{"id":49998,"date":"2021-07-08T16:39:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T23:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49998"},"modified":"2021-07-08T16:39:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T23:39:41","slug":"fox-news-court-jester-callously-insults-people-injured-during-trumps-insurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49998","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Court Jester Callously Insults People Injured During Trump’s Insurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago Fox “News”<\/em> debuted “Gutfeld,”<\/em> an alleged “comedy”<\/em> program<\/a><\/strong> that they positioned as their answer to The Daily Show<\/em> or the network late night offerings from Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon. It would have been considered a bizarre departure for a news network, but fortunately, no one really considers Fox to be one of those.<\/p>\n

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Guess what? Fox is also not a comedy network. And Greg Gutfeld is only a comedian if you think that crude mockery of people who are disadvantaged or suffering is funny. As a committed elitist, he has still not learned one of the most basic principles of comedy: You do not punch down. And he regards jokes about child abuse, drug addiction, and Alzheimer’s as comedy gold.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday Gutfeld led his program with a monologue that mined the same sort of cruelty that is the hallmark of his character, or lack thereof. The subject was Trump’s January 6th insurrection in Washington, D.C. On that day more than a hundred police officers were injured, some with permanent disabilities. At least three are deceased. They were protecting America’s seat of democratic government, but their sacrifices have been dismissed by Republicans who refuse to investigate what happened and why.<\/p>\n

In addition to the police and the members of Congress, journalists were among the victims. They were also, therefore, the targets of Gutfeld’s wrath. His monologue (video below)<\/em> attacked reporters who are now struggling with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder caused by Trump’s Capitol Hill rioters. He callously belittles the emotionally bruising experience saying of reporters that…<\/p>\n

“Apparently seeing a clown in a Viking hat knocking over a bottle of white-out on Dick Durban\u2019s desk is tantamount to being mauled by ISIS in your kitchen.” [and that]<\/em> “They\u2019re more distraught than the Kardashians during a silicon [sic]<\/em> shortage.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like many in the Trumpian\/Fox News World, the rioters who violently assaulted the police, bashed in the doors and windows of the Congress, vandalized property with feces, and chanted about killing Nancy Pelosi and hanging Mike Pence, were invisible. Gutfeld refuses to acknowledge that reality, while characterizing the rioters who assaulted reporters and destroyed their equipment as merely “A group of largely unarmed housewives and dads.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Gutfeld goes on to sarcastically dismiss the injuries of the journalists. He refers to them contemptuously as “these poor souls”<\/em> and maligns them for thinking that January 6th was worse than 9\/11. But that’s a notion that Gutfeld applied to everyone because a single reporter drew an association. Gutfeld quoted Matthew Dowd saying that…<\/p>\n

“To me, though there was less loss of life on January 6, January 6 was worse than 9\/11, because it\u2019s continued to rip our country apart and give permission for people to pursue autocratic means.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which is an excellent point. Dowd wasn’t saying the loss of life was worse, but that the aftermath socially was. Gutfeld completely missed the point that after 9\/11, the country came together to console and to heal and to seek to respond to the assault on America. But after January 6th, conservatives like Gutfeld sought only to divide the nation and defend the perpetrators who attacked it, as well as the citizens who condemned the attack. Trump confessed his “love”<\/em><\/a><\/strong> for the rioters. And others at Fox News, like Tucker Carlson, denied and\/or excused the violence<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And remember, to Gutfeld and his Fox News confederates, all of this was hysterically funny. Dead and maimed cops, traumatized congressional representatives and their staffs, emotionally scarred journalists, were all the innocent targets of his vicious and infantile sense of humor. A regular laugh riot.<\/p>\n

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WATCH: Greg's latest monologue. #Gutfeld<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Bp1iQXQq4m<\/a><\/p>\n

— Gutfeld! (@Gutfeldfox) July 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n