THURSDAY: Greg Gutfeld won't discuss this tonight!

THURSDAY, JULY 31, 2025

Blue journalists won't discuss him: The Washington Post had published a report about conditions at the gulag-adjacent confinement center in El Salvador—the mega-prison to which United States sent 270 men.

According to the Post, many of the deportees "had entered the United States legally and were actively complying with U.S. immigration rules." Below, headline included, we show you some of the basics from the start of the lengthy report:

‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the mega prison where the U.S. deported migrants

One detainee was beaten unconscious. Others emerged from the dark isolation room covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another returned to his cell in tears, telling fellow detainees he’d just been sexually assaulted.

“Let’s hit him like a piñata,” guards shouted amid the beatings, detainees recalled, the blows echoing against the metal walls.

They called it “La Isla”—The Island—the cell where Venezuelans deported from the United States by the Trump administration said they suffered some of the worst abuse of their 125 days in El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT.

The matching firsthand accounts across multiple interviews offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the mega prison, where inmates are denied access to lawyers and almost all contact with the outside world—and where about 14,000 Salvadorans remain incarcerated. Few detainees have ever left CECOT, and fewer have spoken publicly of their experience there.

The Washington Post interviewed 16 of the more than 250 men who were deported by the United States to CECOT, held there for four months and then released this month to Venezuela as part of an international prisoner swap.

The Venezuelans, rounded up in President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign, told The Post they were subjected to repeated beatings that left them bruised, bleeding or injured. They said prison staff restricted medical care for detainees suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure or kidney failure.

That's the way the report begins. As it continues, it describes sadistic behaviors on the part of prison personnel—sadistic behaviors of a type known to exist within our flawed human population.

DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin is quoted issuing her standard mumble-mouthed official deflections. We feel completely sure that McLaughlin is secretly better than that.

Regarding the legal status of some of the brutalized deportees, the Post offers this later passage:

The Post has found that many of the detainees had entered the United States legally and were actively complying with U.S. immigration rules.

Many of the men had fled political oppression and extreme poverty under Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a U.S. adversary. Some had been granted permission to live and work in the United States. At least two arrived in the U.S. as refugees seeking safety from persecution in Venezuela.

A number suspected they had been detained and deported by the U.S. based solely on their tattoos.

Marco Jesús Basulto Salinas, 35, had temporary protected status shielding him from deportation and worked legally in kitchens and pizzerias to pay for his mother’s breast cancer treatments back home.

Andry Hernández, a 31-year-old makeup artist, entered the U.S. legally with a CBP One appointment, where an official in a preliminary screening determined he had shown a credible fear of persecution as a gay man living and working in Venezuela.

Roger Molina, a food delivery driver and aspiring professional soccer player, had been vetted by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and federal law enforcement, flown to the U.S. and conditionally accepted into a State Department resettlement program for refugees.

We don't know what every word means. We'll offer one basic critique: 

Given the fact that the Post was able to speak with only sixteen of the deportees, the Post should have tried to explain the meaning of words like "many" and "some" within such passages as that.

That said, the descriptions of the sadistic behavior are easy to recognize. The United States paid $16 million to El Salvador to pay the costs of such treatment.

Also this:

Greg Gutfeld won't discuss this new report tonight. In a certain kind of way, if you squint your eyes, he's one of the prison guards too.

Meanwhile, our own Blue American journalists won't discuss Greg Gutfeld! They won't report or the things he says and does each night. Nor will they name or discuss the rest of the messenger children at the Fox News Channel—and the list of such strangers is long.

As for Gutfeld, he'll open his show tonight with a few minutes of his "fun, smart, non-lecturey comedy." As we noted in this morning's report, he touched a familiar set of deranged bases at the start pf last evening's "cable news" show, then finished that two- or three-minute, fun / smart segment with this bit of extremely smart comedy:

GUTFELD (7/30/25): Finally, scientists are now dressing pigs in clothes and burying them in Mexico.

Except for one that fled to Ireland.

[PHOTO OF ROSIE O'DONNELL]

AUDIENCE: [Extended yelping and applause]

As a general matter, Gutfeld doesn't agree with O'Donnell's political views. That seems to be the way he prefers to react to women who don't agree with him. 

A few nights back, the gang was noting that it's hard to get a boner at all if photos of O'Donnell are around. This is the way this collection of idiots agree to conduct themselves night after night, often to loud applause.

For now, we offer this question:

Within the bounds of differing national cultures, who is morally worse?

Who is morally worse?
1) The sadistic guards whose sadistic behaviors are described in the Post's report.
2) An American who is being paid $9 million per year to pretend to discuss news topics.
3) The loftier commentators who refuse to report or discuss the behaviors of people like Gutfeld.
4) The people who swore that the southern border was tight as a drum and that President Biden was sharp as a tack.

That last group got President Trump elected again. Which of those four groups is worst?

There are many strangers among us! Hello stranger, the old song says.  

More specifically, that old American song starts off exactly like this:

Hello, stranger, put your loving hand in mine
Hello, stranger, put your loving hand in mine
You are a stranger and you're a friend of mine.

The evocative lyrics continue from there. At one point, the singer finally confesses to "mourning like a dove."

(That' the way the old song goes. For a transplendent rendition, click this.)