Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld offered some rare praise for CNN this week, lauding the rival network for its invention of Scott Jennings “porn” on Thursday’s edition of The Five .
After surveying a clip of Jennings interrogating and mocking fellow panelists Toure and Jeff Jarvis for warning of an impending “fascist coup,” Gutfeld offered rave reviews in the form of a vulgar analogy:
I think that CNN has created a new media specialty: Jennings porn. It is like porn. It lasts about three minutes, and you just keep watching it over and over again. And I feel bad for the bookers at CNN because they have to like, they have to look at-, the guests that they feed to this slaughterhouse, to Jennings, they look like a Model U.N., like a collection of high school debaters who have no idea they’re on a TV show. Booker, ‘No, no, Scott Jennings isn’t on, you’re safe. Scott Jennings isn’t on!’ And they see, it’s like, it’s so funny, when you watch Jennings ask Toure or whatever his name is — this goes to your point — his reason behind his banal assertions, his eyes are like, wide as saucers because nobody asks a follow-up question. So Jessica’s right, you got to come armed with specifics because one day someone’s going to ask you for ‘Why do you think that?’ James Cameron , why do you think it’s been terrifying? What makes you feel that way? How is it terrifying? Why are you-, it’s like you’ve got to get beyond these load-bearing phrases of fascism and Hitlerism.
He went on to suggest that CNN’s ratings likely skyrocket during Jennings’s appearances before promptly cratering after they’re finished, as well as to speculate that CNN is probably “having a very hard time finding people to on the show opposite Jennings.”