MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2025
As does the Fox News Channel: We're going to start with Colby Covington, just as we did in Saturday's endless report.
Covington is known to many people, not known to many others. We're scoring him as a good, decent person. As part of a much longer discussion, the leading authority says this:
Colby Covington
Colby Ray Covington (born February 22, 1988) is an American professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Welterweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is a former Interim UFC Welterweight Champion. As of November 18, 2025, he is #13 in the UFC welterweight rankings.
Covington was born in Clovis, California, on February 22, 1988. The family moved from California to Oregon when he was eight years old. His father was a wrestler during his time at the Oregon Institute of Technology and Southern Oregon University.
As a wrestler at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, Covington lettered all four years and won the 171 lb. state championship as a senior in 2006.
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Political views
Covington is an outspoken supporter of the Republican Party and President Donald Trump. After winning the Interim UFC Welterweight Championship, he stated he wanted to visit Trump at the White House to present him with the title, which he did on August 2, 2018. Trump phoned to congratulate Covington during his post-fight interview following his win over Tyron Woodley. Covington dedicated his win over Woodley to first responders and the military and criticized Black Lives Matter and LeBron James.
And so on, at length.
Covington is a high-level athlete. His political views differ from ours. Such differences do exist in the world, and this is of course allowed.
On Saturday morning, we featured Covington because of Thursday night. On a special Thanksgiving evening show, the Fox News Channel had decided to play tape of something Covington had said on an earlier program.
That earlier program had aired on Tuesday, October 21. On that evening, for whatever reason, Covington had been featured as a panelist on the Fox News Channel's Gutfeld! program—a primetime program which currently boasts the third largest viewership in all of American "cable news."
On that enchanted October evening, the Gutfeld! panel had been asked to discuss President Trump's recent demolition of the East Wing of the White House. Many people had said that they were upset by the president's action—but during that evening's discussion, no one on the Gutfeld! panel seemed to be able to understand why anyone would be upset.
That discussion took place in late October. Now it was now being rebroadcast. Producers had chosen to re-air that segment as one of a set of outstanding discussions recently hatched on the Gutfeld! program.
Some of what had been said in that segment struck us as astoundingly dumb. Inevitably, Emily Compagno's remarks were remarkably coarse. (During his tenure as president, President Biden had been endlessly "shitting his pants," this lofty Fox News creature said.)
That's the way the segment struck us. But we were especially struck by what Covington had said in October—by what was now being re-aired..
It was 10 p.m. on Thanksgiving night, 7 p.m. on the coast. We Americans were still enjoying our national day. Top segments from Gutfeld! now aired.
Suzanne Scott is the CEO of this corporate weapon of war. Here's part of the October 21 segment—the segment she chose to re-air:
GUTFELD (10/21/25): So Colby, we're not paying for the remodeling—it's being handled privately. So why are the liberals so outraged?
COVINGTON: I mean, they're just outraged because they're outraged about anything, you know?
GUTFELD: Yeah.
COVINGTON: They're not— They're just despicable people and they hate America and they hate our country...
In the hands of the program's host, a demolition had somehow become a "remodeling." As for Covington, he had said this about "the liberals:"
"[The liberals] hate America...They hate our country."
Right there, on Thanksgiving evening, that's what Scott chose to re-air.
General Washington once chose war. Almost two centuries later, Robert Frost wrote these lines about that very choice:
The Gift Outright
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Such as we were we gave ourselves outright
(The deed of gift was many deeds of war)
To the land vaguely realizing westward...
The deed of gift was many deeds of war! In our view—unfortunately—it also works that way on the Fox News Channel!
Dear friend, please consider:
Sunday morning, on Fox & Friends Weekend, there they went again! Co-host Griff Jenkins interviewed Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) about an upcoming special election in a Tennessee congressional district.
The Democratic candidate has come under attack. As you can see by clicking this link, this exchange occurred
JENKINS (11/30/25): I just can't get past how in the world a candidate who hates Nashville is going to get possibly elected by Nashville voters.
BURCHETT: It just shows you how for the left is. It just shows you how much the Democrat [sic] Party hates this country—hates our values.
I mean, she went over it right there. She's not a fan of Christianity? It ought to disqualify her just because she doesn't like country music—my goodness [chuckles]...
