Fox News Hosts - Who is the worst?

Cable news as pro wrestling boggles my mind with OTMness.

Brian Kilmeade: Best of the Worst.

A queen in his personal life?

"He made you a moron, potential H-bomb."

"A brief holiday in other people's misery"

"unlimited supply"

shep is indeed ole miss. his coverage of the presidential debate there was great. lots of colour commentary.

Ahhhhh . . . I may have to agree about Hannity after all. Also, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is an inarticulate dummy.

the amazing part of the bachmann exchange w/ my man hannity is the phrase "If Tim Geithner is successful under President Obama, and they move us to an international currency..." this is AFTER she aired out this piece of total larouchey paranoia in an open session of congress and had geithner and bernanke politely say, TO HER FACE, no, we are not planning to take the US off the dollar (wtf!@#!@#)

plain facts spoken directly to her don't get through. it's possible for insanity to be self-cultivated i guess.

god bachman is our eternal shame.

sterns county syndrome indeed.

plz can we put Bachmann in an inner tube and send her floating away

then pay a gang of frat guys to drown her in the apple river

plain facts spoken directly to her don't get through. it's possible for insanity to be self-cultivated i guess.

Call it: The Bachmann Effect.

yglesias has the details on the economic stuff they think they're talking about:

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/03/bachmann_and_beck_double_down_on_currency_conspiracy_theory.php

Fox just needs someone from Al Jazeera to come over and be the Iron Sheik

^^ hardcore lols

fox has been running chyrons & quoting emails today asking about the new world order.. <sigh>

also this is random but i just noticed shep says city/state names in the regional accent all the time, like chicawgo & fahrgo north dakohta. cute

I only really get to watch Studio B on Fridays because I have afternoon classes M-TR. Starts in 15 mins!!

Too bad Shep didn't slip into an Andy Kaufman imitation when he read that letter from Memphis.

Bachmann quickly approaching B-1 Bob Dornan levels of quotable lunacy

Oh shit, my clock is still an hour behind!!! I though it was 2:56 now, but it's actually 3:56. Missed out on Sheptime.

Oh shit, my clock is still an hour behind!!!

dude

Just my computer clock. All the house clocks are fine.

Fox News is the Two Minute Hate, except 24/7.

Esquire article on Shep Smith: http://www.esquire.com/features/shepard-smith-fox-news-0309

There are several Shep Smith Creation Myths circulating around Fox — several stories of how Fox brass came to see that he was Their Guy — and what they all have in common is his willingness to do what needed to be done, without standing on ceremony. For John Moody, executive vice-president of news, it was the time when Roger Ailes — Moody's boss and the president and architect of Fox News — looked up at a television and saw footage of O. J. Simpson's civil trial and said, "You know, just once I'd like to hear some reporter have the guts to say that he's here at the O. J. Simpson trial, where there's nothing going on and nothing happened today." Moody: "I called Shepard in L. A., which is where he was at the time. I said, 'Let's think about this.' He said, 'I got it.' I said, 'Well . . .' And he said, 'No, I got it.' It was the kind of thing where he was on the air before I finished my sentence. And Shepard just did this dry, absolutely dead-on thing where he said, 'There's nothing going on at the O. J. trial today. If something happens, we'll let you know about it. But for now, this is Shepard Smith in Los Angeles, at the O. J. trial, where nothing's happening.' That's when you knew, that's when you went, 'Oh yeah, oh yeah. . . .' "

It's the same animating principle behind that Paris clip upthread.

I first saw Shep Smith during Katrina and he was fantastic.

Shep was apparently a reporter here in the Orlando area a while before I lived here, but people have told me he was exactly the same back then as he is right now. I've gotta give that dude love for keeping at it for all these years.

that's a good story, tom junod is a good dude

really good article. i somewhat remember seeing him & geraldo on the air during katrina, i def watched a ton of cable news then but was not paying attention to who the anchors were on fox. there's a clip of this on youtube in which he's trying to tell sean hannity straight up that there is no explanation as to why the people on the bridge in nola weren't getting food and water. hannity is all about helping bush cover his ass, of course, keeps trying to pull this "let's get some perspective" bs & shep is having none of it. along with this are some clips of geraldo freaking the f out.

i do appreciate that shep's team thinks a lot about what's valuable to the audience when putting those shows together - they try to always start by hitting all the basic points of complicated issues & though there's silly stuff in there (friday had like.. a parrot on a skateboard that went missing XD) IMHO it actually gets less airtime than it would on major network. also both of the shows shep does (also baier) are very watchable b/c they're not obsessed with proving how everyone in politics (or everyone in general) is a hypocrite and acting in bad faith, or that politicians being political is shocking and wrong. (shows fixated on assuming/proving hypocrisy all the time & that get v tedious: campbell brown, 1600 penn ave, dobbs, blitzer has cafferty on to grumble about how everyone in public life is worthless).

