Big Hollywood Blockhead Greg Gutfeld Again Attacks President Obama

Greg Gutfeld, who is a regular contributor for the nutty far-right Big Hollywood Web site, has another crime against literature and common sense up on what amounts to an Internet rash. Gutfeld, as he is so apt to do, launches into another foolish attack on President Obama that ends with a childish line that is akin to his boilerplate message.

First, lets start with this chunk:

So President Obama says he’d like to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki – something no sitting U.S. president has ever done. Of course, there’s a reason they haven’t: it could be seen as criticism of a painful decision that ended the bloodiest war in history.

Now, I don’t mind if Obama wants to go, and it’s probably presumptuous of me to criticize him for what he might say there, since he hasn’t gone yet.

But if I didn’t, then I wouldn’t have a Gregalogue, and that’s not fair to me, or to those delightful unicorn voices in my head.

And besides, I can pretty much go by what I’ve seen of Obama already. Fact is, whenever he’s overseas, he tends to translate American success into past arrogance. Plus, I don’t think he’ll go to Hiroshima and say, “We did it to save lives,” because that undermines his whole point about nuclear weapons being evil.

And look at the fall of the Berlin Wall – the most important positive event in our lifetimes – unleashing a march of countries toward freedom. Obama didn’t even go to that shindig. Instead, he offered a video – the kind of thing Britney Spears does when she can’t accept the trophy for best U.T.I. at the MTV awards.

Still, Obama’s speech wasn’t bad. He championed freedom and stuff.

He says of President Obama: “He championed freedom and stuff.” Is that to say that “freedom and stuff” are not that significant to Gutfeld? Gutfeld does not seem to worked up about “freedom and stuff” as much as he is about what he saw as an opening to again attack President Obama. But, it hardly seems like any piece written by Greg Gutfeld (and is about or includes President Obama) would be incomplete without some kind of irrational cheap shot.

But then, he couldn’t resist:

“Few would have foreseen … that a united Germany would be led by a woman from Brandenburg or that their American ally would be led by a man of African descent. But human destiny is what human beings make of it.”

So, President Obama praises the progress and greatness of the United States of America and of Germany and somehow Gutfeld decides to take a shot at him for it.

Then, Gutfeld wraps it up with this:

So, no mention of Reagan or Thatcher – yet he brings up himself?

Maybe staying home isn’t so bad.

And if you disagree with me, you’re probably a racist!

No, Greg, if a person disagrees with you it’s probably because they have a brain and/or because a person is not a far-right freak.

Look, we know that conservatives worship Ronald Reagan (I actually liked Reagan in one or two ways), but we don’t have to kiss his ass at every turn.

So, Gutfeld ends it by essentially saying maybe President Obama should have kept his black ass home since he didn’t suck up to Reagan like Uncle Ruckus from The Boondocks.

WARNING: If you like Ronald Reagan then stop the video after about 30 seconds.

Greg Gutfeld Needs To Make A Visit …

.. to the Wizard to see if he has a spare heart and brain stored in his Oz headquarters.

Gutfeld offered this moronic statement (the latest in a line of moronic statements):

So Obama was right: he truly is the citizen of the world, even as his own country is left wandering and confused. I suppose it’s easy, however, for Jabrail in Azerbaijan to swoon over Obam, when he’s not faced with cap and trade, nationalized health care, and those new mandatory curly light bulbs. But then again, in Azerbaijan, I guess you’re just happy to have any kind of light bulb. Even if it’s a candle shaped like a light bulb.

But I digress. The poll looked at “confidence ratings” and found that while Obama had the highest, and would “do the right thing regarding world affairs,” Vladimir Putin and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had the lowest. Now, these standings might mean something, if Obama actually had the balls to take advantage of them. I mean, what’s the use of being loved if you can’t actually scare the crap out of those who love you? It’s what confuses me most about our President. He chose initially to sit on the sidelines – as the people of Iran cried out for help – preferring to see which dude wins. A true leader, however, would know that it’s not the leaders who matter, but the people caught in the middle.

