Offensive comedy news on Fox

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By Skylar Wolfe
A video from "The Greg Gutfeld Show," featured Saturday on the Fox News website, makes jokes about the Malaysian government warning women not to nag their husbands during quarantine.

The host jokingly describes how the government "killed campaign - and its creator."  He then admits that the second part of that sentence was not true.

Of course, the show is intended to parody current events, and thus is not strictly news, the fact that the offensive content appears on the Fox News website should be questioned.

The speakers describe the ways in which they nag their significant others, describing that it is a normal behavior.

Several also laugh about the campaign, describing it has "hilarious," despite its offensive and patriarchal nature.

"You got two jobs buddy, fetch me some food, and take care of me when I'm sick," one speaker says about her husband.

Of course, if the story was being delivered in a strict news format, most of the comments and jokes would be eliminated.  However, most reliable news sources do not accept news in this format, even though it is designed to entertain.

Ultimately, it leaves the listener questioning whether those values are truly held by Fox.

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