WEDNESDAY: The dumbness on last night's Gutfeld! show!

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2026

The spectacular dumbness, it burns: It' s hard to get dumber than what we saw on the Fox News Channel last night. 

We think especially of the first two segments on the primetime Gutfeld! show. Below, we'll let you look for yourself, if you dare. 

That said, the panel looked like this. How could this "news show" go wrong?

Gutfeld!: Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Tyrus: former "wrestler"
Kat Timpf: comedian
Greg Gutfeld: host
Brianna Lyman: "Frequently seen on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business, Fox Radio and Fox Nation"
Andrew Gruel: executive chef, Calico Fish House

For the record, Tyrus is plainly the world's biggest blowhard. And then it goes downhill from there. 

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

In the program's first two segments, Master Gutfeld, now 61 years old, led his panelists through two of the dumbest conversations we've ever seen on the air.

In the first segment, Gutfeld explained why it's OK to watch or listen to various podcasters, even those with whom you disagree. But you should never pay attention to anything said by the preposterous hacks found in the "legacy media," for example on Morning Joe.

(The conceptual devolution was instant. Warning! Brain cells at risk!)

In the second segment, Gutfeld and his hapless guests tried to sell the strangest claim about James Talarico a person could ever imagine. Whether you favor Talarico or you don't, the basic premise was utterly daft, but the messengers hurried to buy it.

We won't try to untangle the madness. To assess the first segment, just click here. For the second segment, click this.

Tomorrow: The event which didn't occur

ALL THAT REMAINS: Jeffrey Goldberg, come on down!

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2026

Act like a human for once: People who watched last evening's Gutfeld! show got their jollies right from the jump. 

At 10 o'clock sharp--hat's 7 o'clock out on the coast)--Suzanne Scott pried the lid off the garbage can and one of the mutts crawled out. He always starts with two or three minutes of "jokes"--with jokes which are message carriers.

Last evening was no exception. His first joke pushed one of his standard themes--Hillary Clinton murders her rivals. 

Then it came time for his second joke. His second joke, in all its unmistakable brilliance, started out like this:

GUTFELD (3/19/26): Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the Iran incursion will soon, quote, bring the enemy to its knees...

Everyone who has ever watched this "cable news" show knew where this was going! Continuing directly, the little guy now said this:

Well, guess who just enlisted?

[PHOTO of Don Lemon]

At this site, we aren't big fans of Don Lemon's work. But the little guy restricts himself to this repetitive gay bashing when speaking of Lemon (as he constantly does). 

He just keeps selling a tired old theme about the endless pursuit of indiscriminate sex.

The lord of the mutts told seven more jokes. (One was about how no one cares about women's sports. One was about how unattractive Yoko Ono was.

Finally, the punishment came to an end. It was still 10:03 when his final joke went like this:

GUTFELD: And finally, thanks to a new real estate deal, President Trump's name will be on the tallest skyscraper in Australia. Meanwhile, former president Joe Biden's name will be featured on a structure that's much closer to the ground.

[PHOTO of a gravestone]

AUDIENCE: [Muffled groans]

The little guy frequently offers jokes built around the enduring desire to see Joe Biden dead. He just can't seem to quit his demons. But this is who, and this is what, the Fox News Channel is.

("He'll put a smile on your face," Sean Hannity always says.)

Last night, this program's extremely peculiar host was surrounded by one of his typical panels. As you may have heard, his primetime corporate messaging show is watched by one of the nation's largest "cable news" audiences. 

Last night, he staged several of the stupidest discussions we've ever seen, assisted by this modern, hall of mirrors version of the Village People:

Gutfeld!: Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Tyrus: former "wrestler"
Kat Timpf: comedian
Greg Gutfeld: host
Brianna Lyman: "Frequently seen on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business, Fox Radio and Fox Nation"
Andrew Gruel: executive chef, Calico Fish House

Assisted by a chef named Gruel and a former "wrestler," Gutfeld staged two of the stupidest "news discussions" we think we've ever seen. 

(We stopped watching halfway through. You can only take so much.)

