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Greg Gutfeld: Is Cable News To Blame For Republicans Not Being Able To Pick A Candidate?

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Perhaps owing to the fractious and unsteady state of the GOP primaries, it’s been a particularly introspective week on The Five, with the hosts looking at the race and then looking inside themselves. First, Kimberly Guilfoyle revealed that, despite what’s been said on the show, she actually thinks President Obama will win in 2012. Then, Eric Bolling, finally seeming to realize that Rick Perry might not take the candidacy, started switching up gears. Now, as the week ends, Greg Gutfeld wondered aloud if part of the blame in the GOP’s indecisiveness might lie at the feet of cable news itself.

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The segment started with Gutfeld doing one of his joke-filled rants about how Republicans need to be less picky. Things were pretty typical; wistful references to Chris Christie, random insults for the “Chicken Littles” who believe in Climate Change, and Gutfeld accusing the media of going easy on Obama despite the fact that he, at that very moment, was on the number one-rated cable news network and was calling the President “farther left than a yoga mat.” Then, though, Gutfeld posited an intriguing theory:

GUTFELD: Kimberly, I wanted to ask you, are we to blame for some of this?

GUILFOYLE: Yes.

GUTFELD: The cable news revolution means there’s more hours of news to explore a candidate, whereas that never happened with Nixon. It never happened with Reagan.

Guilfoyle agreed, saying that voters are more inclined and able to pick candidates apart. She explained that this was especially true with the “24-hour news cycle.”

Considering the show is now clearly self-aware, it should be no surprise that she then turned to the camera and quickly added “Which I love, by the way.”

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  • Gloves T. Donahue

    It’s a primary. Not a vote has been cast.

  • Henry Wood

    Q: Is stupidity to blame for republiklans being unable to pick a canididate?

    A: Yes.  It’s also a problem that any candidate who is polysyllabic is immediately labeled a “RINO.”

  • Anonymous

    No, Fox News is to blame for the Republicans not being able to pick a reasonable candidate.

  • Anonymous

    Who wrote that title? It should read …

    Greg Gutfeld: Is Cable News To Blame For Republicans n̶o̶t̶ Being Unable To Pick A Candidate?

  • Anonymous

    So Gutfeld’s argument is if the public is able to pick a candidate apart they’ll vote democrat? 

    Doesn’t say much about his view of the public and the republican party 

  • Jane

    Things are going downhill at Mediaite.  

  • Anonymous

    I said this a few days ago, then Newt said it, I think it’s time Republicans are waking up to the damage Fox News has done to their brand,image, and party…

  • Anonymous

    FOX is actually single handily destroying their own candidates.  FOX is the clown car that is running over their own.

  • Michelle

    Um, that’s not a all what he said.  If the corrupt, liberal media had dissected Ozero like they are doing the GOP candidates before he was elected, he NEVER would have even gotten the Dem nomination.  Period, end of story.  They gladly glossed over his many warts. 

    A Dem’s worst nightmare is an informed voter.

  • Anonymous

    I think you mean:

    “Things are not ungoing downhill at Mediaite”

  • Anonymous

    yeah like we want you libpussy losers to pick our candidate. you maggots would want a bisexual, transgendered, anti-war vet with epstein barr syndrome…

  • Moderate

    It makes you want to send a note to the copy editor of the local newspaper thanking him/her for the great job.

  • Henry Wood

    It’s only a matter of time before a family values republican is caught in bed with a “bisexual, transgendered, anti-war vet with epstein barr syndrome.”

  • Anonymous

    STFU!!!

    I like how you have been avoiding Herman Cain articles.

    lol….did Obama flip flop like Romney/Newt? No

    Did Obama have affairs like Cain? No.

    Granted, there was Rev. Wright but that was the only skeleton in Obama’s closet.

  • Anonymous

    did he make you orgasm?

  • Michelle

    I think I touched a nerve.  It’s obvious that you are terrified The One is going to lose.

    btw, I commented on several Cain threads. 

  • Henry Wood

    seems like you know “him” better than I do.

  • Anonymous

    Long live Fox News!

  • Michelle

    Don’t worry, without any competition whatsoever, they’ll be around forever. 

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Dingbat! ABC, CBS and NBC bury FOX “News” every evening. Why must you consistently, persistently lie about this?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    MICHELLE-IN-UTAH ONCE AGAIN HURLED UP:
    “A Dem’s worst nightmare is an informed voter.”

    TO WHICH RRE REPLIES:
    Then the Democrats have no worries over the Teablublicans.     

