Global Courant 2023-05-24 05:43:32
Fox news
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld doesn’t care that a 38-year-old teacher allegedly had sex with a 16-year-old student.
‘I’m sorry, come on! 16 years old? I would have died for that,” Gutfeld said during Monday’s edition of Gutfeld!
Katherine Timpf, one of Gutfeld’s co-hosts, disagreed.
“Again, I am strongly against beating children,” Tumpf said. “I can’t believe how many times I’ve had to say that while sitting in this chair.”
Tracy Vanderhulst, a math teacher at Yucaipa High School in California who was named the school’s “teacher of the year” in 2017, was arrested Thursday and charged with rape after police said she slept with a 16-year-old student .
Authorities believe “there may be further victims,” according to one press release.
But Gutfeld was not thinking of the victims as he taped his eponymous Fox News show on Monday. He thought of a Van Halen number.
“A 16-year-old boy with a hot teacher,” he said. “I mean, what was the Van Halen song? ‘Hot For Teacher’, that was written about this. It wasn’t about, hey, let’s get into a responsible relationship with someone around my age.”
He then went on to praise the teacher even further as a “hero,” but only because of the gender dynamics at play.
“Am I right in saying that it is an unfair comparison to do a woman’s teacher with a man? As a male teacher, 38 years old – creepy. Woman — heroic,” Gutfeld said.
“You’re disgusting,” Timpf shot back.
Vanderhulst’s bail was set at $30,000, though it’s unclear if she’s still in custody.
“I don’t approve of it, I’m just jealous of it,” Gutfeld said. “I’m not saying it’s right, I’m just saying, ‘Why not me?'”
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