But the reality is, this is the current state of the Democrat [sic] Party in this country. This is not some— She's not some fluke. If you look at the Democrat Party today in Congress, this is what they represent. They want an open border. They disrespect our military. They hate our country...
The candidate is Aftyn Behn. She has made some unusual comments over the years. Also, she's said to be running two points behind in a famously gerrymandered district Candidate Trump won by 22 points last year.
We have no idea if Behn might win this race. But Burchett, a folksy and frequently likeable fellow, went where Covington had already gone.
The Democrat [sic] Party hates America, he said. They hate our values and they hate our country!
They won't even say the name of the party! It's been that way for at least thirty years.
At any rate, there you see what Burchett now saw. In fairness, Burchett is a folksy fellow. Perhaps he thought no one was watching as he spread this poisonous claim at 6:48 a.m. (3:48 on the cost).
That said, his claim strikes us as a deed of war. Such deeds are remarkably common on the "news channel" run by Scott.
Thursday night's rebroadcast of Covington's comment seems to convey a message. The notion that "the liberals" hate our country is a message which is highly valued on Suzanne Scott's "cable news" channel.
Indeed, that general message has dominated Greg Gutfeld's "issue monologues" over the past several months. We'll guess that Covington felt free to voice that remarkably sweeping claim because he's seen a variant of that messaging so many times on this primetime program.
General Washington once chose war. War can have terrible consequences, a point we'll discuss tomorrow.
Covington is a high-class athlete. As best we can tell, he isn't a highly sophisticated political commentator.
(There's no reason why he should be. Almost no one is.)
Covington isn't a typical journalist / commentator. On Thanksgiving evening, it seems to us that his rebroadcast statement was a poisonous message of war.
On Sunday morning, there was Rep. Burchett. He was choosing war too—and now, we pose a pair of questions:
Is this what "our kind" tends to do? Have we Blues been doing this too?
We're quoting sacred Thoreau with that, but the time has come to ask those questions. Have we Blues also been waging war over the past dozen (or sixty) years?
Have we Blues been choosing war? Is that simply what "our kind" does? Tomorrow, we'll visit some of the possible reasons for General Washington's choice, along with some of the consequences of the choice he made.
The deed of gift was deeds of war. We regard Gutfeld! as a poisonous show, but that isn't Covington's fault.
Tomorrow: "To the land vaguely realizing westward..."
ReplyDelete"In the hands of the program's host, a demolition had somehow become a "remodeling.""
Oh, I see. Or, to put a slightly different way: in the mouth of a TDS-suffering BlueAnon, a remodeling had somehow become a "demolition."
Ghislaine, how are the tennis lessons coming? Be patient, mastering a backhand takes time!
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Delete"The deed of gift was deeds of war. "
The thing you've been endlessly squealing about, Bob, is not "war". It's called politics.
War is a completely different thing, the thing where thousands of guns kill hundreds of people. Every day.
Incidentally, your party, the Democrat party, it wants one big war, on the other side of the planet, to go on for as long as possible. To the last Ukrainian. Now that's war. Okay? Saying words you dislike is not.
Calling all Republican voters "bigots" isn't war.
DeleteIt's truth.
Pointing out that every Republican who isn't a bigot, or isn't perfectly fine with bigotry, left the Republican Party almost a quarter of a century ago, isn't war.
DeleteAnonymouse flying monkeys, you are correct. Your posts are not war. They’re a signal of your need for rage management, some semblance of a sense of humor, and a Hemorrhoidectomy.
DeleteVladimir Vladimirovich could end the war in Ukraine.
DeleteSqueal louder, Cecelia.
DeleteSomebody splain to me why Ukrainians defending their homeland from Putin's war crimes is my fault, you fucking weirdos.
DeleteDefending since 2014 BTW.
DeleteSenator Paul had a good piece last week, for you war-mongering neonazis. Read the whole thing.
Deletehttps://ronpaulinstitute.org/a-real-ukraine-peace-plan/
ReplyDelete"The deed of gift was deeds of war. "
The thing you've been endlessly squealing about, Bob, is not "war". It's called politics.
War is a completely different thing, the thing where thousands of guns kill hundreds of people. Every day.