Which is why Obama’s recent response to the Honduran mess is even more bizarre. Immediately after the coup – Obama raced to condemn it. So our President develops a spine over an abducted politician in pajamas – but not about widespread bloodshed of innocent folks in Iran? Where the heck are his priorities, or his sense of proportion?

Let us forget the stupid and lying-ass right wing points mischaracterizing President’s response to the crisis in Iran.

When will these conservatives learn to stay out of the business of foreign countries who already hate us after eight years of the Texas cowboy and the Wyoming cowboy running roughshod over the world like J.R. Ewing running Ewing Oil on the old television show “Dallas” from back in the day?

Maybe Gutfeld wanted President Obama to heed the joking words of Sen. John McCain and “Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran.”

Perhaps Greg Gutfeld wants us to go over and try to whip North Korea, too.

It’s possible he wants to see just how many wars we can involve the U.S. in.

Gutfeld has been known to shoot off his mouth … even to the point of slamming our allies:

In the clip, Gutfeld says the Canadian military “wants to take a breather to do some yoga, paint landscapes, run on the beach in gorgeous white capri pants.”

“Isn’t this the perfect time to invade this ridiculous country? They have no army!” he asks the panel.

Right-wing nut Greg Gutfeld did apologize, but longer after inflicting significant damage. What a moron (even though it is Fox News).

Red Eye can give you blue balls.

Greg Gutfeld’s Criticism Of President Obama Is A Head Scratcher

When will some of these hardcore conservatives wake up and realize that we need to work to stay out of the business of another country? Our military already is spread thin thanks to, among other things, conflicts going on in Iraq and Afghanistan. North Korea is stand out out there as an unknown potential threat and then there’s Iran. With our own eyes, thanks to various forms of media (including social media like Facebook and Twitter) we’ve seen the violence that has erupted since the highly-disputed (due to what many people feel is possible widespread voting corruption) reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of Iran. Protests immediately erupted in Iran and, as expected, the government has tired of these protests and begun to put them down, violently so.

This brings me to a blog written by Greg Gutfeld (posted at Big Hollywood). Like a good number of conservatives, Gutfeld is whining because President Obama didn’t respond strongly enough or soon enough to suit his tastes.

Here is part of what Gutfeld wrote in a blog titled “The Bystander in Chief”:

“We don’t know how this thing is going to play out.”

Somehow, that statement doesn’t blow your mind like “hope and change,” but that’s exactly how Obama feels about Iran.

For Gutfeld, that is not good enough. What does Gutfeld want: missile strikes, ground troops, a nuclear bomb? Who knows? President Obama is not one of these hardcore right-wingers who want to invade every country that even looks like it is stepping out of line. The president is a man who wants to proceed carefully and now run into Iran with a cowboy hat on, bomb first, and ask questions, later (of those who survive).

“We don’t know how this thing is going to play out.”

Which, as you know, is a stance that has never stopped our President from immediately re-imagining health care, trying to end enhanced interrogations, or reducing carbon dioxide emissions via something ridiculous called cap and trade legislation.

I want a president who is concerned about issues more directly related to the American people. Issues like health care may not be so important to Greg Gutfeld, but they are to others who are barely making ends meet. We may not solve the health care crisis, but it’s a better issue than getting involved in the affairs of Iran (which will come back to bite us in the butt as some in that country will use it to further demonize the United States of America  as evil and self-righteous meddlers). President Obama is trying to erase that false image of the United States that exists abroad.

“We don’t know how this thing is going to play out.”

I imagine you can use that excuse on pretty much anything. Except when it comes to press conferences. Which is why Obama does him. And now that our President has recognized that he’s potentially on the wrong side of history – he gave us a press conference designed to blunt criticism, as opposed to blunting the persecution of innocent people.

He’s on the wrong side of history, huh? I don’t think the American people see it that way. I certainly don’t think they see it that way after the previous eight years.

