Fox News Host Gutfeld Rips 'Crybaby-in-Chief' Obama for Rebuke of Network

Lately the Fox News Channel’s overnight program “Red Eye” has offered a plethora of media criticism – much of it dead-spot on. Last week during this his “Gregalogue” segment [1], host Greg Gutfeld took on the so-called “Rally to Restore Sanity” offered up by Comedy Central hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

On the Sept. 29 broadcast of his show “Red Eye,” Gutfeld responded to President Barack Obama’s comments about Fox News he made during a recent interview.

“So President Obama was just interviewed in Rolling Stone magazine -- that thinning pamphlet for our country's dwindling supply of pony-tailed pensioners,” Gutfeld said. “When asked about Fox News, this is what our Commander-in-chief had to say.”

Gutfeld read a portion of that interview, in which Obama played media critic and attacked FNC that appeared in the Oct. 15 issue of Rolling Stone [2]:

I think Fox ... is part of the tradition that has a very clear, undeniable point of view. It's a point of view that I disagree with. It's a point of view that I think is ultimately destructive for the long-term growth of a country that has a vibrant middle class and is competitive in the world. But as an economic enterprise, it's been wildly successful.

But the “Red Eye” host reminded Obama he has the deck stacked in his favor, yet time and time again, he and members of his administration go after the Fox News Channel [3].

“OK let me get this straight -- you're the President of the United States, with both Houses [of Congress] under your control. You also have the most fawning press of any president in the history of the universe and yet you let FNC get under your skin, because it's the only network that doesn't have a thrill up its leg?” he continued. “Obama’s like a sports team who owns the ref, the fans and the field, but refuses to play until the kid in the tenth row stops chewing gum.”

And as Gutfeld explained, it wasn’t Fox News Channel that produced the biggest thorn in the side of this administration, the Tea Party movement. Instead, it was Chicago CME Group floor reporter Rick Santelli, who works for a competitor of Fox News.

“So let's indulge his fantasy and imagine if Fox News didn't exist – the good old days, when the only media was a liberal one,” Gutfeld said. “Well, Obama would still be in trouble. See, it wasn't Fox who started the tea parties. It was CNBC’s Rick Santelli – and then America went crazy with it.”

And what would happen if there were no Fox News? This White House, which seems to want to take a page out of the Saul Alinsky playbook [4] and give its political opponents labels, would have to go after someone or something else. Gutfeld suggested it would be the American people.

“In fact, it would be far worse for Obama if there was no Fox News, because then he'd only have the American people to get mad at,” Gutfeld said. “There is no Republican adversary right now, and without Fox News – who's left? You. And this is why the Crybaby-in-Chief needs us. It provides cover, so Obama can criticize Americans without ever saying ‘those Americans.’ He can just say Fox News instead. And I don't mind. We're happy to help. And if you disagree with me, you're a racist, homophobic, taurophobe.”