WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2025
Gutfeld gets the word: Yes, he could—and yes, he actually did!
It's as we noted (again) yesterday. On at least three occasions during last year's campaign, Greg Gutfeld wondered if Hunter Biden was possibly having sex with first lady Jill Biden.
As we've noted, he didn't employ the circumspect locution "having sex." He turned instead to "banging" and "f*cking," with the F-bomb getting BLEEPed by the Fox News Channel's producers.
(The Gutfeld! program is taped.)
He did that at least three times. We say that because we observed and transcribed this garbage three separate times, and we weren't watching the program every night. This goes to the coarseness of this braindead "cable news" show, and to the willingness of Gutfeld's enablers—Kat Timpf included!—to cheer this astonishing conduct on, or at least to voice no words of complaint.
We transcribed this garbage three separate times, offering links to the videotape saved by the Internet Archive. For one example, you can see THE DAILY HOWLER, 8/30/24.
In that case, we were transcribing the gentleman 's conduct from the August 29 Gutfeld! show. Back in July, we had also transcribed this occurrence, after wiping the slime off our clothes:
GUTFELD (7/23/24): Speaking of Jill, where's she been, huh? And come to think of it, where's Hunter? Hmmmmm.
AUDIENCE: Chuckles, groans
I hope they're not [BLEEP]ing.
AUDIENCE: Roars
GUTFELD (feigning innocence): What?
I mean—
Just hoping! It's a good hope!
President Biden has scheduled a primetime—
AUDIENCE: Extended laughter, applause
GUTFELD: Didn't see that one coming, did ya?
TYRUS: This Pornhub moment is brought to you by Greg Gutfeld.
GUTFELD: Yes!
The blowhard who was once a professional "wrestler" was urging the good fun along. The audience, familiar with this running theme, had understood the drift of this jibe all along.
These events speak to the coarseness of this show, though possibly not to the apparent misogyny in which the show seems to be drenched. However you score that matter, this conduct was taking place on a primetime "cable news" program, not on a "late-night comedy show"—and we have to wipe the slime off our wardrobe every time we revisit it.
These presentations, and so many others, represent the startling change in the culture of the Fox News Channel—a transition from squeaky clean conservative "family values" to "conservative insult culture."
Over here in Blue America, our major news orgs routinely defer to Fox. They've never made a serious attempt to report this major change in journalistic culture—this major change in the way the "news" is delivered to America's largest "cable news" audience.
The bloated blowhard urged Gutfeld on. Kat Timpf never complained about these astonishing presentations, or about the constant direct comparisons of liberal women to cattle, horses, cows, pigs, and dogs, to "livestock" and to whales.
On Friday, we'll show you the ridiculous way Gutfeld defends these insults. Today, we wanted to refresh you about the deference shown to the Fox News Channel by the apparently timorous beings in our own Blue American sphere.
On Friday, we'll instruct you concerning Gutfeld's absurd "hierarchy of smears!" For today, with Thanksgiving looming, we wanted to direct you to that one unusual profile of Gutfeld and the Gutfeld! show.
We refer to this guest opinion piece written by John A. Daly (BernadrdGoldberg.com). It appeared at Mediaite in late August of this very year:
Mediaite: August 26, 2025
Opinion
How Greg Gutfeld Went From Fox’s Most Irreverent Host to Its Most Servile
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld is on top of the world right now, at least professionally. He co-hosts The Five, his network’s top-rated show that pulls in more than four million viewers every weeknight. Roughly three million people watch his late-evening show, Gutfeld!, earning him the moniker of “The King of Late Night” (which is also the title of his bestselling book). Earlier this month, his guest appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, drew the program’s biggest ratings of the year.
Indeed, Gutfeld’s come a long way since his hosting duties on Red Eye, Fox’s satirical, take-no-prisoners 3 a.m. program that debuted in 2007...
That's the way the profile began. Even Daly repeated the Fox News Channel branding claim according to which Gutfeld had become "The King of Late Night” (which was also the title of his bestselling book), in spite of the fact that he doesn't host a "late night' TV program.
(Please. Gutfeld! airs at 9 p.m. in the Central time zone, at 7 p.m. on the coast.)
Even Daly took the bait and repeated that branding claim. But as you can see from reading his piece—there is no paywall to block you—he took a very different approach to the Fox News Channel host.
