THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 2026
Senator Kim, Obama as well: Last evening, we learned what Ali Velshi is. As it turns out, he's "a douchebag," or so Red America's viewers were told.
Also, Barack Obama is "a gay Muslim." Viewers of the Gutfeld! program were offered that additional knowledge.
(Also, the latest Richard Gere [HEART] gerbils ploy! The angriest dog on the Fox News Channel just can't seem to let that one go.)
Last Wednesday, we told you that "douchebag" is becoming one of Greg Gutfeld's favorite analytical terms. He also enjoys discussing "boners" and the disappearance of same, as he did in this opening "joke" at 10:02 last night:
GUTFELD (6/3/26): Last night, Katie Porter conceded the California governor's race after getting just five percent of the vote.
[PHOTO of Porter]
She'll now go back to her old job as a scarecrow for boners.
AUDIENCE, PANEL: [Laughter]
GUTFELD: Don't worry, supporters. She always lands on her hooves.
PANELIST KENNEDY: [Laughter]
He just can't seem to quit what he does—what he does to pleasure his audience. That latest assertion about President Obama was also delivered at 10:02, again in the form of a "joke:"
GUTFELD: President Trump claims he is getting along quite well with Iran's new supreme leader, who is probably gay.
No surprise! Trump has been known to get along with gay Muslim leaders quite often.
[PHOTO of Trump with Obama]
AUDIENCE: [Cheering, applause]
"I don't get it," the little guy said as the cheering died down. "I don't know why you find that funny."
(That's one of the many beards the termagant hides behind. For his latest about Gere—well actually, no. We don't want to link you to that today.)
To see Velshi assailed as a douchebag, you can just click here. Later, the little guy assailed him using a word which producers had to BLEEP.
Monday afternoon, this time right there on The Five, the little guy assailed Senator Kim (D-NJ), describing him as simply "a douche"—more precisely, as "a little douche."
(Senator Kim is "the real Lil Kim," Watters and Gutfeld each said. This is the way "the news" is presented on our astonishing nation's most-watched "cable news" program.)
Suzanne Scott puts this swill on the air in primetime every night. We're barely scratching the surface of where this angry messaging specialist takes it.
(On Fox, President Obama is routinely described as gay. Michelle Obama is routinely said to be a man. Rare is the night which doesn't include a throwback joke about Don Lemon, who is openly gay—rather, about how lasciviously promiscuous the liberal journo supposedly is.)
It's news! It's news that American broadcast journalism has reached this extremely low point. Unless you read the Atlantic or the New York Times, or unless you watch MS NOW, where this extremely unusual "journalistic" behavior is never reported or discussed
Those orgs are afraid of the Fox News Channel. That said, you're already living in a failed state. How hard is it to see that?
Another key disappearance: Boners, or the disappearance of same, seem to play a significant role in the termagant's mental life. On Monday evening's Gutfeld! show, he took a shot at Governor Sherill's logic, handing his audience this:
GUTFELD: Her logic disappeared faster than a boner at The View's annual Bikini Car Wash.
[PHOTO of the women of The View]
AUDIENCE: [Clatter, applause]
GUTFELD (delightedly): It's been a while, I know.
Questions: Does this occur in news broadcasts anywhere else in the world? Or is this perhaps the "American exceptionalism" which holds these chimps in such thrall?
The jokes are solid 5's on average but knowing the libtard scolds are fuming that they have no power to silence or cancel is the real fun.
ReplyDeleteSomerby is the scold. Most of the other commenters here think his obsession with Gutfeld is misguided and have explicitly said that Gutfeld has free speech. And according to Somerby, everyone in blue America is ignoring Gutfeld. Somerby is the one that wants that to change. I guess he’s the libtard.
DeleteSomerby is like the shill at a carnival attraction who urges people to pay attention to an act. You also see these guys on sidewalks outside strip clubs, urging men to go in and see the girls.
DeleteGutfeld exists to spread right wing propaganda. Somerby advances Gutfeld by promoting his act and pretending to object to his messages.
Gutfeld has nothing to say to Democrats. Neither does Somerby.
3:49,
DeleteReal fun?
LOL.
More like the smartest and most well thought out economic idea the Right has ever come up with.
"Somerby advances Gutfeld by promoting his act and pretending to object to his messages."
DeleteIn the same fashion, I'll draw attention to your comment by saying it's idiotic. How's it feel to be promoted?
