A clip of Greg Gutfeld of FOX News on The Five this week is going viral on Twitter/X and for good reasons.
In the video you can watch below, Gutfeld blames the actions of the WHCD shooter on the rhetoric we hear day after day from the most Trump-deranged people in politics and media.
Jesse Watters had just finished saying that the shooter doesn’t seem like someone who hears voices, and Greg Picks it up from there, saying he does hear voices, “They were Tim Walz’s, they were Ted Lieu’s, they were Brandon Johnson’s, they were CNN’s, they were The View, they were MSNOW.”
PJ Media has more details:
Gutfeld argued the attempted attack reveals something deeper about how people get radicalized. “Okay, I think this is a helpful assassination attempt because it is the first one to show that you can be radicalized by liberal smugness,” he said.He urged viewers to actually read what the suspect wrote: “If you read his posts, and if you read his manifesto, it sounds like every smarmy, sanctimonious, self-satisfied pronouncement from an a**hole like Brandon Johnson, like Walz, like Lieu, the people who think they know better than you.”He also pushed hard against the instinct to dismiss the suspect as unstable.“This guy was not a crank,” Gutfeld said. “He was not deranged. Don’t buy into that narrative because it lets these pompous asses off.” As Gutfeld noted, the suspect followed a worldview to its logical endpoint. “He didn’t do this because, as Jesse said, he didn’t have voices in his head. He was just following orders. He was operating on a filter that said Trump was Hitler, and therefore it would be immoral if you didn’t take Hitler out.”That logic, Gutfeld argued, made the suspect internally consistent. “So his filter is actually making him logical. He’s the sanest one in the group because he took them at their word. When MSNOW says Trump is Hitler, he’s the sensible one. He went out and went after Hitler.” And once someone buys into that worldview, Gutfeld added, persuasion becomes nearly impossible. “No, because you know this guy. You’ve run into this guy. They think they’re right.”
Watch the whole thing below. This is great:
This actually dovetails perfectly with a theory of my own. I think the reason so many people on the left reflexively rushed to claim that this shooting was staged is because it was a defense mechanism.
If they didn’t claim it was staged, they would have to face themselves and admit that they have all helped to drive us to this moment, and they simply can’t do that. They’re not capable of seeing themselves as the bad guys in any situation that involves Trump.
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