In his piece, Daly describes an unusual part of the history of the Gutfeld! show. He reports that Greg Gutfeld was aggressively anti-Trump back in 2015 and 2016, when the current president entered the political wars.
As you can see in Daly's profile, Gutfeld was anti-Trump. But at some point, the fellow flipped, Daly reports. According to Daly, Gutfeld became a "servile" admirer of President Trump, as anyone who watches the Gutfeld! show can see on a nightly basis.
So it goes as Daly describes the striking move from the Fox News Channel's "most irreverent" host to its "most servile." That said, Daly doesn't try to explain the way this flip took place.
In fairness, anyone can change his assessment of some political figure. But Gutfeld's flip has been extreme—and then too, there's that one suggestive passage from that earlier New York Times profile.
The lengthy profile to which we refer appeared in July 2023. Subscribers to the New York Times can click through and read the whole thing:
The New York Times: July 2, 2023
How Fox News (Yes, Fox News) Managed to Beat ‘The Tonight Show’
Greg Gutfeld has installed his brand of insult conservatism as the institutional voice for the next generation of Fox News viewer. And it’s catching on.
In that profile, the Times (accurately) noted the way the Gutfeld! show was building a very large viewership. Along the way, as we've mentioned before, the profile may have offered a hint as to the genesis of Greg Gutfeld's road to serfdom.
Below, you see the passage in question. As Candidate Trump seizes control of the GOP, the CEO of the FNC calls GG in for a chat. At this point, Gutfeld was still hosting a 10 p.m. weekend show:
Around this period, [Gutfeld] often did something that feels disorienting to rewatch, given the host’s present disdain for those who moralize about Mr. Trump: He moralized about Mr. Trump.
“I’ve heard people defend him about making fun of a disability, making fun of John McCain, making fun of women,” he said on “The Five” in December 2015, accusing a Fox colleague of “Trumpsplaining” away his behavior. “No one will ever stop defending the crass stuff he says.”
Before the election, Suzanne Scott, now the chief executive of Fox News Media, hosted Mr. Gutfeld in her office.
Mr. Trump had no chance anyway, he told her.
“She was like, ‘Greg, you should maybe prepare,’” he remembered, “‘for what happens if he wins.’”
It's hard to miss what that anecdote seems to suggest. When it became clear that Candidate Trump might even end up in the White House, the CEO summoned her irreverent host to her office and possibly gave him the word.
For the record, tens of millions of people do support President Trump; Gutfeld is hardly alone. That said, it would be hard to do so in a more servile way than is seen on today's Gutfeld! show.
Today, Greg Gutfeld a genuine, full-blown nutcase on the topic of the president's unmistakable greatness. Way back when, as Daly notes, he held a quite different view.
Did this remarkable flip emerge as a career management play? We have no way of knowing.
That said, the Fox News Channel would of course be supporting President Trump. Did a certain Donald Trump critic decide to follow along?
Friday: Prepare to emit mordant chuckles (plus groans): "The hierarchy of smears!"
ReplyDelete"He did that at least three times. "
Blasphemy! Sacrilege!!
Where's the Spanish Inquisition when you need them!!!
No one is implying blasphemy or sacrilege. But it is fair to ask: from what kind of trumptardian sewer does such filth flow?
DeleteTriggered, Hillary?
DeleteA riposte such as 'Triggered, HIllary?' has its maximum effect in response to a comment that is overtly emotional or in some other way disproportional.
Delete11:41 however, was almost serene in its brevity and justness, managing to introduce a bouncy new adjective to the lexicon ('trumptardian') while ending on a beautifully alliterative note.
One can only ask: bad day on the prison yard, Ghislaine?
Not only you, Hillary, act triggered all the time for no apparent reason, but you're also a snowflake.
DeleteWhy don't you crawl into your safe space and cry, my dear? And stay there.
Only room for one sad crying ass in Mao's disheveled shack. Poor dear.
DeleteRepublicans electing an impotent old man with deep-seated inadequacy issues, to be the President, is as on-brand as they could possibly get.
ReplyDeleteWhen will the right wing media do its job and call out Trump's decrepitude?
DeleteNYT actually took a stab at sleeping stupid today. Baby Trump whined about it like the 2 y.o. he is on his Trufes.
