Fox News Hosts - Who is the worst?

anyway sorry for spamming the thread, im procrastinating plus i love shep a lot

let's go back to talking about how awful hannity and geraldo are

xp Yeah he definitely seems to have a chip on his shoulder about people complaining about Fox's/his reporting being biased (see the O'Reilly clip above). Understandable, given the folks he has to work with.

good video ari

yeah also he's been there since the inception of the network, and he's obviously he's seen it move away from his style of journalism and towards the o reilly/hannity style of television so it makes sense that he's protective of the 'old style' and of his reputation personally

tom junod wrote a profile on him in one of the last two esquires, but i haven't read it yet

I've always liked Shep since Katrina when he was live in New Orleans and went off.

"Soldiers are moving those people from one hot overpass to another. They need water. Somebody get these people some water. What is going on here?" (that's how I remember it)

It was the first sane moment I saw on television that awful couple of days and I've always respected him for breaking character at that moment regardless of who he worked for, and I've enjoyed seeing clips of him over the years even though I won't watch FOX in general.

I voted Chris Wallace as the worst, because like Britney Hume, he pretends to be a journalist. When Clinton ruined him a couple of years ago I thought maybe he had learned his lesson, but he just keeps on. And the smirk suits him less than the other assholes.

Here's the thing about Sean Hannity: is it not obvious at this point that he, as opposed to the usually singled-out Limbaugh, is the real, perhaps apolitical, entertainer of the Republican talking heads? People calling him the most hateful or right-wing or whatever are only, at best, half-right. From what I've heard about him from a friend who's met him at a party and works in talk radio is that he actually doesn't have a huge axe to grind; it's all for the show. He's maybe the worst if you simply hate ideological actors.

And singling out fox for smugness is silly. If you have a tremendous problem with smug and condescending political hosts surely you also cringe whenever Rachel Maddow puts someone down or when you watch too much of the Daily Show. Fox News is annoying for a couple of reasons but it'd be silly to claim "smug" as one of them and then flip over to watch Keith Olbermann, who is, of course, just an honest journalist with the courage to speak truth to power (or whatever his talking points sound like to you if you believe the message).

Yeah, when I call them fascists, I'm right but when they call me a communist they are wrong. Fortunately, as long as we both get to say it the truth is exactly in the middle.

From what I've heard about him from a friend who's met him at a party and works in talk radio is that he actually doesn't have a huge axe to grind; it's all for the show.

I hear the same of Limbaugh. I mean, Limbaugh will tell you that, straight up, and so will O'Reilly. Maybe Olbermann will too, and if he won't he's the biggest prick of the lot of them. But is it noble? Is it even fair? It's a dark alley to go down, but are these hosts on news channels honestly presented as entertainers and not journalists, and how much responsibility lies with the viewer if they swallow their turds of wisdom?

Maybe if Hannity did a little soft shoe at the beginning of each show I wouldn't have a problem with him.

The Shep clips continue...here he busts on Fox & Friends and especially Gretchen right to their faces...

I'm with Jordan in the Shep Smith love tent.

"You don't watch it?"
"GOD, NO!"

great video

btw the red eye host is an inflammatory human being

also lol @ them playing that dumb ass "AWWWWW" sound effect after shep told them that he thought their show crap — an oblivious self pwn

j0rd4n s4rg3nt is a shemale

welp, didnt even take me 2 years to be outed

new currncy mistape called hitler cake

Posting Shep clips is fun. Now a fire alarm is going off and he blames it on Doocy and Gretchen smoking in the bathroom...

My favorite line from the Paris Hilton clip is, "If we gotta spend all day on it, I'm gonna have fun with it." HA! You gotta love a cable news anchor who has contempt for the cable news format.

the best

I actually remember watching this live back in January...

btw, I voted Hannity because he's such a witless partisan pipewrench, but Chris Wallace is a stain on his family's good name.

lmao, im srs shep is on another planet

hannity. wanted to vote beck but his eventual big meltdown is gonna rule.

Glen's good for laughs. Brit's slurred speech is fun to imitate. Chris Wallace is a wet noodle most of the time, but occasionally he says something that makes sense. O'Reilly is a trained monkey. The Fox & Friends crew is irritating beyond belief, but ultimately harmless. The rest of the anchors/readers are just cyborgs.

There is nothing remotely redeeming about Hannity.

