THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2026
Can anyone here play this game? This very morning, in this report, we briefly voiced an awkward question, if only inferentially.
Our question concerned Greg Gutfeld and Emily Compagno, a pair of Fox News Channel co-hosts. The question we floated was this:
Are Compagno and Gutfeld qualified to appear as analysts (or as whatever you might want to call it) on Fox News Channel "cable news" TV programs? Are Compagno and Gutfeld qualified for the roles in which they're currently cast?
No one else will ever ask. So we thought we'd go ahead.
Granted, Fox is an actual "cable news" channel in much the way Mayberry's Barney Fife was head of the FBI. That said, it may seem to offend against a basic American principle to ask if Persons A , B and C are "qualified" to discuss news topics on American TV programs.
"All men [sic] are created equal," it's often said in these parts. That may trigger a populist sentiment which rebels against the idea that some people qualify to serve on TV news programs while other people don't.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall—and perhaps a question like that!
At any rate, how about it? Are some people simply unqualified to serve as major figures in nationwide TV news? The Fox News Channel almost seems to be running an experiment testing that very question, given the array of Improbables, Unlikelies and Unrecognizables you encounter on their most-watched programs.
A former "wrestler," a former NFL cheerleader; a former MTV VJ? A chef named Gruel, a bunch of struggling comedians, Bill O'Reilly's "man in the street?"
A star from the early years of MTV's Real People? (In fairness, she met her husband during that reign—and he's in the cabinet now!)
Once again, let's be fair! Any such person could be up to the task of conducting intelligent news discussions—but have you ever actually watched the programs we have in mind? Would you compare those shows to performances by an offshoot of the Village People, or might it be more like the Bad News Bears?
Obviously, it's no sin to be under-qualified for an assignment of this type. But is it possible that some or all of the "television personalities" on this corporate messaging channel actually fit in that box?
Tyrus and Jesse and Gruel oh my! Where in the world do they get these people?
But also this, it must be said:
Over here in Blue America, why don't our pretenders complain?
Hey Dickhead, after sending tens of thousands of Shahed drones, and teaching Russia to build Shahed drones to kill Ukrainians, Russia is returning the favor and sending Shahed drones to Iran to kill our soldiers. How does your President respond, remove Russian sanctions. So your boy rewards Putin for helping to kill our soldiers. Surreal except it is what it is. Disgusting.
ReplyDelete"Russia is close to completing a phased shipment of drones, medicine and food to Iran, according to western intelligence reports that detail Moscow’s efforts to keep its embattled partner fighting.”
“Senior Iranian and Russian officials began secretly discussing delivering drones days after Israel and the US attacked Tehran, two officials briefed on the intelligence said. The processing of deliveries began in early March and was expected to be completed by the end of the month.”
“Moscow has close ties with Tehran and has provided its ally with crucial support including satellite imagery, targeting data and intelligence support, people familiar with the matter said.”
“The shipments of weaponry such as drones would be the first evidence Moscow has been willing to provide lethal support to Iran since the start of the war.”"
More good war (not a "war" war) news! According to the NY Times:
ReplyDelete"Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable, with the ones in Kuwait, which is next door to Iran, suffering perhaps the most damage. Six U.S. service members were killed in a strike on Port Shuaiba that destroyed an Army tactical operations center. Iranian drones and missiles also targeted Ali Al Salem Air Base, damaging aircraft structures and injuring personnel, and Camp Buehring, damaging maintenance and fuel facilities."
So much winning!!!
More good news! 13% of gas stations in Australia are out of gas. This is just beginning!
DeleteAin't the orange turd a fucking genius?
I don't know anything about Christian theology, so I can't vouch for this. but, it's someone defending what Potteiger and Haymes said.
ReplyDeleteThese leftists ignore the fact that, earlier in the episode, Haymes said, “I love James Talarico. I want him to repent and believe the gospel.” Leftists are also displaying their ignorance of scripture. A common metaphor for surrender to Jesus is the idea of death to self.
Here’s a sampling (including the verse that Potteiger refers to):
Galatians 2:20 (ESV): "I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me".
Romans 6:6 (ESV): "We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin".
