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Title: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: Mustang on January 26, 2010, 08:03:53 PM
Glenn Beck: great

Bret Beir and guests (Charles Krauthammer + Bill Crystal + etc.) very formal beltway, but interesting to watch

Shepherd Smith: ok...

Bill O'Reilly: Some people get paid to be stupid and arrogant

Hannity: very good

Greta: kinda boring

Red Eye: Too homo-erotic for me

Fox and Friends (morning show): hilarious, especially Steve Ducci

Megan Kelly and Skinner : Smart and Hot.

Fox News Sunday: Sometimes Chris Wallace has interesting guests.

Forbes on Fox: Capitalism

Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: Chris on January 26, 2010, 08:13:18 PM
I like Red Eye... its pretty funny most of the time and twice as entertaining as whatever else passes for television... I've about had it with these mindless reality shows.  How many cake-decorating shows does the world need?  I agree with you on Gretta and Bill O.  Never seen the morning shows and I'm either sleeping or working on Sunday morning, so I don't catch those either.
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: thundley4 on January 26, 2010, 08:15:27 PM
I like Red Eye... its pretty funny most of the time and twice as entertaining as whatever else passes for television... I've about had it with these mindless reality shows.  How many cake-decorating shows does the world need?  I agree with you on Gretta and Bill O.  Never seen the morning shows and I'm either sleeping or working on Sunday morning, so I don't catch those either.

Redeye has had better ratings at times than some of the primetime shows on the other cable news networks.  :evillaugh:
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: MrsSmith on January 26, 2010, 08:55:01 PM
Never watch it, but always look at it online first (Drudge is second.)  It's good, thorough, not left-slanted.  The only other news that comes close to skipping the left-slant is, weirdly enough, NPR.  They're opinions are off the left side of the world, but the news is pretty even.
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: thundley4 on January 26, 2010, 08:56:38 PM
Never watch it, but always look at it online first (Drudge is second.)  It's good, thorough, not left-slanted.  The only other news that comes close to skipping the left-slant is, weirdly enough, NPR.  They're opinions are off the left side of the world, but the news is pretty even.

I've started checking the NPR website and my problem with them is that they get quite a bit of content from the AP.
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: djones520 on January 26, 2010, 09:00:05 PM
I love Red Eye.  It's all I look forward to on the months I'm working mids.  The humor is definitely geared more for my generation then for you "older" folks though.
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: Chris on January 26, 2010, 09:08:25 PM
I love Red Eye.  It's all I look forward to on the months I'm working mids.  The humor is definitely geared more for my generation then for you "older" folks though.

If you're up late, WGN shows Star Trek: TNG reruns at midnight (Central time). :p
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: Mustang on January 26, 2010, 10:32:50 PM
Male time? Fruity greg-a-logues. Homo-erotic introductions of guests. And Greg bragging about the "boy-toys" that clean his pool.

Yeah, I think I'll pass.
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: debk on January 26, 2010, 10:37:53 PM
I love Red Eye.  It's all I look forward to on the months I'm working mids.  The humor is definitely geared more for my generation then for you "older" folks though.


ahem....I happen to like RedEye. I don't watch it often unless I'm pulling a late night working....but I think it's fun to see most of the guests in a different format than they usually are. I saw Huckabee on it last week and thought he seemed most comfortable...

I'm a Fox News watcher......there isn't really anyone that I don't like...just some that I like better.
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: thundley4 on January 26, 2010, 10:49:18 PM

ahem....I happen to like RedEye. I don't watch it often unless I'm pulling a late night working....but I think it's fun to see most of the guests in a different format than they usually are. I saw Huckabee on it last week and thought he seemed most comfortable...

I'm a Fox News watcher......there isn't really anyone that I don't like...just some that I like better.

I've been recording it and watching several episodes back to back at times.  It's surprising the variety of guests that they have on.
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: The Village Idiot on January 26, 2010, 11:20:46 PM
Its aw-ight.