“Bearing witness,” as Obama calls it, is all it takes, apparently. But I’m not so sure. If you were being mugged, you’d really like a cop to shoot the bastard, instead of bearing witness. If you’re lugging five bags of groceries up four flights of stairs, “bearing witness” does no good. Lend a hand, champ.

Ugh, where does all the violence come from? President Obama is working to change things for the better and clean up the mess left for him by the previous administration. Of course, it makes it difficult with the Grand Obstructionist Party standing in his way and doing everything within its power to trip him up. President Obama is trying to lend a hand to working-class and poor people through health care reform, champ. It’s too bad Republicans won’t settle for simply bearing witness instead of obstructing. This is why the GOP has gone from champs to chumps.

So I disagree with Obama – we’re not seeing a “debate” in Iran. We’re seeing a brutal, ruthless crackdown. Something tells me that stopping that is more important than reducing carbon emissions to fight a questionable threat.

Look, I like the fact that he’s finally – although reluctantly – stepping up, but I wish Obama felt as immediately outraged about Iran as he did over the murder of an abortion doctor.

So, now we see what this is all about … our conservative friends are still whining about the murder of Dr. George Tiller (allegedly at the hands of an anti-abortion extremist). Just as Fox News correspondent Major Garrett asked a stupid question about the president’s response, so too does the rest of Fox News continue running down the football field with the ball – in the wrong direction. When you commit football suicide and run out of the back of the end zone … we’ll take the two points.

“We don’t know how this thing is going to play out.”

It would have been closer to Obama’s real concerns, if that quote ended with “for me.”

No, “for our country” is a better way it might end. The last thing we want to do is further damage the reputation of the U.S. worldwide and put more troops in harm’s way in another country. We did enough of that during the Bush-Cheney years in the White House.

What’s next: North Korea?

Big Hollywood:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/06/23/daily-gut-the-bystander-in-chief/

Greg Gutfeld Needs To Wake Up

Right or wrong, a current presidential administration generally blames the previous administration for problems they inherited. In the case of President Obama, he has probably been too nice about the problems he inherited from the previous administration. For example, some officials in the administration of George W. Bush blamed President Bill Clinton’s administration for 9/11. To me, that is laughable since Bush was inaugurated in January and the terrorist attacks happened on Sept. 11, 2001 (and there had been warnings, during Bush’s young administration, about Osama bin Laden).

That leads me to this from a column blog written by Greg Gutfeld:

So in a talk before a local business group, former President George W. Bush finally responded to all the mud thrown at him the previous five months. In the speech, Bush defended his policies regarding enhanced interrogation and rejected the idea of government-run health care. And to top it off, he said the new White House dog sucks.

Well, that dog part isn’t true, but it doesn’t matter. Because I already know how this is going to be played by the media – a group who takes any criticism toward Obama as a personal insult. After all, Obama isn’t just the man. He’s their man. I’m sure right now, Chris Matthews is taking an extra dose of meds to control the “thrill.”

I don’t have any problems with the way President Bush has been critical or expressing his disagreement with President Obama. I think President Bush has been respectful in his disagreement and I find no fault with that. I do find fault with a hack like Vice President Dick Cheney and his approach to trashing President Obama. Cheney’s post-White House behavior is beneath the dignity typically displayed by former presidents and vice presidents.

But, then again, Cheney is at least being consistent.

I think Bo Obama is cool.

Big Hollywood:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/06/18/daily-gut-bush-speaks/

Greg Gutfeld Takes Leon Panetta’s Comments Out Of Context

Right-wing commentator Greg Gutfeld is coming to the rescue of former vice president Dick Cheney, but stumbled on his way to the battle.

Here is what Gutfeld wrote:

So in the latest New Yorker, CIA Director Leon Panetta says Dick Cheney’s biting criticism of Obama’s enlightened approach to terrorism suggests, “he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point.”

Now Mr. Panetta is absolutely right about one thing: Cheney has been highly critical of the Obama Administration’s new tact toward terror. But that’s mainly because our new President has been so critical of the previous administration’s strategy, while now pretty much copying most of its key elements.

