Fox News Hosts - Who is the worst?

today

- new jeremiah wright controversy
- miss california is fired
- david letterman's palin family joes

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a raging, throbbing, near-bursting boner for hannity - this is must see tv

damn, i missed seeing all these things get hannitized! but wasn't sarah palin on there too lately?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oycFlw20_2Y

I mean, who says that! XD

via new republic, where some writer just posted a series of clips where 'fox news anchors occasionally show their liberal side' (its like 5 clips from shep's shows and 2 of megyn kelly). which IMHO is a misguided thing to say because.. facts and reality aren't liberal! i mean, liberals start losing arguments over politics and policy straightaway, if they want to say others are liberal simply because they also deal in facts and reality.

i was watching fox & friends the other day--all the conservatives on in the evening are annoying but goddamn are the morning assholes some of the dumbest people ive ever heard open their mouths

Yeah, Fox & Friends is some kind of next level demonstration in willful ignorance.

http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=229028

daily show doesnt do enough fox & friends stuff

probably cuz its like shooting fish in a barrel

that's such a weird non-sequitur troll from shep it seems like he either knows he's unfireable or is trying to get fired. either way, he is cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiIK8jh3ZCE

fox and friends vs. chris wallace!

this thing was referenced on the tvnewser today because of some interview with wallace. i'd never seen it before.

Wallace recently spoke at Rhodes College and we went to check it out for the lols and because it's like 2 blocks from my gf's house. i'm sure i've registered my dislike of him on this very thread, but he actually came across much more measured, less blow-hardy, and dare i say more intelligent than his FOX News persona would suggest. still pretty smug and needlessly dismissive of (a lot of) Obama's policies (duh. the discussion coincided with O's first 100 days btw), but not nearly as offensive as I expected. The most offensive thing the whole evening was the 6 or 8 popped-collar Rhodes douches wearing their "college Republicans" pins. fucking shameful.

IMHO wallace is all right. i've actually been listening to his show for years, b/c i'm a total news junkie (came from living in dc from late summer 2001-fall 2002.. interesting times) so i usually spend part of sunday cleaning up stuff & listening to all the sunday shows. if NFL isn't on. they replay them on cspan radio so you don't have to sit through commercials.

it's been really fascinating to me listening to some of the people covering the iran elections today, because i can kind of sense the same currents of thought that swept a lot of people into supporting the war in iraq.

also i'm fascinated by fox news just because.. every institution has its own particular culture, internal politics, running jokes, turf wars, connections to outside organizations, treatment of staff at all levels, attitude in general. it's like the end of last season where i spent all this time going through forums and blogs trying to figure out how the redskins are so fucked up as an organization. (i am not saying that fox is, at all. i'm just saying: trying to figure out how things work behind the scenes is interesting to me.)

i watched a bit of the glenn beck program right now simply for this reason - what's the deal with his world and why are people into it? from what i gather, it's a general sense of grievance with both parties and the media, and the fact that those tea parties didn't seem to have any coherent point wasn't accidental. i mean the maudlin thing he does about actually listening to people who feel like their grievances aren't being expressed.. i think that might be the hook, and after that he sends them all down the path running in terror from the socialist/fascist/marxist obama apocalypse.

OTM, daria, and you needn't feel defensive: I'm on your side. I listen to Cuban talk radio and read The Corner several times a day for the same reasons.

btw didn't Chris Wallace vote for HRC in the primaries?

nah, i don't feel defensive, it's cool. i don't know who wallace voted for, or if he remarked on it.. i don't expect he would.

beck strikes me as something of a cult leader.

Fox News Anchor Draws Ratings, and Ire of Conservative Critics

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/business/media/22smith.html?_r=1

“The Fox Report,” is having its best year, up 36 percent to almost two million viewers a night. He has beaten his cable news channel competition for 92 straight months. His coverage of the museum killing beat CNN and MSNBC combined.

this is awesome

Of colleagues like Mr. Beck, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, Mr. Smith said, “There’s a lot of money in opinion, and those guys are fascinating, terrific entertainers. This is a news organization. There can’t be a Fox News without news.”

this is an amazing quote

I love that I absolutely cannot tell what side of the political spectrum his personal philosophy leans, and that he both takes his job absolutely seriously bringing people facts of all things, but also has a wicked sense of humor and isn't afraid to use it.

I saw on the sign-off of The Fox Report one night as he led into The O'Reilly Factor he said, "You all know who's coming next....RUN...RUN AWAY!"