Delete
ReplyDeleteNo, seriously, Bob: it used to be Rush Limbaugh you idiots hated. Then he died.
Of course you need someone in the pop-culture to hate; hatred being the only emotion that motivates you all. So, here it is: Greg Gutfeld.
Okay, sure; so far so good. But then, think about it: Donald Trump is also a pop-culture character. Why do you also need a weak substitute?
Bob doesn’t hate Trump; Bob pities Trump.
DeleteOh. So, he hates Greg Gutfeld, and pities Donald Trump? Interesting symptoms.
DeleteBob never said he hates Gutfeld.
DeleteAh. So, he loves Greg Gutfeld, in your opinion?
DeleteObsession is clearly there, so it's either love or hatred.
I’ve never seen Bob write that he hated anyone. His strongest condemnation is to suggest that so-and-so is sadly and irretrievably flawed/broken. That finality is a harsher response than the emotion of anger and hatred.
DeleteThat is hatred. We hate Satan, who is, sadly, a fallen angel.
DeleteClearly, he's just being cute, with his "motherless child" bullshit. Too cute by half.
DeleteAnonymouse 11:35am, no, it’s not an emotion. It’s a judgment.
DeleteJudgement is cast once. What I observe here is obsession.
DeleteAnonymouse 11:56am, not if the person still above ground.
DeleteI don’t hate Satan at all. I think God has been unfair to him.
DeleteYou don't, but your grand-grandparents did, most likely.
DeleteAnd what about Rush Limbaugh, as mentioned in the original comment. Didn't idiot-Democrats hate him. Didn't they even try to copycat him, using money from their billionaire sponsors to fund "Air America" (or whatever name it was), and miserably failing?
I can see why dipshits spouting bullshit on national TV on the daily gets under a persons skin. Jagoffs and weirdos (i.e. Repukes) are hard to take.
DeleteTrolling idiot-Democrats is the whole point of it. Otherwise, why would anyone care about Hunter Biden fucking his brother's widow.
DeleteThe point being only a fucking weirdo and jagoff would spend any time thinking about such a stupid concept.
DeleteBob hates Dems, that is what we Republicans are here for, to enjoy Bob's hate of Dems and to then further shit on the Dem commenters. Really, it is all we live for.
DeleteIf only you idiot-Democrats could appreciate the spectacle of triggered idiot-Democrats, the hilarity of it, you would certainly understand the appeal.
Delete2:19 You are like the kid in hs that says he has a girlfriend but she goes to another school, no one is buying your sad attempts at face-saving.
DeleteTriggered, Hillary?
Delete2:29 saying he is triggered without saying he is triggered.
DeleteAmusing stuff!
"Bob hates Dems, that is what we Republicans are here for, to enjoy Bob's hate of Dems and to then further shit on the Dem commenters. Really, it is all we live for."
DeleteThis apparently genuine comment, is comment of the day.
No, your apparently ungenuine comment, is comment of the day.
DeleteBoth of my comments: the apparently genuine one at 2:01 and the apparently ungenuine one at 2:41 are the comment of the day.
DeleteAnd I sniff my fingers... And I sniff my fingers... Mm-mmm...
Trump is declining even faster than Somerby. The President will no longer by compos mentis at the end of his term.
ReplyDeleteHe has less time than that.
DeleteNot the biggest fan of Trump, but he needs to hang on until the end, because if Vance gets into power by default, that will effectively end the Republican Party for decades.
DeleteOne can only hope then?, right?
DeleteIs this trend good or bad? “Between Jan. 21 and Nov. 21 last year, there were 19 assaults on ICE. During the same period this year, there were 238.”
ReplyDeleteWell, it's a civil war, perhaps. Slowly unraveling.
DeleteICE is a good, decent police organization.
DeleteDoes that include the cases where charges were dropped?
DeleteICE detained Karoline Leavitt’s nephew’s mother. She was born in Brazil but came to the US as a child.
DeleteGood. People who aren't citizens or legal residents have to be deported. That's true for every country on Earth. Otherwise, it's not a sovereign country, but just a territory. Like Antarctica.
DeleteOf course fascist David has no qualms about an unidentifiable police force arresting Americans based on the color of their skin. In case you were wondering, that is fascism 101. What a small man David is. Small men are the backbone of fascist states.
