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Greg Gutfeld

Fox News rewards Greg Gutfeld’s bigotry, lies, and sycophancy with another weekday show

Written by Rebecca Martin & Brendan Karet

Published 02/23/21 1:02 PM EST

Fox News will replace anchor Shannon Bream’s Fox News @ Night at 11 p.m. ET with “an ‘irreverent’ late-night show” starring Greg Gutfeld, as Fox continues to “expand opinion programming on [its] schedule.” Bream’s “straight news” show will instead air beginning at midnight.

Gutfeld is a former magazine editor turned right-wing pundit, best known for his presence as a contrarian co-host on The Five and his penchant for lying about former President Donald Trump’s praise for neo-Nazis.

To help media observers better understand Gutfeld’s continued rise to prominence at Fox, Media Matters has compiled some of his worst contributions to public discourse:

Gutfeld dismissed Trump’s attempt to change Georgia election results as “the latest media hoax.” [Fox News, The Five, 1/4/21]

As the country faced the out-of-control COVID-19 pandemic and hundreds of thousands dead, Gutfeld declared, “We're not in a crisis moment. We have to pat ourselves on the back for what America did.” [Fox News, The Five, 11/16/20]

Gutfeld mocked concern about a Biden campaign bus being threatened by a pro-Trump convoy in Texas. [Fox News, The Five, 11/1/20]

Gutfeld argued that if Joe Biden won the 2020 election, “impeachment proceedings start the day after inauguration.” [Fox News, The Five, 10/22/20]

During the Senate confirmation hearing for Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Gutfeld referred to Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) as “petty” and “jealous” “mean girls.” [Fox News, The Five, 10/14/20]

Gutfeld declared that supporters of Black Lives Matter “have lost the right to complain” about right-wing plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. [Fox News, The Five, 10/9/20]

Gutfeld on Kamala Harris: “When we dearly needed law and order, she chose thugs.” [Fox News, The Five, 10/7/20]

Gutfeld: Trump “took the risk, he got the virus," because “he was doing it for us.” [Fox News, The Five, 10/2/20]

Gutfeld defended Trump's refusal to denounce white supremacy and right-wing extremist group the Proud Boys. [Fox News, The Five, 9/30/20]

Gutfeld cheered on the destruction of the Affordable Care Act: “Let's not sit here and just act like we're losing something so incredibly valuable.” [Fox News, The Five, 9/29/20]

Gutfeld: If protests continue, “that Second Amendment starts looking miraculous.” [Fox News, The Five, 9/21/20]

Gutfeld claimed Trump downplaying COVID-19 publicly was part of his “role as a leader.” [Fox News, The Five, 9/9/20]

Gutfeld dismissed violence from right-wing militias and Proud Boys as “a lie” and “easily disprovable.” [Fox News, The Five, 9/2/20]

Gutfeld declared that mentioning Trump's remarks about “very fine people” at the 2017 “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, isn't “healthy for America.” [Fox News, The Five, 8/21/20]

After numerous examples of QAnon-related violence, Gutfeld wrongly claimed no such examples exist. [Fox News, The Five, 8/20/20]

Gutfeld: COVID-19 death toll has “nothing to do with Trump.” [Fox News, The Five, 8/18/20]

Gutfeld suggested Joe Biden is a “tyrant” for urging state governments to enact mask mandates [Fox News, The Five, 8/13/20]

Gutfeld lashed out at a colleague for mentioning the COVID-19 death toll. [Fox News, The Five, 7/6/20]

Gutfeld suggested allowing only Black police officers to respond to calls about Black suspects as a solution to police brutality. [Fox News, The Five, 6/17/20]

Gutfeld dismissed police brutality against Black people, instead blaming videos of such incidents for sending America toward “a race war.” [Fox News, The Five, 6/15/20]

Gutfeld mocked a co-host for noting white supremacists have been arrested for plotting violence at protests. [Fox News, The Five, 6/12/20]

As co-host Juan Williams tried to describe institutional racism, Gutfeld shouted him down. [Fox News, The Five, 6/1/20]

Gutfeld blamed “the unbending mind” for the police killing of George Floyd and questioned what happened before the video started. [Fox News, The Five, 5/27/20]

Gutfeld compared disgraced former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn to the Central Park Five. [Fox News, The Five, 5/8/20]

Gutfeld claimed it was better to reopen the country “too early” and argued that opening too late would “create permanent damage” to the economy. [Fox News, The Five, 5/6/20]

Gutfeld warned the media to now “be super, super careful” about criticizing people who violate stay-at-home orders because “staying home doesn’t help anymore after we flattened this curve.” [Fox News, The Five, 5/6/20]

Gutfeld claimed the only problem with Trump's “offhand comment” about injecting disinfectants to treat COVID-19 is how it was covered, saying, “This is hilarious.” [Fox News, The Five, 4/24/20]

Gutfeld attacked Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for criticizing swastikas displayed at a social distancing protest, and he claimed they were being used ironically. [Fox News, The Five, 4/17/20]