Here is what Panetta actually said (from Reuters):

“I think he smells some blood in the water on the national security issue,” Panetta said in an interview published in The New Yorker magazine’s June 22 issue.

“It’s almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it, it’s almost as if he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point.”

Gutfeld took Panetta’s comment out of context and tried to portray him in the worst possible light. The word “suggests” helps Gutfeld a little bit (a very little bit). However, he clearly took Panetta’s comments out of context. It looks like someone else can begin to understand what U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is going through these days. Gutfeld could have made the same argument and placed Panetta’s comments in a more fair and accurate context.

Big Hollywood:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/06/15/daily-gut-panetta-vs-cheney/

Greg Gutfeld Is Mostly Right Except For One Thing …

I pulled this excerpt out of a blog posted at Big Hollywood by Greg Gutfeld:

Having said all that, Letterman still makes me sad. He’s an old, rich man relegated to choosing easy targets for cheap laughs. He has an entire bumbling administration to poke fun of – along with a conference room full of writers to do it for him- and he goes after the daughter of an Alaskan mayor. Letterman was a god in the eighties – now he’s just a mere, sad mortal driven by fumbling bitterness. And that makes me sad for him – and for those who never saw how truly great he once was.

Greg, Sarah Palin makes herself an easy target.

For comedians, she is kind of like a political gold mine.

The American people just retired the bumbling administration (when G.W. Bush and Dick Cheney left town) that got us into wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, presided during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, soiled respect for the United States of America around the world, ran up gigantic deficits, blew a budget surplus, did virtually nothing to stop the housing and mortgage foreclosure crisis, did next to nothing to stop or slow down one of the worst economic situations since The Great Depression and on and on it goes.

Big Hollywood:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/06/11/daily-gut-lettermans-obsession-with-sarah-palin/#more-158034

UPDATE: Here is another perspective on Greg Gutfeld’s nasty slam of the brave and courageous Canadian military: http://www.joeydevilla.com/2009/03/21/how-to-lose-friends-and-alienate-allies/

Greg Gutfeld Joins The Party In Bashing The Assassinated Dr. George Tiller

Right-wing commentator Greg Gutfeld has joined the party of people smearing the assassinated Dr. George Tiller. Dr. Tiller, who performed LEGAL procedures, was gunned down in church by a low-life anti-abortion domestic terrorist. It seems as though those extremists on the right wing are only concerned about domestic terrorism when it involves a Muslim.

Here is an excerpt from a blog written by Gutfeld:

So, as usual this morning, I’m on the stairclimber at the gym, watching CNN devote what seems like an entire morning on the death of George Tiller (no wonder their ratings are in the toilet). Remember, this isn’t just any abortion doctor – he’s like a hall-of-famer, late-term baby disposal unit – popping them off just as they cross the finish line.

But no matter, as I watch CNN’s in depth coverage – the kind you’d never see them give to the murder of a soldier by a Muslim convert – I kept obsessing over one thing.

 

Am I wrong for not caring?

I mean, I know that soon there will be a movie about Tiller (not about William Long, of course), probably starring walking hairpiece Ted Danson. But I still don’t care. I mean, I know that killing Tiller is wrong. It’s murder. And if you’re against the killing of unborn children, you can’t just go out and kill a man, even if he kills unborn children.

But that still doesn’t explain why I don’t care. And I’m willing to bet that the rest of America – save the media – don’t care much either.

Why is that? It’s not about Tiller’s murder being wrong. I get that. That’s not the issue. This issue is, when you make priorities of “stuff that’s wrong” – is it more wrong to kill a dumpster full of viable babies, than to kill the doc who fills that dumpster?

Yes, you are wrong for not caring about a man’s murder and the domestic terrorism that has, for so long, been intimately associated with the anti-abortion movement. Gutfeld may have the same research team that helped Bill O’Reilly lie about CNN’s coverage of the murder of Pvt. Long. O’Reilly was exposed as being dishonest about CNN’s in-depth coverage. Strangely enough, Gutfeld does actually make a good point: “And if you’re against the killing of unborn children, you can’t just go out and kill a man, even if he kills unborn children.” On the other hand, Gutfeld returns to right-wing extremism by the end. That is sad.

