but we often try to channel our subject's essential hypocrisy, avarice, slavish abasement, profound stupidity, craven desire for attention, etc., for the purpose of satire.

So Kilmeade didn't actually say those words . . .

Kilmeade is saying: ". . . so I'm going to speak directly to you, James Comey: Not only does it take a lot of gall to say that President Trump is like a mob boss . . . (simply outrageous!), . . . it also takes a lot of very stupid guts, because with just one phone call . . . or sometimes even with a nod . . . . Well, . . . let's just say, we here at Fox have only your best interests at heart."

The idea of a love child is crazy talk. Everyone knows the president doesn't love any of his children.

"And if he had a kid, I hope he put him to work. I mean, small children can more easily crawl down sewage systems and elevator shafts. That's what the best and brightest would tell him."