Fox News Hosts - Who is the worst?

what kind of beer

this beer issue might explain why recovering alcoholic glenn beck had a six pack of COORS on his desk yesterday. coors is the rightwing beer of choice isn't it?

ok studio b continues to get loopier, as a segment on h1n1 virus is introduced with some animation thing which shep sings over, then talks to the stage manager about her baby shower instead, then asks them to play the animation again so he can sing over it again

i'll have what shep's having

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i would gladly take rupert murdoch's money to work for shep

Say what you like about Fox News, I bet they stock some quality drugs/drink in the studio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXpyQ6POqiw

what kind of white-out has O'RLY been tooting?

i am grateful there have been no clips of sarah palin's last speech on any cable show i've listened to so far today. realized i probably dislike sarah palin less than many, many people because whenever she is on tv, i HAVE to change the channel, she could be reading the gettysburg address and that voice would still be physically painful to me. i think she's unqualified and wrong about everything but never actually listen to her speak. i can't! being the network correspondent covering her campaign stops last year would've required hazard pay or valium to calm your nerves or something

xpost - also grateful o'reilly said something that ridiculous, because now that canadian guy's point will actually get noticed. such a basic, simple thing but no US politician can say that since it'd cue instant bugout from the right "SEE THE DEMOCRATS REALLY WANT CANADIAN SOCIALISM"

oh, wait they're saying that anyway

Smooth!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWHq6v2tfP0

(youtube comment: "he stuck it in her pooper a few days later")

t's obv no one's favorite beer

WHAT AM I, CHICKEN SALAD? Jesus Christ. There was a time when I actually had a REPUTATION to uphold, and now it's been 14 posts with no mention?

loooooooooool shep was all bent out of shape over possibility of no-texting-while-driving laws, explains in detail how much more dangerous it is to eat a big mac while driving, bummed that you can't drive 110 on the LIE

The first study of drivers texting inside their vehicles shows that the risk sharply exceeds previous estimates based on laboratory research — and far surpasses the dangers of other driving distractions.

The new study, which entailed outfitting the cabs of long-haul trucks with video cameras over 18 months, found that when the drivers texted, their collision risk was 23 times greater than when not texting.

http://www.reelingreviews.com/thenumber23pic.jpg

Using a mobile phone while driving is illegal in the UK - with good reason - so I freak out as a passenger of someone who does this when I'm in the US.

After reading that NYT article a couple of weeks ago I've gotten pretty snippy with friends driving while texting. I've calmed down after they've threatened to leave me by the side of the road.

if i really wanted to send a text while i was driving a friend i would have them do it

It's really only my sister who does it; anyone else basically agrees that it ought to be illegal or that it's at worst bad common sense.

I admit that I text at red lights. I stop before moving, though.

they reported precisely that about that study today on the show including the stat re: 23 times more likely to crash. that was the discussion that ensued!

i did text while driving a couple times on my last road trip & kept telling myself this is really stupid, right, i just won't text any more after this, but wait, i'm bored.. i am considering a move to a smaller city and buying my own car again, but my gut is telling me this is a terrible idea, as i have never been able to *not* do impulsive, stupid shit every now and then. the rest of the time i'm a really good driver & can navigate crazy dc traffic without a problem, it's when i get bored/impatient..

texting while driving: terrifying or fucking terrifying?

aha!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhWIUBc9Hhk

i mean, how do you type out 140 characters on a blackberry without taking your eyes off the road?! i tried it myself on the jersey turnpike and that is just not true. (no i won't do that again.)

the vanity fair has an intern watching cable news 8 hours a day all this week. i think dude is quasi comatose by now.

http://twitter.com/VFintern

What does Fox like better than footage of tornado destruction? Footage of tornado destruction w/ a blond anchorwoman superimposed over it!

also this thread is too long
good lord, the cable news is SO WEIRD lately!! this is my news thread

yall think my posts itt could get me an internship at VF? new media wizard and shit

I'll write you the recommendation letter.

Glenn Beck is absolutely amazing tonight.

-the people in our government are "evil"
-don't trade in your car in the cash for clunkers deal, because if you register for it online the government will take possession of your computer and monitor your internet activity
-this recession is worse than the great depression because back then "people owned their own homes, and could grow food"

^^i'm afraid this shit is starting to hit home with my otherwise sane, not even really that far to the Right (except on choice) mom. it's a little troubling. and embarrasssing.

heh. my mom's been going on and on about how the country's being destroyed for at least the last five years. she blames the bush administration, though. i wonder if she'd have jumped on the government-is-evil train if it weren't for the fact that we have family who work for the government directly & indirectly (via a contractor). so just has extra anxiety about terrorism, china, russia, etc.

http://pleasecutthecrap.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/17/douchebaghannity.jpg

i want to rescind my vote for Hannity, because the answer to this question is so obviously Beck. Yeah I know he's got the entertainment wtf factor, but his whole schtick is basically tantamount to yelling (screaming, crying, blubbering, whining) "FIRE!" in a crowded theater every night. dude is a fucking pestilence.

