Greg Gutfeld: Late-night hosts are ‘sad sack’ climate-change hypocrites
22.07.2023 - 15:21
/ nypost.com
As the host of “GUTFELD!” on Fox News, Greg Gutfeld keeps viewers laughing with his nightly monologues and sharp takes on current events. He’s clearly doing something right; averaging about 2.5. million viewers, the show is currently the most-watched late-night show in the United States.
In an excerpt from his new book, “The King of Late Night,” out Tuesday, he takes on the smug activism of other late-night TV hosts. I get asked this question a lot from college kids. Aside from what hotel I’m staying at, they ask: How do I respond to people who outnumber me on campus and trash me for my beliefs?My answer: Just say “Do you ever wonder why I’d choose the harder path? Why would I make it hard on myself? I mean, I could just do what you are doing.
So aren’t you curious as to why I would make myself less popular rather than more?” It’s a question I posed to my evaporating competition. Do you ever wonder why we aren’t doing you? The answer isn’t as important as them hearing that question …True. People in my industry don’t like me.
We don’t repeat the accepted platitudes. Before, you gotta understand, I was just harmless. They could pat me on the head and say “He just doesn’t know any better.” But when the winning begins, suddenly they don’t want you around anymore.
They’ll marginalize your ideas. They’ll say that you used to be funny, but not anymore. They don’t want to face you.
Maybe because I knew then better than they did. They don’t want to have to fight for their beliefs. Perhaps because they’re less confident in them as the tide changes.
So, we must all agree. Or the cocktail party sucks. What a chickens–t way to go through life, especially in this industry. Yet, do you know who the real heroes are? The selfless group
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