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:   

[continuing directly from above]
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!

TUESDAY: Bernie Moreno's a red state senator!

TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 2026

He agrees with Elizabeth Warren: The madness of the current rulers keeps us focused on topics like this:    

Karoline Leavitt Returns to Blast ‘Deranged’ Algae Protesters at Reflecting Pool   

For the full report, just click here. "Only the Democrats could hate beautifying our nation’s capital," the press sec thoughtfully said upon her return from maternity leave.

Karoline Leavitt is back at her post—and childbirth hasn't tamed her! That said, the distractions never cease at this point. That would include the current tussle concerning algae and its discontents.   

(If you stand it on its end, the Reflecting Pool would be taller than major skyscrapers, the president has thoughtfully said on several occasions. On this campus, one youthful analyst quickly retorted: If you stand Interstate 95 on its end, it would reach even higher than that!)

Algae growth is in the news. Topics like the one discussed below almost never are at this point. Guest essay headline included:   

Bernie Moreno and Elizabeth Warren: Our Plan to Save Social Security

One of us is a Republican from Ohio who built a business that generated hundreds of jobs. The other is a Democrat from Massachusetts who built a career protecting consumers from financial tricks and traps.

We don’t agree on everything, but here’s one thing we do agree on: Congress must act now to save Social Security for generations of Americans to come.

Social Security is a core component of our nation’s promise—a covenant between the federal government and Americans who pay into it throughout their working years so they can retire with dignity.

That promise is at risk of unraveling. For years, seniors in Ohio and Massachusetts have told us how concerned they are about the future of Social Security. A new report from the trustees who oversee the Social Security Trust Funds shows they are right to worry: Unless Congress acts, the fund from which most Social Security beneficiaries are paid will be significantly depleted by late 2032. After that, Social Security benefits could be cut by more than 20 percent.

That promise of Social Security is at risk of unraveling? Within living memory, claims like that were routinely dismissed, often correctly so, as a scare tactic from some on the right, or were scorned as a bit of hyperbole from centrist budget hawks.   

Within living memory, that's how it was! Today, along comes this guest essay—and a proposal—from Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), but also from Elizabeth Warren.

(We pause to let Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld issue their extremely tired Pocahontas jokes.)   

We may return to their proposal at a later date. It arrives in the New York Times two weeks after this guest essay by Jason Furman, which we cited when it appeared:

I Worked in the White House. We Never Imagined This Problem Would Get This Bad.  

The first major public policy issue I worked on in the White House, almost 30 years ago, was President Bill Clinton’s call to “save Social Security first.” Though the fund wasn’t projected to run dry for another three decades, the country seemed gripped by the issue. A few years later, George W. Bush felt strongly enough about the looming crisis that he spent much of his political capital pushing a strategy to resolve it.

This week the Social Security trustees announced that the trust fund for retirees and survivors will be exhausted in just six years. That’s six years before tens of millions of Americans could see their benefits cut by 22 percent. The crisis is closer than anyone in the Clinton or Bush years ever imagined we might let it get...

Furman was chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Obama. We never thought it would get this bad, the headline on his guest essay said.   

How do Furman's representations fit with the claims and suggestions of Moreno and Warren? How do his representations fit with their proposal?

That's a conversation you're unlikely to see! Inept as such discussions often were, there was a time, within living memory, when budget discussions were commonly spotted, even in major newspapers. Given the madness of the age, such discussions are near extinction and such sightings have become very rare.   

Also this:   

We continue to peruse the (improved) results among 9-year-old students from last year's NAEP testing. Those results came from the Long-Term Trend version of the NAEP, not from the so-called "Main NAEP."

There are various ways to present those new data, depending on where you decide to start your comparison. Having said that, we'll also say this:

Below, you see the start of the news report in the New York Times about those new test scores. In our initial mention of those new scores, we said you'd see no further discussion of this matter, and our pledge to you was correct:

Younger Students’ Test Scores Bounce Back After the Pandemic

After years of dire test scores coming out of the pandemic, new national test results released on Wednesday offered a glimmer of hope—at least for younger students.