At any rate, Hillary Clinton murders her rivals, and Joe Biden will soon be dead! So it goes on this program, night after night, though someone apparently told the little guy that he had to drop the fusillade of comments and jokes in which he persistently compared the women of The View to horses, cattle, pigs and dogs--and of course, to whales and "livestock."

Someone apparently told him to stop! Also, a newer version of Dana Perino has seemed to emerge on The Five.

Hillary Clinton murders her rivals! When he pimps this favorite theme, the little guy takes us back to the mid-1990s, when a pious fellow named Reverend Falwell was touring the countryside selling a piece of murder porn known as The Clinton Chronicles.

The internet barely existed then. He had to peddle his video about the Clintons' many murders the old-fashioned waythe way the purveyors of elixir remedies used to sell their wares. 

This nation's dangerous state of tribal division was picking up steam right thereright there, but also with the list of "contrasting words" Newt Gingrich had managed to come up with. 

How should Republicans talk about Democrats? As we noted yesterday, he recommended such words as "destructive, shallow, sick, shame, cynicism, lie, disgrace, taxes, devour, anti-child, anti-flag and traitor"—and on and on from there.

Here we are, some thirty years later, and those of us in Blue America are never told about the way this dangerous garbage lives on. We're never told in the New York Times, or in the lordly Atlantic

This week, we want to show you what happened last Tuesday on two Fox News Channel shows—first on The Five, at 5 p.m., then on the Gutfeld! program.

The Five attracts the largest audience in all of "cable news." The size of its audience dwarfs the size of every Blue American program—and it's as we showed you yesterday:

Last Tuesday, the program was staffed by the former cheerleader for the Raiders, but also by the former "wrestler" and by the peculiar man/boy who earned his stripes conducting dim-witted pseudo-interviews as Bill O'Reilly's "man in the street." 

(No disrespect to O'Reilly, on whose show we appeared six times.)

At one point, the former cheerleader joined the former man in the street to enjoy a delicious exchange. 

Sad! They were talking about something that didn't happen—something that didn't happen during President Clinton's deposition concerning his (rather limited) association with Jeffrey Epstein, which ended in 2003. 

They were discussing something that didn't occur! Here's part of what these profoundly irresponsible resident flyweights said as a bit of tape from the deposition played on the screen:

WATTERS (3/3/26): Check out the look on Bill Clinton's face as Bubba reminisced a little too fondly about the good old times with Epstein, flipping through photos like it's a school yearbook. That is, until his lawyer swoops in, snatch the papers and reminds him this isn't story hour:

[Mimicking Clinton's lawyer]

"Back to business, Mr. President!" 

[...]

COMPAGNO: I mean, he was like—I felt uncomfortable seeing his glee at the pictures. Like, I felt like he was reminiscing clearly. I was likeI felt like I was seeing too much.

WATTERS: [Giggles]

COMPAGNO: I know! He loved it! 

(Laughs delightedly)

WATTERS (imitating President Clinton): "Give me that back!"

Sad, but also disgraceful. Also, a bit of behavior which undermines the very possibility of maintaining the American project.

Again, this pair of corporate messaging agents were laughing delightedly over something that didn't occur! As you can plainly see if you choose to watch the tape, they were pretending that Clinton had been looking at photos of a bunch of young womenyoung women you were supposed to think he had assaulted during his handful of trips on Jeffrey Epstein's massive plane back in 2002 and 2003.

As a bit of videotape from the deposition aired, you were supposed to think that Clinton was looking at photos of young women and "reminiscing" about the ones he had assaulted. 

The former cheerleader said she "felt like he was reminiscing clearly." Indeed, she felt like she "was seeing too much." She and Watters giggled and laughed delightedly as they enjoyed all the fun. 

In fact, President Clinton was looking at something completely different during that brief bit of tape from the depositionbut management had instructed these tools that this was the way they should play it.

Watters and Compagno giggled and played. Other lunacies were acted out on The Fiveand five hours later, things got a good deal worse when the baton was passed to the irresponsible, braindead panel on that evening's Gutfeld! program.

(TomorrowFair warning!we're going to show you the way Greg Gutfeld conned his program's millions of viewers about that bit of tape.)

Sorry, flyweights! During the lengthy deposition, there were no photos of young women who were present on the Epstein plane. At no point did Clinton survey some such collection of photos.