DeleteYou need to wash your skin once in a while, Soros-bot, and you'll be fine.
DeleteWhy is Mao uncomfortable in his own skin?
DeleteAnytime an ICE officer is assaulted is a good time. Fucking losers.
DeleteIt is not an increase in violence against ICE, it is just ICE redefining "assault" - assault now is just looking at ICE in the wrong way, making fun of them, or your hand gently brushing against them as they throw you to the ground.
Delete"ICE" also refers to the fact that they are an organization of butthurt snowflakes, their hearts frozen due to abuse they have experienced and lack of parental love.
Why would anyone be looking at ICE in the wrong way?
DeleteYou have to be an idiot to mess with the police. Oh, but then you are, so never mind.
The kind of people that join ICE are snowflakes uncomfortable in their own skin, much like yourself, and they interpret any look other than a welcoming smile as an assault.
DeleteI mean, there is a very famous line in a famous movie that describes this very dynamic.
Turns out, you are today's God's Lonely Man.
DeleteYeah, that's the kind of people that join ICE -- inside your head, Soros-monkey.
Trump's deep state police are a bunch of pussies.
DeleteYou're so brave, Soros-monkey.
DeleteFake news. An ICE agent shot a man in Chicago, claiming that he was in danger from the man's car. When the police showed up, the agent dismissed his "injuries" an nothing. Most of those claimed ICE assaults don't amount to a Subway sandwich.
DeleteShorter version: ICE agents lie as a matter of policy.
Every news Mr. Soros doesn't like is a fake news.
DeleteSorter version: I'm a Soros-monkey.
Who is the orange sad sack who invented "fake news." God you people are dolts.
Delete2:23,
DeleteWhat about our 2nd Amendment Right to hide under our beds shaking in fear, instead of fighting government tyranny?
Squeal louder, Mao.
DeleteQuaker - consider the ratio of successes to mistakes. ICE makes very few mistake relative to all the things they accomplish. Something like 600,000 people were properly deported. Over a million more voluntarily left. OTOH I’ve heard about a couple of dozen people improperly temporarily held.That’s a ratio of only 0.00004.
ReplyDeleteOur biased media created the impression that this percentage was substantial. They chose to focus on the very few mistakes.
Why did you shift to talking about deportations? I responded to a comment about number of "assaults" on ICE officers. Many of those charges are phonied up to justify aggression by the agents.
DeleteBecause he is fascist David and Trump's deep State can do no wrong.
DeleteDavid is of the mind that it's best to imprison one hundred US citizens than let go of a single undocumented immigrant.
DeleteBecause David lives outside of America in a windowless bunker in some far off land, he is unaware that one of the foundational pillars to our legal system is that it is better to let 100 guilty people go free than to convict one innocent person.
DeleteEven many red states have put a freeze on death sentences, just because a tiny percentage of cases have been found of states putting innocent people to death.
DeleteIf all that had happened to those ICE-hating martyrs was that they were temporary detained, then all you Soros-monkeys do here is demonstrating that you're idiots.
Anonymouse 2:16pm, I take it that red states still aren’t completely turning a blind eye toward arresting law breakers?
DeleteCool fascism, bro.
DeleteActually, as recognized even by the Supreme Court, most people break the law several times on any given day.
DeleteAs someone noted, as a principle, we tend to only prosecute those that have broken laws that are more destructive for society, because we recognize that if have what would effectively be a police state, society would grind to a stop, and so we ignore most violations of the law (often these are victimless crimes) and avoid convicting innocent people even if that means some guilty people will go free. And in reality, few guilty people are serial offenders, although there are some people who chronically engage in sexual assault and domestic violence, and we know the profession that has the highest rate of these offenses - the police (and new for this year, certain federal workers).
Cecelia, I fail to get your point when so many but ugly red states and cities have to suffer thru worse crime rates than beautiful blue states and cities. Sad.
DeleteAnonymouse 2:57pm, no, you don’t understand my point because you ignored the argument I was addressing, and also because you think I give a flip when you diss red states.
DeleteNothing but the facts Cece, no dissing needed. Red states suck blue state taxpayers dry. Sad.
DeleteAnonymouse 3:31om, oh, good.
DeleteMost people do not break several laws every day.