Actually the Beck documentary and the take down of Joe Klein was awesome. I liked Red Eye when I use to watch it.
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: JakeStyle on January 27, 2010, 04:14:07 AM
I try to watch Special Report every day, I think it's the best political daily summary available on the tube.  I also watch Redeye whenever I happen to be up that late because I think it is just plain funny.
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: whiffleball on January 27, 2010, 05:57:11 AM
Don't watch TV news, any TV news, because I cannot bear commercials and sitting through crap I don't care a fig about.  Fox online is where I get the news that matters to me.  I don't bother giving any of the other alphabets a hit unless I see a link given elsewhere.

I get News of the Weird from the DUmp.
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: Eupher on January 27, 2010, 08:27:07 AM
Don't watch TV news, any TV news, because I cannot bear commercials and sitting through crap I don't care a fig about.  Fox online is where I get the news that matters to me.  I don't bother giving any of the other alphabets a hit unless I see a link given elsewhere.

I get News of the Weird from the DUmp.

Bingo on the TV. I watch very, very little of it anyway and only when Mrs E is holding a gun to my head.

Local news is the absolute worst. The steady diet of murders, rapes, robberies, and arson just doesn't work for me. You'd think that I was living in Gomorrah to hear all of that for 18 minutes out of a 20 minute broadcast.   :banghead:

I get most of my news from the WSJ (both hard copy and online), but FoxNews online is another source. I'll occasionally take a look at Drudge. And just to make sure that I get a dose of Moonbat, I'll look at HuffPo about once a week or so.
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on January 27, 2010, 08:41:22 AM
Redeye has kind of grown on me, at first it seemed too much snark for too little point, but after watching it more I have kind of gotten in the groove with it.

Geraldo makes my skin crawl, he may well be the phoniest POS on the planet with the possible exception of Obama himself. 

O'Reilly is a pontificating gasbag and seems like an old-school Ford/Rockefeller Republican which means he's as much of a social liberal as a lot of Democrats, though he does have his moments.

Glen Beck is a bit nutty for my taste, but he also has his lucid moments.

I like all the various Fox & Friends personalities, none of them strike me as exactly geniuses but then I don't want to get my news from someone talking down to me anyway, so that works.

I really like all the brainiac Conservative women and many of the male regulars on the business programs and Fox Business Channel; as far as Fox Business itself goes, it took a big slide in my viewing lineup when Imus came on, he's another pontificating gasbag but with a lot less clarity of thought and an annoying Manhattan-centric outlook despite the cowboy togs. 
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: debk on January 27, 2010, 08:54:26 AM
Geraldo makes my skin crawl, he may well be the phoniest POS on the planet with the possible exception of Obama himself.  Me too! He is so full of himself! I have seen him the last two weekends in Haiti and find it amazing that his head fits into the screen... ::)

Glen Beck is a bit nutty for my taste, but he also has his lucid moments. I like him, though when he gets into his "goofy act" (for lack of a better description)....I tune out. He might be trying to make some good points but he by playing into the nutcase position that many have relegated him...I have little patience for watching it. 


I really like all the brainiac Conservative women and many of the male regulars on the business programs and Fox Business Channel; as far as Fox Business itself goes, it took a big slide in my viewing lineup when Imus came on, he's another pontificating gasbag but with a lot less clarity of thought and an annoying Manhattan-centric outlook despite the cowboy togs.  I don't watch Fox Business, though the other half prefers it.....I do like Neil Cavuto.


Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on January 27, 2010, 09:35:54 AM
I'm with ya on Cavuto, Deb, he's very clever and conversational, without coming across as egotistical.
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: Chris_ on January 27, 2010, 10:21:01 AM
Glenn Beck: great

Bret Beir and guests (Charles Krauthammer + Bill Crystal + etc.) very formal beltway, but interesting to watch

Shepherd Smith: ok...

