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Greg Gutfeld’s blistering takedown on The Five captured what a lot of Americans already know: the left and its media allies will happily weaponize any document or rumor to take a shot at President Trump. Gutfeld’s impatient, straight-talking rebuke of his liberal co-host showed a man fed up with selective outrage and media double standards that have defined the last decade.
On the July broadcast, co-host Jessica Tarlov suggested the Epstein files were being trotted out as political theater, and Gutfeld didn’t hesitate to call out the predictable pattern — the same folks who spent years on Russia now pivot to Epstein as if the rules of fairness suddenly apply. He framed it as the left playing dirty and the media happily following, a point that resonated with viewers tired of narrative-driven journalism.
The larger story is messy and being litigated in public: legal filings seeking to unseal grand jury transcripts and recent reporting — including a Wall Street Journal story that President Trump has vehemently denied and is suing over — have amplified the noise. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s motion to unseal parts of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation has fueled calls for transparency, even as media outlets rush to spin every leak for maximum political damage.
It’s telling that Democrats and progressives have suddenly become the loudest advocates for “release everything” — a demand they ignored when it didn’t suit their narrative. Progressive activists and even some Democratic politicians have been publicly pressuring the administration to put everything on display, while Republicans who call for transparency are labeled obstructionists. This selective crusade smells less like justice and more like a political production.
Gutfeld’s anger is more than theater; it’s a needed response to media hypocrisy. Conservatives have watched mainstream outlets bury, distort, or weaponize stories depending on who’s under the microscope, and now the same crowd pretends to be offended by the very records they once ignored. The American people deserve the truth, but they also deserve a media class that doesn’t use that truth as a cudgel to destroy political enemies.
Here’s the conservative play: demand full, lawful transparency that exposes wrongdoing across the board, not just what helps one partisan faction. If the files clear Trump, release them and move on; if they don’t, let the legal process run its course — but stop letting cable news act like prosecutor, judge, and jury in one nightly tantrum. The GOP should press for openness while calling out the media’s bad-faith theater.
At the end of the day, Greg Gutfeld did what real journalists used to do: he fought back against a dishonest media narrative and reminded viewers that truth is not a partisan toy. Hardworking Americans are tired of being lectured by elites who switch standards depending on the target, and they deserve champions in the press who will call out hypocrisy wherever it appears. The right should keep the pressure on for transparency — and never cede the floor to the smear merchants.
