Last week, there was a brief news cycle about Fox News talking head and self-styled “comedian” Greg Gutfeld appearing as a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon . I’m loath to extend what was a relatively trivial discourse, but one aspect of it needled me, so I touched on it in my Buffering newsletter yesterday. Think what you will of Fallon welcoming a far-right ideologue on to his program — and then not challenging him on even one of his many past contemptible remarks . What actually irks me more is the way in which so many media outlets (even my own) continue to accept the Fox News framing of Gutfeld as a very successful combatant in what’s left of the late-night wars. He absolutely is not.

Don’t misunderstand: There is a late-night vibe to Gutfeld’s self-titled

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