Fox News host Greg Gutfeld made it clear that he wasn’t a big fan of the decision to feature a flagrantly biased anchor from Univision as one of the moderators at the second Republican presidential primary debate.
While many panned moderators Dana Perrino and Stuart Varney at the event held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, and sponsored by Fox Business, the inclusion of Ilia Calderón who might as well have been sent by the DNC drew the most criticism, and Gutfeld gave her a resounding two-thumbs down.
On Thursday’s edition of the top-rated show “The Five,” the crew broke down the previous night’s action with Gutfeld likening the network’s partnering with the Univision personality to the catastrophic hookup between Bud Light and transgender TikToker Dylan Mulvany that may have done irreparable damage to the brand of what was once one of America’s most popular beers.
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“My problem with the debate wasn’t really the candidates at all, because the outcomes you get are created by the design. And Fox joining Univision, perhaps, was the worst partnership I’ve ever seen since Bud Light hired Dylan Mulvaney,” he told Perino
“I mean, you have a host unload a litany of liberal clichés, whose premise is, we challenge successfully every day, and yet they were treated as approved truths,” Gutfeld continues. “She had no follow-up to each one, which is weird, so it was like a deliberate list prepared by the DNC to tweak the candidates, to tweak the audience. It didn’t feel like a journalism debate to me, it felt like ‘The View’ without pastries.”
Some of the lowlights that he may have been referring to may have been when Calderón regurgitated the big lie spewed by Vice President Kamala Harris about the new Florida history curriculum teaching that slavery was beneficial for some black people.
Outrageously biased question from Univision’s Ilia Calderon to DeSantis: “Florida’s new black history curriculum says ‘slaves developed skill which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit’. You have said slaves developed skills in spite of slavery, not… pic.twitter.com/P2Tqe2ix7F
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 28, 2023
It was a flaming, triple-decker whopper of a hoax, but the Univision anchor served it up anyway only to have it flung back in her face by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
.@RonDeSantis on the lie perpetuated on the left and right that FL says slavery was beneficial: “First of all, that’s a hoax that was perpetrated by Kamala Harris. We’re not going to be doing that. Second of all, that was written by descendants of slaves. These are great black… pic.twitter.com/Z3MAGOeFlD
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 28, 2023
“By the way, this isn’t on Fox, so don’t accuse me of shooting in the tent. Hosts had their autonomy over their questions. This is on the RNC, who felt they had to have Fox partner with Univision as if it would be value-added when it was value-subtracted. Perhaps give Univision their own debate, right, instead of loading questions with like these not-so-subtle accusations,” Gutfeld added.
“I was waiting for her to ask a candidate, ‘When was the last time you beat your kids?’ It was so silly. I would re-examine the structure of the debates — less questions against a ton of candidates,” he said, suggesting alternative forms for future debates, using the “success of podcasting” as an example.
“This debate felt like 2015. It’s 2023. Maybe it’s time to reexamine this,” Gutfeld concluded.
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