And he seems to be affecting his audience, if these town halls are anything to go by. I doubt there would be as much yelling and blubbering without his influence.

somebody needs to animate that Hannity book cover so that Lady Liberty is just clubbing the dickens out of his fat, stupid head.

god, this has got to be the worst thing i have seen in a while.

http://gawker.com/5335254/most-insane-moments-from-the-town-hall-protests/gallery/?selectedImage=2

haha npr did manage to quote a guy outside of specter's townhall saying something like "this plan is socialism. it's just like 1930's germany. that's hitler. he wanted socialism. you know, hitler?"

Hitler? never heard of him. Tell me more!

i am just completely flabbergasted by the level of idiocy on display right now.

It is amazing that after the last eight years, after all these yahoos were not only silent but COMPLICIT in enabling an administration that openly lied us into an aggressive war, spied on its on citizens, abused, tortured and murdered prisoners of war, claimed the right to detain US citizens forever without trial, that it's HEALTH CARE that drives them into argumentum ad Hitler.

can't remember if i've already posted this:

http://obamaisliterallyhitler.tumblr.com/

oops. wrong thread.

OR IS IT

not sure where else to post this

http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/fail-owned-egypt-location-fail.jpg?w=500&h=366

This is old, but if I had seen it I would probably have voted Beck instead of Hannity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrqnU9GQYR0

It's the exasperated way he asks "How did this happen that we look at people who are Nazis and say that they are right wing?"

^^srsly not even (non-retarded) right-wingers are buying this "omg Nazis were so totally obviously LEFTIST!" bullshit right?

well, the one hannity book is about defending the nation from fascism and liberalism, and.. afaik jonah goldberg really got the ball rolling with his liberal fascism book, so.. yes, some people are buying! there's an active effort going on to rewrite the history of the early 20th century here, & i worry that while most everybody *i* know is dismissing this stuff as the garbage it is, one day we'll wake up and realize most kids in this country are being taught that the left & the progressive movement in particular are to blame for everything.

i guess i "get" the liberal "fascism" thing, but this whole thing where these dudes posit that Nazi Germany was, in fact, librul is like whoah

i should note that i did not watch the video (no headphones at the moment and I'm pretty sure I've seen it before)

To sum it up:

Guy from the Rand Institute: This Van Brunn's culture is a tribe of racist, anti-Jewish, anti-negro, anti-immigrant, everything and therefore he's a phenomenon of the Left because racism is a form of collectivism...there was a deal made by the Nazis and the Communists in the Germany in the 30s where they each agreed [now, bear with me here, this is the clever bit] to define themselves as the opposite of the other, you see the percentage in that...

Beck: Woah, man, you having just fuckin' blown my mind.

today - beck accuses obama admin of creating a 'thugocracy' in the white house

all his conspiracy talk about obama admin secretly run by ACORN/commmunity organizers, this kind of language, the other day fretting about the fcc diversity chair being out to shut down speech he doesn't like

how is it not coded race-baiting? i don't throw around that kind of accusation all the time, but for real, how is it not coded race-baiting?

he actually uses the word racist... but to describe them, and their motives behind the plans that "they" are assembling to silence "us" (i.e. Obama's new FCC chairman and their 'diversity committees' which will mandate changes at Fox in the name of 'equality')

it is not coded at all, it is simply inverted -- pretty much straight up those-racists-are-trying-to-take-me-out-by-calling-me-a-racist. the line 'This doesn't look like the country I grew up in' seemed way louder than the sentence he said before or after it...

this whole 'Speak Without Fear' week and I have lost track of the number of sentences that begin with Beck saying 'I Fear...'. Something like 25-30. He's just so afraid that... something's... going to happen. Not sure at all just what, mind you, but don't say he didn't warn you about it

I wonder if he's afraid that our president is going to lead us into an unnecessary foreign invasion

^ yeah exactly

so if we make it through the first term relatively unscathed, the Dow creeps back to 11,000+, no planes flown into any buildings etc is this guy going to shut up and go away?

i've said this before but beck seems like a kind of perverse conservative side-effect, chickens coming home to flourish. i'm pretty sure nixon didn't really believe his ex-new dealer opponents were involved in communist plots but he sure campaigned like he did. beck believes. he's like a walking embodiment of every below the belt, shit-talking conservative noise machine argument w/o the bill kristol straussian "lol look what i'm getting away with" apparatchik core.