At one point, he did discuss what he has come to know about one of Epstein's victims. She was 22 years old when she met the former president on one of those flights. 

Before the week is done, we're going to show you what she said about that interaction.

We'll go there by the end of the week. It was the misery handed to her by Epstein that Compagno and Watters and Tyrus and the rest of the mutts were delightedly laughing about.

Last Tuesday, Compagno and Watters were earning their pay, mugging about a hilarious event that didn't actually happen. What they did is precisely the way The Five worksunless you read the New York Times, or unless you read The Atlantic

As these braindead Fox News Channel shows attack the very possibility of continuing the American project, Jeffrey Goldberg holds court each Friday night on the weekly PBS show, Washington Week with The Atlantic.

Thoughtful discussions are offered to a misled PBS audience. Never a word will ever be said about what happens on the Fox News Channel. More strikingly, never a word about that channel will ever appear in the very important magazine Goldberg serves as editor-in-chief.

Jeffrey Goldberg is very sharp. To him, we offer this bit of advice:
Motherfrumper, it's time you stood up like an actual human. It's time you got up off your asp!
On Gutfeld!, Hillary Clinton still murders her rivals. Joe Biden will soon be dead. The loathing of women is everywhere. The audience for this astonishing program dwarfs those on MS NOW.

Someone apparently told Greg Gutfeld to stop comparing women to horses. If he could learn a new way of life, why can't the cowardly clams who hold court at The Atlantic?

Tomorrow: They let the mutts out on Gutfeld! that night

Still coming: The one victim's deeply sad tale

TUESDAY: Conrad had the heart of darkness!

TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2026

We have those programs at Fox: Joseph Conrad had the realm he chose to explore in Heart of Darkness. The leading authority on the novella thumbnails it as shown

Heart of Darkness 

Heart of Darkness is an 1899 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, in which sailor Charles Marlow tells the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African interior. The novel is widely regarded as a critique of European colonialism in Africa, whilst also examining the themes of power dynamics and morality. Although Conrad does not name the river on which most of the narrative takes place, at the time of writing, the Congo Free State—the location of the large and economically important Congo River—was a private colony of Belgium's King Leopold II. Marlow is given an assignment to find Kurtz, an ivory trader working on a trading station far up the river, who has "gone native" and is the object of Marlow's expedition. 

And so on from there.

As far as we know, Heart of Darkness remains a challenging work. This week, we've been asking you to focus on a pair of Fox News Channel programs in our morning reports.

This is depressing, tiring work. It raises questions about life inside the zone known as Silo Red, but also about life inside the ramparts of Silo Blue.

This is tiring work. Or maybe it's just from setting our clocks ahead! It could always be something like that!

Tomorrow morning: The mutts who were eager to bark

THE REMAINS: They pretended to discuss the tape...

TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2026

...which they pretended they'd seen: "Some say the world will end in fire. Some say [it will end] in ice."

The name of the poet in question was Frost. Did a minor prejudgment lurk there? 

Somewhat similarly, some say our societal disintegration started in 1990 with Newt Gingrich's list of wordswith his list of the "contrasting words" the GOP should always use when describing Democrats.  

("Destructive, shallow, sick, shame, cynicism, lie, disgrace, taxes, devour, anti-child, anti-flag and traitor"and on and on from there.)  

Others say the demise started earlierfor example, in the attack on Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork conducted by Senator Ted Kennedy in 1987. 

Whether you teach it flat or round, the remains of those days can now be viewed, every night, on various "cable news" programs. In our view, the Fox News Channel is especially committed to the practice of prying the lid off the garbage can, then deciding to let the mutts out. 

Our own language may seem strong, you might imaginably say. If so, we'll suggest the possibility that you haven't been watching the instruments of the ongoing demisethat you've taken the cue from such Blue American "news orgs" as these:

The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, MS NOW 

Those news orgs, and all their journalists, have agreed to avert their gaze from the conduct of the Fox News Channel and its expansive kennel of "mutts." Those orgs will neither report nor analyze or discuss the behavior of those aggregationsfor example, of the collection of savants let out last night at exactly 10 o'clock Eastern: 

Gutfeld! panelists: Monday, 3/9/26 
Tyrus: former professional "wrestler" 
Kat Timpf: comedian 
Greg Gutfeld: host
Michael Malice: podcast conspiracy theorist 
Nick Shirley: independent journalist

As an example of the culture which obtains at these "cable news" programs, Gutfeld introduced Malice this way: 

"He causes more troubles online than emails from Nigeria."