If Murdoch's number one imperative is ratings (that's what pretty much everyone says), shouldn't the success of the Shep make him consider airing other shows that aren't propaganda based?

The show that really blows my mind is Fox and Friends. The combo of cheerfulness and bizarre rightwing hatred is really unsettling. Why not try a morning show that's actually fun and good-natured and see if the ratings jump a bit?

Two mentions for crappy Atlas Shrugs blog in that NYT piece. Couldn't they find any coherent criticism (he asks knowing the answer to be "no")?

my oh my: http://videogum.com/archives/the-news/fox-and-friends-pays-children_075332.html#more

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gretchen carlson was on o reilly last night talking VERY SERIOUSLY AND STERNLY about jon & kate plus 8 - it was so awful - anyone associated with "fox & friends" shouldn't be allowed to have any sort of self-importance

there's an interview with glenn beck in the new GQ - the photos are supposed to mock the fact that he cries and is generally insane but they just make him seem like even more of a lunatic

I like the idea of Jordan and dar1a as our FOX beat reporters.

ha! makes me feel like my life is less worthless tbh

This has the potential to be the best hour of Shepard Smith tv in a long time. Shep vs. Sanford! Bring it!

nothing weird today really. i kind of feel sorry for sanford. there's a lot of people making fun of the whole thing and it is a bizarre story but.. i don't know, seeing some people on the liberal side all gleeful about it, sort of bothers me.

all right the SC newspaper has a few emails from the governor and this woman? ugh. & they'd been sitting pn the story for a couple months?

daria you are missing out on some e-mails that are full of erotic beauty

I dunno, d-g, it doesn't bother me for a SECOND. This guy AND his wife are famously anti-gay & anti-gay marriage. I would say at the very LEAST that this is a little asshattery coming home to roost, and right where it belongs.

well, obv i think they're completely wrong what with being anti-gay, though i didn't know anything particular about it (don't pay attention to SC politics, though i was pretty disgusted with his attempt to turn down the $$$ from the stimulus, which would really hurt the people in his own state esp the poor..)

just generally saddened, on a level, about anyone's private life getting dragged out in public like this. though of course it was completely shitty to make his staff & whoever else in SC cover for him.

idk, i think if you're governor this kinda shit is fair game, especially in the manner that he attempted to pull it off

yup - if yr an elected official setting policy about a given issue and then you turn out to be a massive hypocrite, well the guilt piled on you is your just reward. suck it up, loser.

anyone's private life getting dragged out in public like this

Did you WATCH the presser? The guy went into uncomfortable detail about his mistress. He's doing a lot to pile it on himself.

Shep disppointingly respectful today. :(

sure was stupid to vanish for six days, that's for sure. the presser.. saw part of it, heard a bit more. weird and sad and uncomfortable.

everyone's a hypocrite about quite a lot of things IMHO.

not saying that in a cynical way exactly.

these sort of ritualistic public humiliations are fascinating. did we have these before they went after bill clinton?

presser is hard to watch. i gotta be somewhere, will prob sit through the rest later.

No sense in being gleeful about it, but really, fuck these dudes imo. That's a brand of hypocrisy I can not abide.

I think for a long time, extra-marital affairs in politics were de rigueur and no one made a big deal. It was about the time "The Moral Majority" rose up and hardline moralists started getting caught with their pants down that the phenomenon became newsy.

^^^Swaggart

I was about to say:

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CAR CHASE

haha

it has to be a requirement for any anchor on fox, to know how to talk their way through one of these things even if it goes on for an hour. trace gallagher knows his car chases

man you guys are missing out
dude drove up onto the grass and wrecked through a road sign and is back on the freeway

yay, the twitter:

Just watched crazy car chase live in dallas with entire office cheering on the 'bad guy'

Wat was da damn dude n Texas highspeed chase thinkin...He jus got cracked real talk DAMN.

Note to self: Next whip to get - Nissan Maxima.

whom ever the n**** is from fox news covering the car chase is funny as hell

damn that car chase was crazy.... an hour and a half and it ended with a crash... Texans do it big!

Newsroom staffers are watching a car chase in Dallas on the plasma. And they shouted "OHHH!" when the fugitive's car broke and got caught!

Entire office is watching current chase on TV. And people say *Twitter* is a productivity sucker...

the entire twitteronia was watching, and no one here? I MIGHT QUIT ILX TODAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCOiT5n-AKg

we know of shep's love for car chases!

I MIGHT QUIT ILX TODAY

Never quit ILX daria.