Fox Host Praises Teacher Charged With Statutory Rape

Media Matters has the transcript:

GREG GUTFELD (HOST): OK, this 38-year-old math teacher in California, was once named teacher of the year (and I support that), was arrested and booked into jail for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old male student. She posted bail but this is what bothers me.

KATHERINE TIMPF: The fact that she had sex with a student?

GUTFELD: No, that she went to jail for it! I’m sorry! Come on! 16 years old — I would have died for that!

TIMPF: Again, I am vehemently against banging kids.

GUTFELD: Can we live in the real world?

TIMPF: I can’t believe how many times I’ve had to say that just sitting in this chair.

GUTFELD: Let’s live in the real world, Kat.

TIMPF: I’ve never had to say it any other time.

GREG: A 16-year-old boy! 16-year-old boy with like a hot teacher. You’re, I mean — what was the Van Halen song? Hot for teacher? That was written about this! It wasn’t about, hey, let’s have a responsible relationship with someone close to my age. Peter, you’re a professor. You deal with, you’ve dealt with topics in a way like this. Am I right to say it’s an unfair comparison to do the female-to-male teacher? Like a male teacher, 38-year-old, creepy. Female, heroic.

The teacher is charged with statutory rape.