Gutfeld to Colmes: What Does ISIS Have to Do to Get Liberals Outraged?

Greg Gutfeld, filling in for Bill O’Reilly, argued tonight that liberals appear to be downplaying the threat of ISIS, and asked guest Alan Colmes a very simple question: what does ISIS have to do to warrant an outraged response from liberals?

He asked, “Why is it that lefties like you… have a hard time identifying actual existential evil unless it’s a Republican or a stay-at-home mom?” Gutfeld invoked Obama’s “JV” comment about groups like ISIS to suggest the left by and large just doesn’t take the threat of ISIS seriously.

Colmes argued that ISIS simply isn’t a great, direct threat to the United States yet, and so the threat “is being ginned up” so that the U.S. is forced to get into the middle of another conflict. Gutfeld shot back that just because they’re not meeting the “Colmes level of barbarism” doesn’t mean they’re not a threat.

Gutfeld told him that his strategy sounds like “wait ’til it gets really bad, and then do something.” He said it’s a “convenient perspective” to hold for someone not in a position of power, and they went back-and-forth over whether American lives are directly on the line here.

Watch the video below, via Fox News:

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