Fox News Hosts - Who is the worst?

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

newtgingrich: I am doing hannity tonight on fox

about 1 hour ago from TwitterBerry

MY EYES MY EYES

hahah saw that & was about to ask one of you guys.. PLEASE someone rt and just comment "TMI"

ana marie cox prob did already? i quit following her b/c she just pissed me off with relentless nonsense that wasn't funny

Rick Sanchez seems an unlikely candidate to call out FOX hosts on their craziness. Sanchez was pretty-much FOX-lite when he was the anchor at Miami's Channel 7 News. But whatevs: Seasons change; people change.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/state_of_change/425664

Suddenly the conversation veered into the (apparently real) news that Russian and Chinese spies have hacked into the U.S. electrical grid--Commies in the wall sockets! Perhaps encouraged by how Beck seemed to appreciate his cheerful, neo-Paranoid Style, the Colonel (whose name I unfortunately didn't catch) shared some related intel: "all Chinese restaurants," he said, "are sleeper cells."

Doodz teh Chinese and Russians are going to take us over cos Obama is a communist and they are communists and that is a thing that happens DONT YOU SEEEE??

for the sake of pete that was a wild ride!

Also the whole Obama = slavery meme has been really encouraged by the Fox guys. Did they sleep through middle school history?

What a f----g lunatic.

something hannity has been really fond of during obama's european trip has been this line of thinking where he goes "WE SHOULDN'T BE TRYING TO ENDEAR OURSELVES TO EUROPE! WE SAVED THEM FROM THEMSELVES ONLY 70 YEARS AGO". like okay dude

i wish someone would go on his show and say "sean, shouldn't we be bowing down to france!! remember the revolutionary war?!??? we owe them!!"

the statue of liberty

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/13/foxs-cavuto-claims-networ_n_186156.html

CAVUTO: Just a reminder, we are going to be right in the middle of these protests because at FOX we do not pick and choose these rallies and protests. We were there for the Million Man March, even though, as I pointed out, it turned out to be well shy of a million men. We were there for the Iraq War protest, and the protest against the Iraq War protest. So see, we really don't decide what populist causes matter. Just that when a whole lot of people gather, in a whole lot of towns and cities across America, it is indeed worth checking out, not just shutting down. Which is why we are in Sacramento on April 15 for the one of the biggest of these, at 4:00 p.m. Eastern time.

...

Neil Cavuto has been defending FOX News' coverage of the upcoming tax day tea parties by repeatedly suggesting that FOX News gave similar coverage to the Million Man March. But the Million Man March occurred October 16, 1995 whereas FOX News was not operating until October 7, 1996, nearly a year later.

^^^classic

watching studio b. they love reports on cute dogs but this time shep was like, well, this was covered on all the sunday shows, i don't even know why we're talking about it.

anyway, my point here would be: holy shit, judith miller is on talking about this pirate thing. judith miller! credited as "pulitzer prize winning journalist" with no mention of the new york times! i knew she signed on but i never saw her on there until just now.

you know nobody at fox will ever ask her about those WMDs in iraq..

This kid is the number one FOX News Host for 2019

Wha? What?

Oy, that ad.

"ttyih"

you have seen the Fox Nation site right? their answer to HuffPo I suppose?

http://www.thefoxnation.com/justice/2009/04/10/obama-picks-easter-church

^^^ these comments have been up for days. i hit the "report" button on the one (3rd one I believe), this morning. still there.

"Why bother? Just because you sit in church doesn't make you a Christian. I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car."

lollllllll