MONDAY: We want to create an historical record!

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 202

The cable star smells wet garbage: With apologies, and just for the sake of history, we thought we'd establish a brief historical record concerning what happened last Thursday on the Fox News Channel—first on The Five, then on the Gutfeld! show.

The Five is the most watched show in all of American "cable news!" Also, it's a "news" show in much the same way that The Real Housewives of Catfight City belongs on a cable channel named Bravo—a cable channel which was originally designed to be about the fine arts.

As we've noted in the past, one "basic cable" channel after another dumbed its intended product way, way down once it came face to face with the preferences of the American cable news consumer. The Fox News Channel is a massively dumbed down version of whatever it was that a 24-hour "cable news" channel might originally have been intended to be.

The sheer stupidity on the channel, delivered in groups, is simply astounding. Then, along came Gutfeld, the man the channel groomed for his current role, originally starting with a show at 3 in the morning, to fold a stunningly coarse and apparently misogynistic sensibility into the stew.

That said:

Last Wednesday, Hillary Clinton appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe. Starting at 8 a.m. sharp, she did a pair of interview segments, lasting just over a total of 37 minutes. Here's one of the ways the appearance is summarized at the Morning Joe site:

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joins Morning Joe to discuss President Trump saying he now thinks Ukraine can win back all territory taken by Russia, the 20th anniversary of the Clinton Global Initiative, HHS Secretary RFK Jr. and vaccine access and the current fight over free speech.

For the record, the first segment ran some 20 minutes and 41 seconds. You can watch the whole thing here. The second segment ran 16 minutes and 44 seconds. This link will take you here.

Also this: Thanks to the invaluable Internet Archive, you can watch the whole interview simply by starting here.

We're not giant fans of Hillary Clinton as a political figure. Watching each segment in full, we were struck by how healing it can be for a person like Clinton to be removed from the hurly-burly of the daily political wars.

We thought Clinton was extremely articulate and notably relaxed throughout. For the record, she started out with words of support for President Trump, affirming the way he had just adjusted his rhetoric concerning Ukraine, suggesting that Ukraine could end up driving the Russians back out of its land.

(Now she'd like to see appropriate action, she added.)

Her lengthy appearance was calm and sane—until the corporate messenger children at the Fox News Channel went to work in the standard Fox News Channel fashion. 

In short, producers found a tiny clip they could edit out of the 37 minutes. The various Stepfords on the various Fox News Channel shows then took turns explaining what the tiny bit of tape actually meant about the demonic former secretary of state.

Of one thing you can be certain—none of these flyweights had actually watched the 37 minutes. They knew what they were being paid to say, and they happily proceeded to say it.

We've already shown you Gutfeld's broken-headed assessment during the 5 o'clock hour. Here it is again, with the reliably horrible Kennedy chiming in: 

GUTFELD (9/24/25):  You know, I don't know if you know this, Kennedy. That's the first time that Hillary has been on Morning Joe since the mysterious death of that intern.

OTHER PANELISTS: [Audible chuckling]

GUTFELD: I'm not saying anything, but I have to wonder—why is this old, ugly bag still around?

KENNEDY: Don't talk about Mika that way.

GUTFELD: I mean, that is so petty. That is so petty when I call her those things. But I'm not calling her a bigot, and I'm not calling her a Nazi. I'm just saying she's old and smelly and ugly. 

Please don't ask us to explain the reference to "the mysterious death of that intern." The tragic death of the intern in question isn't mysterious in any way, and all the panelists know it. But Gutfeld never tires of keeping such ugly messaging floating around inside his viewers' heads, as Kennedy chuckles along.

For whatever reason, it's the way his head currently works. We wish corporate owners would get him some help, because we feel entirely sure that he could be doing much better.

At any rate, there you see the way the concept of "cable news" has been reinvented—has been turned into a type of "Real D-Minus Flyweight Students of the Fox News Channel."

Every afternoon and then every night, Suzanne Scott pries the lid off the garbage can and the current version of Greg Gutfeld is part of what slithers out. Last Thursday night, at 10:07 p.m., he started again on his eponymous prime time propaganda program:

GUTFELD (9/25/25): And of course, if you smell wet garbage, you know Hillary's in town.

[Tiny snippet of tape]

So it went at 10:07. Hillary Clinton, 77 years old, was no longer an ugly old bag. The former first lady was now wet garbage, as you could tell from her smell.

This is the dystopian fugue the corporate bosses have created as they've dumbed the concept of "cable news" down down down down down. The sheer stupidity never ends on these utterly dimwitted "cable news" programs—and Gutfeld, more than any other figure, had added this ugly, coarse sensibility to the soul-crushing mix.

You can watch what followed that night, if you choose, by clicking here and then clicking ahead to the 7-minute mark. We'll add this odd observation:

As of last Thursday, had someone or something gotten inside this furious person's head? On each of these shows last Thursday, he offered bizarre attempts to justify the way he name-calls and slimes those with whom he disagrees in the manner we've shown you.

In Saturday's report, we showed you part of his extremely hapless apologia from that day's The Five. By clicking the link to that evening's Gutfeld! show, you can see him offer the same self-justification, five hours later.

Had someone been getting inside his head? Is that why he was suddenly trying to explain and justify, in a ludicrous way, his amazingly peculiar conduct?

We don't know who that could have been, but we ourselves went to junior high, and then to high school, just about a mile down the Alameda de las Pulgas from Gutfeld's own Serra High. We're saddened by the thought that someone from such a sunny land could have ended up the way this guy did.

That said, there's still time to get better.

His bosses, of course, are cheering him on. A segment of the public wanted Real Housewives more than fine arts. They also wanted Ancient Aliens more than they wanted actual history on the so-called History Channel. 

And so on, down the road to perdition from there.

A certain segment of the public enjoys seeing Gutfeld call Clinton smelly and old. (Trust us—it gets more pathetic and worse.) He's been paid to so those things, and he plainly seems to enjoy the laughter and cheers which follow

Instead of that, we wish his corporate owners would get this "poor immigrant" some help.

Something is badly wrong with this man—or it is just an overwrought form of Sexual Politics Throwback Syndrome? We'll be discussing that potent cultural and political force as the week proceeds—but Clinton spoke for 37 minutes on Morning Joe, and the only thing this lost soul had to say was his claim about the smell of wet garbage.

The larger question is this:

Fox behaves this way to rake in the cash. Why do Blue American orgs agree on this key point:

What Greg Gutfeld says and does must never be reported or discussed! 

This 61-year-old California man is badly in need of help, but so is the failing American nation. Why won't the stars at the New York Times—Brooks and French and Stephens and Douthat and Bruni and Dowd and Michelle Goldberg—do their jobs as American journalists and report, for all to hear, his astonishing change in the culture of the American "news" system?

The same thing goes for Mika and Joe! Why won't these people simply report what happens on Fox? Why won't they simply say the names of the people who do this?

Why won't someone say Suzanne Scott's name? It's Suzanne Scott, an American woman from New Jersey, who puts this trash on the air.

Is it possible that Suzanne Scott is wet garbage? Have Blue America's timorous stars ever thought about that?