The nation’s 9-year-olds, who were in preschool when the pandemic hit, have made a significant recovery in reading since 2022, and are now caught up to where 9-year-olds were immediately before the pandemic, according to a key federal exam. They are getting closer to being caught up in math.

The Times report continued from there. In the near future, we'll show you several ways to think about these new test scores. In the face of the fight against the killer algae, the discussion will end right there!

Meanwhile, two solons have agreed on a cure. One is a D and one is an R. Who ever heard of that?

RACE: Maya Wiley is very sharp!

TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 2026

Are we sure she got this right? Philip Kennicott works for the Washington Post. At this link, the newspaper thumbnails his tenure:   

Philip Kennicott  

Philip Kennicott is the Pulitzer Prize-winning art and architecture critic of The Washington Post. He has been on staff at The Post since 1999, first as classical music critic, then as culture critic. In 2011, he combined art and architecture into a beat focused on visual culture and public space. He is now the Post's culture critic, focused on cultural issues and the arts in general.  

According to the leading authority, he graduated summa cum laude from Yale—with a degree in philosophy, no less!  

Be all that as it may, Kennicott likes the Obama Presidential Center more than some other critics. Back on June 2, his review of the complex appeared beneath this dual headline:   

Art
The Obama Center opens as a time warp to an old political order   
Despite a range of controversies, the Obama Presidential Center makes a good first impression—even the “Obamalisk” at its center. 

Early in his review, Kennicott mentioned the current president's "childish meme on social media" about the Obama Center. In that childish meme, the current president had portrayed the center as "a monumental trash can surrounded by an urban clutter of cars and telephone poles." 

So our failing nation's Ozymandias had portrayed the place. Along the way in his own review, Kennicott offered this intriguing claim:  

Something dark and catastrophic was brewing during the Obama years, and it seems, in hindsight, that America was sleeping when it should have been on alert.

"Something dark and catastrophic was brewing?" Some will agree, some won't. 

Almost surely, Kennicott was alleging the existence of "something dark and catastrophic" on the right, but the current version of that strain was brewing well before the Obama years—for example, in the crackpot attempts by the very pious Reverend Falwell to persuade the world that Bill and Hillary Clinton had apparently somehow been involved in a wide array of murders.  

So the pious Falwell had pimped it out during the bulk of the 1990s. During that juncture, the darker forces on the right were also attempting to prove that Hillary Clinton was involved, somehow, in the death (by suicide) of Vince Foster, a high Clinton official and a lifelong Clinton friend. 

In short:

Long before the Obama years, blatantly crackpot behavior was general over America as something dark and catastrophic—and baldly deranged—intruded itself on the discourse.  

The Clintons murder the folks they don't like? How much cracked pottery has been involved in the attempt to keep this theme alive, even in the present day?

If you watch the garbage can the Fox News Channel spills out each night at 10 p.m. Eastern, you'll see a baldly disordered cable news nutcase who works, on an almost nightly basis, to keep the image of Hillary Clinton as a murderer alive. This is the garbage can his corporate owners have chosen. 

Also, this is the garbage can Blue America agrees to ignore.

"Something dark and catastrophic was brewing?" Did this strain go national in 1988, when Rush Limbaugh's radio program entered national syndication? 

In March 1994, this tiny man behind the bluster and girth shoved the garbage can down the road on the way to its current residence in the halls of the Gutfeld! program. In this report in July 1994, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) started by recalling the basics of what had happened:   

Koppel Covers for Limbaugh’s Rumor-Mongering   

Ted Koppel’s special (ABC Viewpoint, 4/19/94) on press coverage of Whitewater was a perfect opportunity to take Rush Limbaugh to task for spreading unfounded conspiracy theories. But instead, ABC journalists Koppel and Jeff Greenfield let Limbaugh off the hook.  

