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Gutfeld: The "Both Sides" Argument Is Dead -- "Charlie Had A Conversation; He Got Shot"
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Fox News host Greg Gutfeld snapped after Jessica Tarlov mentioned that people didn't pay as much attention to the shooting death of Democratic Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman as the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and characterized Tyler Robinson as coming from a "conservative family."
GREG GUTFELD: We don't need more information. We don't need it. What is interesting here is why it's only this happening on the left and not the right?JESSICA TARLOV: What about Melissa Hortman?
GREG GUTFELD: Do you want to talk about Melissa Hortman? Did you know her name before it happened? None of us did. None of us were spending every single day talking about Melissa Hortman. I never heard of her—
JESSICA TARLOV: So she doesn't matter?
GREG GUTFELD: Don't play that bullshit with me. You know there was no what I'm saying is there was no demonization amplification about that woman before she died; it was a specific crime against her by somebody who knew her. Bring up Josh Shapiro, but you will not bring up, for example, that was a pro-Palestine person. Don't use your "what about this" angle. 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 sh-t is dead to us. There is no cognitive dissonance on our side too. On your side, your beliefs do not match reality, so you're coming up with these rationalizations: "What about this," or "what about that?"
We are 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 are not defensive. I understand the defensiveness. I understand why people are saying "what about this" and "what about that." If you have to face the underlying fact of this, your life is going to fall apart because you're going to realize you're not the good guys. If you sat around and defended the mutilation of children, you're not the good guys. If you set 600, 700 cases of harassment against Republicans and you said "but what about this" and you see this murder after calling somebody a fascist, you realize maybe I'm not the good guy. That is a hell of a realization to deal with. Therefore, you have to grasp at rationalizations. You don't have to do that, Jessica. They do. I don't believe you're part of that group, but why do you have to mimic and echo that to us?
He was a patsy— that guy was a patsy. He was out of the hypnotic spell of a direct-to-consumer nihilism -- the trans cult and you know that. If you can decide biology is false, you can agree that murder is okay. That humanity is expendable. How you cannot see that alone and see that for what the evil it is without having to attach all these other things is beyond me.
JESSICA TARLOV: I want to be clear. I want to let people speak. In no way intended at all to minimize what happened to Charlie. I was horrified by it.
GREG GUTFELD: And the two-sides argument—
JESSICA TARLOV: No, all I was saying is can we have all of the information before you say they did this? That is a broad brush to paint with this.
GREG GUTFELD: "Let's have a conversation." Charlie had a conversation; he got shot. I'm sorry—you weren't here for a week. You came in here and it's cold, and I'm sorry, but this is a story that is immune to news cycles; it's immune to rationalizations. This thing is with us for good too. We all have to deal with that. That means we can't live by the same arguments you might be reading about relativism among the media; we can't deal with those stories. The media is dead to us on this story. They built this thing up. We are dealing with it. We are going to act. We don't care what the "what about" is anymore, that sh-t.