This is as cringe-worthy a story as one can read or write. There is very little newsworthiness to the tale, but there is a great deal of symbolism which might reveal a bit about the conservative mind and its need to mock others, to “own” them. It might also say something about how much the Right-Wing media has come to mimic Trump. There is a ton of sarcastic, downright mean, “humor” and “analysis” done on Fox News, and this might represent something a bit deeper and darker. Per Rawstory:

An extended joke by Fox News personality Kat Timpf ended awkwardly on the Greg Gutfeld show on Saturday night when the host pointed out that she had been making jokes about late-night host Jimmy Kimmel taking care of his child who has a heart condition.

In a video posted to Twitter by Laura Jolly, wife of former GOP lawmaker Dave Jolly, Timpf went off on what she thought was a humorous rant about Kimmel using his child as an excuse to get out doing his show.

We don’t know much about Kat Timpf because none of us are able to maintain our health watching Fox News for anything more than a few minutes at a time. We do know that she’s a young attractive blonde conservative woman, make of that what you will.

No beating around the bush here:

“It’s a lot harder to hold down a cat than a kid,” she exclaimed as some of her co-panelists started shaking their heads. “Babies don’t have claws and if they do, you should see a priest.”

At that point, a grimacing Gutfeld informed her, “Kat, I just want to remind you that Jimmy Kimmel has a son with a serious heart condition,” which caused her to sit up straight.

“Oh, I didn’t know that,” she admitted, later adding a subdued, “Sorry.”

We all get one or two mulligans in life. No one should judge Kat on this one incident, there may be many more, there may not, we don’t know. But Fox can be an awfully mean place for a party and ideology that used to see itself as “family-friendly,” “good people,” who are “patriots,” and just want the right thing. Increasingly, it seems that the Trump-Right is mimicking Trump’s approach to life, and it is ugly when you see it.

We can dearly hope that Trump’s latest poll numbers reflect that Trump and his entire “tough, mean, bullying” character is on the way out, too, including among the talking heads on the right.

This just happened on @foxnews. pic.twitter.com/jlW8yZpEC3

— Laura Jolly (@laurajollyfl) June 21, 2020

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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