He introduced Tyrus in much the way he always does:

"He's like a shower chair. Old ladies sit on him in the shower."

According to his nightly intro, Tyrus is constantly having sex with "old ladies" (over 80), implicitly for pay. At any rate, with a congregation of analysts like those, what could possibly have gone wrong on some such enchanted night?

As the American news industry has continued its headlong collapse, we the people are now receiving primetime "cable news" instruction from gong-show panels like that one. 

As any sentient being could see, the panels on programs like Gutfeld! and The Five are assembled to spread preferred corporate messaging all through the warrens of Red America. As their inane behavior proceeds, the finer people in Blue America have agreed to avert their gaze. 

And so it was last Tuesday night when The Five went on the air at 5, followed by Gutfeld! at 10. The corporation had decided to let the mutts out. On this profoundly unfortunate evening, the analysts in question were these:

The Five panelists: Tuesday, 3/3/26
Emily Compagno: co-host, Outnumbered
Jessica Tarlov: twice-weekly punching bag
Jesse Watters: host, Jesse Watters Primetime
Dana Perino: co-anchor, America's Newsroom
Tyrus: former professional "wrestler
Gutfeld! panelists: Tuesday, 3/3/26
Tyrus: former professional "wrestler"
Kat Timpf: comedian
Greg Gutfeld: host
Dave Landau: comedian
Mike Benz: Foundation For Freedom Online

Those were the aggregations in question. Now for the rest of the story:

As we noted yesterday, the videotape of Bill Clinton's recent deposition had been released by the House Oversight Committee the day before. Now, those collections of corporate messaging agents would pretend to discuss what they would pretend to have seen in the four and a half hours of tape. 

Full disclosure: 

In all candor, "clown show" isn't a strong enough term for what those panels produced. As they pretended to discuss what they pretended to have seen, each panel focused on one small piece of videotapea piece of tape whose context we laid out in yesterday morning's report.

We know of no reason to believe that any of those panelists had actually reviewed the actual videotape on which they and their fellow panelists would pretend to comment. We know of no reason to believe that any of these corporate "mutts" knew what was being discussed in the inconsequential line of questioning which preceded that brief bit of tape.

We'll now attempt to execute a change in tone, moving from the inexcusable clowning performed by last Tuesday's messenger children to the very serious questions under review during Bill Clinton's deposition:

The former president was being asked about his past association with Jeffrey Epstein, a major purveyor of sex crimes. The former president said his association with Epstein ended in 2003, a point which went unchallenged all through the 4.5 hours of tape.

Last Tuesday night, the children cavorted and clowned. In that way, they completed their corporate mission. During his lengthy deposition, the former president responded to reasonable questions from Jack Emmer, chief counsel to the House Oversight Committee.

What had been the nature of the former's president's association with Epstein? You can see what the former president said by reading the transcript of his deposition, or even by watching the videotapesomething none of the children showed any sign of having done.

In what way had Clinton interacted with Epstein? As we noted yesterday, the first Q-and-A went like this:

EMMER (2/27/26): Mr. President, thank you for agreeing to testify today and for your years of service to our country. I want to start from the beginning. When did you first meet Jeffrey Epstein?

CLINTON: ...There's a picture where it shows him shaking hands in the White House Historical Association reception. That was in 1993, but I'm not aware of that. I first remember meeting him when I got on his airplane to take the first trip with my foundation in, I think, 2002, whenever it was.

None of that was ever seriously challenged. As the early questioning continued, the president described the way the association began:

CLINTON: Sometime after I left the White House, either in late 2001 or early-ish 2002, I received a call from Larry Summers, who had been on my economic team and was later secretary of treasury...He said that he was calling because a man named Jeffrey Epstein who had made a substantial commitment of several million dollarsI think it was 10, but whatever it wasto brain research, and that he was a information hungry person and he wanted to spend some time talking to me about economics and politics. 

