Fox News host Greg Gutfeld has decoded former President Barack Obama and his co-host Harold Ford Jr.’s “both sides” argument following the assassination of Charlie Kirk on September 10.
During an episode of Fox News’ “The Five” on Wednesday, the cohosts discussed Obama’s comments on Tuesday at the Jefferson Educational Society’s 17th annual global summit, when he preached about a so-called equal amount of violence coming from the right and the left.
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“We are certainly at an inflection point not just around political violence but there are hosts of larger trends that we have to be concerned about…Political violence is not new. It has happened at certain periods in our history….What happened to Charlie Kirk was horrific and a tragedy.”
“When it happens to somebody, even if you think they’re quote unquote ‘on the other side of the argument,’ that’s a threat to all of us and we have to be clear and forthright and condemn it.”
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“When they say [violence] is ‘both sides,’ it’s THEIR fault. Because when it’s your fault, they just say it’s YOUR fault. You follow me?”
“So every time you hear ‘both sides do it,’ you know they’re culpable. Because when… pic.twitter.com/89p1umHOQV
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“I have a rule of thumb: when they say [violence] is ‘both sides,’ it’s THEIR fault,” Gutfeld pointed out. “Because when it’s your fault, they just say it’s your fault. You follow me?”
“So every time you hear ‘both sides do it,’ you know they’re culpable,” he added. “Because when it’s our fault, they never say that! They just go, ‘it’s your fault.’ So remember that.”
On the show, Ford Jr. claimed radicalization was happening on both sides, and he gave cover to those like Montel Williams and ABC News reporter Matt Gutman, who appeared to glorify the alleged shooter killer, Tyler Robinson, and his trans-identifying male boyfriend’s “loving” relationship.
Harold Ford Jr. gets into it with Greg Gutfeld and Kennedy on Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson.
“They normalized the terms fascist and Hitler and authoritarian and Nazi… I disagree vehemently… I don’t care what side you’re on.” #TheFive pic.twitter.com/ON0hOY5lVH
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Ford Jr. said he wasn’t going to judge people because everyone has their own subjective interpretation, and the co-host called him out for claiming the radicalization was happening on the right and the left.
“These are news anchors, these are politicians, these are college professors that are actually legitimizing this and saying it over and over again, these are why this is different,” Gutfeld said of calling people on the right Nazis and fascists.
“They are normalizing [Kirk’s murder] like they normalized the terms fascist, Hitler, and authoritarian and Nazi,” Kennedy said. “They are doing the same thing with murder. I disagree vehemently. This is objectively wrong. I don’t care what side you’re on.”
SEE: JD Vance Declares What Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Must Be After Assassination Amid Leftists Twisting It
MORE: There Is No Unity …’: JD Vance Brings Receipts About Leftist Violence After Charlie Kirk’s Murder
My RedState colleague Rusty Weiss reported on Obama’s comments and the swipe he took at President Donald Trump.
Weiss wrote:
Obama also found the temerity to insist that, while there are fringe elements on both sides of the political aisle, he never pushed divisive rhetoric during his time in the White House.
“But I will say that — those extreme views were not in my White House,” he said. “I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the United States government behind extremist views.”
“When we have the weight of the United States government behind extremist views, we’ve got a problem.”
The absolute balls it takes to say that when we’ve spent the past decade hearing Obama, Biden, Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and on and on refer to Trump supporters – half the nation – as “fascists” or “Nazis” or an “existential threat” to the country is mind-numbing.
Democrats think they can play this “both sides” game like they have in the past, and it is so refreshing to see no one on the right or who is a sane thinking person is letting this slide this time.
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