Bill O'Reilly: Some people get paid to be stupid and arrogant

Hannity: very good

Greta: kinda boring

Red Eye: Too homo-erotic for me

Fox and Friends (morning show): hilarious, especially Steve Ducci

Megan Kelly and Skinner : Smart and Hot.

Fox News Sunday: Sometimes Chris Wallace has interesting guests.

Forbes on Fox: Capitalism



If any of this is "news," it's news to me.  Isn't all the above commentary?
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: The Village Idiot on January 27, 2010, 10:21:54 AM
I like Catherine Herridge

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Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on January 27, 2010, 11:18:29 AM
If any of this is "news," it's news to me.  Isn't all the above commentary?

It's the Fox News Channel.  Some of the programs are news, some commentary.
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: debk on January 27, 2010, 12:19:36 PM
If any of this is "news," it's news to me.  Isn't all the above commentary?


From 6 am with Fox and Friends to 3pm with Shepherd Smith...it's more news than commentary.

At 4 it's Neil Cavuto that is more business news than commentary.

At 5 it's Beck...which is all commentary.

6 is Bret Beir which is mostly political.

7 is back to Shep Smith and being more news.

From 8 on it's all commentary.

The only time it's different is if there is some crisis in the world such as when the Haiti earthquake first happened.
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: Chris_ on January 27, 2010, 12:57:02 PM
It's the Fox News Channel.  Some of the programs are news, some commentary.

Ah I see... (I don't have TV) ... honestly I still associate Fox with the Simpsons.   :hyper:
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: MrsSmith on January 27, 2010, 04:22:53 PM
I've started checking the NPR website and my problem with them is that they get quite a bit of content from the AP.
I don't often go to the site, it's too slow.  I listen to the news on the radio as I  commute to and from work.  Maybe it's just our local stations, but the radio news is pretty balanced.
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: Mustang on January 27, 2010, 08:01:35 PM
I forgot to mention Geraldo Rivera.

If you look up scum-sucking leach in the dictionary, you will find Geraldo's picture.
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: Chris_ on January 27, 2010, 08:05:16 PM
Redeye has kind of grown on me, at first it seemed too much snark for too little point, but after watching it more I have kind of gotten in the groove with it.

Geraldo makes my skin crawl, he may well be the phoniest POS on the planet with the possible exception of Obama himself. 

O'Reilly is a pontificating gasbag and seems like an old-school Ford/Rockefeller Republican which means he's as much of a social liberal as a lot of Democrats, though he does have his moments.

Glen Beck is a bit nutty for my taste, but he also has his lucid moments.

I like all the various Fox & Friends personalities, none of them strike me as exactly geniuses but then I don't want to get my news from someone talking down to me anyway, so that works.

I really like all the brainiac Conservative women and many of the male regulars on the business programs and Fox Business Channel; as far as Fox Business itself goes, it took a big slide in my viewing lineup when Imus came on, he's another pontificating gasbag but with a lot less clarity of thought and an annoying Manhattan-centric outlook despite the cowboy togs. 

Almost exactly my sentiments on all of them except Red Eye.....I've never watched it.

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Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: The Village Idiot on January 27, 2010, 08:23:01 PM
I don't often go to the site, it's too slow.  I listen to the news on the radio as I  commute to and from work.  Maybe it's just our local stations, but the radio news is pretty balanced.

NPR balanced???

thats a first
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: BEG on January 27, 2010, 11:58:53 PM

ahem....I happen to like RedEye. I don't watch it often unless I'm pulling a late night working....but I think it's fun to see most of the guests in a different format than they usually are. I saw Huckabee on it last week and thought he seemed most comfortable...

I'm a Fox News watcher......there isn't really anyone that I don't like...just some that I like better.