And he said he's got this massive airplane and he said he would take you, your staff, your Secret Service detail, and anybody else you wanted to bring on the trips that he knew I was planning to set up a global network to provide lifesaving AIDS medicine to as many people as possible, as quickly as possible.

This basic account went unchallenged during the long deposition. According to President Clinton's testimony, a series of "four or five trips to Asia and Africa and one to north of Europe" ensued.

The last of these AIDS-related trips took place in 2003. After that, the president said, he had no further contact with Epstein.

None of this chronology was challenged during the long deposition. As we noted yesterday, there was an inconsequential line of questioning at one point, in which Emmer seemed to be testing President Clinton's claim that he and Epstein had never been personal friends.

Yesterday, we showed you the transcript of that line of questioning. We'd say the line of questioning was transparently inconsequential. 

Last Tuesday night, two panels of pretenders cavorted and joked and pretended and undermined the possibility of maintaining an American nation as they pretended to discuss that one small piece of that videotape.

None of them showed any sign of having any idea what they were clowning about. They were engaged   in the nightly project of creating convincing "imitations of life."

We're dealing here with the sacred, but also with the grotesquely profane. There's no excuse for what those "cable news" panelists did that night, but we'll remind you that they're only human, and they were being well paid.

Also, their behavior is enabled by the elites we Blues are told we can trustby our own Blue American elites, over here in our own failing half of our plainly failing so-called United States of America.

Some say fire, some say ice. Some say that last Tuesday's appalling behavior shows us what is leftwhat little remainsof our rapidly failing culture. 

Tomorrow, we'll look at what was leftwhat little decency remainedafter they had let the mutts out, which they of course do every night.

Tomorrow: "[Little] beside remains"


MONDAY: The costuming for the El Salvador shoot!

MONDAY, MARCH 9, 2026

We won't mention this again: As soon as Kristi Noem got sacked, the piling-on got started.

In Sunday's New York Times, Maureen Dowd took her turn at the helm of this ship. Along the way, she joined a cast of thousands in retyping the highlighted script:

‘Wuthering Heights,’ MAGA Style

Eat your heart out, Emerald Fennell.

You may have the alluring stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi cavorting on the moors in your crimson adaptation of “Wuthering Heights.” But for radioactive romance, you can’t beat Washington.

Emily Brontë’s Cathy and Heathcliff are selfish, manipulative creatures, destroying each other and all around them as they indulge their passions and egos. But their damage was kept to one windswept village.

With MAGA’s version of “Wuthering Heights,” the far less alluring but equally intertwined Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski have been cavorting over the swamp, scandalizing the capital as they’ve spread their cruelty far and wide. (To Lewandowski’s credit, he didn’t try to kill a dog like Heathcliff did. That’s Noem’s department.)

Holiday Barbie, as Robbie’s Cathy has been dubbed for her ostentatious dresses and hairstyles, pales in comparison with the costumes and Rapunzel extensions of ICE Barbie. Imprisoned in her marriage to Edgar Linton, Robbie’s Cathy gleams in elaborate gowns and necklaces. But Noem topped that. When she went to see migrants in prison in El Salvador, she sported a baseball cap with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement logo—and a gold Rolex Cosmograph Daytona that’s worth $50,000.

And so on from there.

It's true! Incessant costuming seemed to prevail during Noem's adventures at DHS. That said: 

To our eye, the point of the costuming at that gulag-style prison was plainly not the gold watch.

To our eye, the El Salvador shoot looked like a scene straight out of some sequel to Apocalypse Now. The half-naked male prisoners were all half naked. Quite plainly, the lady was not.

We don't think the focus was really the watch! We promise not to roll our eyes at this timid bit of scripting again.

Additional bonus disclosure: We thought Emerald Fennell was right on target with her 2020 directorial debut, Promising Young Woman.

We haven't seen her version of Wuthering Heights.


WHAT REMAINS: Who let the mutts out?

MONDAY, MARCH 9, 2026

This horseplay is all that remains: For starters, let it be said that Chairman Comer seemed to be suitably staffed. 

