Fox News Hosts - Who is the worst?

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.

http://i41.tinypic.com/211m24m.gif

http://idude.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/msdns01.png

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?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/26/conservatives-europe

and these days, at the Strategy Room.. Freedom Watch brings on Alex Jones to explain you the New World Order

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/33154_Video-_Napolitano_with_Alex_Jones_Ron_Paul_Lew_Rockwell_Etc

[via another blog, I do not read LGF]

in general the comments are pretty sane (?!) but i love that the first couple are just as batshit paranoid conspiratorial

ahahaha. just read the first couple comments. of course there are ppl on there thinking it's a saudi conspiracy. has to be someone's, after all.

i used to read LGF back.. wow, 2002 or 2003? relatively early days of the blogosphere during runup to iraq war, there were very few blogs on topic (LGF, agonist, atrios, daily kos pre-scoop, tacitus, juan cole, liberal oasis, talking points memo, calpundit..). anyway LGF was basically a neocon blog far as I could tell, I followed out of fascination that.. it was like watching a hate group develop in real time - their methodology was to find any/all possible news items casting middle eastern countries and muslims in a bad light, hype them up, and let commenters run wild.

ah wait so does the relative sanity of those comments spring basically from hatred for ron paul, then? no love lost, etc...

"obama is going to destroy this country... but not the way these nutcases are saying!!"

honestly the crosscurrents running through LGF escape me, wild guess would be.. LGF neocons vs. libertarians/paleoconservatives & the LGFers finding the latter group to be anti-semitic? i'm not sure. reading it now since i have downtime @ the office. IMHO lots/all of these political blog communities have.. black holes, subjects on which everyone just goes batshit crazy, but maybe LGF's is not so noticeable at the moment because they're looking at the glenn beck/alex jones crowd like WTF.

i'm amazed at the following at places like LGF; a post like 8 minutes old will have 400 some comments on it.

It's the same here (see that Guardian link above - 520 comments - almost all hostile to Michale white and pro-Hannan) - seems like various shades of the Right have the whole Comments pages thing wrapped up.

get the feeling hannan is starting to say stuff with fox news in mind, rather than the uk electorate: http://timesonline.typepad.com/oliver_kamm/2009/04/nhs-a-mistake.html

My father-in-law, who is a staunch republican, announced he has stopped watching Fox News because of Glenn Beck's insanity. The quote: "The more I watched Glenn Beck...the more I realized that maybe Fox News is not really so fair and balanced!"

You have no idea how hard it was not to laugh.

today Rick Sanchez on CNN straight up called out Fox and Glenn Beck in particular for promoting crazy rhetoric eg, Obama is leading us to socialism & destroying America, is going to take everyone's guns away, etc.

he was tweeting about it last night

wkiw rick sanchez

i see.. just checked the twitter. it was fun to watch, though he was def editorializing & not just reporting.

otherwise watched shep who covered the somali pirates story for a solid hour (it was v informative about a whole bunch of different angles to the story)..

followed by cavuto throwing softball questions at guest of honor rush limbaugh & then sputtering his way through a petulant defense of fox news promoting these "tea party" protests. followed by glenn beck going "ARRR" and demanding to know why we were too afraid to confront the pirates & why don't we just send in the marines to kick some ass and make a point.

zing http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090407/COMMENTARY/904079997/-1/RSS?ref=fp6

its a beautiful thing