Fox News Hosts - Who is the worst?

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

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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

This is why I want more Norah O'Donnell on my television

i usually go w/ cnn during the day - esp rick sanchez for all the insane twitter/myspace/facebook/blog/skype/voicemail/ break ins. his show is almost like a circus, i love it

He's also a local boy!

They're giving Ed Schultz a show? I'd actually watch that.

rick sanchez is pretty great, what a goofball

New tory pin-up Daniel Hannan on Sean Hannity. It's a fucking dumbfest from start to finish.

"It's a huge honour to be on your show for any conservative or indeed for anyone, Sean."

Hannity quotes the Daily Mail at some point and that's when my head exploded.

hannan - he is on every other fox news show lately, what is his deal?? also hannity can totally get away with quoting whatever b/c no one is going to have any idea about britishes media

also, just to add to the list of why he is awesome, shep was anchoring last friday following the third to latest disgruntled shooting (eg, binghamton.. following that were pittsburgh, tacoma) & departed from reporting for a bit re: immigrants in America. i think he was about to ask someone a question but he just kept talking instead of getting to the question, saying how you could see that immigrants are following the path to citizenship, and working hard at it, and they are learning English, and how everyone in this country who isn't a native American actually comes from a family of immigrants, etc. Basically a couple minutes' worth of anti-Lou Dobbs commentary. go shep.

btw sean hannity is basically a fascist

but i'm pretty sure i despise lou dobbs and nancy grace more than sean hannity. hannity will reliably hammer away at whatever the current rightwing talking points are, but at least those change. dobbs on this relentless anti-immigrant crusade, and nancy grace, anti-fair trial and due process. i was horrified when my mother said some comment worrying about mexican immigrants to this country & knew that's where it comes from - for crying out loud my hometown doesn't really have any, we should be so lucky to have an influx of immigrants, since the population's declining and the economy's been in the toilet for a couple decades..

Many descendants of 18th and 19th century German immigrants who took up to three generations to fully assimilate and begin using English as their first language are now among the most stridently anti-immigrant. Also, "white identity" groups have lately taken to fetishizing Irishness, of all things, as quintessentially American. So, you know, Beck and Hannity.

Anti-immigration stance is what the opiate of the middle class masses. Why be mad at someone you voted for stealing billions of tax dollars when you can direct it at a Mexican mom getting her kids flu shots?

that norah o'donnell clip just made my day.

Why is Shep Smith still at Fox?? He really needs to be on a more credible, non-batshit news station.

the worst surprise ever is when i make dinner and sit down to watch olbermann and schuster's nasally ass is subbing
― strøm thurmond (J0rdan S.), Friday, April 3, 2009 1:51 AM

OTM!!

i said this on another thread but beyond his personal politics (which are opaque to me) I just love the WAY he reads the news. he'd be great on radio too.

shep, that is.

hannan - he is on every other fox news show lately, what is his deal??

Yeah, he's a piece of work alright. I think he has more in common with Hannity et al than his own party leadership so perhaps he's looking for some lucrative gig where he's more appreciated? Certainly he seems to have changed his tune on Obama to suit this audience.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2008/03/21/why_im_for_barack_obama

i think shep is on the radio as well? or used to be? i think he had a news show, not opinions/call-in (unfortunately). apparently during the convention shep was running "mystery science theater DNC" from the strategy room (fox news' webcast) where he & some other dudes wore antennae on their heads and did running commentary over top of the speeches. how did i miss this?!! i had to work late every damn day of both conventions and was probably watching CNN or some shit. :(

anyway i revived to post this:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/04/hannity-highlights-obamas-team-america.html

My poor animated Shep gif is just going to waste in a different thread, so I'ma throw him in here.

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The Hannan lovefest for American TV continues...confuses Fox broadcasters with real journalists...
I suppose this is what it must feel like to be a Leftie on the BBC. You're listened to politely, you're allowed to develop your arguments, your assertions are not automatically greeted by incredulous leers.

hannan does realize that beck, cavuto, hannity are listening to him politely because.. they booked him on their shows in the first place because he'd tell their audience exactly what they wanted to hear?