  • Anonymous

    that’s the best you can do? pfft

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Williams/100000431800956 Mark Williams

    When she says commented she means she tried to change the subject by not addressing the subject of the post. Typical angry conservative tactic that they all do every single day-day n and day out. Nothing new or special about it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    I think the biggest culprit is the decision to have a debate every other night for three months.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Actually, we’re quite content to let the nutcases in the GOP base pick your candidate and destroy your chances for 2012.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GVWU6V6ORHYQ57UOHAEI52XTVU Dennis

    HEADLINE: 
    Greg Gutfeld: Is Cable News To Blame For Republicans Not Being Unable To Pick A Candidate?

    Shouldn’t it be “Republicans not being able to pick a candidate?” or ” Republicans being unable to pick a candidate?”….. hmmm just curious

  • Anonymous

    Okay, for argument’s sake let’s just say that the liberal media gave Obama a pass.

    So where was the right wing media, i.e., FOX reporters? Or the folks at the WSJ? Couldn’t they have ‘exposed’ Obama?

    Conservatives are always crowing how FOX has a large viewership and that most Americans lean to the right, so it’s not like any real and relevant story they reported wouldn’t have gotten traction. They had a minimum of six months to get the ‘goods’ on Obama.

    Of course, FOX doesn’t really have many reporters. They’re mostly pundits with opinions, and the problem with reporting is that you have to back up your news reports with facts.

  • Anonymous

    Michelle?  Michelle?  Dude she’s still out cold.  You hit her hard Bif.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, Faux News is to blame for the current crop of retards running for POTUS on the Republicant ticket.  Thank the Lord.

  • Anonymous

    That depends, do you work for MSNPC?

  • Anonymous

    Dear ‘Obama2012_yea’,

    Make no mistake, PRESIDENT HIP HOP AND THE FIRST HOMEGIRL WILL BE MOVING OUT IN 2012. PRESIDENT GINGRICH WILL BE MOVING IN!

  • Anonymous

    Not capable of hiding your overt racist feelings huh? You’re not able to add anything intelligent to this thread.  Well, bless your little heart you f@#$ing goober.

  • Anonymous

    Let me be the first to call cable news a RINO.

  • Anonymous

    Aaahhh yeah, nothing like reality to get those white guilt feathers ruffled! If I told you I am an Irish, Puerto Rican, Black, homosexual, transsexual would you call me a raaaaayciiiis? Start typing, deranged liberal…

  • Anonymous

    lmao…. racist bagger… CRY B*%&$ CRY!!

  • us995

    the park pooping fleabaggers vote for the demoncrat because thats who signs there welfare checks

  • Anonymous

    Lol, Mittens, who is more conservative than Reagan, just can’t catch a break!

  • Anonymous

    Honestly, economy staying flat,  I thought that it was about a 55% Mitt 45% Obama likelihood of winning 2012 until I watched the first Tea Party dominated presidential primary season begin.  Now it’s gonna take a miracle for you all to get whatever backward “leader not a reader” anti-enlightenment ghoul that wins the approving grunts of the Tea Partiers.   Newt is your big hope?  Just….wow.

  • Anonymous

    CaptainCorndog! ‘bagger’? Like ‘teabagger’? You have a problem with homosexuals? Some men like manballsack in mouth! Why the gay hate, dude? Esplain yoself, yo.

  • Anonymous

    uuuhhh… That already happened, it was Barney Fwank!

  • Anonymous

    Because Obama was the 1st non-white presidential candidate(that could possibly WIN) he was roasted & toasted 24hrs by Fox & Dems(Hilary Nation) which continues today(not as bad as in 2008). That set the bar..Now it is policy for all candidates 24/7 Dem or Rep(ask H.Cain,Trump,Weiner,Bachman,etc….liberal media will “attack” now that Hannity & Fox have demonstrated how….so it is not end of story it’s a ongoing saga! Thanks Fox for the endless Rev.Wright,Tony Resko, Bill Ayers, Birthers, secret muslim,no flagpin,57 states, Clinging to Guns,no experience at all,rockstar, elitist,wife proud for the first time, putting our kids in debt,really,really hates America, making us buy health care we dont need POTUS….etc,etc,wow.    A Dem’s worst nightmare is an uninformed,lazy or absent voter(2010)  

  • Anonymous

    WTF? Silly liberal child, you’ve twisted yourself into a gay pretzel.

  • Anonymous

    Howdy Boof! You’ve made us dizzy with that deranged liberal bullsh it spin. Repeat after me:     P R E S I D E N T   G I N G R I C H !

  • Anonymous

    You like ‘tea’! Would you like a manballsack to go with that?

  • Anonymous

    Mediaite is endearing themselves to sane, normal commentators! This bothers you? Go back over to The Daily Koke, or get psychiatric medication.

  • Anonymous

    Douche! Watch TV BEFORE you take LSD.