Here is another Gutfeld comment I found interesting (in the last paragraph of the above excerpt):

This issue is, when you make priorities of “stuff that’s wrong” – is it more wrong to kill a dumpster full of viable babies, than to kill the doc who fills that dumpster?

Whether you like it or not, abortion is a LEGAL procedure. MURDERING A HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL.

Big Hollywood:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/06/09/daily-gut-i-don%e2%80%99t-care-about-tiller%e2%80%99s-murder/#more-155478

Greg Gutfeld’s Racist Statement

Conservative commentator Greg Gutfeld is at it again with his nasty comments aimed at U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who would be the first Hispanic woman to be confirmed as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. As we know, a growing number of conservatives have been reaching for ammunition (both real and imagined) to use against the well-qualified Judge Sotomayor (this includes taking her statements out of context and, the irony of all ironies, calling her a racist).

Here is an excerpt from a blog written by Greg Gutfeld: 

So President Barack Obama just named federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor as the nominee for the next Supreme Court Justice.

So what do we know about her?

Well, she’s Hispanic.

Also, she’s Puerto Rican.

And…she’s Hispanic.

Plus, she’s Puerto Rican.

Case closed.

That’s the joy of racial politics and the media that swallows it– all you need to know about a person is their racial makeup - and in the words of the cop grimly taping off the bedroom in my vacation condo, there’s “nothing more to see here.”

Gutfeld takes a well-qualified judge, a scholar (a 1976 graduate of Princeton and and a 1979 graduate of Yale Law School) who has worked her way up from meager beginnings, and reduces her to little more than a Hispanic/Puerto Rican woman – as if she is just a token pick. It’s a shameful and unfair smear of a well-qualified judge by the same moron who got his smearing practice by disparaging the Canadian military.

Big Hollywood:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/05/26/daily-gut-the-reign-of-race/

Greg Gutfeld Remains A Proponent Of Torture

Fox News’ television show host Greg Gutfeld is one of a large number of people to the right of the political mainstream who favor torture. You see, they don’t call it torture, because torture sounds too evil. So, they’ve made up this less nasty-sounding way of saying it. They call it “enhanced interrogation.” I suppose that sends the Greg Gutfelds and the Sean Hannitys of the world to sleep with a smile knowing that we are involved in “enhanced interrogation” and not torture. Sure, “enhanced interrogation” doesn’t sound quite as immoral as torture.

Consider this excerpt from Gutfeld’s column:

Lets get this straight: implementing enhanced interrogation techniques is not immoral. What’s immoral is not doing everything possible to prevent an enemy from killing the people you love.That one rule overrules everything – making the actions you take toward that enemy supremely moral – whether the acts involve waterboarding, sleep deprivation, playing loud music, or watching David Shuster.

First Gutfeld tries to sugarcoat torture and then he goes to the conservative scare tactic of trying to make it seem as though anyone opposed to torture is essentially cheer leading and enabling our enemies.

More from GutlessGutfeld:

The idea that waterboarding is evil really stems from certain folks feeling awkward when asked about it at Brentwood cocktail parties. And that’s the truly immoral element in this ridiculous debate: if saving face means more than saving lives, then we’re totally screwed.I’d rather live in a country that’s despised for waterboarding two asshats, than a well-liked one with craters for cities. The desire for popularity is really at the heart of this: and it’s a far worse moral crime than anything done with a rag and bucket of water.

This depth and breadth of stupidity in the above excerpt is staggering. The Greg Gutfelds of the world seem to think it’s difficult (if not impossible) to achieve peace unless torture, excuse me, “enhanced interrogation” is involved. He pushes the idiotic argument that either you torture people or you live in a country with “craters for cities.” This is an old-fashioned Republican scare tactic.