(Realized I left out Shep, but I've already made it clear on several occasions that I wish he was my best friend.)

I hear the same of Limbaugh. I mean, Limbaugh will tell you that, straight up, and so will O'Reilly. Maybe Olbermann will too, and if he won't he's the biggest prick of the lot of them. But is it noble? Is it even fair? It's a dark alley to go down, but are these hosts on news channels honestly presented as entertainers and not journalists, and how much responsibility lies with the viewer if they swallow their turds of wisdom?

Maybe if Hannity did a little soft shoe at the beginning of each show I wouldn't have a problem with him.

I can relate to their predicament in that - and I think most people can recall similar stories - there have been times in my life where I'm goofing off through a sort of artificial persona and some people mistake the shtick for my actual personality, and then you feel obligated to not break character and disappoint or lose attention. Eventually, with these people, they got to the point where if they ever just lightened-up they'd lose their audiences. But, of course, they get paid millions to be something they're really not and to rile up resentment and bitterness in a lot of people (and that goes for both sides) and that's where my empathy dips.

wanted to vote beck but his eventual big meltdown is gonna rule.

Beck is the crazy uncle personified.

Beck's tears are unconvincing. I want to see him rend his clothing and bloody himself somehow.

Brit's slurred speech is fun to imitate

this is so otm - his constant monotone was great too bcuz after they ran a segment he'd often say "good report", but in his manner it sounded like a really condescending insult instead of stock 'praise' for some story and now my friends and i always zing a non interesting story/anecdote by going into britt voice and saying 'interesting report'

the problem with people tryna defend hannity or whoever as "o its just acting! hes not really like that" is--as was so astutely pointed out by shep smith esq--people really fuckin believe it. and if someones out there saying, oh, obamas a socialist muslim deviant, and ur going "o well he doesnt believe it"--get 1 clue dude cuz tons of ppl who are watchin the dam show do and in the words of shep smith phd "u cant unring that bell"

Only Stockholm syndrome could explain why I even know the names of these people.

a lot of their shows are entertaining

Hannity in a fucking walk.

Shep said "interwebs"!!!!1 OMG

want to vote beck for taking the hannity mode of paranoia, repetition and cruelty into a fully-lived psychosis. but i can't; shep smith teased beck all on his special day, chris wallace came on, and complained that shep was just jealous, and should be more grateful. chris wallace, you are a bitch, you get my vote.

I voted, even though I never watch the Fox News network.

I'm pretty ecstatic that I don't know who a bunch of these people actually are other than names I've heard.

(btw I can't vote O'Reilly because I had to help forcibly restrain a a drunk Boston executive from running across the room and punching his lights out at a DNC event at the Kennedy School in 2004; for that he will always be forever lol to me)

hannity, no doubt.

this dude OTM:

Hannity IMO is the worst of them b/c he isn't as crazy ridiculous as Savage, or as suave on the mic as Limbaugh. Hannity just has this thick, smug, don't give a fuck, on-message attitude, and not even a semblance of intelligence below the surface.

― dan m, Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:21 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

(from the Conservative Talk Radio thread)

srsly fuckin look at this guy:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NK8p0gBnp_4/SbF55sgWDpI/AAAAAAAABSs/aoXUg8Xn5LM/s400/sean_hannity.jpg

ughh

kind of reminds me of Robert Forster.

Chris Wallace isn't a personality like the others -- he's the "news" guy, and I've never had a problem with him.

Hannity, however, is just A BAD ACTOR.

kind of reminds me of Robert Forster.

UGGGH. What have you DONE?!

http://www.celebratelove.com/gifs/hannity.jpg

(not sure if you meant Go-Between Robert Forster or Quentin Tarantino's Robert Forster)

i have seen that creepy smug rightwing whiteman smile far too many times in my life

I think I hate Beck the most, and would be more likely to watch his show. The others just seem tired and defeated.

yeah gotta go with Hannity. no redeeming qualities. Never entertaining (like Beck) and never appears human/potentially open to reason (like O'Reilly)

The man is an inspiration.

"technical errors on the show"=not knowing what "play us out" means.

ruh roh Hannity now on "vacation"

gonna be a looong weekend

lol cucked

Kilmeade should have gotten at least 1 vote.

Not seeing that Hannity news.

