“I think, uh, I mean the Senate race in Pennsylvania is gonna be close. I’d say it’s neck and something that looks like a neck,” failed comedian and something that looks like a human being Greg Gutfeld projects, before trying to shove this pre-written–Gutfeld reads it off the tablet he’s holding–into the conversation because he finally came up with a joke six years after Obama left office and he just had to bring the, um, “hilarity” (?) of it. “But I do think Joe and Obama, together, it’s a perfect pair. They’re the yin and yang. Joe’s poll number have [glances at pad to make sure he gets the set-up right] gone to the dogs. Obama eats dogs. [Adolescent Jesse Watters giggles.]. Call back 12 years. I had to do that. … He ate dogs. He ate dogs. We can’t forget that. I’m never gonna let America forget that.”
Funny how Gutfeld doesn’t mention that New Jersey Republican Senate candidate for Pennsylvania Mehmet Oz killed hundreds of dogs, but IOKIYAR, right? Gutfeld’s xenophobia and bigotry are right on brand for Fox. He personifies the soft bigotry of low expectations: No one expects conservatives to be funny, so when Gutfeld bombs like this on national television, it’s expected. The unusual thing would be if he had an actual original joke instead of re-hashed racism.