Two Fridays back, the chairman was on the ground in Chappaqua, prepared to depose Bill Clinton. At the start of the lengthy session, his 34-year-old chief counsel introduced himself: 

"Thank you. My name is Jack Emmer and I am the chief counsel of investigations for Chairman Comer."

Emmer conducted himself in a professional manner during the long day's journey. When the testimony finally began, he thanked the former president "for agreeing to testify today and for your years of service to our country." 

So said the chairman's chief counsel. First, though, the chairman's additional staffers signed instaffers on the House Oversight Committee, which Comer serves as chairman.

First, seventeen committee membersseventeen members of the Houseintroduced themselves to Clinton. After that, it became fairly clear that Chairman Comer was suitably staffed:

EMMER (2/27/26): For the record, starting with the majority staff, can the additional staff members please introduce themselves with their name, title, and affiliation?

BILLY GRANT: Billy Grant, deputy chief counsel for investigations for Chairman Comer.

PETER SPECTRE: Peter Spectre, deputy director of oversight for Chairman Comer.

DANIEL ASHWORTH: Daniel Ashworth, general counsel for Chairman Comer.

RYAN GIACHETTI: Ryan Giachetti, chief counsel for Chairman Comer.

WILL HARNESS: Will Harness, professional staff member for Chairman Comer.

ANNAH CATHEY: Hannah Cathey, professional staff member for Chairman Comer.

MELVIN SOTO: Melvin Soto, digital director for Chairman Comer.

ALLISON COLEMAN: Allison Coleman, counsel for Chairman Comer.

EMILY FEYERABEND: Emily Feyerabend, counsel for Chairman Comer.

MARK MARIN: Mark Marin, staff director for Chairman Comer.

AUSTIN HACKER: Austin Hacker, communications director for Chairman Comer.

ASHLEY GINGER: Ashley Ginger, deputy staff director for Chairman Comer.

EMMER: Thank you, all. 

Based on a cursory look at their bios, they all seemed to be "majority staff," though we could be wrong about that. At any rate, it seemed that Chairman Comer had managed to arrive on the scene with plenty of help.

This legion was present to question the former president about his past association with the late Jeffrey Epstein. Laboriously, Emmer instructed the former president in the rules of the gamefor example, by telling him this: 

EMMER: Furthermore, you cannot tell half-truths or exclude information necessary to make statements accurate. You are required to provide all information that would make your response truthful. A deliberate failure to disclose information can constitute a false statement. Do you understand? 

President Clinton said that he did understand. No half-truths would be allowed! 

After roughly nineteen minutes of this, the questioning finally began. The questioning started with this: 

EMMER: Mr. President, thank you for agreeing to testify today and for your years of service to our country. I want to start from the beginning. When did you first meet Jeffrey Epstein?

CLINTON: Well, I will try in this testimony and I will point it out when I'm aware there's a picture or something that predates this. There's a picture where it shows him shaking hands in the White House Historical Association reception. That was in 1993, but I'm not aware of that. I first remember meeting him when I got on his airplane to take the first trip with my foundation in, I think, 2002, whenever it was.

The foundation to which he referred was, in fact, the Clinton Foundation. The trips in question, the former president said, were "four or five trips to Asia and Africa and one to north of Europe on Mr. Epstein's airplane"trips taken in 2002 and 2003 in connection with the former president's desire "to set up a global network to provide lifesaving AIDS medicine to as many people as possible." 

(For the record, few questions were asked about that effort. For the record, that's because no one actually gives a flying felafel about a tedious topic like keeping AIDS victims alive.)

The deposition took place on Friday, February 27. For the record, the ongoing war on Iran started that very same Friday night. 

For reasons which weren't clear, or possibly were, Hillary Clinton had been deposed the day before.

Based on this transcript from the invaluable Rev, the deposition of President Clinton burned roughly four and a half hours away, not counting time for breaks. When C-Span posted the committee's official videotape, it ran 4:33:48.

As a general matter, Emmer engaged in perfectly reasonable lines of questioning. (When the questions came from other staffers or from some members of Congress, maybe just possibly not.) But in these ways, we've set the scene for the onslaught by the mutts which was destined to follow. 

The committee's official videotape was released on Monday, March 2. The onslaught by the mutts began on Tuesday, March 3.

