In his Tuesday monologue for his eponymous show, Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld took a blowtorch to MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough as a “bozo” and “grifter” with “dime slot hillbilly eyes” and “more full of [EXPLETIVE] than a cage full of chimps mainlining Metamucil” for recently claiming Joe Biden’s June 2024 debate performance was “shockingly bad” despite having said this was “the best Biden ever” “intellectually” and “analytically.”
“So they say hindsight is 20/20. And if anybody in the media sees out of his hind end, it’s Joe Scarborough. He was once a Republican in Congress, but will be remembered as the worst thing to happen to Florida since Ron Jeremy toured The Villages. I know. But what I like most about Scarborough is his honesty. Well, that and his dime slot hillbilly eyes,” Gutfeld began.
A clip of Scarborough played from Monday’s show in which he said this to Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes — co-authors of their latest behind-the-scenes campaign book, Fight:
We always look back in retrospect and think things were a certain way, just because it’s the way the media at the time defined it. You know, I remember after Biden’s shockingly bad presidential debate, that’s when, like, the history books were starting — you know, you could just see that was going to be the reason why he was pushed out of the race[.]
An incredulous Gutfeld clapped back: “Oh, you could just see that was going to be the reason because there were no reasons before the debate....Saying the debate was like a shocking reason for Biden’s downfall is like saying, I didn’t know Hunter Biden was a problem until I saw his artwork.”
Noting Scarborough said this all “now that Biden is long gone,” Gutfeld offered arguably the most important point about these tell-all books: “[T]hat’s what you get when the media is interviewing the media without addressing the diseased and dying elephant in the room, the media. Scarborough was talking with the authors of a new book that details just how Biden really was, how bad he was. And Scarborough acts as if he knew it the whole time.”
This served as a segue to a clip of Scarborough from March 6, 2024 in which he gushed over Biden as “far beyond cogent” and “[t]his version of Biden intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever.” NewsBusters readers will recall this was our 2024 Brian Stelter Memorial Quote of the Year:
“I think he meant pungent. Keep yacking, you grifter....Of course, it wasn’t the truth, you bozo, which is why you said it. This guy has always been more full of [EXPLETIVE] than a cage full of chimps mainlining Metamucil,” he replied.
Moments later, Gutfeld laid waste to Biden’s actual mental capacity:
Biden didn’t have the mental capability to dissect his own pork chop for dinner, let alone dissect a Joe Scarborough op ed. You couldn’t debate a speak and spell, which is why they told him the speak and spell was the nuclear football and Scarborough actually wanted us to believe Joe was still awake at 08:30 at night? By then, he was already in his cryogenic chamber, dreaming about his uncle getting eaten by cannibals, overcoming oil cancer, corn pop’s love for hairy legs.
Gutfeld and his team had one more clip as, on February 9, 2024, Scarborough lambasted the Hur report predicting Biden would be seen by a jury as an “elderly man with a poor memory” as “random conclusions, irrelevant conclusions” that were “gratuitous” and in “bad fath.”
This went right to Gutfeld’s conclusion about why Scarborough (and the liberal media writ large) refused to be honest:
[If] Scarborough got within 200 feet of a polygraph machine, it would burst into flames. But Scarborough couldn’t afford to be honest with his audience because the Dems had a big bad orange man breathing down their necks...He had to blurt out hostile fidgety [EXPLETIVE] or they wouldn’t give him the pills that keep him from turning into a werewolf...The funny thing is [EXPLETIVE] if you had just told the truth when it mattered, maybe the Dems would have had time to find a candidate who could actually win an election...[H]ey, it could always be worse. Morning Joe could be on a network people watch.
To see the relevant FNC transcript from April 2, click here.
