Red Eye Debate Recap: ‘Ron Paul Is Like A Chocolate-Covered Piece Of Fruit’

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by Frances Martel | 4:59 pm, December 17th, 2011

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There was something for everyone in Thursday night’s Fox News Republican debate, from Newt Gingrich‘s “history lessons” to Rick Santorum… existing. The Red Eye panel took a swing at recapping the debate last night, and covered all the bases– from the fashion sense of the “pervy dude at the Kiwanis club who corners you and has had too many beers” to the sweets Greg Gutfeld thinks of when he listens to Rep. Ron Paul.

Gutfeld turned to the panel noting that he didn’t believe the debate “moved the needle anywhere,” which panelist Greg Proops agreed with, but only because he didn’t watch the debate. That said, he declared it a “fashion disaster” of a night, with Santorum being the aforementioned “pervy dude at the Kiwanis club,” Rep. Ron Paul looking “like he was selling used cars,” and Rep. Bachmann getting her fair share of jokes, too. Ultimately, Proops concluded, “I don’t think anybody made points last night,” but Mitt Romney would be a good “daytime game show host.”

The conversation then turned to the most memorable exchange of the night, in which Rep. Bachmann chastised Gingrich for berating her in a disrespectful way, a response panelist Anna Gilligan approved of, noting that “Newt was being very condescending and dismissive of her.” Gutfeld agreed, feeling uncomfortable about saying it, but “I think it was a woman thing.” Panelist Kevin Williamson disagreed: “I thought it was more of a tin-foil-hat, Gardasil vaccine thing.”

Switching from the Gingrich conversation, the panel turned to Rep. Paul, and Gutfeld declared he was “like a chocolate covered piece of fruit: I like chocolate, but I hate fruit.” It wasn’t until the Halftime Report with Andy Levy that he fleshed that out more, making the metaphor somewhat more concrete: “when he talks about bloated government, that’s the chocolate; when he talks about foreign policy, that’s the fruit.”

Levy also weighed in on some of the other absurdity going on in this clip: chiding Proops for not having watched the debate at all and weighing in on the Gingrich sexism debate, arguing that Gingrich was an “equal opportunity condescender.”

The segment via Fox News below:

Andy Levy, Anna Gilligan, debate, fox news, greg gutfeld, John Devore, Jon Huntsman, Kevin Williamson, Michele Bachmann, newt gingrich, red eye, Rick Perry, Ron Paul

http://www.facebook.com/nathandavidwarren Nathan Warren

Fruit’s good for ya. Gotta have fruit.
Anonymous

Iowa is the Hawkeye state not Buckeye state, Greg.

This will be on the final.
Anonymous

man that’s hilarious, their jokes just get better and better. Not.
Anonymous

Paul>Other candidates.
Anonymous

The attack is on from FOX news and others. They’re sending in the clones; Big corporate interest have been notified to discredit Ron Paul. Anti Ron Paul commercials will be coming out shortly.
http://www.facebook.com/lewis.reagan Lewis Reagan

Greg Gutfield is a piece of . . . .
Anonymous

For the Evangelist NeoCon Republicans, this election is about one thing and one thing only… Israel. Evangelicals are as obsessed about their End Times biblical prophecies as the Muslims are about their death for Allah and the virgins.

Unfortunately, these guys (and Bachman) are dancing around the truth, by calling it “foreign policy”. It NOT about foreign policy, it’s about the Bible and their own fears regarding Israel’s link to the Messiah.

It’s too bad that these “devout Christians” won’t muster a backbone amongst the group and tell the truth. They keep hitting Ron Paul hard because his intentions might cancel out all those good deeds these Evangelists have done (in their own minds of course). Devote Christian politicians, like devote “anything” politicians is a joke. The lying, manipulating, cheating, philandering, bribing and abuse of their responsibilities SHOULD send them to the Hell that they fear, but like the Catholics in the God Father, as long as you show up on Sunday, confess, beg forgiveness and fill the collection plate, a little bloodshed Monday thru Saturday is no big deal.

Ron Paul is making legitimate points regarding foreign policy, suggesting we try diplomacy more often, but the religious fanatics in the Neocon pack are as thick as thieves..
Anonymous

Greg knows fruit.
Anonymous

Greater at being a whiny, crazy, racist for sure!
Anonymous

Ron Paul is more like the flavoring they put in kid’s medicine. Most kids are too naiive or stupid to take their medicine, even when it’s good for them. SO they put ‘tutti frutti’ or chocolate in it to make it easier for the lil’ empty heads full of mush to swallow. Dr. Paul’s medicine for America is, indeed a bitter pill, but it’s what we NEED to cure our nation’s ills. SO swallow it.

Or, you can take as much of the sweet-tasting potions all of the GOP and DNC Snake-Oil salesman are pushing! It’ll taste great, cost you more than you can afford, and do worse than nothing- since it only masks the original problems! But at least when the country crashes and the Federal Reserve Defib stops working, America can die with a smile on it’s face, mouthing the words ‘But it tasted so GOOD!’.
Anonymous

During the Y2K hysteria, I did work – as a computer programmer – in our company’s head office in Ohio, along with many other contract workers. One of them, Sherri was from Iowa.

The obvious rhyme Buckeye-Hawkeye came up from time to time.
Anonymous

Greg Gutfeld is a national treasure. NONE in today’s world of boring TV has the wit and brains to even come close to his aplomb and humorous and never-offensive presence.
Anonymous

Did you even watch the clip?

Not only did they make fun of Paul- they attacked Santorum, Bachman, Huntsman, Perry as well as the Fox debate itself. Honestly, I think Santorum got the worst of it.

I wonder why big corporate interests told Fox to do that?

You sound like a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Caroline-M-Corman/1790826629 Caroline M. Corman

……..neo con horse manure.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Caroline-M-Corman/1790826629 Caroline M. Corman

Are you serious? He is juvenile.
Anonymous

Perhaps you can prove RP’s racism? He’s the least nativist, ethnocentric of all the GOP candidates. Maybe a tie with Huntsman. Or perhaps you are just talking out of your ass?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Caroline-M-Corman/1790826629 Caroline M. Corman

No, he does not. You sound like a neo-con who just doesn’t get the fact that people are sick of unlimited wars.
Anonymous

If most Christians behaved a LOT more like Christ, then the US would not be occupying the middle east to secure ‘our’ corporation’s ‘rights’ to someone else’s oil.

If someone likes Ron Paul, except his foreign policy, have them watch this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8NhRPo0WAo&feature=player_embedded
Anonymous

I watched the Youtube clip on Ron Paul and can honestly say he is the only candidate I would ever consider for president of the United States. He 100% right in everything he stands for.
Anonymous

To summarize, you have a funny infotainment show on a news network that makes fun of a number of Republican candidates, including the candidate you support and the logic solution is that big business is paying off the news channel to take down just your guy?

Sorry, but you Paulbots are just as kooky and whiny as the guy you support.
Anonymous

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/angry-white-man

Not buying Ron Paul’s lame excuse that it was someone else that wrote the editorials in Ron Paul’s name.

Either Ron Paul is a racist or he is an incompetent leader who has no business running the country (see Eric Holder running the Justice department for the latest example of liar or incompetent).

If Paul and his people really cared about the cause they would have supported Gary Johnson.
Anonymous

Not good enough…but I will give you credibility for at least attempting to defend the claim.
Gary Kimes

The amazing thing about the comments against Paul is they show the ignorance of the commentator especially relating to the constitution. I liken it to the fact that the very reason we are where we are is because those on the “cool aid” are uninformed because their lives center around entertainment and perceptions rather than a truth that trumps the dialectic correctness.