Incidentally, your party, the Democrat party, it wants one big war, on the other side of the planet, to go on for as long as possible. To the last Ukrainian. Now that's war. Okay? Saying words you dislike is not.
The American military being fought to a standstill by a handful of Iraqi teenagers, has convinced everyone thew USA is too weak to go to war.
DeleteGood luck convincing anyone Covington is a bigger Right-wing piece of shit than Somerby.
ReplyDeleteNo one will know what caused the Afghani to shoot National Guardsmen, until we erect a statue of the shooter.
ReplyDeleteThat's how wew learn history in the USA.
I thought for sure Covington was going to explain how he can tell the difference between Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and the fine people on the Right.
ReplyDeleteBeing a miracle worker, and all.
Outrageous, exaggerated statements by the left are finally being matched by equally outrageous, exaggerated statements by the right
ReplyDelete“They’re racists, Nazis. Their policies are designed to hurt the poor. They want to starve the hungry.”
“They're just despicable people and they hate America and they hate our country.”
But surely "they hate America" is nowhere near as "outrageous, exaggerated" as "they are Nazis", and such. Hating America is not really a moral failing.
Delete“ They want to starve the hungry.”
DeleteDisprove that this is what republicans want, DiC.
We don’t want to starve them. We want them to feed themselves, by their own work.
DeleteWe want a merit-based society, but Republicans won't pass a 100% Estate Tax rate.
DeleteTypical of a political party that wants people living off others hard work.
So when they starve because they can’t find work, or can’t afford adequate food, it’s not what you *want*, 12:48, it’s just an unavoidable consequence of your policies.
Delete“ They want to starve the hungry.” Well on their way killing hundreds of thousands of children
DeleteAnother baseless hoax bites the dust. How many people still believe it?
ReplyDelete"Drone imagery showed the initial Hellfire engagement incinerating the vessel from bow to stern, with no signs of life amid the inferno. No “two men clinging to wreckage,” no improvised follow-up." -
@SecWar
If I read '@SecWar' correctly, it's been debunked by the accused?
DeleteAdmissible under standard MAGA rules of evidence. Case dismissed!
Another baseless hoax bites the dust.
DeleteAdd it to the pile with the Republican voter who isn't a bigot, and with the person who can tell the difference between Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and fine people on the Right.
Good try Hector.. Carl Sagan says, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs.” But The accusation is supported by no evidence at all AFAIK..
ReplyDeleteWho controls the unedited video, fuckface?
DeleteBTW, fuckface fascist freak, even the first missile is a fucking crime, you ignorant bastard.
DeleteDickhead, you got some fucking nerve talking about "proof", when King Orange Chickenshit has provided ZERO proof that the people he is murdering without any due process are bringing drugs into the USA, you fucking fascist freak.
Delete41 men targeted but 1,147 people killed: US drone strikes – the facts on the ground
DeleteThe drones came for Ayman Zawahiri on 13 January 2006, hovering over a village in Pakistan called Damadola. Ten months later, they came again for the man who would become al-Qaida’s leader, this time in Bajaur.
Eight years later, Zawahiri is still alive. Seventy-six children and 29 adults, according to reports after the two strikes, are not.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/24/-sp-us-drone-strikes-kill-1147
"The accusation is supported by no evidence at all"
DeleteSaying the accusation is unsupported is very different from implying that a denial by Hegseth is a valid refutation, which is the illogic I was responding to.
Try to keep up.
A claim that there is a Republican voter who isn't a bigot, will require at least murky proof.
DeleteAlas,...
What's a "valid refutation", Democrat? Must be the one signed by Autopen?
DeleteSweet little 'ol six year old aren't you 3:37?
DeleteMAGA commenters high on their own supply again:
Delete"White House Confirms Hegseth Authorized Second Strike on Drug Boat"
"Leavitt told reporters at the White House press briefing that Hegseth authorized Adm. Frank Bradley to carry out the second strike, which reportedly killed two people who were hanging onto the burning vessel after an initial strike."
You seem to be the one who is high, Democrat. Or just stupid, most likely. She confirmed that Hegseth authorized the strikes, not that he authorized killing the alleged "two people who were hanging onto the burning vessel".
