Gutfeld! Monologues - Generational Cowards

Episode Date: February 18, 2026

As seen on Gutfeld!, Ted Levine apologizes for playing "Buffalo Bill" in "The Silence Of The Lambs" for it's portrayal of trans people. Greg says Ted Levine joins a long list of cowardly celebrities who apologized to appease the mob without making any sacrifices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Well played. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper is leaving 60 minutes. It's rumored that Don Lemon is trying to fill his opening. And he wants his job, too. But it seems CBS is hoping to replace Anderson with someone who's more lively. Boy, during her church. trip to Munich, AOC was asked how the U.S. should respond to a Taiwan invasion, and she could barely answer the question. In fact, she froze so badly. Mitch McConnell asked if she was okay.

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This is Ainsley Earhart. Thank you for joining me for the 52 episode podcast series, The Life of Jesus. A listening experience that will provide hope, comfort, and understanding of the greatest story ever told. Listen and follow now at Fox News Podcasts.com. you listen to podcasts. All right. So this week is the 35th anniversary of the only horror film ever to win the

Oscar for Best Picture. No, not Thelma and Louise. Although that scary flick did show what happens when you let women drive. No, I'm talking about Silence of the Lambs. And now one of the stars apologized for the role that made him famous. Ted Levine played cross-dressing serial killer Buffalo Bill, who murdered women so he could wear their skin. I mean, even though it's cheaper just to buy it from Al Roker. Levine denounced the role saying, quote, I'm a lot wiser about trans issues. There are some lines in that script and movie that are unfortunate. It's just over time and having gotten aware and worked with trans folks and understanding a bit more about the culture and the meaning of gender. It's

unfortunate that the film vilified that and it's effing wrong. So the actor apologized. for his character making trans people seem nuts when he really should have said that the movie made serial killers look like a bunch of weirdos. One of the producers also crapped on the film saying, we weren't sensitive enough to the stereotypes and their ability to harm. Yeah, because the fictional character of a serial killer

reflects badly on people who share the same traits as a fictional serial killer. So I guess Christian Bale owes an apology for making investment bankers look bad in American Psycho. Robert England for making janitors look bad in Nightmare on Elm Street and Sharon Stone and basic instinct

for making sluts look crazy? That is a terrible stigma. To this day. But remember, Ted Levine is just an actor. He didn't write Silence of the Lamps. He just spit out the words. So who the hell is he to disown it? It's like a woke undergrad

apologizing for singing Brown Shire. at karaoke, you know, when they meant to say sugar of color. But now you apologize, Ted. Great. Why not return all the money you made from that career boost? Or the fame and the appearance fees for showing up at Comic Con. Give back the sex with all the women not hot enough to get Anthony Hopkins. Fat chance.

He's like Billy Elish talking about stolen land. Neither are going to give up their house. But we've seen this before. Sarah Silverman apologized for jokes told earlier in her career. Hank Azaria for voicing Apu on The Simpsons. Jack Black and Gwyneth Paltrow did the same over the movie's Shallow How. They're all generational cowards, throwing the past under the bus to appease today's no-talent whiners.

Thank goodness Mickey Rooney isn't alive to apologize for breakfast at Tiffany's. The man was a genius. Bet you didn't know that was him. And how lame are they to think that today's standards are superior to those of the past? Why is it? Because today a man can pretend he's the opposite sex and get a trophy in women's swimming? But if you truly believe current standards rule, then how long before those are outdated too? In 2046, some kid with a neurolink chip in his head might look at you and say,

how the hell could your generation not define what a woman is? and you'll say, don't ask me, I voted for Trump. But while Ted's apologizing for a fictional trans killer, in the real world, we got real ones. Two deadly shootings in two weeks. But instead of abandoning this mania, the elites keep polishing the delusion. Rachel Levine will be the keynote speaker

at the American College Health Association. And to speak on what exactly? How to make your balls pass for a cameltoe? Fool me once. I don't think anybody's going to be saying that on outnumbered tomorrow. In Munich, Hillary moderated a panel on women's rights, where she featured Sarah McBride, a dude who identifies as a woman. And that's taking the spot from an actual woman.

But maybe they want men in charge of women. After all, you put women in charge of women. What do you get? Female Ghostbusters. Listen ad-free with a Fox News podcast plus subscription on Apple Podcasts. And Amazon Prime members can listen to this show, ad-free on the Amazon Music app.