Fox News Hosts - Who is the worst?

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.

ok beck played video of the black panthers in philly (some old allegation of intimidation during election time, there was nothing to it) and then video of farrakhan talking about change, and now.. idk, some group (community organizers?) who all just happen to be young black men, and then says wow, don't they all look really militant

so we're now in the realm of shameless, flagrant race-baiting

eyup, that's race baiting!

lolz does anyone in America even really remember black militancy (which has been pretty much dead since the late-70s)?

Look out everybody, M.O.V.E. is back!

like, does the younger generation of conservatives even know who the Black Panthers (much less MOVE) were?

they know they're black

not to put too fine a point on it

what are modern-day black people not scary enough for them, they have to resort to some weird 40-yo bogeymen

I mean come on Farrakhan? nobody gives a fuck about him anymore.

its the same with going all the way back to the Nazis... like, dudes, that war is OVER. At least the "spectre of communism" was actually still around until fairly recently

people are certainly discovering the Black Panther Newsreels on youtube

I watched them all recently on the first disc of this - http://www.amazon.com/What-We-Want-Believe-Panther/dp/B000ILYYPS & they are really something, especially Off The Pig. On youtube, some of the most explosive bits are carved into 45 second sections out of context, and they're stirring stuff up. But man they were so sharp, total leaders talking in razor sharp memes, they need less than 5 seconds to get their points buried in you, things like 'Slavery was mostly about greed, and Racism was the excuse' cut through 40 years of babbling

in other words, 40 years old, but more alive than half the shit going on since then thanks to youtube

I know all that stuff, in general I am a huge fan of the Panthers (not least because of their media/art design savviness, which was unbelievable)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/26/sarah-palin-tells-friends_n_269559.html

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/08/27/big-beck-goes-over-3-million-viewers-beats-oreilly-in-demo-cable-news-ratings-for-wednesday-august-26-2009/25541

do networks care if you have hit ratings but no advertisers?

ooh, i'll have to look up those newsreels abt the black panthers on youtube. i'm interested.

beck today was in the realm of, that was so racist it's hard to even get mad, it's just like wow, that was SO RACIST

seriously what little i saw of the beck show today made me feel like such a naive fool for having asked a question about coded race-baiting. i mean, i was thinking there's no way someone could go on tv and be so flagrantly racist in this day and age, right? hahahahah

Glenn Beck warns about the controlling OLIGARHY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0OUXkZO8vE