DeleteJust to be nice and sparkling clear, maggot-breath 4:50, why do you suppose a second strike was ordered? Fucking Nazis were charged with war crimes for doing this
Delete@David: As Hector boldly points out, the White House has confirmed the report of a second strike on the boat. Now they're trying to shove the admiral in charge under the bus.
DeleteThis is precisely why Sen. Kelly and his friends reminded military brass of their duty to refuse illegal orders.
You can't make this shit up. Now DC police and Metro Transit Police will have to accompany the National Guard on their aimless wanderings thru the Metro stations of the District.
ReplyDeleteThis is because crime is still high in DC with many residents continuing to be murdered. But, the deaths of black people don't really interest @11:22. All that matters to her/him is that Trump is losing.
DeleteFuck you, Dickhead. Not only can't the idiotically deployed N. G. units engage in civilian law enforcement, now the city has to waste resources and manpower protecting them as they wander aimlessly around town with no clearly defined mission. The object is to make the fat orange lawless felon baby happy.
DeleteNational Guard victim's ex-boyfriend says she described limits of DC deployment as 'pointless'
DeleteAdam Carr, the former boyfriend of US Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom — the National Guard member killed in an ambush-style attack in Washington, DC — spoke to CNN’s Gabe Cohen about her deployment to DC.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/29/us/video/national-guard-sarah-beckstrom-boyfriend-digvid
This will never fucking penetrate your fucking thick skull, Dickhead. Trump Lickspittles are fucking dumb.
Conservatives look at facts, not opinions. A single person, who is not involved and presumably is not even in DC. opines that the National Guard is pointless. Is that newsworthy? OTOH actual, objective facts show that violent crime is substantially reduced compared with before the National Guard got there.
DeleteYou are full of shit, Dickhead. I live in NVA. I have a brother who commutes to DC every day. All he sees as these Guard units hanging Metro stations. Go ahead, Mr. California, tell us how they are reducing violent crime. Tell us how many car jackings there were this past month.
DeleteSarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend is just reporting what she told him. Go ahead, trump lickspittle, tell him he doesn't know what she told him.
Here you are, @12:33
DeleteMedia analyses documented sharp short-term declines in reported incidents in the roughly three weeks after deployment, including CBS’s calculation of nearly a 50% fall in violent crime in a 19-day comparison with the prior year
Fuck you, Dickhead.
DeleteWhat is their mission, you fucking fascist freak? Go ahead, spell it out in black and white.
Trump deployed National Guard troops to Washington in August in an effort to curb violent crime even though it had already reached its lowest levels in decades.
Here’s a closer look at the facts.
TRUMP: “We haven’t had a murder in six months.”
THE FACTS: That’s false. There have been 62 homicides in Washington since May 25, including one last week, according to the MPD. The city has seen 123 homicides so far in 2025. Since National Guard troops were deployed to Washington on Aug. 11, there have been 24. In some data, only 61 homicides were reported in the last six months, and only 23 since Aug. 11, because of a technical error, the MPD said.
Asked for comment on Trump’s claim, the department said that the statistics speak for themselves.
"Conservatives look at facts, not opinions."
DeleteAnd pigs don't grunt, they flap their wings.
Actually if you look at all violent crimes, the rate now is pretty much exactly where it was when the National Guard was first deployed (and it is currently higher than it was back in March, long before the deployment); the deployment in reality had no impact on the crime rate.
DeleteThis took less than a minute on Google to find an article by Reuters detailing all of this.
The article explains that the deployment actually did no functional police work, and further explains that limiting an analysis to a few days ignores the normal fluctuation of crime rates and the long term trend of a dropping crime rate since 2021.
It also details how DC Mayor Bowser (D), after a spike in crime rate in 2023, employed "a new policing strategy which used data to target high-crime areas with extra patrols. The number of reported incidents has been dropping since then, according to police records."
Additionally it points to the fact that most other cities have had similar drops in their crime rates, since the Covid-sparked spike in crime, all without the deployment of the National Guard.
Crime, particularly violent crime, does continue to be a significant issue for Southern/red states, this is likely related to the fact that these tend to be "parasitic states" in that they produce much less than blue states, and therefore have a significant amount of idle people hopelessly trapped in poverty, which can often lead to crime.
