Althouse: "And I’m never going to call somebody fat because they’re fat. I’m going to call you fat if you called me Hitler."

November 9, 2025

"And I’m never going to call somebody fat because they’re fat. I’m going to call you fat if you called me Hitler."

"And the best part about that is it hurts them. It hurts them more than if they were to call me Hitler because they have to look in the mirror every day. I know I’m not Hitler. They know they’re fat."

Said Greg Gutfeld, in "The Interview/Fox News Wanted Greg Gutfeld to Do This Interview. He Wasn’t So Sure" (NYT).

57 comments:

rhhardin said...: As far as the paywall lets me read it, it's one of those clickbait articles that never gets to a point. It starts with a diversion and continues with diversions.; 11/9/25, 4:27 AM
Ann Althouse said...: It's an interview.; 11/9/25, 4:50 AM
john mosby said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/9/25, 5:13 AM
john mosby said...: Fitlers are fat Hitlers. They salute you with their pudgy chocolate-stained hands. CC, JSM; 11/9/25, 5:14 AM
Humperdink said...: Lady at a party to Winston Churchill: “Winston you’re drunk”.

Churchill responds: “I may be drunk, but you’re fat. Tomorrow I’ll be sober but you’ll still be fat”.; 11/9/25, 5:19 AM
Tina Trent said...: It's called funny.

Against people who call you a Nazi.; 11/9/25, 5:23 AM
tim maguire said...: Seems reasonable. Why should you have to follow basic social niceties (don’t call a fat person fat—it’s needlessly hurtful; they know they’re fat) if they’re obnoxious and rude to you?; 11/9/25, 5:32 AM
rhhardin said...: Different browser, different experience; 11/9/25, 5:50 AM
rehajm said...: They call you Hitler because they want you to cease to be. After that happens all social niceties are right out.; 11/9/25, 5:50 AM
planetgeo said...: Personally, I don't care if they call me Hitler. I also don't care, and don't say, if they're fat. Life is good when you think like that.; 11/9/25, 5:55 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: It’s not just himself, it describes his own character trait that overlaps and, he says, explains why Trump’s approach to politics is healthy. The other side says out loud they hate Trump and want Trump dead. He responds saying that his critics are fat and low IQ. Arguably, wishing death does indeed fit a pattern consistent with a political ideology that also includes several individuals who have already plotted and tried to remove Trump via violence and other treasonous acts. Trump has followed the law, even crazy lower court decisions, and so far as we know broken no laws nor wished death on his enemies.; 11/9/25, 6:37 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Well we’re not discussing normal people. Trump leads a party and a country while Gutfeld is an entertainer analyzing political folly on TV. Obviously we normal people don’t act like that.; 11/9/25, 6:40 AM
Rocco said...: “Fitlers are fat Hitlers.”

I thought Fitlers were those who looked down on people who don’t have a perfect gym body like they have.; 11/9/25, 7:21 AM
Rocco said...: rhhardin said...
“As far as the paywall lets me read it, it's one of those clickbait articles that never gets to a point. It starts with a diversion and continues with diversions.”

So in other words, a typical NYT article.; 11/9/25, 7:23 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Kinda like trying to rationalize with a Trump tribesman.

Joe; I’m fully supportive of ICE being immune from normal law and having the ability to detain and deport at will.

Bob; Do you not see some Gestapo parallels and where that could lead us.

Joe; You know Bob, you’re ugly and nobody likes you.; 11/9/25, 7:53 AM
Howard said...: Never seen Gutfield's shows. Sounds like a bright guy with a winning schtick. The interviewer goes a bit Jane Goodall explaining a primitive species behavior to the audience whom thinks that they're deep and thoughtful.; 11/9/25, 7:55 AM
n.n said...: I am not Hitler with a liberal arts degree, environmental obsession, empathetic to workers' causes, sympathetic to Diversity (i.e. class-disordered ideologies), entertain abortive ideation, and share Dreams of Herr Mengele with queer inclusion.; 11/9/25, 8:02 AM
Jamie said...: They call you Hitler because they want you to cease to be.

Just to clarify, because English allows the above sentence to mean "They call you Hitler because they want you to cease to be Hitler": no, they call you Hitler because they want you to cease to exist.

And Ronald continues to describe the world he wants to see rather than the world that exists, in which ICE agents detain and deport people at will, just like the Gestapo, rather than in accordance with long-extant laws - the evocation of Hitler's Germany pretty much reflexive at this point. But despite that, Ronald C. Ward is probably a specimen among men, second only to our very own Howard in stature, well-defined musculature, and smooth, unwrinkled, nearly poreless - yet still manly - skin. 😉; 11/9/25, 8:10 AM
Aggie said...: My wife watches the show occasionally, so I get to hear it as background noise. I don't find Gutfield's humor funny, to me it's over-obvious. But there's little doubt it's original. I think a substantial part of his audience is people working by approximation: The interchanges on his show at least reflect something approaching normal back-and-forth conversation, instead of rote narrative spewing, so 'we'll watch this'.