shep and 538.com were my go to guys during the election.

nate silver was on point with his predictions, that's for sure. def helped him that he's a baseball stats nerd and stuck to the data. i admit that i avoided his site though, because he was so negative when it came to HRC during the primaries (under his former alias @ the daily kos, which is where he got started.. total bunch of haters over there in general, the atmosphere is completely poisoned).

let it go daria

Even after all this time on Fox, Shep is still Jenny on the blowjob for me.

not letting it go! it's a free country, somewhere. but dkos is poisoned regardless of the subject at hand, was my point.

so i watched studio b today -> serious news report concludes with shep & jonathan hunt (britishes correspondent for his show) riffing on how funny it is that north korea has missiles called nodong and taepodong

ended with a segment about a dude arrested for drunk driving who was on.. a vehicle he had built which is a barstool attached to a lawnmower

hoping one/both of these show up on the youtubes, as he called it XD

u guyz I think shep is an alright guy and all, but I do not get this sanctification. fox news is still fox news. this guy is a big part of that institution. he gives a tiny bit of legitimacy to something that really doesn't deserve any.

he gives a tiny bit of legitimacy to something that really doesn't deserve any.

This is true. OTOH, Shep Smith is funnier goofing on other FOX hosts than Joe Scarborough is goofing on Glenn Beck. Sort of an "inside-the-belly-of-the-beast" POV, plus a wry wit.

That other guy on MSNBC who put together the video clip of Beck crying, the guy who was sitting alongside Scarborough on Morning Joe, now that guy was funny.

his presence casts everyone else on the network in the proper light and he almost acts as an on-air ombudsman, therefore the dude rules

I think we all can agree that DailyKos should be ignored as much as possible.

his presence casts everyone else on the network in the proper light and he almost acts as an on-air ombudsman, therefore the dude rules

I am pretty sure Hannity and Beck would seem equally crazy with or without this light that Shep apparently casts on them.

When you have a reasonable and relatable person like Shep arguing that Fox News really is fair and balanced and all about the news...well it's almost even believable when he says it. But c'mon, he's either stupid or lying.

oh he's a company man, to be sure. it's just kind of cool when he goes off script (& tbh I don't have cable so my shep experiences are confined to youtube clips, which are obviously going to be the most o_O moments).

idk maybe i'm putting too much faith in his appeal. but but when you think of all the mouthbreathers in this country who get 100% of their news from Fox, I think it's invaluable to have someone with a shred of sanity inside the Hannity-O'Reilly-Beck idiot echo chamber.

shepard smith makes everyone else around him look even more histrionic, moreso because he clowns on them mercilessly and is a fellow fox news anchor. i dunno about the fair and balanced thing, he might see it that way which would make him neither stupid nor a liar, he might just actually believe it to be true.

that would be option 'stupid'

I don't think he does or is, fwiw

that wouldn't be stupidity, that would be a different perspective, sort of a "forest for the trees" kind of thing

you clearly do not watch the program! I watch! :)

the younger guy on scarbs' show is willie geist, the bald guy is mike barnicle.

far as clowning on the other anchors.. i started to notice (i'm fascinated by this) that there is an understanding going on between many of them, as well as with their audience, as far as what's to be taken serious and what's a joke - and if you don't follow them too much, it looks weirder than it is. for instance apparently a big part of beck's persona is to make fun of himself all the time for being.. dopey, silly, crazy, etc. his own people do this on his own programs.

however, given that making fun of beck somewhat was fair game, shep took it waaaaaaaaaaaay further than it was supposed to go. i don't have a real good perspective on how o'reilly/hannity's real audiences take them, but it's not necessarily true that fans of these guys believe everything they say. limbaugh is damned entertaining and very good at radio & some ppl listen for entertainment alone. of course he's also a shameless liar who poisons the national discourse. i should hate these guys but usually it's just.. SMH.

starting to wonder (krauthammer is on bret baier's show right now being a Very Serious Pundit and i don't believe a damned word he says) if one big problem on fox is with the people who book the shows. on panels, they're going to have a right winger, a conservative, and a centrist, most of the time. i dunno. it's on, it's well produced, people watch it - might be better if the left tried hard to get more people on & talk to that audience b/c so many fewer people watch msnbc.

haha wait, MIKE BARNICLE

no wonder I haven't heard that name in years

right, it's clearly the left that's purposely choosing not to be represented on fox news.

willfully misinterpreting what i wrote, replying with sarcasm <- get one (1) new style of argument, this one is already taken by approx 1 billion people on the internet

oh okay, I will look for a new one

it's just aggravating, i don't know why do that.