SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 2025
Trap of Timpf stays shut: The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin once said. At long last, we can finally say that he seems to have had it wrong.
It's true! A nation's cities can be devoured by flames. But a nation's capacity for intelligent discourse can be swallowed much faster.
As a case in point, we give you the Fox News Channel's Greg Gutfeld, back this week from paternity leave.
For the record, the Fox News star is 60 years old. By most reckonings, that makes him a fully grown person.
In the simple realm of physical appearance, no one has ever mistaken him for George Clooney. In a world aligned with basic decency, that's neither here nor there.
Last month, Gutfeld's wife—she's substantially younger—gave birth to the couple's first child. This week, the "cable news" star returned to the "cable news" wars.
What follows is all the fellow was able to bring to last evening's public discourse. At issue is the way a group of performers pretended to discuss a certain topic on last evening's Gutfeld! show.
Gutfeld! is a prime-time, weeknight "cable news" program. Last night, the panel pretended to discuss a recent statement by Rep. Pamila Jayapal (D-WA).
As it turned out, Rep. Jayapal isn't attractive enough for the Fox News Channel star. For the record, very few (liberal) women ever are.
Below, you see the way the segment in question started. A photo of Jayapal was on the screen as the segment began:
GUTFELD (1/10/25): Our second "Video of the Day": comes to us from a congresswoman in Washington State.
One look at that face, you'll wish it was "Audio of the Day."
To watch this latest opening of the garbage can, you can just click here.
This is very typical behavior from the "cable news" star. We thought we should say the names of the people who stared off into space when this very strange person behaved this way—when he behaved this way for perhaps the ten millionth time:
Panelists, Gutfeld! program, 1/10/25
Tyrus: former professional "wrestler"
Kat Timpf: "best-selling author" of books bought in bulk
Charles Hurt: Fox News contributor
Michael Loftus: flyweight comedian
"What would you give in exchange for your soul?" It's an old American song—a part of Americana.
What would you give in exchange for your soul? In the case of Timpf, she's willing to stare into space—to voice no comment or complaint—when her benefactor behaves in this manner.
People like Tyrus, Hurt and Loftus also know that they must say nothing about this.
Just to be clear, Gutfeld this way on a nightly basis. Here he was on Monday evening—the evening of his return—expressing his displeasure with the physical attractiveness of Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist:
GUTFELD (1/6/25): Can you show a picture of her before I ask Charles [Payne] a question?
[PHOTO APPEARS ON SCREEN]
[Sarcastically] Do you think she's too attractive to do The View?
AUDIENCE: [Laughter, applause]
PAYNE: She might be! She might be!
GUTFELD (sarcastically): Yeah. I would say she needs to put on a few pounds, you know?
PAYNE: Sit on the last chair on the end. Maybe add a chair.
GUTFELD (laughing): The last chair on the end!
This exchange occurred in the midst of a strikingly dim-witted discussion of Mary Trump's criticisms of her uncle. This was Gutfeld's way of saying that she is too unattractive for him, but also that she's too fat.
(Regarding the reference to The View: It's a standard theme on this gruesome "cable news" program that all the women on The View are too ugly and too fat. Joy Behar, who's 82 years old, is the Fox star's principal target.)
This goes on, night after night, on this "cable news" propaganda machine. These were ethe poeple who sat silent on this occasion:
Panelists, Gutfeld! program, 1/6/25
Tyrus: former professional "wrestler"
Kat Timpf: "best-selling author" of books bought in bulk
Charly Arnolt: television personality for OutKick
Charles Payne: host of Fox Business show, Making Money with Charles Payne
This garbage can is opened each night on the Fox News Channel. We think it's well past time to start saying the names of the people who take part in this assault on this nation's ability to conduct a decent, intelligent discourse.
Gutfeld himself is an unvarnished, bizarre gender throwback. We favor avoiding the use of such terms, but his misogyny-adjacent behavior is undisguised, relentless, overt.
Does democracy die in darkness? Discourse dies when people engaged in "Making Money" behave this way on a nightly basis. In our view, it's time for major American orgs to start reporting this assault on our nation's rapidly failing culture—to start saying the names of the people who agree to light these fires.
Let's be clear! This is just the tiniest part of the assault on discourse being conducted, around the clock, on this imitation of a "cable news" channel.
That said, these are the names of some of the people engaged in this assault on this nation's ability to conduct an intelligent discourse. When will the New York Times (and other orgs) be willing to report this conduct—be willing to say their names?
What would you give in exchange for your soul? We pose that question to Timpf.
It's a part of Americana. Why does her trap stay shut?
ReplyDeleteMost Americans prefer Fox News to any and all Democrat-run TV. I hate watching Fox News, because I am a Democrat.
That's why I'm religiously watching it. It's killing me, and I will keep watching it. It's killing me! Please help! Please ban its broadcasts!
I am Bob Somerby.
Like Fox, Somerby pretends to discuss but never actually does.
DeleteFox News is a great balm for morons who enjoy being lied to.
ReplyDeleteI saw a recent photo of Alex Jones, the other day, and he wasn't wearing a barrel held-up by straps. That's a much stronger indication that the nation is in a bad state.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see our media discuss why immigrants keep out-classing white people on the job market.
ReplyDeleteBob says Joy Behar is eighty-two years old. I thought he was exaggerating, joking. But no, she really is eighty-two years old. I wonder if she’s still cognitive? I don’t watch The View, so I’ll never know.
ReplyDeleteAn alleged conspiracy theory turns out to be true. The reservoir was indeed empty. The LA Times reported
ReplyDelete“ As the fire burned, the water supply in the Palisades came from three storage tanks that hold “1 million gallons each,” while the 117 million gallon reservoir was completely empty”
The City of LA seems not to know how long it’s been empty—maybe back to early 2024. Maybe several years.
The truth contradicts the convenient excuse that the taps were empty only because so many people were using the water simultaneously.
The conspiracy that we can afford to give each and every man, woman, and child free healthcare, education, and housing also turns-out to be true.
DeleteHow did this mismanagement happen?
DeleteRepublicans say:
-- DEI. Hiring, promoting, and electing more for race and ethnicity than for competence
-- Democrats. They're in charge, so it's their fault
-- Focusing on non-local issues, like Gaza and climate change
-- Corruption
Democrats say:
-- Hey! Look a squirrel!
The fact that Mary Trump is unattractive is not an important reason for her lack of credibility but the fact that she's mentally ill is.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Somerby, women are supposed to scan the environment and object to sexism around them but Timpf stares into space so she’s bad. Actually, men are supposed to monitor their own behavior, cut the crap and treat others with respect, so Gutfeld and Somerby are to blame, not women who are being maligned.
ReplyDeleteNaming names sounds Very Serious…until you find out it is names like Gutfeld.
ReplyDeleteWomp womp.
Sure, Gutfeld is horrible, but that’s hardly news.
I think Biden had yet another cold at yesterday's news conference.
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