Gutfeld Shows Colbert and Co. How to Speak Truth to Power

There’s a small problem with Team Late Night taunting Donald Trump on a near-nightly basis.

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is no longer the home of real estate magnate. He can do or say anything he wants as a private citizen, and it won’t impact our lives. He’s not even allowed on most social media platforms.

And yet Colbert/Kimmel/Meyers and co. use any excuse to bring him up.

Not Greg Gutfeld.

The host of Fox News’ “Gutfeld!” burns far more calories mocking the folks who control the levers of power in 2022. Think:

•     President Joe Biden
•     Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
•     Dr. Anthony Fauci, point man for the nation’s pandemic response

Not the ex-President, they hold significant sway in our daily lives. It’s called speaking “Truth to Power,” something late night satirists once considered their core mission.

Now is the time.

Perhaps that’s why “Gutfeld!” crashed the late night landscape and regularly trumps most, if not all, of his competition.

These are the cases:

Gutfeld attacked the antifa violent mob, blaming them for cancelling Andy Ngo’s Dartmouth appearance. It’s Free Speech 101, but because Ngo reveals the truth behind Antifa, the Colbert of the world won’t mention them.

Gutfeld, however, will.

“Will the school change its nickname from Big Green to Big Yellow to match the streak down their backs?” Gutfeld cracked, referencing Dartmouth’s inability to let the event proceed as planned.

Gutfeld also greeted Pelosi’s cringe-worthy re-election campaign video with sizable snark.

Nancy announced the news on Twitter, with technical assistance from someone eighteen years her senior. She also asked: “What are three of the most pressing issues facing Congress?”

Gutfeld teased Pelosi for chanting, “‘our children our children, our children” during the video.

“The last time I heard that it was from a parent filing the police report outside CNN,” Gutfeld said.

Fox News’ host, Fox News, also criticized Dr. Fauci following more evidence of Fauci’s medical malpractice. Recent reports show that Dr. Fauci tried to discredit the COVID-19 lab leak theory, while still knowing it was the main source of the outbreak. Even more damning? He did so, potentially, to cover up for his own actions tied to “gain of function” research.

Except Gutfeld couldn’t wait for his late night slot to skewer the pandemic “guru.” He did so from the comfort of Fox News’ FiveRadio broadcasted earlier in day

Fauci ought to resign, and get a lawyer. No wonder that Dr. Fauci was quivering whenever anybody brought up China because the paper trail doesn’t just involve Chinese scientist, it involves American scientists too.”

“Think about the class-action litigation on this, when you’re talking about 12 million people dead,” Gutfeld continued. “You could bankrupt a country. That’s trillions in settlements if you want to do it. So, somebody has to go to jail; if you’re arresting non-vaxxed people at Applebee’s, somebody should be paying the price for this, which is now becoming a holocaust, right?”

Your turn, Colbert … assuming you’re still in the “truth to power” business.

[Cross-posted from Hollywood in Toto]