Gutfeld downplayed Trump's coronavirus press briefing lies by arguing no one “takes Trump word for word.” [Fox News, The Five, 3/26/20]

Gutfeld: “I can't recall a single instance of Trump actually aggressively going after an individual.” [Fox News, The Five, 3/10/20]

Gutfeld proposed forcibly relocating people experiencing homelessness into a “government-owned area.” [Fox News, The Five, 2/19/20]

Gutfeld called for Trump to influence Roger Stone’s sentencing, declaring: “He’s the president, he can do whatever he wants.” [Fox News, The Five, 2/13/20]

Gutfeld: John Bolton's claim that Ukrainian aid was tied to an investigation into the Bidens “vindicates Trump.” [Fox News, The Five, 1/27/20]

Gutfeld blamed the media for Australian wildfires: “It's just like mass shootings, it's encouraged because of the news.” [Fox News, The Five, 1/13/20]

Gutfeld on The New York Times' 1619 Project: “I didn't read it” but I assume “the slave article” was an attempt “to paint Donald Trump as racist.” [Fox News, The Five, 8/19/19]

Gutfeld said nothing can be done to stop mass shootings, blaming the media for amplifying the massacres: “All of it feeds the need for infamy which is empowered by the media as they push the blame on people they hate.” [Fox News, The Five, 8/5/19]

Gutfeld downplayed potential war with Iran as “just a video game” because “we control them if we have a sky of drones.” [Fox News, The Five, 6/20/19]

Gutfeld: LGBTQ advocates are transitioning kids to be trans in order to eliminate gay and lesbian people [Fox News, The Five, 6/17/19]

Gutfeld: Gillette ad targeting toxic masculinity “bashed men, men who fought wars, who build bridges.” [Fox News, The Five, 1/15/19]

Gutfeld defended Trump's violent rhetoric toward the press after the Capital Gazette shooting. [Fox News, The Five, 10/24/18]

Gutfeld completely imploded after co-host Juan Williams called out the racist intent behind Trump’s caravan fearmongering: “You are obsessed with race. That’s your problem.” [Fox News, The Five, 10/23/18]

Gutfeld attacked the media for not doing enough to prevent the next 9/11 and instead focusing on Trump’s scandals. [Fox News, The Five, 9/11/18]

Gutfeld defended then-Florida gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis' comments during a Fox interview that his Black opponent would “monkey this up” as “not racial” and blamed a “lynch mob” for calling it racist. [Fox News, The Five, 8/29/18]

Gutfeld: People who earn the minimum wage “don't plan on raising a family” so we should keep it low. [Fox News, The Five, 8/22/18]

Gutfeld brushed off QAnon conspiracy theorists taking over Trump rally because “there's more fringe on the left than on the right.” [Fox News, The Five, 8/1/18]

Gutfeld defended Trump's racist tweets telling members of the Squad to “go back” to “the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came”: “How many racists say, 'Leave, then please come back and help us.'” [Fox News, The Five, 7/15/19]

Gutfeld shrugged off torture of a pregnant woman by the CIA: “Too bad. I'm for it.” [Fox News, The Five, 5/9/18]

Gutfeld: The View co-host Joy Behar reminds me of Hitler's wife, Eva Braun. [Fox News, The Five, 4/13/18]

Gutfeld: “Nobody cares about” reports that Trump-connected data firm Cambridge Analytica blackmailed politicians with prostitutes. [Fox News, The Five, 3/20/18]

Gutfeld suggested “targeting the family” of suspected terrorists: “This is war and in war you have to change the rules.” [Fox News, The Five, 11/2/17]

Gutfeld: Black NFL players should devote more time talking about Black violence instead of police brutality. [Fox News, The Five, 9/28/17]

Gutfeld: Militarization of local police helps “prevent violence” like Charlottesville. [Fox News, The Five, 8/28/17]

Gutfeld dismissed affirmative action: “Do we really need to push for an increase in diversity anymore?” [Fox News, The Five, 8/2/17]

Gutfeld: “Police brutality was exaggerated” by the media, but Trump “made it okay to appreciate law enforcement again.” [Fox News, The Five, 7/28/17]

Gutfeld told a colleague on-air that she was giving America an erection. [Fox News, The Five, 4/19/17]

Gutfeld on Trump's budget gutting public broadcasting: “Military should come before Muppets. More killing, less Kermit” [Fox News, The Five, 3/16/17]

Gutfeld dismissed consequences of repealing the Affordable Care Act: “They took your doctor, they took your health care, they took your money, it was a redistribution plan. … You should feel no shame burning this bill to the ground.” [Fox News, The Five, 1/12/17]

Gutfeld said climate change consensus is the “radical Islam of science” [Fox News, The Five, 10/4/16]

Gutfeld: Gay Republicans don't fit into the Democratic “plantation.” [Fox News, The Five, 7/28/16]

Gutfeld suggested shortening the Muslim holiday of Ramadan to decrease terrorism. [Fox News, The Five, 6/29/16]

Gutfeld: “It's homophobic” not to allow guns in bars like the Pulse nightclub. [Fox News, The Five, 6/17/16]

