SATURDAY: [NAME WITHHELD] is "a smelly old bag!"

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2025

So the Fox messenger said: It would be interesting to conduct a type of word check. The question would be this:

How often are the words "Hitler" or "Nazi" spoken in the course of a day on MSNBC or CNN? Also, how often are those words spoken in the course of a day on the Fox News Channel?

We ask for the following reason:

It seems to us that we see and hear those words much more often on Fox! We hear those words as the channel's messenger children keep spreading this message around:

Current Fox News Channel message:
"The left" has inspired at least two recent deadly shootings (Charlie Kirk; the ICE facility in Dallas) because of its use of those words.

On programs of the Fox News Channel, that corporate message is currently being promulgated on a round the clock basis. 

Thursday's edition of The Five started with a segment dedicated to that general message. It led to one of the dumbest statements we've ever seen on cable.

Dana Perino, the program's "den mother," was moderator for the segment. At 5:02, she played tape of President Trump saying that "the radical left is causing the problem." 

At that point, Perino said this:

PERINO (9/25/25): And I just want to play this montage our team put together of anti-ICE rhetoric.

So the program's resident "den mother" said—the one who's supposed to be sane. 

You can watch the montage from Perino's team simply by clicking this. Included were very short clips of longer statements by six Democratic pols.

Four of the clips took us a long way back in time. There was no way to establish a context for what was being complained about—for what was actually being said at the given point in time:

Short clips from the montage:
Gov. Tim Walz, May 17: "Donald Trump's modern-day Gestapo"
Rep. Eric Swalwell, July 16: "Running around our communities like masked bank robbers? Terrorizing women?" 
Mayor Brandon Johnson, June 11: "What terrorism looks like. This is it."
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, September 14: "When I see ICE, I see slave patrols."
Rep. Eric Larson, August 17: "This is not Germany. That's the SS and the Gestapo. This is the United States. Unmask yourselves!"
Gov. Gavin Newsom. September 23: "Masked men jumping out of unmarked cars. People disappearing. No due process."

Should Democrats be talking that way? For what it's worth, we regard Rep. Crockett as the gift that won't stop giving to MAGA's mid-term hopes. We're inclined to think that Governor Walz—he's known as "Tampon" on the Fox News Channel—isn't real far behind.

That said, we'll ask again: Should Democratic office holders be using language like that? 

There's no ultimate answer to that question. But we will say this:

We couldn't help noting that these clips went back a good long way in time. The montage included only two (2) statements which were made in the past month. 

What specific behaviors were being discussed when these statements were made? We have no idea. There is no way to tell.

That could mean that such statements are actually fairly rare. Or it could mean that Perino's team simply grabbed the first things they could find—that they don't especially care, given the way this channel's messaging actually works.

At any rate, so the clips went. We'll note this:

"Gestapo" and "the SS" are obvious references to the disaster which swept across Europe starting in the 1930s. That said, Perino's team included no Democratic pol using the words "Nazi" or "Hitler"—but the ensuing pseudo-discussion spilled with complaints about the way "the left" won't stop throwing those terms around.

In the course of the day's pseudo-discussions, the messenger children said "Hitler" at least nine times, part of their claim that "the left" calls people that all the time. They also said "Nazi" at least four times. 

In truth, you hear those words on Fox all the time. Elsewhere, perhaps not so much!

At any rate, should Democrats be more careful in the language they use? A reasonable person could say yes—but when Jessica Tarlov tried two times, within the past week, to note that President Trump speaks in similar heated ways about the Communists and fascists of the lunatic left, she was interrupted and overtalked by the corporate nitwits for whom she serves as a punching bag on these messaging panels.

Do Democrat politicians speak unwisely at times? We'd say that the answer is yes! Eventually, though, Perino's montage led to one of the dumbest things we've ever seen on cable TV, or pretty much anywhere else.

It was Perino who made the statement in question. The background goes like this:

As Gutfeld and Watters kept saying "Nazi Nazi Hitler Hitler," it fell to Tarlov to suggest that overheated rhetoric can perhaps be found in Red American locales as well. 

The day before, she had been savaged by the furious Gutfeld as she attempted make such a claim. On this day, it fell to Perino to rebut Tarlov's absurd suggestion. 

Breaking in on Tarlov's presentation, Perino threw to Jesse Watters, who brought the messaging back into line. Amazingly, Perino said this about her team's montage:

PERINO: [INDECPHERABLE DUE TO OVERTALKING] ...when we played the montage earlier, Jesse, there was not nobody, aside from Democrats, who were talking about anti-ICE rhetoric in that way.

What a shock! When Perino's team assembled a montage of people using aggressive rhetoric, the montage included no one other than Democrats! No Republicans were included in the montage, not even the sitting president!

Dana Perino is cast on The Five as the one who isn't nuts. That statement struck us as one of the dumbest things we've ever seen on TV—but during the program's second segment, Greg Gutfeld offered a statement which struck us as one of the most sadly typical. 

The segment began with a very short excerpt from a long appearance by Hillary Clinton on Wednesday's Morning Joe. Inane messaging quickly followed. 

Inevitably, Gutfeld was soon saying this:

GUTFELD:  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. 

Hillary Clinton isn't a Nazi. She's just an ugly, smelly old bag. Why is she still around?

This was part of an absurd apologia Gutfeld launched this day—first on The Five, then on his own Gutfeld! program five hours later. He kept offering an absurd justification for his endlessly repellent behavior.  

Has someone managed to get inside this very strange person's head? 

We truly wish that his corporate owners would insist that he get some help. We feel sure that he could do better than this. 

That said, ugly messaging of this type is part of this channel's stock in trade. The most reprehensible people of all are the finer people at the major Blue orgs who refuse to report this ceaseless "night assault" on the very possibility of the American project.

Watters may have made the most striking statement of all this day. What he said was flatly false. He was falsely responding to Tarlov. His statement was clownishly false.

We'll have more on this chaos next week—but as we told you long ago, it's all anthropology now. There is no obvious way to extract ourselves from this mess.