DeleteI take it that red states still aren’t completely turning a blind eye toward arresting law breakers?
DeleteWhat law breakers are you talking about, pray-tell, Cecilia?
IIya, I’m talking about the lecture we got from anonymouse 2:16pm on the Blackstone Ratio thing.
DeleteCecelia,
DeleteAre you sure you're not talking about the Republican Party running a global pedophile ring, because it sure seems like you are talking about the Republican Party and the fact that they run a global pedophile ring?
Anonymouse 7:37pm, evidently the Global Pedophile Ring has bought out Pizzagate.
DeleteCecelia is funny when he tries to be serious, and sad when he tries to be funny.
DeleteAnonymouse 7:46am, and you’re just kinda grody.
DeleteWho does more to make America great again, Donald Trump or Bob Somerby?
Delete"To "flip on" someone or something can mean to suddenly change one's opinion, allegiance, or behavior in a negative or surprising way (e.g., betraying someone or changing a strongly held belief)."
ReplyDeleteThat means that Somerby should not be saying that Gutfeld flipped ON Trump but that he flipped TO Trump, because he went from not supporting him to supporting him, not vice versa.
This is the kind of mistake a non-native speaker of English might make, not something Somerby, a former teacher and a long time writer should be making. Has Somerby perhaps surrendered his blog to AI?
Yes, we get it, Corby. Somerby lives in Eastern Europe, and he's probably a bot.
DeleteWhich makes you a bot following an Eastern European bot.
Making your point with run on sentences is the kind of mistake a non-native speaker of English might make.
DeleteYou don’t know what a run-on sentence is.
DeleteBut I know an asshole's comment when I read one.
DeleteAnd I sniff my fingers.
DeleteOnly after I wipe.
DeleteSome liberals indulge their own bigotry by making bigoted comments that they pretend some imaginary conservative said or thought.
ReplyDeleteJoy Reid said, “They can't have the successor to MAGA be the guy with the Brown Hindu wife," she said of Vance. "They're also Christian nationalists. That ain't going to work. That's why he's throwing his wife under the bus. Poor Usha.“
Why then is J.D. Eyeliner fucking Charlie Kirk's wife when he is done savaging the couch? I do give Eyeliner credit for knowing Trump is America's Hitler though.
DeleteDavid is so full of shit. Sad.
DeleteWhy would one convert from limitless Gods to one God because their weirdo husband can't decide what religion he is?
DeleteAccording to AI, the Vance kids go to Catholic school and are being raised as Christians, “but they are also exposed to Hindu faith and traditions through her family, and they will ultimately have the choice to decide their own religious path.”
DeleteWhere did Reid quote anyone? Vance did make a comment that he wished that Usha would convert to Christianity. If my spouse made such comment, I'd be looking at divorce immediately.
DeleteIlya, I had no idea that you are such a devoted Hindu.
DeleteErica is eight weeks pregnant.
DeleteDo the math.
Erica will likely get a secret abortion, which in no way compromises her actual values.
Cecelia, quoting Eyeliner he wants the smells like curry brown rice wife to convert. No choice here. Quit making shit up.
DeleteAnonymouse 3:00pm, I said that I was quoting AI and put quotation marks around the quote. Conversely you’ve attributed a very ugly “quote” to VP Vance that he did not utter.
DeleteOf course, Vance wants his wife to convert. Praying for the conversion of others is a Christian tenet. However, he needed her enough to have married her and have adorable kids with her. Go out in the garden and eat worms.
Don't you just LOVE how Cecelia states "he needed her enough."
DeleteMy understanding is the Anglo-Hindu kids are near the bottom of all the castes. Sad.
DeleteAnonymouse 3:27pm, who do you love that is dispensable to you? Who do you love that you don’t need?
DeleteAll I know is I could never need a heartless they like you.
DeleteI love Donald J. Trump, but I don't need him.
DeleteFunny, I need Donald J. Trump, but I don't love him.
DeleteAnonymouse 3:38pm, you have political positions. That’s it.
DeleteAnonymouse 3:40pm, I don’t love him or personally need him.
DeleteEveryone has the choice to decide their own religious or non-religious path.
DeleteIlya, I had no idea that you are such a devoted Hindu.
DeleteCecilia -- And on a hot summer day a cool glass of lemonade goes down nicely.