Gutfeld lashed out at the Pope for “lecturing on guns” after Orlando mass shooting. [Fox News, The Five, 6/13/16]

Gutfeld: Obama “is declaring war on bathrooms” as ISIS “works 24/7 on our demise, while we're sitting here wondering about gender pronouns.” [Fox News, The Five, 5/19/16]

Gutfeld: Climate scientists “have a lot in common with ISIS cause they both wanna go back to the 7th century.” [Fox News, The Five, 4/22/16]

Gutfeld accused Hillary Clinton of “bigotry against men” and said she “sounds like the product of two car alarms mating.” [Fox News, The Five, 3/29/16]

Gutfeld: Obama received political “immunity” because he was “the first Black candidate.” [Fox News, The Five, 3/16/16]

Gutfeld: Hillary Clinton's greatest “sin” is that she “doesn't care about men's concerns.” [Fox News, The Five, 3/8/16]

Gutfeld: Telemundo’s involvement will make the Republican presidential primary debate into “a Spanish soap opera.” [Fox News, The Five, 2/25/16]

Gutfeld said that the Super Bowl was “another example of an old white man beating a young Black man.” [Fox News, The Five, 2/8/16]

Gutfeld: Racial quotas “introduces suspicion among your peers, that you really didn't earn the job.” [Fox News, The Five, 1/20/16]

Gutfeld suggested “we return to the days of the Wild West” and promoted more guns to stop terrorism. [Fox News, The Five, 1/14/16]

Gutfeld: President Barack Obama was nominated because “historical Black beats historical white” woman. [Fox News, The Five, 1/13/16]

Gutfeld: Liberals don't want to enforce gun laws because “that means there will be more Blacks in jail.” [Fox News, The Five, 1/12/16]

Gutfeld: “I can deal with mass shootings,” but “the concern of radical Islam dwarfs that. This is a fight for our civilization.” [Fox News, The Five, 12/3/15]

Gutfeld called gender and race studies courses at top colleges “nonsense masquerading as intelligence.” [Fox News, The Five, 8/25/15]

Gutfeld attacked Pope Francis for addressing climate change [Fox News, The Five, 6/16/15]

Gutfeld: “I envy” Americans who are too poor to owe federal income taxes. [Fox News, The Five, 4/15/14]

Gutfeld mocked “confused” students who would benefit from a California transgender rights bill: “As a devious teen growing up, I would tell girls that I'm a girl trapped in a boy's body, just so I could sneak into the girls' bathroom. [Fox News, The O’Reilly Factor, 8/9/13]

Gutfeld: “Liberal policies ... encouraged the death of the family.” [Fox News, The Five, 1/18/13]

Gutfeld: “The biggest myth of all time is that sweatshops are bad.” [Fox News, The Five, 1/8/13]

Fox's Gutfeld: “The left can be much more dangerous [than the right] because they can justify their violence in the name of the greater good. The greater good has killed more people than the Black Plague.” [Fox News, The Five, 12/12/12]

Gutfeld on Obama’s appearance on The View: “It's better for him to talk foreign policy with those biddies than to have him actually talk to foreign policy leaders.” [Fox News, The Five, 9/25/12]

Gutfeld used racist Birther smear against Obama to criticize Daniel Day Lewis’ casting in Lincoln: “First, we have a Kenyan in the White House, and now we have a Brit playing Lincoln.” [Fox News, The Five, 9/19/12]

Gutfeld: Democratic policies have “infantilized” Black Americans and “made them addicted to crappy programs.” [Fox News, The Five, 8/29/12]

Gutfeld: Reproductive health care advocate Sandra Fluke was “the poster child for whiny entitlement.” [Fox News, The Five, 6/15/12]

Gutfeld: “We know how President Obama personally feels about marriage” but not abortion; “I wonder if it’s just because gays have deeper pockets than fetuses.” [Fox News, The Five, 5/21/12]

Gutfeld: Media would love NBA player Jeremy Lin more “if he was a transgendered female.” [Fox News, The Five, 2/16/12]

Gutfeld: For “the left,” contraception policy is “about getting rid of the poor.” [Fox News, The Five, 2/15/12]

Gutfeld: Obama’s speech citing Teddy Roosevelt was a “sugarcoated speech on class warfare.” [Fox News, The Five, 12/7/11]

Gutfeld continued to push lie that Keystone XL pipeline delay cost 20,000 jobs. [Fox News, The Five, 11/11/11]

Gutfeld on drilling in the Everglades: “It’s just a big swamp. … I would drill everywhere.” [Fox News, The Five, 8/30/11]

Gutfeld: Some Blacks say they voted for Obama “because it would sound traitorous if they didn't.” [Fox News, The Five, 7/25/11]

Gutfeld on free birth control: “The left has figured out a way to eradicate the poor. And it's by eradicating the poor.” [Fox News, The Five, 7/20/11]

Gutfeld on raising the Debt Ceiling: “It's like a wife and her credit cards.” [Fox News, The Five, 7/11/11]

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