Fox News Hosts - Who is the worst?

One day all of them decided they wanted to put on make-up and hair pieces and read crap out loud in a phony voice in front of a camera.

I think it was important for folks who get all their news from Fox to see that the fed gov's response to Katrina was woefully inadequate and disgraceful. It was important that Joe the Fucking Plumber get taken to task for his completely uninformed & paranoid opinions, and for someone (outside the librul media) to reiterate that a vote for Obama DOESN'T = the "death of Israel." And even though it was done under the guise of good-natured ribbing, Sheppard's clowning surely did more to undermine Beck's lunatic ravings (among those most susceptible to them) than anyone else could.

I'm certainly not suggesting he's deserving of a Peabody award or anything, but a healthy dose of OMG WTF from inside the Fox News family and (hopefully) diffused among the loyal viewership ain't a bad thing at all.

'course the O'Reilly & Hannity fanatics prob think he's a big pussy so eh...

Yeah, Shep is NOT loved by most of those who watch Fox's primetime programming.

iatee, how many people do you know who are going to throw their careers down the toilet because they're unhappy with what happened the last decade (esp when it wouldn't accomplish anything)? i mean one could look at it as, being a journalist who is objective is valuable to the public, perhaps moreso than yet another.. partisan on the air. should new york times reporters quit or stop being objective because their paper ran judith miller's articles re: iraq, and still runs horrible opinion pieces from dowd/rich who trash dems all the time?

re: colmes, that guy - smart of hannity to have a 'liberal' on his show who ended up taking watered-down stands on most issues and losing arguments most of the time. imho hannity is a little sad without him. dunno if his ratings have changed any. there was a lady at my prev job who was a big hannity fan (also used to work for lieberman.. heh) and she was super duper nice to me & all the ppl in the department who'd argue with her about politics. it was so funny, like <whine> 'i like you, but you haaate america! you just dooooo!' </whine>

great user name, daria

is he really just missing the bigger picture...again and again...every day of his life for the last decade?

It's like a Greek tragedy, titled "Colmes." Better yet, a myth, interpreted by Camus. He alwyas hopes that the next time he passes Rove on the way to the men's room, he will acknowledge him. Hope is all he has.

iatee, I take your points, I do. But when I think of TV journalists to hold Shep up for a blistering comparison to, my mind goes a bit blank. Steven Colbert can't really count, can he?

this feels like excuse-making to me. fox news inception = top republican media consultant gets put in charge of a news channel.

Again, I do get your point, but I don't think you're fully taking into account what a frighteningly debased institution our fourth estate is right now.

This clip isn't just about a bunch of idiots sitting around saying idiotic things, although it certainly is that; it's about them saying baseless, probably libelous things about someone who (gasp) was once a JOURNALIST for CNN.

(Ok, slanderous. Not libelous. Put that correction on the record.)

"By the name of... I think it's... some fucking mexican shit, who can be bothered, god people with hispanic names are beneath contempt, amirite?"

Add to this the serious (I think more serious than people realize) problem of large newspapers going out of business, who are the only institutions who can (under the current system) pay for serious investigative journalism, and... look. If Shep and his little pisstakes are all I'm left with, I'll take it. It's something.

Glenn Beck really dropped some knowledge tonight:

more useful things to remember

By that I mean, things that are more useful. Not an addition number.

additional

Some quibbles with Glenn Beck's latest attempt at an uprising-to-no-particular-end:

Ranting sarcastically about the "politics of fear" looks a little less ironic when he has Nazis on the green screen behind him. I know subtlety doesn't sell, but really now. Nazis? Does he even understand what Nazis were? Scarier still, does he understand EXACTLY what they were?

He mentions G20 riots... "People once again are feeling oppressed by an out of control state." The STATE? Are you fucking kidding me? Is that why they're smashing up banks? Because of the state? How fundamentally can you misunderstand something? These people WANT the state. They want their respective states, all the states in the world, to enact trade agreements that somehow (and I'm fuzzy here myself) make sure no one ever gets hurt by capitalism again. And I feel bad for them, and I wish I could believe in something as fervently and uselessly as they do. I'd be less depressed most of the time, for sure. But my point is, they're not feeling oppressed by the STATE.

I shouldn't even listen to this shit, but I do, and I'm still trying to hear it through my dad's ears. He swallows this stuff whole. I suppose I am encouraged by the fact that both of us have come around to believing that "too big to fail" will be inscribed on our little's empire's headstone.

That Glenn Beck clip reminds me of the televangelist show that Otto's parents were watching slavishly in Repo Man.

Glenn Beck reminds me of one of the President's monologues in Fallout 3.

holy shit glenn beck fucking a.

That clip is amazing. Wow. I am now a fan. The sound he makes at 1:15 is jaw-dropping.

i remember beck's radio show oh, pre 9-11 perhaps? I thought he was pretty funny (for quasi-right wing radio) at the time. but i think in general political stakes seemed much lower to me back then. overall, thought, he seemed pretty harmless and goofy and the show was kind of enjoyable depending on your tolerance for that sort of thing.

I'm wondering if these paranoid leanings were present then, but i cant remember. is this a relatively recent development for beck?

