Fox News Hosts - Who is the worst?

the best

I actually remember watching this live back in January...

btw, I voted Hannity because he's such a witless partisan pipewrench, but Chris Wallace is a stain on his family's good name.

lmao, im srs shep is on another planet

hannity. wanted to vote beck but his eventual big meltdown is gonna rule.

Glen's good for laughs. Brit's slurred speech is fun to imitate. Chris Wallace is a wet noodle most of the time, but occasionally he says something that makes sense. O'Reilly is a trained monkey. The Fox & Friends crew is irritating beyond belief, but ultimately harmless. The rest of the anchors/readers are just cyborgs.

There is nothing remotely redeeming about Hannity.

(Realized I left out Shep, but I've already made it clear on several occasions that I wish he was my best friend.)

I hear the same of Limbaugh. I mean, Limbaugh will tell you that, straight up, and so will O'Reilly. Maybe Olbermann will too, and if he won't he's the biggest prick of the lot of them. But is it noble? Is it even fair? It's a dark alley to go down, but are these hosts on news channels honestly presented as entertainers and not journalists, and how much responsibility lies with the viewer if they swallow their turds of wisdom?

Maybe if Hannity did a little soft shoe at the beginning of each show I wouldn't have a problem with him.

I can relate to their predicament in that - and I think most people can recall similar stories - there have been times in my life where I'm goofing off through a sort of artificial persona and some people mistake the shtick for my actual personality, and then you feel obligated to not break character and disappoint or lose attention. Eventually, with these people, they got to the point where if they ever just lightened-up they'd lose their audiences. But, of course, they get paid millions to be something they're really not and to rile up resentment and bitterness in a lot of people (and that goes for both sides) and that's where my empathy dips.

wanted to vote beck but his eventual big meltdown is gonna rule.

Beck is the crazy uncle personified.

Beck's tears are unconvincing. I want to see him rend his clothing and bloody himself somehow.

Brit's slurred speech is fun to imitate

this is so otm - his constant monotone was great too bcuz after they ran a segment he'd often say "good report", but in his manner it sounded like a really condescending insult instead of stock 'praise' for some story and now my friends and i always zing a non interesting story/anecdote by going into britt voice and saying 'interesting report'

the problem with people tryna defend hannity or whoever as "o its just acting! hes not really like that" is--as was so astutely pointed out by shep smith esq--people really fuckin believe it. and if someones out there saying, oh, obamas a socialist muslim deviant, and ur going "o well he doesnt believe it"--get 1 clue dude cuz tons of ppl who are watchin the dam show do and in the words of shep smith phd "u cant unring that bell"

Only Stockholm syndrome could explain why I even know the names of these people.

a lot of their shows are entertaining

Hannity in a fucking walk.

Shep said "interwebs"!!!!1 OMG

want to vote beck for taking the hannity mode of paranoia, repetition and cruelty into a fully-lived psychosis. but i can't; shep smith teased beck all on his special day, chris wallace came on, and complained that shep was just jealous, and should be more grateful. chris wallace, you are a bitch, you get my vote.

I voted, even though I never watch the Fox News network.

I'm pretty ecstatic that I don't know who a bunch of these people actually are other than names I've heard.

(btw I can't vote O'Reilly because I had to help forcibly restrain a a drunk Boston executive from running across the room and punching his lights out at a DNC event at the Kennedy School in 2004; for that he will always be forever lol to me)

hannity, no doubt.

this dude OTM:

Hannity IMO is the worst of them b/c he isn't as crazy ridiculous as Savage, or as suave on the mic as Limbaugh. Hannity just has this thick, smug, don't give a fuck, on-message attitude, and not even a semblance of intelligence below the surface.

― dan m, Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:21 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

(from the Conservative Talk Radio thread)

srsly fuckin look at this guy:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NK8p0gBnp_4/SbF55sgWDpI/AAAAAAAABSs/aoXUg8Xn5LM/s400/sean_hannity.jpg

ughh

kind of reminds me of Robert Forster.

Chris Wallace isn't a personality like the others -- he's the "news" guy, and I've never had a problem with him.

Hannity, however, is just A BAD ACTOR.

kind of reminds me of Robert Forster.