This is not a desire for popularity. Now, it suits people like Greg Gutfeld well to portray it in such a fashion. We do not need to be the most popular nation, but we do need to be a nation that is respected by our neighbors around the world (something that was not the case during the administration of President George W. Bush). We need to build bridges and not destroy bridges. I wonder how Greg Gutfeld would feel about people torturing our people to keep their cities from becoming craters or to be able to get more information?

We must be a nation that shows people we are the best and not be a nation that flies around the world telling everyone we’re the best and trying to initimidate our enemies and all who have differences with us. To the Greg Gutfelds of the world, I say “give diplomacy and peace a chance.” I don’t expect anything other than the politics of fear and intimidation from those on the far right of the political spectrum.

Big Hollywood:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/05/15/daily-gut-saving-face-vs-saving-lives/

Greg Gutfeld Hypocritically Chastises Janeane Garofalo … Forgets His Own Stereotyping Of Canadian Army

Greg Gutfeld, of Fox News, is blasting Janeane Garofalo for her strong comments about what she felt was the racism of tea party protestors on Tax Day. Certainly, there was a good deal of racism in those protests (and there has been toward President Barack Obama for quite some time), but I certainly would not paint all of those protestors with a broad brush. A lot of those anti-Obama protestors just hate liberals (Garofalo might argue that the intensity of the hatred perhaps is fueled, to some extent, by racism).

Gutfeld, starring as hypocrite, had these two comments about Garofalo:

Now Janeane was approached by Fox New’s own Griff Jenkins, who had asked her if she regretted her blanket stereotyping. To her strange, delusional credit, she stood by her original comments: that every tea party protestor hates black people.

The point is, the media excuses Garafolo’s ugliness, because they agree with it. The witch hunt for Carrie (Prejean) exists only because it’s carries a stamp of approval by the media.

You can’t get much uglier than that.

So, the media excused her, huh? Seems as though Fox News has been working overtime to hammer Garofalo at every turn. Last I checked, Fox News is part of the media … even if it is neither fair nor  balanced in its coverage and commentary. Gutfeld, however, has his own history of blanket and nasty stereotyping that he was forced to apologize for as he smeared Canada and the Canadian military:

They were spurred by comments from Canada’s army chief that the military would need a year’s hiatus to regroup and refurbish after its Kandahar mission ends in 2011.

In the Fox News segment, widely accessed on the Internet, Gutfeld said the Canadian military “wants to take a breather to do some yoga, paint landscapes, run on the beach in gorgeous white capri pants.”

“Isn’t this the perfect time to invade this ridiculous country?” he said. “They have no army.”

That opening crack from Gutfeld prompted his comedian guest, Benson, to chime in: “I didn’t even know that they were in the war,” he said.

 ”I thought that’s where you go if you don’t want to fight – go chill in Canada. I guess that’ll be their tourism selling point: We’re not in the war for a year. So come on by while we nap.”

Gutfeld would be wise to remember his own history of unfair stereotyping before standing in judgement of someone else in a holier-than-thou fashion. So, who is really the delusional one here? Now, it’s possible Gutfeld is mostly upset because Garofalo did not back down from her comments (the way he was forced to for his reprehensible comments smearing an entire nation and its hard-working, dedicated military) when she was approached by Jenkins.

Yahoo News Canada:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/fox_news_cda

Big Hollywood:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/05/12/daily-gut-janeane-and-prejean/#more-133722

Greg Gutfeld Issues A Borderline Gutless Fox News Apology For Insulting Canadian Army

Fox News “Red Eye” host Greg Gutfeld made some ridiculous and disgusting comments belittling the Canadian army. Gutfeld, however, true to the Fox News way issues a typical weak apology that smells almost as bad as the original insult. Gutfeld, in the Fox News tradition said that his comments “may have been misunderstood.” Huh? Then he continued in The Canadian Press with the typical carbon copy statement that he in no way were meant to disrespect “the brave men, women and families of the Canadian military.”