"Conservatives look at facts, not opinions. "
DeleteDavid in Cal,
Please accept as a gift from me, a giant bowl of "Go Fuck Yourself, Asshole."
You're welcome, in advance.
Donald Trump attempted to end American Democracy and over 90% still supported the adjudicated rapist, convicted felon, lifelong grifter, and hater of all who is not he. Yet the fact is you still voted for the demented old fool. Weirdos.
DeleteThe fact is since the country eliminated lead exposure violent crime has plummeted, spiked a bit during Covid, and is going back down to historically low levels. Another fact is fascist exaggerate resentments between groups to build their power base. So fuck you fascist David for continuously being a dupe to fascist bullshit.
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ReplyDeleteTwo people familiar with the matter told me that every Democrat is a lobotomized goat-fucker.
Throat goat: Trump or Kirk?
DeleteThere's no indication "Bubba" (Clinton?) is particularly well endowed, but he is likely more of a mouthful than a thirty aught six.
DeleteYou realize, don’t you, that a comment like this one marks you as someone who is not to be taken seriously.
ReplyDeleteHow so? This person is an anonymouse. This is why anonymices stay anonymous.
DeleteAt least they are real. Unlike the mythical Republican voter who isn't a bigot.
DeleteAnonymouse 2:04pm, anonymouse flying monkeys are real. Just like intractable diarrhea.
DeleteWhich comment marks someone as someone? Is it , by chance, the one where two people familiar with the matter told someone that every Democrat is a lobotomized goat-fucker?
DeleteBut then what about the WaPo piece where "...ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, two people familiar with the matter said." Does it mark WaPo as someone?
Somerby: Pay no attention to that corrupt criminal man behind the curtain!
ReplyDeleteIt’s Anonymouse 1:30pm-The Wizard of Id.
ReplyDeleteTrump is the Wizard of Id(jits).
DeleteAnonymices 2:05pm, he’s your Super Duper Ego.
DeleteWild stuff coming from the man pretending to be a woman.
DeleteAnonymouse 2:44pm, Trump’s got the hair for it.
DeleteCorrupt TACO Don has it plugged in.
DeleteFrost was writing about American rugged individualism (which we now understand as primarily a myth) while parenthetically noting it took wars to achieve; equating this with some inconsequential insults from some low level no names on a Republican run propaganda media outlet, is silly.
ReplyDeleteCovington despises "liberals", Compagno ignores Trump's incontinence issues while projecting them onto Biden as she further embellishes her dubious resume - nobody cares about this because it is completely irrelevant, it has zero cultural or electoral impact. Fox News found a fading MMA fighter and a former cheerleader to spew right wing nonsense, big whoop! Bob is completely out of touch.
Bob ends it by absolving Republicans (Covington) of any blame, and wonders if it all can be blamed on "Blues"; Bob's narrative is incoherent.
It's the Left's fault, for calling people who threw a childish temper tantrum, because black people's votes were counted in the 2020 Presidential election, "racists".
DeleteAnonymouse 2:31pm, Fox News has a viewership of millions. TDH? Well…”Not so much” would be the understatement of the year. Why then are you here?
DeleteTo see just how much hate Cecelia holds close to her heart.
DeleteFox News has viewership in the 2-5 million range, "not so much" audience compared to independent media, which, along with its much larger audience, does have some impact on society and possibly on elections, unlike Fox News which merely provides bedtime stories for its retiring audience. Therefore, TDH's narrative does seem incoherent, as 2:31 suggests. It is not a problem to point that out.
DeleteAnonymouse 3:31pm, it’s not hate to make fun of anonymices. It’s natural.
DeleteAnonymouse 3:36pm, without Fox News, Pres. Trump wouldn’t have been elected either term. Bob spent years talking about the part of the media that you’re currently suggesting is significant and anonymices weren’t any happier or less derisive. CNN and MSNBC get fewer viewers than Fox News and no one but disingenuous hack anonymices would pretend that these outlets are trivial. And anonymices WILL pretend that is the case, as soon Bob blogs on them. You don’t have an argument, you have a grudge.
DeleteNah, plenty of assholes like you vote for Trump out of spite for others. You'd just find alternatives to egg on your hatreds.
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