You should be ashamed for ogling Colin Powell's leaked emails, says Fox News' Greg Gutfeld


Fox News host Greg Gutfeld has expressed reservations about WikiLeaks and leaking purloined private correspondence and records generally, but on The Five on Wednesday, he threw ambivalence to the wind. He started by noting the newly leaked emails of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, apparently by Russian hackers, and noted sarcastically, "There's juicy stuff in there, and I'm sure many will dive right in — all in the name, of course, of transparency, right?" The same people gleeful about the Powell dirt are aghast at the leaking of hacked medical records of "our prize U.S. Olympic athletes," Gutfeld said. "What does it say when you embrace one hack because it hurts someone, but not another. Doesn't that make you a hack, too?"
WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange has released some of his own medical records, "as if saying 'Hey, I'm fine exposing my personal life,'" Gutfeld said, noting that releasing your own stuff isn't a leak. "Instead, Julian, why not let your worst enemy have at the privileged info between you and your lawyer about the rape charge? That's brave!" Then Gutfeld took a thinly veiled shot at fellow Fox News personality Sean Hannity for praising Assange now "that leaks hurt the other side," after previously criticizing him. "All bets, and principles, are off. It's selfish, deliberate, moral blindness that comes with team-sport politics." He ended with an elaborate metaphor about being eaten by crocodiles, and you can watch the entire short rant below. Peter Weber
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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.
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