For review, this is how The Canadian Press documented Gutfeld’s insult:

Gutfeld said in the Fox News segment, widely aired on the Internet, that the Canadian military “wants to take a breather to do some yoga, paint landscapes, run on the beach in gorgeous white capri pants.”

“Isn’t this the perfect time to invade this ridiculous country?” he said. “They have no army.”

This is not the first uncalled for and insulting thing that Greg Gutfeld has said, and it probably will not be the last. And, it’s amazing how so many conservatives and Republicans wonder why the reputation of the United States around the world has taken such a beating. It’s moronic comments like those, from Gutfeld, that have hurt us in the eyes of our neighbors around the world.

The Canadian Press:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5ggr4I7UpOus3u6NRIRkEGpE1XV3Q

Conservatives Like Fox News Host Greg Gutfeld Show Why Opinion Of U.S. Sank During Bush Years

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld and his guests had a good old time bashing the Canadian military. This is a perfect example of the kind of rhetoric that has been so damaging to the reputation worldwide of the United States of America during the George W. Bush presidential years. During the previous eight years war-mongering Republicans and conservatives attempted to intimidate pretty much everyone and made fun of or declared an enemy all nations that did not enthusiastically join U.S.-led war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s a truly disgusting clip of video to watch these individuals bashing our great neighbors to the north who have supported us when so many other nations became angered with the arrogance displayed by the U.S. during the Bush-Dick Cheney-Donald Rumsfeld years. We should be supporting Canada as Canada has supported us. It is worth noting that this is part of the reason so many conservatives were upset with President Barack Obama during the election when he was so roundly received when he went overseas … most notably when he made a stop in Germany. The majority of nations around the world want to be allies and friends with the United States and President Obama gives us a great opportunity to repair the damage done during the last eight years. Repairing those strained relationships will be a challenge with the Greg Gutfelds of the world bashing our allies in sarcastic fashion.

Crooks and Liars:
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/how-lose-friends-and-alienate-countries

Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld Talks Newspaper Industry Struggles … On Partially Hits The Point

Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld has a blog about the struggling newspaper industry (he’s not the first person to right about this issue). He actually took an opportunity to bash USA Today a little for one of its cover stories (one on Michelle Obama … amazing that a Fox News person would be upset about a cover story on someone named Obama). Gutfeld is of the belief that these kinds of stories are indicative of the struggling newspaper industry (a lack or original stories and a lack of creativity). He is right in that newspapers have failed to adapt to the kinds of stories their readers want (particularly with so much available on the Internet and breaking news being delivered to people almost instantly online, through television and radio) and that is a major reason they have fallen behind. Print newspaper headlines generally are old by the time they reach you with your morning coffee. Heck, some newspapers have been slow even to realize the value of an online edition of their paper (some are still stupid and trying to charge for any online content). Gutfeld should also realize that the print newspaper business is struggling because expenses (ink, paper, personnel, gas for delivery, etc.) are going up and (in many cases) advertising revenue is going down. We are becoming far more digital and print newspapers are dying a slow (and in some cases) painful death.

Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,470048,00.html

Fox News: A Safe Haven For Homophobia?

Fox News is amazing in its right-wing bigotry. But, the rising tide of homophobia is becoming increasingly evident in Fox News broadcasts as of late. Extremist conservatives like Fox News host Bill O’Reilly have been soldiers on the front line of a ridiculous effort from right wingers to slow down the move toward compassion and equal rights for gays and lesbians in the United States of America. But, Fox News homophobia extends beyond O’Reilly and the nasty comment made by one of his guests, comedian Dennis Miller during one particularly nasty segment. Here is a comment of Fox News host Greg Gutfeld about Congressman Barney Frank that was caught by Think Progress:

Look, I don’t dispute that aliens exist, but there are more urgent matters to deal with, other than wrinkly creatures with a knack for anal probing.

But enough about Barney Frank. I couldn’t resist.

About the only good thing to come out of this was the fact that apparently someone at Fox News realized the disgusting nature of those homophobic words and attempted to cover it up.

Think Progress:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/18/gutfeld-fox-edit/