Fox Information host Greg Gutfeld isn’t bothered {that a} 38-year-old instructor allegedly had intercourse with a 16-year-old pupil—he’s simply upset that she may go to jail for it.
“I’m sorry, come on! 16 years outdated? I might have died for that,” Gutfeld stated throughout Monday’s version of Gutfeld!
Katherine Timpf, one among Gutfeld’s co-hosts, disagreed.
“Once more, I’m vehemently in opposition to banging children,” Tumpf stated. “I can’t consider what number of occasions I’ve needed to say that simply sitting on this chair.”
Tracy Vanderhulst, a math instructor at Yucaipa Excessive College in California who was named the varsity’s “instructor of the yr” in 2017, was arrested and charged with statutory rape on Thursday after police stated she slept with a 16-year-old pupil.
Authorities consider “there could also be further victims,” in accordance with a information launch.
However Gutfeld wasn’t eager about the victims whereas taping his eponymous Fox Information present Monday. He was eager about a Van Halen track.
“A 16-year-old boy with a sizzling instructor,” he stated. “I imply, what was the Van Halen Tune? ‘Scorching For Trainer,’ that was written about this. It wasn’t about, hey, let’s have a accountable relationship with somebody near my age.”
He went on to laud the instructor even additional as a “hero”—however solely due to the gender dynamics at play.
“Am I proper to say that it’s an unfair comparability to do the feminine to male instructor? Like a male instructor, 38-year-old—creepy. Feminine—heroic,” Gutfeld stated.
“You’re disgusting,” Timpf shot again.
Vanderhulst’s bail was set at $30,000—although it’s unclear if she continues to be in custody.
“I don’t condone it, I simply envy it,” Gutfeld completed by saying. “I’m not saying it’s proper, I’m simply saying, ‘Why not me?’”
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