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Greg Gutfeld: Why?

Not long ago, a media reporter asked your day editor if he seriously doesn't like Greg Gutfeld. Because surely it's an act, all this mocking him! We send attention his way, he responds with an amusing attack on our commenters, we trash him again, everyone goes home to cash their tax refund checks and buy some $10 cigarettes. But the truth is, no, I don't really like Greg Gutfeld. He's not funny. And his two-dimensional controversialist routine is tired. Regardless of how much either of them mean what they say, Colbert does a wittier Bill O'Reilly. Gutfeld is a mediocre Morning Zoo Shock Jock. He seemingly used to be funny—some of his HuffPo posts were truly inspired. But his show is terrible and his "noxious gay-baiting even though he's friends with plenty of homos" routine is, once again, done better by Ann Coulter. So when Greg says, as he did to MediaBistro recently, that Gawker only trashes him because he refused to write for us, well...

...maybe that's true. Nick's made dumb hires before. And maybe it's why Nick needled him the other week. (Nick says he just needed an excuse to post the embarrassing story).

But—if Gutfeld's tale is true, it's certainly not something I knew about. I just make fun of Greg because I think he's annoying.

(Full disclosure: I met Greg once, long ago, at a party at Nick's place. And he was kinda funny, in person, in a rude, fratty way. I think New Yorkers just find that schtick so amusing because it's a novelty in the media scene? There can't be many meathead state school grads at the Observer.)

Gutfeld: Nick Denton 'Doesn't Like People Saying No to Him Apparently' [FishbowlNY]

2:51 PM on Wed May 7 2008
By Pareene
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moff at 02:57 PM on 05/07/08
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Yup, Occam's razor, Greg: We make fun of you because you seem like kind of a shithead.
In Other News... at 02:58 PM on 05/07/08
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Pareene - I think even meathead state school grads everywhere would rather you didn't associate him with this bag de douche.
CodePink at 03:01 PM on 05/07/08
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If I were to make fun of Greg, and I don't really want to, but if I WERE to, it would be because he appears to be sort of one chromosome shy of Marky Mark circa 1993. Feel THOSE vibrations, Gregors.
Bell County at 03:01 PM on 05/07/08
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That last dig is unconscionable. State schools rule. Do you want everyone to end up in indenture servitude to pay off ivy student loans?
Hamilton Nolan at 03:02 PM on 05/07/08
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I enjoy his flat-top.
TheHonJudgeSmails at 03:07 PM on 05/07/08
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@Bell County: No, but I, for one, want state school grads indentured to ME.
nottobeconfusedwith at 03:08 PM on 05/07/08
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I thought Jason Horowitz pleged Delta Chi at Florida State?
Bell County at 03:08 PM on 05/07/08
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@Bell County: Probably if I went to Harvard I would have said "indentured servitude".
WackoJacko at 03:08 PM on 05/07/08
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Pareene:

"I met him at a party
and he told me how to drive him home
he said he liked to do it backwards
and I said that's just fine with me
That way we can fuck and watch TV ..."
(maybe Red Eye at 4 AM when the light was gray?)
C'mon, man, spill the deets ...
blogissuchanuglyword at 03:09 PM on 05/07/08
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@Bell County: everyone that went to a state school is obviously not as smart as people who go to smaller, lower ranked, over priced private schools. plus they all like crushing beer cans on their head and can't pronouce hard words correctly.
nottobeconfusedwith at 03:09 PM on 05/07/08
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@nottobeconfusedwith: *with a "d", dumbass.
the cajun boy at 03:11 PM on 05/07/08
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@In Other News...: yeah pareene, as a meathead state school guy myself, i resent being tossed into the spoiled gutfeld gumbo.
DavidWatts at 03:14 PM on 05/07/08
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@Bell County: "Unconscionable"? "Indentured Servitude"? Big words confuse state school grad. Talk like USA Today, puhlease.
the cajun boy at 03:15 PM on 05/07/08
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@the cajun boy: like a piece of andouille sausage.
MENACEIISOBRIETY at 03:15 PM on 05/07/08
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i felt the same way about him, but greg grew on me.
no, not in a gay way.
and SOMEONE has to play second fiddle to Colbert.
fiveinchtaint at 03:16 PM on 05/07/08
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@Bell County: Texas State Technical College-Waco is highly ranked in Waco.
Bell County at 03:19 PM on 05/07/08
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@fiveinchtaint: That is McLennan County, I have no opinion.
BalknChain at 03:20 PM on 05/07/08
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Has his Globo-Gym franchise kicked off yet?
Conbon at 03:23 PM on 05/07/08
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@Bell County: No, I want them to be rich enough to afford the tuition. Is that so much to ask? Christ.
TheHonJudgeSmails at 03:23 PM on 05/07/08
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@MENACEIISOBRIETY: That's Jon Stewart. Greg Gutfeld would be, like 237th fiddle.
witz.org at 03:23 PM on 05/07/08
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@CodePink:

Resembles Marky Mark because the photo above is gotta be circa 1999/2000 when he was at Men's Health.

He looks more like Jerry Mathers these days:

[www.mediabistro.com]
Mediahohoho at 03:25 PM on 05/07/08
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Leaving off the state school obnoxiousness (really, graduating is about...leaving), let's just say that if the rough and tumble of the media world leaves you suck Roger Ailes's rancid cock at 3 am, you've failed. Whatever it is you originally set out to do, you failed.
Mediahohoho at 03:28 PM on 05/07/08
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@Mediahohoho: that would be suckiiinnng. Like when you go to an Ivy or one of those dumb-but-rich schools like Hamilton and you have to pretend the sports you're watching are actually competitive above the high school level.
Colonel Mustard at 03:28 PM on 05/07/08
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I call bullshit. Since when does he know how to write?
Maura Johnston at 03:28 PM on 05/07/08
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(i read the state school comment as more of a slam on the clubbiness of nyc media circles. hi alex!)
DavidWatts at 03:30 PM on 05/07/08
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@Maura Johnston: oh sure, be all rational and shit. Where is the fun in that?
lawyergay at 03:31 PM on 05/07/08
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@witz.org: Wow, that was a real downhill slide.
BlatherU at 03:33 PM on 05/07/08
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So why did Nick Denton try to hire the meathead?
fiveinchtaint at 03:34 PM on 05/07/08
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@Bell County: Central Texas College is highly ranked in central Texas.
Pareene at 03:35 PM on 05/07/08
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hi maura!

i went to the university of minnesota for a year, guys!
Bell County at 03:36 PM on 05/07/08
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@fiveinchtaint: Best two years you'll ever spend!
Mediahohoho at 03:40 PM on 05/07/08
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@Pareene: I wasn't reacting to your comment, per se, as much as the wagon circling that went on in the commenting thread. I mean, Jesus, it was ages ago anyway.
In Other News... at 03:41 PM on 05/07/08
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@DavidWatts:

"Unconscionable" = Unable to fool or drive a Scion.

"Indentured Servitude" = Without dentures, offering up amounts of attitude.
fiveinchtaint at 03:42 PM on 05/07/08
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Ski-U-Mah!
Bell County at 03:49 PM on 05/07/08
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@Pareene: Ok, sorry if I hijacked the thread. I'm sure Greg Gutfield is at least as annoying as Mac computers.
KimGordonsPanties at 04:11 PM on 05/07/08
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State schoolz rule!

[does keg stand]
sady at 04:18 PM on 05/07/08
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The frat-boy schtick is more common than you'd think. In the past month, I've spent time with a Maxim editor, a magazine owner, and a TV producer, all of whom had that meatheaded boobs-and-beer aesthetic.

That said, I wouldn't recommend bringing any of them onto your staff, unless you're looking to run more posts on how to get free blow jobs from strippers.
Cheap Shot at 04:47 PM on 05/07/08
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Any of you know what he pulled to get fired from Men's Health?
lawyergay at 05:05 PM on 05/07/08
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@Cheap Shot: I'm gonna say ate a wheel of brie in front of Dave Zinczenko?
SecureLocation at 05:26 PM on 05/07/08
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"Any of you know what he pulled to get fired from Men's Health?"

He was too wild and unpredictable for the weenies who run the company. They fired him for some bogus reason (a story on political correctness ) but the truth is they were scared of him and much more comfortable with an ass-kissing empty suit like Zinzenko
Nick Denton at 05:47 PM on 05/07/08
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@BlatherU: Because his rants for the Huffington Post were kind of awesome. I didn't try *that* hard. Oh, and not resentful that he turned me down: I merely saw an opportunity to publish that delicious Perrine media key party story that I'd been sitting on for a while.