So, Somerby is the libtard scold mentioned by 3:49. Good to know.
Delete@10:37 You forgot to quote the rest of my comment, the way Somerby would have.
DeletePlatner's violence against women and Nazism are nowhere near as bad as Gutfeld's naughty schoolboy jokes.
ReplyDeleteLyndsey Fifield, 40, a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns, recalled him as “cavalierly contemptuous of women’s emotions, of our ‘weakness.’” Ms. Fifield, who dated Mr. Platner from roughly 2013 to 2015, said that his offensive online posts “reminded me of just how much he hated women.”
Jenny Racicot, 41, a Maine Democrat, who said she dated him casually off and on between 2019 and 2021, said the posts deepened her belief that he did not respect women. “When I saw the old comments that he made online,” she said, “I recognized a version of him that I had experiences with.”
Some of the women also raised questions about his trustworthiness. Mr. Platner’s insistence that he did not know that his tattoo was a Nazi symbol until it became a campaign issue last fall was simply not true, Ms. Fifield said. After all, she said, he had taught her the word for it years earlier, referring to it as “my Totenkopf.”
But she said he regularly grabbed her by the shoulders — sometimes hard enough to leave marks — and, on one occasion, yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after an argument when she wanted to stay in the car.
During one argument, she recalled, he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn’t get out, telling her to remain there until she was “calm.” Eventually, Ms. Fifield said, she fell asleep and left the next morning.
“It hurt,” she said.
Ms. Fifield also recalled that Mr. Platner’s displays of weaponry and discussions of violence sometimes left her uneasy.
She said he kept an AR-15 lying around his apartment on Capitol Hill, and would sharpen an ax — a relic from his time working on the Appalachian Trail before he enlisted in the Marines — while watching television.
He had what she described as a “warrior ethos” and would fantasize about killing people he deemed a threat, she said. She said he told her that rape was about power.
It was something that stuck with her through the years, Ms. Fifield said.
“He said this a lot: If anybody ever broke in here, I would rape them,” she recalled, saying that he added that it would not be in “a sexual way, not in a gay way.”
“He was like, I would rape them to show them that I’m dominant,” she said.
Figures that the NYTimes would be running a hit piece against Platner, a Democrat doing well in Maine. Figures also that whoever put it here would omit all sources.
DeleteDid he ever rape anyone? If not, he is miles ahead of Donald Trump.
Texas republicans just chose paragon of virtue Paxton in a landslide in the Republican primary.
DeleteNYT: Graham Platner referred to women as “hatchet wounds,” a crude term for female anatomy.
DeleteThere is also a lot of positive info from other exes (besides three who torpedoed him) that presents a very different picture. For some reason this troll leaves out context and balance in the piece.
DeleteNow the most vocal of Platner's accusers is saying she was tricked and betrayed by the NY Times.
Delete"(That's one of the many beards the termagant hides behind."
ReplyDeleteThis is an offensive remark. First, the supposed "beard" referred to by Somerby does not fit the meaning of the word. Gutfeld is merely professing an unlikely innocence about his audience's sense of humor.
"A Beard: A slang term for a person (often a woman) who dates someone to conceal their sexual orientation or infidelity, particularly used in LGBTQ+ and Hollywood history."
This has nothing to do with Gutfeld's joke. Somerby apparently likes the term and has given it a personal meaning that does not apply to anything today. I dislike it when the necessity to keep a homosexual relationship hidden is "borrowed" by Somerby to refer to something obscure in his own agenda. Using such words inappropriately robs them of their historical context and significance to those who have struggled against bigotry against gays and lesbians.
Termagant is another gendered negative term referring to a loud, shrill or unruly woman. Applying female gendered terms to men, as Somerby does when he calls Gutfeld a termagant, is sexist. Continuing to do it makes Somerby a sexist and an asshole.
DeleteYour post had kind of a shrill tone to it.
DeleteMeanwhile, the Democrats in Congress are laying into cabinet toadies like Bessent and Blanche. But i imagine all they’re asking about is transgender issues. 🙄
ReplyDeleteIs this comment a subtle criticism of Bessent’s sexuality?
DeleteUm.
DeleteHint: no one asked Bessent OR BLANCHE about transgender issues, despite you and DG believing that that’s all Democrats focus on. In fact, the hearings with Bessent and Blanche and most recently Rubio were focused on Trump‘s corruption and Trump‘s health among other things. You’re welcome. Dickhead.
