That Greg Gutfeld character is a tremendous douchebag. He was supposed to be Fox News answer to the Daily Show. Unfortunately for them he's not funny. That's why his show is on in the middle of the f*cking night in a Carson Daly stylee...
Couldn't make it through the whole clip. They remind me of this apartment full of stoners that I know who have all worked at the same pizza place for 2 years and are constantly holding grudges against each other for constantly trying to rip each other off for 5 and 10 dollars.
OK, so that is a comedy show? And they are making fun of the General Leslie's name? Laughing about dead soldiers?
Just goes to show that when Saba laughs about people dying and republicans vote against veterans benefits, they are in the mainstream of right wing political thought.
Fox host apologizes for mocking of Canadian Forces Last Updated: Monday, March 23, 2009 | 2:53 PM ET Comments 651 CBC News The host of an over-the-top, late-night Fox network show has apologized for any disrespect he may have caused to the Canadian military with a recent segment on his intentionally inflammatory program.
"The March 17th episode of Red Eye included a segment discussing Canada's plan for a 'synchronized break,' which was in no way an attempt to make light of troop efforts," host Greg Gutfeld said in a statement issued Monday.
"However, I realize that my words may have been misunderstood. It was not my intent to disrespect the brave men, women and families of the Canadian military, and for that I apologize.
"Red Eye is a satirical take on the news, in which all topics are addressed in a lighthearted, humorous and ridiculous manner," he added.
Gutfeld, a former Maxim and Stuff magazine editor, hosts the cultural commentary show, which is broadcast on Fox weekdays at 3 a.m. ET.
He moderates a round table of panellists who deliver off-the-cuff musings and crack jokes about a wide range of topics from the worlds of news, entertainment and sports. Commentators have included comedians, Fox News anchors, actors and Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis.
In a five-minute segment broadcast March 17, Gutfeld mocked the Canadian Forces, noting Lt.-Gen. Andrew Leslie's recent comment that the military may need a year to recover after Canada's mission in Afghanistan ends in 2011.
"Meaning, the Canadian military wants to take a breather to do some yoga, paint landscapes, run on the beach in gorgeous white Capri pants," Gutfeld said.
"I didn't even know they were in the war," panellist and comedian Doug Benson added. "I thought that's where you go if you don't want to fight. Go chill in Canada."
The panellists continued by joking about soldiers needing a break for "manicures and pedicures," how Canada should be invaded and poked fun at the RCMP.
Canadian soldiers, who have been fighting in Afghanistan since 2001, have spent the last four years in the country's most violent regions. On Friday, military officials announced that four more Canadian soldiers were killed and eight others were wounded in two separate roadside bomb blasts outside Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan.
Canadians express outrage The Red Eye segment has sparked outrage from a range of Canadians, including thousands of comments on YouTube and Facebook.
"Our soldiers are dying for them and they have the audacity and the ignorance ??? to say something like that, it is insulting. It's the most ignorant thing I've ever heard," Sam Warren told CBC News after watching the segment.
The segment also drew criticism from Conservative author, columnist and commentator David Frum.
"The clip in question is a sequence of goofs about the feebleness, uselessness and absurdity of the Canadian armed forces. Why would I call that dumb? Here's why," Frum says on his New Majority.com blog before listing the Canadian soldiers, aid workers and a diplomat who have been killed in Afghanistan since 2002.
"Sorry I disrespected your show, Red Eye fans, but you disrespected the dead," Frum adds.
Earlier on Monday, Dan Dugas, a spokesman for Defence Minister Peter MacKay, had called for Fox to apologize for the derogatory Red Eye comments, describing the remarks made last week "despicable, hurtful and ignorant."
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That Greg Gutfeld character is a tremendous douchebag. He was supposed to be Fox News answer to the Daily Show. Unfortunately for them he's not funny. That's why his show is on in the middle of the f*cking night in a Carson Daly stylee...
OK, so that is a comedy show?
And they are making fun of the General Leslie's name?
Laughing about dead soldiers?
Just goes to show that when Saba laughs about people dying and republicans vote against veterans benefits, they are in the mainstream of right wing political thought.
But you don't understand: they're not American soldiers. They don't count.
Apparently the "Coalition of the Willing" is comprised of two members: 1) our balls and 2) our word.
Last Updated: Monday, March 23, 2009 | 2:53 PM ET Comments 651
CBC News
The host of an over-the-top, late-night Fox network show has apologized for any disrespect he may have caused to the Canadian military with a recent segment on his intentionally inflammatory program.
"The March 17th episode of Red Eye included a segment discussing Canada's plan for a 'synchronized break,' which was in no way an attempt to make light of troop efforts," host Greg Gutfeld said in a statement issued Monday.
"However, I realize that my words may have been misunderstood. It was not my intent to disrespect the brave men, women and families of the Canadian military, and for that I apologize.
"Red Eye is a satirical take on the news, in which all topics are addressed in a lighthearted, humorous and ridiculous manner," he added.
Gutfeld, a former Maxim and Stuff magazine editor, hosts the cultural commentary show, which is broadcast on Fox weekdays at 3 a.m. ET.
He moderates a round table of panellists who deliver off-the-cuff musings and crack jokes about a wide range of topics from the worlds of news, entertainment and sports. Commentators have included comedians, Fox News anchors, actors and Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis.
In a five-minute segment broadcast March 17, Gutfeld mocked the Canadian Forces, noting Lt.-Gen. Andrew Leslie's recent comment that the military may need a year to recover after Canada's mission in Afghanistan ends in 2011.
"Meaning, the Canadian military wants to take a breather to do some yoga, paint landscapes, run on the beach in gorgeous white Capri pants," Gutfeld said.
"I didn't even know they were in the war," panellist and comedian Doug Benson added. "I thought that's where you go if you don't want to fight. Go chill in Canada."
The panellists continued by joking about soldiers needing a break for "manicures and pedicures," how Canada should be invaded and poked fun at the RCMP.
Canadian soldiers, who have been fighting in Afghanistan since 2001, have spent the last four years in the country's most violent regions. On Friday, military officials announced that four more Canadian soldiers were killed and eight others were wounded in two separate roadside bomb blasts outside Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan.
Canadians express outrage
The Red Eye segment has sparked outrage from a range of Canadians, including thousands of comments on YouTube and Facebook.
"Our soldiers are dying for them and they have the audacity and the ignorance ??? to say something like that, it is insulting. It's the most ignorant thing I've ever heard," Sam Warren told CBC News after watching the segment.
The segment also drew criticism from Conservative author, columnist and commentator David Frum.
"The clip in question is a sequence of goofs about the feebleness, uselessness and absurdity of the Canadian armed forces. Why would I call that dumb? Here's why," Frum says on his New Majority.com blog before listing the Canadian soldiers, aid workers and a diplomat who have been killed in Afghanistan since 2002.
"Sorry I disrespected your show, Red Eye fans, but you disrespected the dead," Frum adds.
Earlier on Monday, Dan Dugas, a spokesman for Defence Minister Peter MacKay, had called for Fox to apologize for the derogatory Red Eye comments, describing the remarks made last week "despicable, hurtful and ignorant."
With files from the Canadian Press
And they don't break them for nobody?
in other news, the sky is blue.
Why is Fox ignorant?
Why is water wet?