets?  

We can't answer that question—but she told CNN that "we all know it." On that basis, we'll guess that, in the American underground, the kinds of angry people who can't quite adjust were already pimping this garbage around. 

If so, why were they doing it?  

Within the halls of Blue America, an explanation quickly formed concerning what Hokit did. On last Tuesday's Deadline: White House, Maya Wiley assigned the motive.  

As we noted yesterday, she started by saying this:   

Well, let me start by saying this. This is racist.  

Later, she added this:  

It is bigotry...and it must be called out for that.    

Earlier, Nicolle Wallace had played tape of Senator Warnock, speaking on The Last Word the night before. This is what Senator Warnock had said: 

This is bigotry. This is evil come alive in the world.   

On Deadline, Wiley mentioned Joan Rivers. She also mentioned the fact that, inevitably, the public madman Alex Jones had been involved in the promulgation of this pathetic claim about the former first lady.

Wiley joined Senator Warnock in advancing a fairly obvious possible claim about the idiot Hokit's motive. It's a claim we Blues are strongly inclined to make, in a wide array of situations. 

It's a claim which is often correct. It's a claim which has been accurate down through the annals of our nation's brutal racial history.

But is the claim accurate in this case? In this case, because we monitor the Gutfeld! program, we weren't even slightly sure.

Tomorrow: Also the French first lady!