Good to see leftist media at least starting to recognize that they're the ones missing something.; 11/9/25, 8:11 AM
Jamie said...: Shout out to Howard on this lovely Sunday morning!; 11/9/25, 8:11 AM
Beasts of England said...: ’I’m fully supportive of ICE being immune from normal law and having the ability to detain and deport at will.’

It’s always easy to make your point with a false premise. Now, about that word ‘rationalize’… lol; 11/9/25, 8:51 AM
Paul Zrimsek said...: Churchill responds: “I may be drunk, but you’re fat. Tomorrow I’ll be sober but you’ll still be fat”.

Narrator (Ron Howard): Churchill was not sober the next day.; 11/9/25, 9:14 AM
Peachy said...: Gutfeld does humor.
Kimmel is a self-righteous liar, a scold, and a cry baby when things don't go his elitist way.; 11/9/25, 9:15 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Fair point Beast, but the premise wasn’t meant as literal policy — it was a mirror of Ann’s logic. When someone deflects moral criticism with a personal insult, it’s the same as Joe calling Bob “ugly.” It exposes evasion, not argument.; 11/9/25, 9:16 AM
boatbuilder said...: Yeah, Chuck. When you call me Hitler I don't call you "fat." I say GO FUCK YOURSELF.
Is that better? Or too "evasive?"; 11/9/25, 9:36 AM
Iman said...: Ward the Cleaver… too cleavered… by half?; 11/9/25, 9:42 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: David French must have been watching Gutfield-

“ Sean Davis, the chief executive of The Federalist, for example, attacked Ben Shapiro after Shapiro condemned both Carlson and Fuentes, writing, “Not really sure I’m willing to be lectured on who is allowed to talk to who and why by someone yukking it up with Jake Tapper, one of the most corrupt, hateful, and dishonest left-wing-operatives-masquerading-as-a-journalist in all of media.”

Got that? We can’t condemn good old Tucker for elevating an actual fan of Hitler in front of many millions of people because that will distract from taking on the real enemy, Jake Tapper.”; 11/9/25, 9:48 AM
D.D. Driver said...: I have Fitlers on my roof.; 11/9/25, 9:53 AM
Jonathan Burack said...: I like this, but sadly it's not too useful. Zohran, Tucker, Candace, Bernie, AOC, etc. None of them are fat.; 11/9/25, 9:57 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Jonathan, Trump was the master of finding a workaround — turning serious criticism into personal attacks, punishing the critic, and flipping the conversation in his favor.; 11/9/25, 10:04 AM
mezzrow said...: If you call me Hitler, I will assume you want me dead. All that follows emanates from this starting point.

Self defense takes many forms. Don't make us escalate to your level.; 11/9/25, 10:07 AM
bagoh20 said...: Hitler would be one of my top 5 preferred insults you could call me. Up there with a Martian, a T-Rex, or a MAGAt.; 11/9/25, 10:30 AM
Narr said...: Gutfeld! is better than no pushback at all, and with the right combination of guests can be very funny. I put Gutfeld himself in the upper-midwit range of commenters; he is capable of real insights and nice turns of phrase.; 11/9/25, 10:42 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “Joe; I’m fully supportive of ICE being immune from normal law and having the ability to detain and deport at will.”

Of course, they are immune from leftard enforcement of laws that they don’t apply to themselves and their own LEOs. It’s called the Supremacy Clause. Mayor of Chicago has announced just that - that they are going to try to interfere with enforcement of federal immigration law by enforcing state and local laws against the federal agents performing their official duties.; 11/9/25, 10:50 AM
Lazarus said...: Gutfeld is still funny, but it seems like too many of the punchlines are the same. Joke after joke ends with a photo of Nadler, Pelosi, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton to represent fat, weird, lecherous, and murderous. Fortunately, the guests to their prep work and bring their own comic material to the show.

Gutfeld didn't politicize the late-night talk show. That already happened. He just does it better than the competition.; 11/9/25, 10:57 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Bruce, I once worked with a guy who was the biggest suck-ass I’ve ever met. One day he got irate and said he was tired of being called a suck-up. I just told him, “Well, Joe, if you don’t want to be called a suck-ass, maybe you should quit sucking ass.”

The same logic applies to the MAGA crowd: if your actions align with authoritarian behavior, don’t be surprised when people call it out. Complaining about being called “Hitler” doesn’t erase the reflection — it just exposes the evasion.; 11/9/25, 11:17 AM
narciso said...: Is there anyone clever in the prog ranks no they are ignorant abd evil (all of them) they cant take a little ribbing while the city crumbles into the sea, because of focus on 2nd and 3rd order priorities; 11/9/25, 11:38 AM
narciso said...: Homeless were set ablaze on the subway and the reaction was the kabuki deployment of the guard; 11/9/25, 11:40 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Bruce & Narciso, I’m sensing more and more that we’re just too far gone to rely on normal police protocols and due process.

