Fox News Host: Ferguson Protests Stoked By ‘Roving Band Of Minstrels’

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld discusses the Ferguson protest movement during an episode of "The Five" aired March 12, 2015.
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Fox News host Greg Gutfeld said on Thursday that the Black Lives Matter protests in Ferguson, Missouri, have been fueled by what he described as a “roving band of minstrels.”

Gutfeld made the remarks on the Fox show “The Five” during a discussion of the shooting of two police officers during a protest in the racially troubled city.

“We’re all being preyed on by infiltrators — basically a roving band of minstrels, these radicals that move from protest to protest,” Gutfeld said.

“They were there at Occupy Wall Street; they show up at everything,” he said. “And what they do is they see a protest against Ferguson as a conduit for revolution. You heard the phrase ‘revolution.’ That’s what this is about.”

“This is something that is enduring,” he said. “It had started in the late 1960s, in the 1970s, and it morphs, it gets more and more radicalized as it festers like a disease.”

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  1. “Minstrels”? I think this asshole must be tripping. Can he be that clueless to use “minstrels”? I hope the Internet burns this motherfucker at the stake.

  2. Guess he doesn’t know what a minstrel is? The Missouri State PD should have no trouble finding minstrels. Look at any Renaissance Faire

  3. Greensleeves, farewell, adieu
    To God I pray to prosper thee
    For I am still thy lover true
    Shake that thing one more time and love me.

    Oh, oh, oh, very nice ditty there, Henry. Well, we’ve also heard from Friar Tuck, Alan A’Day, and Will Scarlett, so now it’s time now to call upon our guest for yet another rendition of his famous solo, Green Grows My Bank Account, All Praise to Rog, Trallee. Greg?

    • Thanks, Robin, but I know I speak for all of us here when I say that, what we all want now, what we really need, is for someone to lead this band of minstrels in a rousing violence-inspiring version of that immortal ballad, Ahm Gonna Shoot Some Cops Got Twenny Mags On My Person Maffops.
  4. Does he mean a company of racist white guys in black face performing a demeaning mockery of the black experience?

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