Fox News Hosts - Who is the worst?

http://hannidate.hannity.com/

wow - landslide!

Fox News's saving grace (if there is one) is that they always hire gorgeous women as anchors.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/32894267@N00/2873370217/

And all of the sudden O'Reilly becomes tolerable, what was old has become new etc.

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 saw this too!!! It was easily one of the awesomest things I've seen on television...

Seriously, guys, the fact that this thread has turned into a Sheppard Smith lovefest has totally totally totally restored my faith in ILX!

update: found out that Shep's brother's father-in-law and my dad are buds (Shep grew up in Holly Springs, MS and went to Ole Miss). I kind of want to forward this thread to him.

Shep is also a total queen in his personal life, according to a buddy who works at a Fox affiliate.

gossip! excellent. shep is the best.

here is the long version of shep goofing on glenn beck

btw it is clear chris wallace is just playing along in his deadpan way.

yeah i was kind of wondering if wallace was being serious. it's hard (for me) to get a read on that dude, and i sometimes wonder if my distaste for him is excessive

wallace is a blowhard but i think hes enough invested in journalism as a respectable institution to not be taking beck very seriously

cable news is morphing into pro-wrestling

funny to say this but it drives me up the wall, because i am def a partisan, when.. ppl on liberal blogs are convinced that when anyone on fox is fair, they're suddenly 'enlightened' and coming over to the other side. i get the impression with wallace that he is.. of course committed to being a serious journalist but his point of departure is heavily right-leaning sources like washington times so the spectrum of what he takes seriously starts there and ends with.. washington post, say. i don't think you can help but start with a set of basic assumptions and his are more conservative, i guess.

heh, otm with the pro wrestling. whatcha gonna do when glenn beck runs wild on you? can you smell... what olbermann is cooking? hannity is a great american, fight for the rights of every man..

yeah the other day after shep murked glen beck on his own friday all the commenters on liberal blogs that linked to the videos were like "oh i guess this shep fellow isnt the enemy!" and it was like... fools

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

You guys are making me want to start watching Fox News.

FOX is funnier than Comedy Central!

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.