Luke 9:23 (ESV): "And he said to all, 'If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me'".
John 12:24 (ESV): "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit".
Romans 6:11 (ESV): "So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus."
2 Corinthians 5:15 (ESV): "And he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised."
Yes, Potteiger and Haymes used language that was meant to provoke, but the theology behind it is elementary Christianity, not a murder plot
"I don't know anything about Christian theology." Then why don't you have a nice can of shut the fuck up you ignorant fucking troll?
DeleteStochastic terrorism is what is called David, as you well know being a fascist Nazi stooge.
DeleteHey Dickhead, you still all in on Trump awarding Putin for killing our soldiers?
DeleteSpeaking of Christian Nationalism and the emerging frightening theocracy of America: have you all seen our crazy Secretary of the Religious Crusades in the name of Jesus give his insane prayer to kill the infidels?
DeleteThe MAGAts are so frightened of this guy that they are tripping all over the New Testament trying to validate their hate filled rhetoric.
DeleteDickhead is a Jewish Zionist atheist who votes religiously for the party advocating turning this nation into a theocratic dictatorship. You can save a lot of time just tell him to go fuck himself
DeleteCorrection: white Christian theocratic dictatorship
DeleteI am not trying to learn David nothin, he is a hopelessly dumb troll. Just like to blow off some steam in these trying times.
DeleteSomerby himself helped undermine the idea of expertise.
ReplyDelete" ... but have you ever actually watched the programs we have in mind?"
ReplyDeleteNo. I'm not masochistic enough to do that to prove a point.
FYI, they now make bibles with rounded corners, to facilitate rectal insertion.
ReplyDeleteArticle at link below explains how Steve Witkoff's inexperience and lack of knowledge about nuclear weapon development caused the US side to misunderstand concessions Iran made at the last meeting before the US started bombing earlier this year.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.armscontrol.org/blog/2026-03-11/us-negotiators-were-ill-prepared-serious-nuclear-negotiations-iran
Obama's team included many physicists who know nuclear stuff. Thank God Trump does not need these experts because his uncle taught at MIT.
DeleteYou’re kidding? Jared and Steve weren’t qualified to deal in life and death matter in subjects experts study for decades ?
DeleteWow, who could have guessed
Trump: "In Minnesota, it's very Somalia-oriented. These people come from a crooked country, disgusting country, one of the worst countries in the world. They come to our country -- low IQs -- and they rob us blind. Stupid people, and they rob us blind."
ReplyDeleteCan anyone think of a more bigoted statement made by a prominent politician in the last 50 years?
People fault Trump when he lies and they fault him when he tells the truth.
DeleteTotally obliterated comment.
DeleteHey David, the question wasn't was he lying again you fucking liar.
DeletePoor poor King Chickenshit. Everyone doesn’t like when lies. Go take a flying fuck you racist bastard.
DeleteDiC affirms as “truth” the claim that Somalis are stupid robbers.
DeleteYes, DG, that is exactly what the racist bastard just did.
Delete"they fault him (Trump) when he tells the truth."
DeleteDon't you mean if he ever told the truth?
Trump had mentioned that the Iranians he was negotiating with had given him a gift. Today, he divulged that the gift was permitting 8 ships to sail through the Strait of Hormuz. They fulfilled this. As he pointed out, that tends to show that Trump is negotiating with the right people -- people who have the power to fulfill any deal they make.
ReplyDeleteDeluded nut ball or troll. Take your pick. Iran is allowing their allies ships to pass for a $2M toll that is expected to be permanent. Their were no tolls before Bibi, KSB, and the orange fart loud screwed the pooch.
DeleteHey dickhead, can you spell RECESSION, you fucking piece of shit racist bastard?
Delete"They fulfilled this."
DeleteHow do we know? All we have is Trump's word for it.
Hahahahahahahaha hahahaha!
How do we know this? The eight ships actually went through the Strait of Hormuz safely.
DeleteHow do you know? Did you see them go through? What ships were they? Would they not have gone through otherwise?
DeleteRead Pakistani flagged tankers that paid tolls. Pakistan and Iran get along. Expect go to China. Trump remains a completely deluded and misinformed danger to the world.
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