Well, just call me fat.; 11/9/25, 11:47 AM
Jamie said...: if your actions align with authoritarian behavior

There's the rub.

Somehow it never concerned the Ronald C. Wards when the Obama administration was activating secret police against its political enemies. Or when the Biden administration was - depending on which social media outlet you talk to, and how self-serving you find them to be - either forcing or colluding with social media to forward its unsupported positions and narratives and to demonetize, deplatform, shadow-ban, or outright ban those who expressed countervailing points of view. Those actions, which clearly aligned with authoritarian behavior, received a full-throated defense in most cases - and an echoing silence only in the most egregious (for instance, the unbelievable conspiracy-in-the-open that was the replacement of the elected president with an unaccountable politburo).

But the Trump administration complies with every court order, follows existing laws, and uses precedented channels for all its actions - yet, because the left doesn't like what they're doing and doesn't want those laws enforced or those channels used instead of the bureaucratic side-channels their adherents control, Trump and his team and supporters are being "authoritarian."

At least Ronald C. Ward got the memo that he shouldn't Godwin the conversation - he knows that "authoritarian," semantically null as his side has rendered it, doesn't carry the same baggage as "Hitlerian."; 11/9/25, 11:52 AM
narciso said...: Letting civil order disentegrate because of soros das and st floyd the forced isolations of the lockdowns; 11/9/25, 12:07 PM
narciso said...: Gutfeld first encountered these stupid ideas at berkeley forty years; 11/9/25, 12:10 PM
narciso said...: Nixon was in retrospect too soft the weathermen should have been shot or strung up; 11/9/25, 12:11 PM
Howard said...: The US Government is an authoritarian organization that is tempered by the division of power. Compared to parliamentary system's weak executive, the President has the wheel and the gas pedal while Congress fills the gas tank and the courts work the brakes. We'll be fine.; 11/9/25, 12:35 PM
Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...: Well said Jamie.; 11/9/25, 12:49 PM
n.n said...: Let's not forget the fatscists' gluttonous ideology and morbid mass on the scale.; 11/9/25, 1:03 PM
Paddy O said...: "It's an interview"

This made me laugh out loud. Akin to 'Sir this is a Wendys'; 11/9/25, 1:46 PM
rehajm said...: I thought Frank Oz in Trading Places It’s an opera; 11/9/25, 1:55 PM
narciso said...: He was also the examiner in spies like me; 11/9/25, 2:55 PM
Iman said...: “The US Government is an authoritarian organization that is tempered by the division of power.”

And you people want nothing more than to grow it like ditch weed in the Sun.; 11/9/25, 3:38 PM
john mosby said...: I realized you can watch the interview on YouTube, or listen on your podcast carrier of choice, for free. So I did.

This wanker keeps trying to psychoanalyze Gutfeld. "Do you think your experiences of rejection and a need to preemptively reject people affect what you're doing now?"

Pretty sure he hasn't done that with a lefty.

Wanker. CC, JSM; 11/9/25, 3:52 PM
narciso said...: Gutfeld was obviously much more clever than the interviewer; 11/9/25, 5:25 PM
Vance said...: It's a puzzle to me the leftist conceit that if Trump deports illegal aliens the next step is sending Americans to Treblinka. How does one get there? Yet that is what Inga, Ronald, and the rest apparently sincerely believe: that enforcing our immigration laws is step one and step two is rounding up all the Democrats and sending them to be executed.

I mean, how does "Deport illegal aliens" equal "Death chambers for Democrats?"; 11/9/25, 7:17 PM
Mason G said...: "Yet that is what Inga, Ronald, and the rest apparently sincerely believe:"

Because that is what they'd do if they were in charge.; 11/9/25, 7:38 PM
Rusty said...: Howard said...
"The US Government is an authoritarian organization that is tempered by the division of power. Compared to parliamentary system's weak executive, the President has the wheel and the gas pedal while Congress fills the gas tank and the courts work the brakes. We'll be fine."

Hence the Bill of Rights. I know that you encourage laws that would make right number two null and void, but at this point the idea is moot.; 11/9/25, 9:16 PM
Jeff said...: I saved Times article at the Wayback Machine. I couldn't get WordPress toilet me put an href hyperlink in this comment, so just copy this

https://web.archive.org/web/20251110062746/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/magazine/greg-gutfeld-interview.html

into the address box on your browser to bypass the paywall; 11/10/25, 1:24 AM
Deep State Reformer said...: Gutfeld is channeling the evil spirit of the late Saul Alinsky who recommended personal attacks like name calling, or this case fat shaming, because they hurt more. Alinsky dedicated to his book to Satan too. (GIFY) A real bastard that guy was but like Machiavelli he was spot-on correct too in many cases.; 11/10/25, 10:31 AM