Watson you are a tad cranky tonight! Do you need a hug? Come here sweetie, let mama give you a squeeze and a kiss, and maybe some tomato soup and a cheese sandwich.
A Scot with an Irish temper and too many beers.....
Worst Cable News Personality
by 5thGeneration 27 Replies latest jw friends
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watson
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DanTheMan
Glenn Beck. He's even more smirky-smug than the Faux News guys, who thought that could be possible?
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restrangled
Here we go again. Anyone who acutally watched the entire clip? Are you assuming I didn't? I'm definitely not defending O'Reilly in any way, shape, or form. His behavior was out of control. But, my dear, he DID say, "there's no words on it" ....this "funkin' thing sucks" (which gave me the idea the teleprompter wasn't working or being operated properly. Perfect.
Having worked in a production environment, it is common for a crew that hates the talent, to sabotage them any way they can. If you notice, no one cow towed to Bill or kissed his ass....they just ignored him and pressed on. They had to have been laughing there ass off after his hissy fit. Pretty funny
R's hubby
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Preston
Worst Cable News personality?
I don't know since there are so few that I like.
There was actually a time, becuase I read about it, when news personalities were respectable, occasionally giving the news with a cigarette in one hand and they were straight shooters who didn't drag people's names through the mud. I remember watching Good Night, Good Luck thinking how restrained Edward R. Murrow was when he attacked Joe McCarthy.
Today, News Journalism is indistinguishable from WWE wrestling. You can be loud (Bill O'Reilly), demonize the innocent (Nancy Grace or Lou Dobbs), distract the news audience by incorporating stories on tabloid journalism (Olbermann), divulge military secrets (Geraldo), be a traitor to your country (Oliver North), or a punching bag (Alan Colmes).
I think Jim Lehr's pretty cool though.
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beksbks
Preston,
that was probably in the days before cable. It used to be that if you were given an FCC license to use the public airwaves, you were required to present unbiased information on controversial subjects. Some crazy business about community service, rights of the public to truthful information etc. Reagan did away with it.
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Indo_Dude
The anchors I most enjoy looking at are (no particular order); Anderson Cooper, Keith Olbermann, Jeremy Scahill (see pic below), oh and Anderson Cooper's ex is quite the full meal deal, he likes his boys with lots of latin flavor!
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james_woods
Excellent thread.
+++ on the glazed, spaced out, hating Olberman. And what is up with those damn glasses?
+++ on OReilly who has fallen to a bad case of the bighead.
I have to add three more - two for arrogance, and one for absolute simpering incompetant panderism.
Tim Russert - (I can pick the election before anybody else because I am the great Russert)
Lou Dobbs - (If you don't agree with me, then you are obviously a jerk, and I will show the world I am mad at you)
and - Greta van Susteran - (I will shamelessly milk the Aruba girl murder to absolute death and decay, and then publicly declare the main slime-boy lying suspect "contrite and believeable" because he granted me a ratings-building interview)
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undercover
Personally, I'm sick of Jim Cantore on The Weather Channel...