On his March 10 radio broadcast, Limbaugh had announced the following in urgent tones:   

"OK, folks, I think I got enough information here to tell you about the contents of this fax that I got. Brace yourselves. This fax contains information that I have just been told will appear in a newsletter to Morgan Stanley sales personnel this afternoon…. What it is is a bit of news which says… there’s a Washington consulting firm that has scheduled the release of a report that will appear, it will be published, that claims that Vince Foster was murdered in an apartment owned by Hillary Clinton, and the body was then taken to Fort Marcy Park."

So said Limbaugh that day, live and direct from the syndicated garbage can. As happenstance had it, we were driving through West Virginia that afternoon. We heard this shot heard round the world as we motored along.   

El Rushbo had offered fresh garbage right from the can, as his successors do today on a nightly basis. The report by FAIR continued:

[continuing directly]
After he returned from a commercial break, Limbaugh began referring to the story as a “rumor,” but continued to claim that the story was that “the Vince Foster suicide was not a suicide.”

Limbaugh was referring to an item in a newsletter put out by the Washington, D.C. firm of Johnson Smick International. The newsletter, relating a rumor that has no apparent basis in fact, reported that White House attorney Foster’s suicide occurred in an apartment owned by White House associates, and that his body was moved to the park where it was found.

Limbaugh took this baseless rumor from a small insiders’ newsletter and broadcast it to his radio audience of millions, adding his own new inaccuracies: The newsletter did not report–as Limbaugh claimed–that Foster was murdered, or that the apartment was owned by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Limbaugh’s repetition of an unfounded rumor has been credited (Chicago Tribune, 3/11/94; Newsweek, 3/21/94) with contributing to a plunge in the stock market on the day it was aired.  

The fallout from El Rushbo's garbage was enormous. Even then, something dark and catastrophic was emerging, on a daily basis, from the nation's garbage can.  

At this point, we jump ahead 32 years, to Sunday evening, June 14 of the present year.

We jump ahead to the UFC event staged on the White House lawn that evening. Just to refresh you, the garbage can popped open that night and this dumbbell emerged:  

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.

So began Amy Wang's report about what happened that night.   

The following day, on Deadline: White House, Nicolle Wallace didn't mention this moronic, insulting event. On Tuesday, she spoke about the event with Maya Wiley, who began by saying this:   

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

Later, Wiley described Hokit's ugly / stupid behavior as "bigotry." She said, "This is evil come alive in words,"

Maya Wiley is very sharp. To our eye and ear, she seemed to be stricken this day, and there's no obvious reason why she shouldn't have been.    

By now, the claim had fairly widely spread—the claim that Hokit's pathetic performance had been a racist attack. But is it clear that that's the case? Is it possible that something else was going on when Hokit launched his pitiful attack?   

We ask that question for a reason. As we've frequently noted, the little tramp who hosts the Gutfeld! pigsty routinely spreads the theme that Michelle Obama is secretly a man, and that Barack Obama is secretly gay.  

As it turns out, that dual theme stretches back at least to 2014, when the increasingly sour Joan Rivers let it crawl out on the land. But even as we've seen the aforementioned cable star pimp that theme about Michelle Obama, we've seen him relentlessly pimp the same theme about Randi Weingarten, and we've seen him and the droogs with whom he surrounds himself burn the time away by asking if Brigitte Macron, the first lady of France, does or does not "have a penis."  

We'll walk you through some history this week, including some history about the way the slimy El Rushbo spoke about first lady Hillary Clinton—and about Chelsea Clinton, when she was 13 years old.  Full disclosure: 

When we let these creeps hold forth (as we constantly do), there are few restraints on where these creeps will go. 

Our guess would be that what's currently bothering them is frequently something other than race. The "masculinism" is all around, and it's a powerful, braindead force.

With these ruminations, we're on our way back to the way Blue American elites reacted to those recent Supreme Court redistricting decisions. But also to questions like these: 

Will we Blues be able to win elections in the future? Also, is it possible that we Blues sometimes react in ways which might make that task much harder?

Tomorrow: Through our inexcusable silence, these are the creeps we've chosen