Fox News Hosts - Who is the worst?

now that would be some good tv

olbermann's guests have gotten really awful lately. robinson is boring, elfish brit is boring, howard fineman is boring and a hack, so is the woman w/ the harry potter glasses that he brings on. i like to look at chris hughes from the nation and he brings it sometimes but jonathan turley the gw law professor is his best guest by miles

He brings on Oxbow's Eugene Robinson??!!?

― Alex in SF, Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:19 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that WOULD be interesting.

oh and when he brings on christian finnegan i want to break my tv

I just want to focus how improved all Cable News shows would be if Eugene Robinson was on them for a second. Let's just take a moment.

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"i'm outraged at the AIG bonuses!"

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shep @ fox and friends. that is HILARIOUS. he is def on a different planet. brilliant. it just gets painfully awkward yet he is completely unfazed by this. i was just watching studio b & he is so hyped about blago going on the radio today, doubtless will spend plenty of time on the 7pm show mocking him.

doocy IMHO is pretty awful, not that he has anything that bad to say, but that's what drives me up the wall - it's the same dumb talking points except he's THAT GUY in the bar who thinks he's best friends with everyone and just won't settle down.

ok, this:

he's a nobody with a crappy show that airs when most people with jobs are asleep, but he's fucking dead meat of he ever tries to show his face north of the border.

one of his sidekicks has already had to cancel an appearance at a comedy club in Edmonton.

of=if. rage induced misspelling.

He mocked our military and our Mounties, and incited outrage among our highest-ranking politicians, but Greg Gutfeld couldn't muster the guts on Monday to tell us himself that he's sorry.

this is a hardbody lede

ppl oughta rethink their idea that o'reilly is the ok thinking man's version of this, considering the creepy stalker hit-job shit he pulled on amanda terkel, among other people

ya - people are seriously pissed off. Mounties are fine - but mocking our troops when 4 had *just* died in *the* most dangerous area of Afghanistan is... well... words fail.

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Doocy.

Thermo, I don't know that most of America has even heard of this guy

goddam so many hateable cretins on one channel, it's almost amazing. i detest Beck, O'Reilley, Huckabee and Wallace, each for his own special brand of ridiculousness. but the real motherfucker here is Hannity - I think he is dumber and definitely more humorless than the rest.

OTOH Shep Smith is a total bro.

hannity is not much of a deep thinker, right? will shamelessly tell all kinds of lies on his show. but it's a little sad without colmes IMHO, he's really trying too hard now with the total over-the-top hyperbole about obama administration. i don't know how he'll cope now that they have beck to turn the fear meter up to 11.

i don't hate any of them, though, it's more of.. how can you SAY those things when you know they are not true? you're basically insulting and mistreating your own audience by not bothering to square your statements with facts and reality. it applies equally, though.. doesn't help the liberal side to tell them only what they want to hear.

i think i get angrier at the folks who are supposed to be liberals and either don't fight back effectively, or cede half the argument in the name of being polite and getting along..

that seems like a 'sane adult in the presence of a sociopath' problem and not necessarily a political one

ok glenn beck just put on a pair of blue latex gloves and said "this is the dumbest damn show on air!" then he wrapped up a dead fish in newspaper w/pictures of obama & other newsmakers on it, while doing some goofy voices about how.. i dunno, this is what we're giving the taxpayers

epic

Clearly the new business model at FOX is "look at all the crazy people we bring you, how can you NOT watch us?!" Even more now than in recent years. They aren't being as overtly partisan anymore, instead they're just piping hallucinogens in through the a/c in the studios.

lol quite possibly

I wouldn't be surprised if they were counting on the spectacle to pay the bills.

How could it not be Hannity? I see RED at a mere glimpse of his taut, smug assface, looking at you with a supercilious grin that says: I am 100% douchebag and, even though I misconstrue or disregard even the simplest of facts, I am somehow massively influential. It doesn't help that my mom likes him. People say this suggest this kind of thing figuratively, but I literally would not mind watching him being tortured to death.

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Glenn Beck's show is like a weird high-concept homage to The Colbert Report, no lie.

I've been loling all week at his fear-mongering over Obama's sinister designs of socialist-fascism.

Schadenfreude for these windbags comes all too easily. There's really no sport in picking out all of the factual inconsistencies of their O_o rants, but the socialist/fascist thing demonstrates that they lack even the simplest understanding of political science.

The other day Geraldo referred to Hillary as "First Lady Hillary Clinton" re: her State Dept. visit to Mexico. I didn't watch long enough to see if it was intentional, but it wouldn't surprise me.

ok, i think shep is kind of insane, there is def nobody else like him - somehow i find him snarking about dumb celebrity news stories & being sort of rude to people is still funny and appealing, whereas i cannot stand to watch 0lbermann at all. still LOLing over the fox & friends clip where kilmeade is finally like "OK have you ever felt more awkward on a set???" FTW

oh, also - bret baier is the dude at 6pm who took over for brit hume, not included in the poll, but he might be a robot.

geraldo is harmless IMHO

the socialist/fascist thing demonstrates that they lack even the simplest understanding of political science

I wouldn't mind the channel's political leanings if they actually had conservative hosts on there who were intellectually thorough with their positions and how they crafted the themes of the shows. Instead, they're all just shallow, knee-jerk egotists who play to base fears. (This goes for Lou Dobbs on CNN and Olbermann on MSNBC, too.)