Who let the mutts out with respect to this deposition? Tomorrow, we're going to say the names of the various performers in question. 

For today, we're going to close by posting an inconsequential exchangean underwhelming set of Q-and-A's which took place about one hour and fifteen minutes into the committee's official videotape.

During this exchange, Emmer seemed to be testing the president's claim that he and Epstein had engaged in cordial relations on the lengthy plane trips in question but had never been "friends." This semantic distinction came under reviewor so it now basically seemed.

You can check the transcript and the videotape for yourselves. For the sake of clarity, we've edited our interjections by the former president's counsel.

You can check the record yourself! Starting at roughly 1:13 on the transcript or tape, this is what you'll find:

EMMER: At this time, I'd like to introduce what'll be marked as Majority Exhibit 14. And while it's being handed out, this is an article published by The New York Times on August 5th, 2025, entitled "A Look Inside Epstein's Manhattan Lair." And once you receive the article, I will just direct your attention to page 10.

[...]

And we're specifically looking at a framed photo on a wooden table, alongside multiple other framed photos. And we're focusing on the photo in the middle, which appears to have a golden frame.

CLINTON: Yeah, okay, I see it.

EMMER: Mr. President, do you recognize yourself in this photo?

CLINTON: I do.

EMMER: And it appears that the man on the right of the photo is Jeffrey Epstein. Is that correct?

CLINTON: I think so.

As can be seen in that New York Times article, a photo exists of Clinton and Epstein, apparently from one of those flights. As can be seen in that article, the photo was on display in Epstein's Manhattan mansion, along with many other celebrity photos, including one of Epstein with the former Pope!

President Clinton said he recognized himself in the one photo under review. The colloquy continued:

EMMER: And for the record, what is happening in this photo?

CLINTON: He's smiling at me. He looks like he's talking to me.

EMMER: This is one of the friendly interactions that you were describing earlier?

CLINTON: Yes.

EMMER: And can you describe the circumstances surrounding this photo?

CLINTON: I do notI have no idea. I see Richard Branson in the back, and other people [in other photos]. But I don't remember anything about it.

EMMER: Okay, that's fine. And you appear to be comfortable with Mr. Epstein in this photo. Would you disagree with that characterization?

CLINTON: I'm comfortable. I'm comfortable here. I'm not happy, but I'm comfortable.

[Substantial pause]

And my conscience is clear. That helps.

At this point, Clinton and attorney Cheryl Mills continue to look at one or more of the "multiple photos" from the New York Times article. After pausing his questioning. Emmer eventually moves on to a different line of questioning.

Our view? That one photograph was hugely underwhelming, as was that exchange. 

Emmer seemed to be trying to claim that Clinton and Epstein had actually been more friendly than the president had claimed. We'd have to say that line of questioning was underwhelmingwas essentially inconsequential. 

Nothing much was taking place as Clinton and Mills continued to look at those photos. But the next night, the Fox News Channel let the mutts out, and the mutts proceeded to behave in their typical way.

Tomorrow, we'll show you what these fiendish creatures said about the brief chunk of videotape before Emmer starts his new line of questioning. More generally, we'll show you what happens when the trainers at the Fox News Channel let the mutts out every night.

As the week proceeds, we'll have more to show you about this depositionrather, about the way its contents have frequently been portrayed. Most strikingly, we'll show you an exchange about one of Jeffrey Epstein's victimsa poignant observation to which, or so it says here, attention should be paid.

We'll do that later this week. Tomorrow, we'll restrict ourselves to the fun enjoyed by the mutts on last Tuesday's edition of The Five, and then on the Gutfeld! show.

No one in our own Blue America will ever tell you what those performers did that night. More generally, no one will ever report the way they like to roll in the garbage spread out by their handlers most nights. 

At this site, we will tell you this:

Their conduct is bringing the possibility of the American enterprise to an end. 

This steady descent has been underway for a good long time now. We Blues say it started with Newt's list of recommended words. Reds say it began before that.

With respect to last week's events, Blue America's journalists and academics refuse to report the way these mutts behavewon't even say these nitwits' names! 

This has been taking place for decades. What happened last Tuesday can sometimes seem to be all that remains.

Tomorrow: "[Little] beside remains?"