I’ll admit to having not watched Fox News in a long time for a variety of reasons, but occasionally a clip catches my eye that’s just too good not to share. More often than not, the source seems to be Greg Gutfeld, whose meld of comedy and sharp commentary provides something interesting compared to the same guests shouting in a split-screen all day.
On Tuesday night, Gutfeld took a rhetorical blowtorch to the Arlington National Cemetery “scandal” still being pushed by the press and Democrat politicians. In an over six-minute monologue, he addressed nearly every dishonest talking point pushed over the last two weeks, with a fair bit of laughs mixed in.
Greg Gutfeld delivers an epic takedown of the press and Kamala’s faux outrage over Gold Star families taking a picture. pic.twitter.com/0ME83wBywc
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) September 4, 2024
GUTFELD: But Trump went there at the specific request of the families. After the private ceremony, which wasn’t open to the press, a cemetery staffer tried to stop the photographer because as the cemetery said, “Federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activity there, which included photographers.” True, but federal law does not prohibit what Trump did. Trump was invited by the families and they wanted pictures and he obliged them. Of course, though, the mainstream media lost their ****.
(Clips play of the press freaking out, including saying what Trump did was criminal)
GUTFELD: Criminal behavior, these ********, and that’s when, I had to say, and that’s when Kamala decided to go to war with a bunch of Gold Star moms, proving at least someone on their ticket won’t run away from battle.
There’s a lot more, but I think Gutfeld brings up a key point that no one seems to be discussing. Every bit of the shameless coverage of this is based on accepting the premise that Trump and the Gold Star families broke the rules. What’s the actual evidence for that, though? Because while we keep hearing about the cemetery employee who tried to intervene, that person (or the U.S. Army) has yet to provide any details that would show the above-cited rule was broken.
How did the employee know the picture with the Gold Star families was “campaign-related?” Did that person just assume that? Contrary to a lot of the framing, it is not against the rules to take a picture in Arlington National Cemetery. How do I know that? Because Democrats, including Joe Biden and Barack Obama, have done so numerous times without any pushback. This entire “scandal” rests on a government employee being able to read minds and see into the future regarding a picture being taken. Yet, here we are, with the press still having a meltdown about it.
From there, Gutfeld lit into Kamala Harris’ statement in which she tried to politicize the ceremony as disrespectful to America’s war dead. He then pointed out the obvious hypocrisy of the press, which is that they love covering every part of this story except the part where the Gold Star families have repeatedly said (including on video) they asked to take the picture and it was not political.
WATCH: Gold Star Families Release Devastating Responses to Kamala Harris’ Politicizing of Trump Arlington Visit
GUTFELD: What pisses me off is that I bet you didn’t see that anywhere else except on Fox News. Odd how this story went from extremely interesting to nothing to see here. The media can be in awe of Kamala’s fakery but where did the Gold Star’s family‘s reaction find a home? On X, not on the legacy news. Funny how this direction of disinterest only goes one way. It’s the same as their disinterest in Biden’s dementia for four years, the soft coup and the cover-up that caused it, Kamala’s rise to stardom in mere weeks, which still baffles the **** out of me.
Gutfeld also pointed out how the press is obsessed with Trump’s bitter relatives and other irrelevant figures, but when the Gold Star families actually involved want airtime to tell their stories, suddenly they aren’t newsworthy. Earlier on Tuesday, Jake Tapper brought on John McCain’s son to endorse Kamala Harris while ranting about Trump and Arlington National Cemetery. The obscure, no-name son of a deceased senator was found more worthy of time on CNN than Gold Star families.
Meanwhile, here’s something else Tapper found time for.
CNN’s Jake Tapper, in full-blown shill mode for the Harris campaing. pic.twitter.com/DL08SnXRks
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 3, 2024
Every bit of Gutfeld’s takedown was well-deserved. Press bias is not just affecting Republican politicians anymore. It’s now painting Gold Star families as villains so Kamala Harris can preen about respecting the very people her incompetence got killed. Think about how perverse that is.