DeleteAnd you will never hear about these hearings at TDH, will you?
DeleteI have as it turns out heard Republicans say that homosexuals have no place in America. Yet Bessent lashes out at the democrats on the committee, who affirm his right to marriage.
DeleteHave you figured out yet why Trump had a convicted child sex trafficker moved to a summer camp, dickhead, you fucking hypocritical troll bastard?
DeleteI recall when people like O’Donnell and Maddow were going after Trump‘s corruption day after day during his first term, Somerby’s response was “good for you”.
ReplyDeleteOh wait, his reaction was “it’s Trump Trump Trump jail jail jail all the time with these losers.”
I remember when Somerby wrote some iteration of the sentence "Rachel Maddow is awful" for months and months in a row. Good times. Actually, they weren't.
DeleteGovernor Sherill attempted to visit the NJ detention center and was denied entry too. You’ll never hear that from Somerby, who thinks it is more important to discuss Gutfeld’s jokes verbatim than express concern about detainees.
ReplyDeleteMaddow has done extensive reporting on ICE detentions. (Shh, don’t tell DG.)
DeleteDoes anyone really think Gutfeld is Suzanne Scott’s creation?
ReplyDeleteYou see, Talarico is a weak gay man. Oh not gay? Well, he’s effeminate, gay-ish.
ReplyDeleteDo you the mistake Democrats are making here? (say the trolls).
Why must talarico make his campaign all about gender ideology? (Say DG and the trolls).
DeleteClinton promised during his 1992 campaign to end the ban on gays in the military. The Republicans immediately tried to humiliate him over that. That’s how “don’t ask Don’t tell” came about. The lesson for Barney, Frank and Somerby apparently: never run on social issues. Except that Clinton did run on that, but he ran on 1000 other things as well. It was just one part of his set of policy proposals.
ReplyDeleteIt's not the early 90s anymore. The Republican messaging swirls entirely around DEI, "wokeness," and transgender stuff. And it's enough for the hillbillies to stay in Trump's pocket while he steals from theirs. The people who matter, the swing voters, vote based on however they're feeling the day they cast their votes -- they have no coherent agenda or ideology that can be appealed to. Price of eggs up because of bird flu? Vote for the other guy, no matter how vile, crazy, and incompetent he is, because eggs!
DeleteAnd then we have the for-profit media, whose jobs depend on people paying attention to them, at a time when the internet has created furious competition for that attention. What draws attention? Scandal. Conflict. Drama. To have drama you need tension, tension requires doubt about the outcome, and THAT is how you get media both sidesism. No matter how bad the Republicans are, the media will make sure every Democratic flaw is magnified to keep things more or less even. The bottom line is, what worked for Clinton will not work today. There is no way to soft-pedal social issues by saying "But, the economy, stupid!" I'm not a fan of latter day Frankism, but at the same time, he raises important problems Democrats have to overcome, although he doesn't, as far as I know, explain why those problems are so hard to solve. Of course, if he did, he wouldn't be getting interviewed on the teevee.
“Those orgs are afraid of the Fox News Channel. ”
ReplyDeleteJesus Christ. Lawrence O’Donnell constantly refers to them as the Fox Propaganda Network.
Has Somerby ever commented on how often Trump lashes out at female reporters?
ReplyDeleteI can’t recall a single time
DeleteI remember, when Rush Limbaugh‘s program used to be televised, one time during the Clinton administration he was referring to the White House dog, and the camera went to a picture of Chelsea Clinton, a teenager at the time. This shit has been going on for a long time. And just as a reminder, Trump gave Limbaugh a medal of honor.
ReplyDeleteTrump is looking forward to better coverage now that Weiss is decimating 60 minutes and CNN is under new management (Ellison). O’Donnell discusses this frequently. Here, we get Gutfeld! And “ they’re afraid of Fox News, unlike me, Bob Somerby “
ReplyDelete"Questions: Does this occur in news broadcasts anywhere else in the world?"
ReplyDeleteYes.
Have you checked out the British press lately?
ReplyDeleteWhich way does the fanny wind blow?
In times like these, I consort with my Fanny.
Children just want top play hide (from Republicans) and go seek (a restraining order against Republican men), not sports with trans kids.
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