by Matt Margolis, PJ Media:
On Monday’s episode of The Five on the Fox News Channel, Greg Gutfeld destroyed co-host Jessica Tarlov for having the audacity—like so many on the left—to make the “both sides” argument on political violence in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
“What is interesting here is, why is only this happening on the left and not the right? That’s all we need to know,” Gutfeld began.
That’s when Tarlov started trotting out the left’s favorite counterpoints.
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“Yeah, so what about Vance Boelter? What about Melissa Hortman that we just talked about?”
That’s when Gutfeld exploded.
“None of us were spending every single day talking about Mrs. Hortman. I never heard of her until after she died. And the… Don’t play that bulls—t with me. There was no demonization, amplification about that woman before she died. It was a specific crime against her by somebody who knew her.”
He continued, cutting off attempts at false equivalence. “You could bring up Josh Shapiro, but then you will not bring up, for example, that that was a pro-Palestine person,” he said. “So, don’t use your, ‘What about this?’ The fact of the matter is, the both sides argument not only doesn’t fly, we don’t care. We don’t care about your both sides argument. That shit is dead.”
Gutfeld framed the difference as one of reality versus rationalization. “For one thing, there is no cognitive dissonance on our side,” he continued. “On your side, your beliefs do not match reality, so you’re coming up with these rationalizations, like, ‘What about this,’ or, ‘What about that?’ We’re not doing that, because we saw it happen. We saw a young, bright man assassinated and we know who did it. We are not coming up with rationalizations. We are calm, we are honest, and we are resolute. We’re not defensive.”
