‘Gutfeld!’ Crew Spends 13 Minutes Trashing a Single USA Today Column About Transgender Athletes (Video)
thewrap.compublished Sunday in USA Today, spending the entire 13-minute “Gutfeld!” opening segment Tuesday night shredding sports writer Nancy Armour’s 800-word column about transgender athletes.Armour’s piece called the views of ESPN reporter and “Sunday NFL Countdown” host Sam Ponder on transgender women and girls in sports “bigotry.” Ponder had recently publicly sided with Riley Gaines, the former college swimmer leading a campaign against transgender women and girls’ participation in sports at all levels.Gutfeld himself kicked off the kicking, calling Armour “ghastly,” “godawful,” “riding in on her broomstick” and a “hack,” and suggested that USA Today is “the official doormat for American staying at low-priced hotels.”Then things got mean.ICYMI If ESPN’s Sam Ponder was truly concerned about women’s sports, she’s had ample opportunity to call out the inequities that actually do exist.
She hasn’t. This has nothing to do with “fairness” and everything to do with bigotry. https://t.co/EuJLhpXWbN“‘This is and always was about hate, fear and ignorance,'” Gutfeld said, quoting Armour’s piece.
Then he continued, “Well, if you’re talking about our columns, you couldn’t be more right. They suck. This broad accuses Ponder of screeching but she’s not the one leveling unprovable accusations.
It seems to me, oh, Nancy is projecting like a drive-in theater.”While it’s not altogether unusual for “Gutfeld!” to stay on a single topic at the top the show, Tuesday’s takedown was particularly savage, as the entire segment was pointed directly at a single journalist, and never let up from the contents of her one column.Gutfeld also picked on Armour’s suggestion that transgender women are among society’s most vulnerable people.“So, who’s she talking.