Ah wait, starting to make the rounds. Hey, enjoy more BBQ or something, Sean.

What a drama queen

EXCLUSIVE: .@seanhannity goes "underground" to decide if he will return to Fox News on Tuesday, source says https://t.co/vr8as2iWb8

— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) May 27, 2017

Just when you think he can't go any lower, he goes underground.

They'd probably just give his show to fucking Laura Ingraham or another hard right wingnut. Viewership at 10pm would drop to zero if they didn't.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/eric-bolling-fox-news-text-messages_us_5984d2bbe4b0cb15b1be6d65?hd6

Whomp whomp

Fox News confirms Eric Bolling has left the network after lewd texting allegations. His show "The Specialists” is canceled pic.twitter.com/vHckVwllSn

— Jon Passantino (@passantino) September 8, 2017

So this story appears to have taken an awful, tragic turn

I was going to say, terrible.

Adrienne and I are devastated by the loss of our beloved son Eric Chase last night. Details still unclear. Thoughts, prayers appreciated.

— Eric Bolling (@ericbolling) September 9, 2017

We need a new one on the original poll.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/business/media/fox-news-lawsuit-charles-payne.html

Fox News, which for more than a year has dealt with the fallout from an embarrassing sexual harassment scandal, was sued on Monday by the political commentator Scottie Nell Hughes, who claimed that she had been raped by the longtime anchor Charles Payne and was then retaliated against by the network after she came forward with her allegation.

Mr. Payne, the host of “Making Money” on Fox Business, returned to the air earlier this month after the network suspended him in July pending an investigation into his conduct. Upon his return, the network said that it had completed the investigation, which came after Ms. Hughes brought her allegations to the network in late June.

Representatives for Mr. Payne could not immediately be reached for comment, but he has previously denied claims from Ms. Hughes. In a statement released on July 7, his lawyer, Jonathan N. Halpern, said: “Charles Payne vehemently denies the allegations. He will defend himself vigorously against these claims and will hold those responsible to account.”

...

The suit also names Dianne Brandi, the executive vice president of legal and business affairs at Fox News, and Irena Briganti, the network’s executive vice president of corporate communications. In the suit, Ms. Hughes says that Ms. Brandi and Ms. Briganti “knowingly and maliciously aided and abetted the unlawful employment practices, discrimination and retaliation” against her. The lawsuit claims that Ms. Brandi and Ms. Briganti “issued a false narrative to the National Enquirer that Ms. Hughes was a participant in an affair with Payne” and “revealed Ms. Hughes’s identity to the National Enquirer.”

uhoh

tie between hannity and carlson according to the UK broadcasting watchdog.

Fox News found in breach of impartiality standards by Ofcom. Not on air anymore but has dinged Sky shares 1.6pc as CMA reviews takeover. pic.twitter.com/sqFfyz8fso

— Chris Williams (@cg_williams) November 6, 2017

according to US law, the only way to break a tie is a one-on-one grudge match, to the death. don't know who i'm rooting for tbh

for sale

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/06/21st-century-fox-has-been-holding-talks-to-sell-most-of-company-to-disney-sources.html

Maybe they can replace the anchors with less cartoonish characters.

that link specifically notes that the news + sports divisions are not for sale

Trump spoke with Murdoch ahead of Disney deal to make sure Murdoch wasn’t selling Fox News, person briefed on the call said

— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) December 14, 2017

when u tweet from the wrong account

Thanks @TheOfficialABCD I’m no regular Fox viewer but I’ll push back when u aim at @HowardKurtz. He’s 100% fair & balanced, he’s levelheaded & gives criticism when it’s due, no matter the party

— HowardKurtz (@HowardKurtz) January 28, 2018

John Barron was temporarily unavailable?

Not a host, but he's been there for a while -- but not now:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomnamako/ralph-peters

does Tucker Carlson have a deathwish?

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlson-attacks-bts-speaking-out-about-hate-crimes-targeting-asian-americans

I'm fine with him dying either way tbh

can't really call yourself an army if you don't actually kill people, come on now.

A much-hyped biography of the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has struggled to find favour with readers, a leading US publishing authority said, listing just over 3,000 copies sold in the first week of its release.

According to Publishers Weekly, Tucker by Chadwick Moore sold just 3,227 copies in its first week after publication on 1 August.

Huh, who would have guessed that Fox viewers don't buy/read many books