Why can't every host on a political forum show be more like Rachel Maddow, huh?

I wouldn't call Maddow an intellectual, just well-prepared.

I get the feeling with Maddow that if her bosses would let her she'd spend an hour each night getting down to the nuts and bolts of how this or that is done in Washington and why. Nerd television doesn't get viewers, though.

oh, god, lou dobbs. that guy really does make me angry. the xenophobic fearmongering.. i can't believe CNN puts that on the air. same for nancy grace who strikes me as particularly.. undemocratic and unamerican, basically, who cares about the law when she can just decide for herself that every suspect is guilty & then make tons of money leading the witch hunt herself. i despise that woman.

i shouldn't be rude about bret baier though, he is pretty straightforward and his show isn't actually about him and his personality instead of the news itself, which is a good thing.

This is what you have in mind (and I agree it's riveting TV, even for non-nerds):

i cannot get over the shep/gretchen carlson clip that J0rdan posted upthread. shep is awful!

at the end after he's made everyone completely uncomfortable, kilmeade takes one last shot at making nice & says "isn't this like regis and kathy lee?" and shep says "isn't this like that offline after the show show you did with that guy who wasn't funny?" doocy: "how unfunny was that?" shep: "that was stupid, i should never let him back in here again, or me, for that matter." kilmeade and doocy are basically stunned at this point, and kilmeade wraps it up by mentioning whatever internet venture shep was there to talk about - "he can't wait, and.. he doesn't watch us." because of course shep told them that he doesn't even watch their show.

sorry to go on, but IMHO insulting people to their faces is def an art form & i am learning something here. i almost feel bad for doocy/kilmeade/carlson but i have seen enough of that show that.. not really.

yeah higher ups at fox shouldn't have let those three get railroaded like that, but still lols 4 lyfe

this is fascinating. clearly shep doesn't take o'reilly's word for it, and raises point after point where o'reilly's story on how jackson's comments got out, doesn't add up. he's very precise about it. you don't see this kind of interview much any more, sadly, but it's so interesting that he's skeptical about every single part of the story & extra skeptical when o'reilly tries to be flattering. wow, actual journalism on cable news.

i guess shep is allowed to insult anyone he wants :) thing is, i have seen enough segments from "fox & friends" to know that.. they're really irresponsible, as if being a lighthearted & painfully bright and cheerful morning show makes it OK to play fast and loose with the facts & put a right wing spin on most everything.

the o'reilly interview here, though, if i did broadcast journalism i'd be taking notes. you know how touchy/angry/defensive o'reilly gets when questioned & here he basically gets interrogated about this but it's done so carefully he really has no way to get out of it. o'reilly ends up looking pretty bad IMHO.

If FOX News didn't exist, I find it hard to believe Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson could find a job anywhere. They're completely useless in every capacity. Kilmeade is almost in the same boat, but occasionally redeems himself by doing something that's actually funny (and not just funny by mistake).

johnny otm

oh shit...i just fucking realized that that's GRETCHEN CARLSON from MN who was Ms America holy crap, i forgot she even existed, but damn everyone acted like it was such a big deal when she won.

I get the feeling with Gretchen that she doesn't always have a clear grasp of the subtleties of Fox News (or Republican) talking points. So she'll just get the basic thrust (we don't like liberals) and then take them to some extreme, like - and I don't remember the specific words but - talking trash about Ted Kennedy being an enemy combatant and the White House representative at the time being like, "Well, we don't like him. But no, he's not actually a terrorist." Like she's kinda unclear about the distinction. I think it's kinda cute. Like the uncool/slower kid running with the ball with lots of enthusiasm, even if they don't really understand the sport.

comparing gretchen carlson to a retard is an apt comparison i think yeah

"one civil rights leader disparaging another civil rights leader", lol

carlson never met a right wing talking point she didn't leave unchallenged..

in the clip i posted above, bill o'reilly going on and on and on about the rules of journalism and journalism 101, makes it completely obvious he's just making excuses. at the end of the day fox does depend on being a news organization, not an opinion organization - I get the sense with this interview that this is what happens when one of the opinion shows decides they are going to break big stories like they're journalists. roger ailes has to step in with official statements & bill o has to go on somebody else's show and answer questions.

i remember doocy from a puffy fluffy local morning show (might have been a fox affiliate) about 10-15 yrs ago, pastel sweater/white keds type of thing, him weighing in on politics in any capacity still blows my mind

doocy clearly has no idea what he's talking about, and the lady who's like "oooh, scary" has even less of a clue