  • Rex derWunderGott

    Eggs-actly, G-D man. 

    Some suggest you have to wait until the game actually, you know, starts before you declare it a, you know, stalemate.”I’m thinking of moving king bishop pawn from kbp2 to kbp 4.”"Oh jeez man, that is SOLID! Ahma offerin’ a draw right now/!”"Yo – dang media coverage, I gotsta take it.”"There’s Tiger leaving the practice putting green, off to the first hole teeing area. And … Woods is talking now with the officials; we’re awaiting word on exactly what’s going on … And that’s IT, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages, this year’s US Open is OVER as Tiger has offered a 144 way draw, and media is GLEEFULLY accepting.”"Gennamen, thisheersa eighteen-aught-fiddy-six genyouwhine US minty koan commem’ratin’ th’ foist Gingrich-Obama deebates atween Abrahamian Lincohen and Stevie Ray Duggles. Afore Ah tosses thissheer koan up into th’ air, Captain Truejaw of th’ Oakulhomer Soonamis, whatsyer call gonna be?”"I call it a day; we all’s just gonna git injured and maybe concussions so lets call it a tie and go off to see a midnight special. Deal, Alabammy?”"Longso’s we git to play in a bowl game on New Years.”

  • Rex derWunderGott

    Yeah, the Rrrs are getting screwed cuz of Mediaite’s coverage.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lee-Nielsen/1344975867 Lee Nielsen

    It is surprising on how FOX is treating the Republican candidates.  FOX NEWS donated $1 mil to the republican party. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lee-Nielsen/1344975867 Lee Nielsen

    It is surprising on how FOX is treating the Republican candidates. FOX NEWS donated $1 mil to the republican party.     

  • Anonymous

    It is surprising on how FOX is treating the Republican candidates. FOX NEWS donated $1 mil to the republican party.     

  • Anonymous

    Fox News did not treat Ron Paul the same as the other candidates.  I wonder if he is going to be nominated for president.  He does not have the problems that the other candidates have. 

  • Anonymous

    Dingbat!  The thread is about…..cable news.  Michelle is correct!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mary-Bechthold/1380381077 Mary Bechthold

    Cable news to blame? Maybe. The Republican candidates do a fine job themselves by providing great entertainment. It makes great ratings for cable news.

  • Anonymous

    The Republican  Coliseum is a merciless place, when looking for that ‘broad appealing’ Far Right Candidate who doesn’t exist in this field.

    …Who is going to be left standing after this internal and circular firing squad.

    Who knows, because it sure is entertaining watching the cannibalism…

  • Anonymous

    President Gingrich or not – it doesn’t disprove anything I wrote. And in case you hadn’t noticed, you’re off topic re my reply to Michelle. But you can’t deny the truth, so you don’t even address the facts, just ignore them. Maybe you should apply to FOX for a job.

    And sorry that reality makes you dizzy. Also really glad you’re ‘not angry’. Your peaceful Zen attitude oozes from every word of your post. Absolutely oozes.

  • http://twitter.com/ferous ferous

    I would have preferred, “Is Cable News To Blame For Republicans’ Inability To Pick A Candidate?”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    No…cable news is not to blame.  Get real here folks.  The ones to blame are the idiots in the GOP electorate as that is a huge part of problem for republicans.  The other problem is the human garbage that runs for office as a republican.  If you are running as a republican, that means you have to make every effort to cater to the whims of peope who are basically stupid, red necked, racists and  live in an alternate universe of twisted religeous ideology and twisted political ideologies that never cross pathways with reality.  Lets give credit where credit is due becasue that is the reality of the 21 century GOP and its internal dynamics.

  • Anonymous

    No. They’re all so unpredictable.

  • https://me.yahoo.com/a/7nZpGKwT1fVdlb3YN6DXlA8PViJDMLL2bO_q#5aa2e ganymede

    I just had a realization. At the end of this marathon clown show, the only people left standing may be Jon Huntsman and Ron Paul. Seriously, the Republican Tea Party will not let Romney run, Gingirch’s fantastic baggage will certainly provide entertainment for the next few weeks, but, let’s face it, this clever rightwing ‘intellectual’ has much, too much baggage, and his shooting from the hip doen’t help either. And the wonderful Ron Paul who leftwingers adore if only for his great anti-war and pro-pot stances will not make it because he doesn’t believe in any government – social Darwinism at its worst – bye-bye Social Security, Medicaire and your local Fire Dept. Go Huntsman go…! 

  • http://twitter.com/ZackyBeatz %Zackyatz%Music

    Haha Fox News telling viewers what to think and look for since anno 96

  • Anonymous

    Come back after you learn English.

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