Fox News host Greg Gutfeld slammed Democrats over their performance in a Tuesday hearing featuring Attorney General William Barr, calling it the worst thing he has ever seen on television.
“First of all, after that — that was the worst thing I have ever seen on TV, and I include ‘Morning Joe,’” Gutfeld said. “After that fiasco, we have to reclaim our time for America.”
Gutfeld was referring to the many times Barr was interrupted by Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee, who often used the phrase “reclaiming my time.”
The Greg Gutfeld Show and The Five host then connected the Democrat interruptions to the violent mobs in Seattle and Portland.
“It creates a one-way street in which you could actually accuse somebody of murder, you could accuse them of treason, and then, you deny them the opportunity to defend themselves. Meanwhile, this is the party of compassion? I saw nothing but fascists. These guys — no wonder they think the mob, the mob in Portland and Seattle, is not a bad thing. The mob is just their street team,” Gutfeld added.
Gutfeld also praised Barr’s composure during the hearing and compared him to a “calm gorilla swatting these stupid flies off his nose.”
“Three police officers permanently blinded, and Bill Barr has to sit there like a calm gorilla swatting these stupid flies off his nose calmly because they’re so stupid.” Gutfeld continued. “I’ve got to ask: How could anybody in America put up with this? If I was sitting where Barr was, I don’t know what I would do. They have to pump me full of Xanax — either that or they would have to put me in a cage, like Silence of the Lambs, have something stuffed in my mouth, and hung upside down because I would lose my mind. I honestly have never seen anything more disgusting on TV. I thought the Kavanaugh hearing was an injustice. This is pretty damn close.”
During the hearing, Barr defended the government’s use of federal officers to protect federal property and tamp down rioting in Portland, arguing that “peaceful protesters do not throw explosives into federal courthouses.”
Democratic committee members took issue with the position that the federal government has responded to riots appropriately, most notably Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, who told Barr that she was “starting to lose” her temper when Barr pushed back against media claims that protesters had been tear gassed in Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., in early June.