I agree, I really like red eye.  I like Beck (sometimes he does get a bit "nutty") and I love it when he has the focus groups.  I especially loved the one he had with Black Conservatives.  Bill O'Reilly is annoying, every once in awhile he is ok.  Hannity annoys me but I really like the focus group that Frank Luntz does and sometimes I like the end when he has the three guests on.....Bob Beckel is a total jerk.  Greta, I can take of leave.  I love Chris Wallace and Special Report with Bret Baier, especially the last part of the show.  My favorite person on Special Report is Charles Krauthammer, he is simply brilliant.  

I am really enjoying John Stosse'ls show on Fox Business.  I LOVE his focus groups and generally agree with his views (yes I know he is a Libertarian).  I love watching the business shows on the weekend.  I love it when they have wimpy liberals on who can't defend their economic views.   :-)

I can not STAND Geraldo  or Shepard Smith.  I can take Shepard Smith if I don't want to find the remote and change the channel but I will turn over the room to find the remote (or *gasp* get up and change the channel) if Geraldo is on.  Why they have that twit on Fox I will never know.  

I love Megyn Kelly, I am excited to see her new show on Monday.  
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: BEG on January 28, 2010, 12:06:04 AM
Its aw-ight.

Actually the Beck documentary and the take down of Joe Klein was awesome. I liked Red Eye when I use to watch it.

I totally agree
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: debk on January 28, 2010, 12:08:52 AM
I agree, I really like red eye.  I like Beck (sometimes he does get a bit "nutty") and I love it when he has the focus groups.  I especially loved the one he had with Black Conservatives.  Bill O'Reilly is annoying, every once in awhile he is ok.  Hannity annoys me but I really like the focus group that Frank Luntz does and sometimes I like the end when he has the three guests on.....Bob Beckel is a total jerk.  Greta, I can take of leave.  I love Chris Wallace and Special Report with Bret Baier, especially the last part of the show.  My favorite person on Special Report is Charles Krauthammer, he is simply brilliant.  

I am really enjoying John Stosse'ls show on Fox Business.  I LOVE his focus groups and generally agree with his views (yes I know he is a Libertarian).  I love watching the business shows on the weekend.  I love it when they have wimpy liberals on who can't defend their economic views.   :-)

I can not STAND Geraldo  or Shepard Smith.  I can take Shepard Smith if I don't want to find the remote and change the channel but I will turn over the room to find the remote (or *gasp* get up and change the channel) if Geraldo is on.  Why they have that twit on Fox I will never know.  

I love Megyn Kelly, I am excited to see how her new show on Monday.  


I agree with you about Charles Krauthammer.....he is brillant.

I saw the both the Black Conservative shows. Excellent.

Geraldo is a Obama's media counterpart.....equally narcissistic and convinced he knows more, has done more, etc etc etc than anyone else in news media.   ::)

Have not watched Stossel very much. I too, like the Saturday morning business shows. Did you see the one last weekend with the liberal woman with the dark hair? She didn't have a clue what she was talking about. She didn't even have the very basics of economics understood.  :banghead:
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: The Village Idiot on January 28, 2010, 12:09:56 AM
I totally agree

Thanks

http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com/2010/01/state-of-arrogance-ban-1st-amendment.html
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: Chris on January 28, 2010, 09:44:44 AM
I have nothing else to add right now... I just wanted to post this somewhere.
Quote from: http://drudgereport.com/
CABLE NEWS RACE
TUES., JAN., 26, 2010

FOXNEWS O'REILLY 3,581,000
FOXNEWS BECK 3,196,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 3,133,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,624,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 2,415,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 2,187,000
CNNHN BEHAR 949,000
CNNHN GRACE 914,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 818,000
CNN KING 796,000
MSNBC MADDOW 726,000

Keith is losing to Joy Behar and even that old corpse is beating Olbermann Jr. in the ratings. :evillaugh:
Title: Re: What is your opinion of Fox News?
Post by: Daisy on January 28, 2010, 12:51:38 PM
Fox is the only News worth watching. IMHO.