He was a lot less unhinged when his team was winning, and his bank account was flush. Back when he was working on his film adaptation of his book/play "The Christmas Sweater."

i remember listening to his radio show one time back when subprime mortage crisis mania was going mainstream and he seemed fairly reasonable. goofy, sure, but he at least seemed to know who the bad guys were.

lolz lil Glenn Beck vs the nazis

love his non-college-degree-holding ass insisting that people need to read and educate themselves bahahahaha

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AsGwrXEcL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg

Last year I got so goddamn tired of looking at displays of this book every time I went into Borders.

ok that new 'fascism' clip is brilliant. incoherent and unproductive, but that bit where the screen goes black and there's just a miniature Beck yelling at you from the bottom of the screen for a minute, to slowly fade up on aged film stock of Lenin-Bernanke...

Beck's show is now reminding me precisely of the work of documentary film maker Alex Jones. Who I describe to people as someone who saw Craig Baldwin's 'Tribulation 99' and thought it was all real. Except instead of having to special order his ranting direct from his DVD company... it's on a major network.

http://infowars-shop.stores.yahoo.net/endgamedvd.html

http://infowars-shop.stores.yahoo.net/videos.html

did i mention that i love shep? he just asked the panel on his show about the reaction to obama in europe, such a turnaround, after bush was so hated. so this fox business guy started off, explaining that europeans hated george w bush so much because bush is so christian, so overtly wearing his religion on his sleeve, and europeans just hated any displays of religion.

shep: "also.. the war?"

^^^yesssss - he has been on fire today

"he's a socialist"
"a... what??"

Beck is totally insane, so when he falls, it will be spectacular. Trust me.

yeah that GOP consultant started in on how obama was a socialist & shep was like "what???" but she kept on it - he cut her off after that & said to the dem, ok, now it's your turn to talk

that was great - i was genuinely shocked when the britishes guy from fox business (varney) immediately launched into this diatribe on how europeans hated bush because they religion. it was so bizarre. i mean, who believes that? (OK doubtless a LOT of people do, but dude should've known he wasn't on hannity)

for a lot of british people, bush's religosity/religion/cultural background doesn't exactly help.

i'm sure that doesn't make bush extra popular. the stunning thing though, was that varney instantly went off on how europeans hated bush because he was a christian and left out every other possible reason bush might be unpopular. it was just bonkers.

also, shep's lavender tie does kind of make it look like he is wearing lipstick <3 <3 <3
yesterday he & the britishes correspondent (hunt) on the show were riffing on how funny it was that north korea had missiles named taepodong and nodong.

and now... you know the news.

the whole Bush-is-a-Christian thing is some political stagecraft on the same level of Bush-is-a-Texan. The more comes out about him the more its apparent he was a Satanic Blue-Blood

http://crooksandliars.com/node/9850

^^ shep vs bill kristol, who is being his usual smug self (ugh)

i watched a few min of glenn beck today and maybe what disturbs me isn't so much that people think he's right.. it's that they think he's coherent. what kind of sense are they making out of this that i don't see, where communism = fascism = socialism = new world order = obama administration = big brother, and it's all plain as day? is beck playing 12 dimensional chess & my brain isn't sophisticated enough to catch on? he's going to give a "history lesson" tomorrow and i. can't. wait.

he's like one of those late-night self-help tv ads, or Tom Cruise & his Scientology even, where it's just this platitudinous cocktail of fervency & inanity and your left going, "well, what's the skinny?? i'm ready, baby, drop that k-nowledge on me!"

except instead of a cheeseball seduction to expensive classes or books or cd's, there's just more lunatic ravings tomorrow.

platitudinous cocktail of fervency & inanity

well done sir

Daria, have you seen Bret Baier's show since they changed it from Special Report to The Fox Nation? Any claims the old show had to remaining neutral seem to have gone out the window.

Oh wait, I was confused by the spinning graphic at the bottom of the screen. Is The Fox Nation just a new online portal or some shit? Anyway, last night's Special Report (which is being repeated now in the middle of the night) is offending my sensibilities about every 90 seconds.

yeah baier goes on every night in front of o reilly and hannity - no real surprise that he has a huge boner for that style even tho he cut his teeth doing actual reporting for them

for them being for fox not hannity and o reilly

Yeah, I remember when he was just a correspondant. What happened to Brit Hume, anyway? Why'd he exit Special Report?

i just assumed cuz he was old - he's still around tho so i assume he just wanted to get off the day-to-day grind of doing nightly news

i miss brit - that time slot is really slow

i usually watch the situation room but i'm not a huge blitzer fan

Brit's lip got stiff and it was hard to continue making the sounds come out

Okay, Wikipedia confirms he's taken on kind of a Tom Brokaw role at the network. I guess that makes sense, because he's closing in on 70.

Also this, which I never knew: "Brit Hume's son, Washington journalist Sandy Hume, was a reporter for The Hill and broke the story of the aborted 1997 coup against Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. In February 1998, Sandy Hume committed suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot from a hunting rifle."

i miss brit - that time slot is really slow

The Ed Show starts Monday on MSNBC during that 6pm slot. Not sure it'll be any good, because Ed Schultz gets on my nerves frequently. But at least I won't have to sit through so much David Schuster in the evening anymore (what a toad!). Unfortunately, though, he's being moved to the afternoons and pushing Norah O'Donnell somewhere else on the MSNBC schedule, AND THAT SUCKS

the worst surprise ever is when i make dinner and sit down to watch olbermann and schuster's nasally ass is subbing