UGGGH. What have you DONE?!

http://www.celebratelove.com/gifs/hannity.jpg

(not sure if you meant Go-Between Robert Forster or Quentin Tarantino's Robert Forster)

i have seen that creepy smug rightwing whiteman smile far too many times in my life

I think I hate Beck the most, and would be more likely to watch his show. The others just seem tired and defeated.

yeah gotta go with Hannity. no redeeming qualities. Never entertaining (like Beck) and never appears human/potentially open to reason (like O'Reilly)

The man is an inspiration.

"technical errors on the show"=not knowing what "play us out" means.

hannity. i think o'reilly is just a clown; maybe there are still some rubes left who take him seriously, but by and large his respectedness bubble popped a long time ago.

also it's sad to watch o'reilly's humanity occasionally leach through; it's like "you fucking asshole, stop hiding behind this shtick and be a real person."

And singling out fox for smugness is silly. If you have a tremendous problem with smug and condescending political hosts surely you also cringe whenever Rachel Maddow puts someone down or when you watch too much of the Daily Show. Fox News is annoying for a couple of reasons but it'd be silly to claim "smug" as one of them and then flip over to watch Keith Olbermann, who is, of course, just an honest journalist with the courage to speak truth to power (or whatever his talking points sound like to you if you believe the message).

to me, rachel comes off as the least smug of the maddow/olbermann/matthews triptych. she seems like she respects her guests and wants to learn from them. that's not to say she doesn't have her moments...

jbr otm cf her 'throwdown' with david frum

To be fair to her, Frum was totally trolling.

Voting Hannity btw without much convinction. Honestly don't know half these folks.

i like that she listens instead of just yelling and interrupting. (xposts)

that's what i'm saying! but she was respectfully defending her show and her mannerisms, it wasn't like an o reilly or hannity style thing. and when she has ppl on like tim pawlenty (sp?) it brings the best out of those dudes cuz they aren't on the defensive nor are they on to debate some 'democratic strategist'

Oh I thought you were saying that was "one of her moments". Nevermind.

she also has this thing of introducing her guests with their CVs or a rundown of what they're there to talk about -- and when they come on, she asks whether the facts in her intro were correct. they always are.

yeah i watch olbermann and maddow almost every night but olbermann is like the daily show for me, pure entertainment, rarely enriching for the mind except for maaybe 'still bushed' but i lol a lot when dude does worst persons and w/e, i turn it off when he brings on eugene robinson or the elfish british dude or everyone else but maddow's show brings it almost every night both in terms of her personal opinion being enlightening and shit that she straight up teaches you

He brings on Oxbow's Eugene Robinson??!!?

try
http://thoughtmerchant.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/eugene-robinson.jpg

Eugene Robinson sweats boringness from his pores.

Too bad. The "real" Eugene Robinson is a bad ass.

now that would be some good tv

olbermann's guests have gotten really awful lately. robinson is boring, elfish brit is boring, howard fineman is boring and a hack, so is the woman w/ the harry potter glasses that he brings on. i like to look at chris hughes from the nation and he brings it sometimes but jonathan turley the gw law professor is his best guest by miles

He brings on Oxbow's Eugene Robinson??!!?

― Alex in SF, Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:19 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that WOULD be interesting.

for sale

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/06/21st-century-fox-has-been-holding-talks-to-sell-most-of-company-to-disney-sources.html

Maybe they can replace the anchors with less cartoonish characters.

that link specifically notes that the news + sports divisions are not for sale

Trump spoke with Murdoch ahead of Disney deal to make sure Murdoch wasn’t selling Fox News, person briefed on the call said

— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) December 14, 2017

when u tweet from the wrong account

Thanks @TheOfficialABCD I’m no regular Fox viewer but I’ll push back when u aim at @HowardKurtz. He’s 100% fair & balanced, he’s levelheaded & gives criticism when it’s due, no matter the party

— HowardKurtz (@HowardKurtz) January 28, 2018

John Barron was temporarily unavailable?

Not a host, but he's been there for a while -- but not now:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomnamako/ralph-peters

does Tucker Carlson have a deathwish?

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlson-attacks-bts-speaking-out-about-hate-crimes-targeting-asian-americans

I'm fine with him dying either way tbh

can't really call yourself an army if you don't actually kill people, come on now.

A much-hyped biography of the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has struggled to find favour with readers, a leading US publishing authority said, listing just over 3,000 copies sold in the first week of its release.

According to Publishers Weekly, Tucker by Chadwick Moore sold just 3,227 copies in its first week after publication on 1 August.

Huh, who would have guessed that Fox viewers don't buy/read many books