Name the 3 TV News types who annoy you the most & why

[Neil Lisst]

I'll add mine after this, so it will show in the topic line.

[Neil Lisst]

1. Neil Cavuto, Bill O'Reilly, and David Asman.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Cavuto reminds me of the old cartoon character SNAGGLE PUSS.

Heavens to Mergatroid!!

BOR just needs a serious beating, preferably from all the women he's made feel creepy.

And David Asman is so dumb, it actually hurts my head to hear him talk.

[0007]

65. Then why tune into FAUX? They certainly don't have a thing to offer

other than a headache.

[Neil Lisst]

67. Why watch Goering and Goebbels? They're Ministry of Propaganda

You can't be fully informed without knowing what your opponents are saying, spreading, and believing.

[0007]

68. Have you heard anything new lately? Cough cough!

[Neil Lisst]

69. Every day! I like to play "what are today's talking points?!"

Those winger ground troops have boots on the ground at 6 AM Eastern, laying down suppressive fire against any Dem talking points, and laying down the themes for the day.

I usually watch the first 15 minutes of Fox and Friends to get their leadoff points for the day.

I don't watch BOR much. He's the angry, drunk white guy at the end of the bar - every bar - yelling about all the Americans he hates and yelling "hey, bring me another!"

Cavuto is a serious Bush shill, carefully crafting every to show to be a Praise the Lord Bush session, and malign Dems in any way conceivable and some inconceivable.

[paul_fromatlanta]

2. #1 The chatty ones babbling about mundane things

when I tune in for serious news.

[Neil Lisst]

4. did you ever see the skit with Lucy Lawless on SNL?

Cheri O'Teri, Molly Shannon - and it showed the MSNBC "gals" all chatting like that, and they quickly morphed into teen girls at a slumber party, wearing pjs and eating popcorn and candy.

God, it was funny!!

[paul_fromatlanta]

7. No I missed that - but if that are gonna chat I would prefer they

go the full slumber party motif. :)

[Sick_of_Rethuggery]

3. All, All and All?

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[adarling]

5. Katie Couric, Darin Kagen, Tucker Carlson

Cannot stand Kagen the most, how can a woman justify dating Rush Limbaugh|??? Couric is a repuke in disguise and Carlson is turd wearing a bow tie.
How does Kagen spell her first name?? who knows.

[Neil Lisst]

6. great choices. I hated Kagan BEFORE she wallowed will Rushbo

[adarling]

9. yes, same here

i thought they were going to fire her?

[Neil Lisst]

14. honestly, I don't know how some of these folks stay employed

Kagan has always chewed her words in a way that makes them difficult to understand. She's not a good news caster.

Fox's Bridgit Quinn, too. Sometimes I wonder if she pays THEM to get to work there.

[Beausoir]

39. I can't watch Kagan. Her mouth is so twisted and hard and mean.

She always looks like she has been sucking on something just horrid.

[w8liftinglady]

43. that's what's bothered me...well,that and ..

I can't look at her without getting a visual of her and rushbo getting their wild on.:puke:

[Neil Lisst]

70. even before that, the jaw thing bugged me. Hey, remember Bobbi Batista?

those weird eyes?!

[Karenca]

48. Well, she is!

sucking on something just horrid!

:puke:

[Chi-Town Exile]

19. I'm happy to know that I am not the only person that can't

stand Katie Couric. :puke:

[billybob537]

8. Jeraldo, Newt, and Ollie

Geraldo; phony report from "IRAQ" actually in Qutar
Newt ;disgraced former congressman< Ran out of town by his own party> For hipocrisy
Ollie; Lied to congress sold weapons to our enemy's
All to be found on Faux news supposed experts lying for Scumbag Admin.

[Neil Lisst]

23. "I'm standing here where American soldiers died."

Geraldo fall off the map for me when they caught him on that one.

[FloridaPat]

10. TV - being a visual medium has to appease the eyes as well

as the ears. If you record a TV news cast on audio tape and listen to it, you find that there is a lot of dead space. And TV news is all the same everywhere. Headline - video asking locals their opionions - and comments.

I stopped watching TV news in the early 80's. I noticed that when they reported on something I knew a lot about, they got a lot of facts wrong. So what were they doing with stories where I knew nothing? They couldn't find a fact if they fell over it.

It's just entertainment with a little informaiton and not the kind of thing you can make intelligent decisions with.

[Neil Lisst]

25. but it's important what is being said, and how often

because that the reality that most of the public lives with

[FloridaPat]

50. Yes. The stuff in the MSM is useless garbage. But not a lot of people

know that.

[Neil Lisst]

55. It's never been as uniformly bad and corporate as it is now.

We're in a war, but you can't see dead people on TV news. WTF?

The sanitization of news, the submissive of major news orgs to the president, MSM is pathetic.

[Karenca]

11. O'Reilley, Scarborough, and Blitzer

Why?
It's obvious!

[Neil Lisst]

16. Blitzer has degraded entirely. He used to not be so bad.

He's unwatchable now, he's such as ass kissing Bush lackey.

[Karenca]

47. Blitzer needs to enlist.

I can't even hear his voice ..........grrrrrrrrr.
Go to Iraq, Wolf...get the fuck out of here!!!!!!!

[Neil Lisst]

57. the balder he gets, the higher his hair gets

[cyanide]

74. sadly he has fallen

Into the Bush propaganda trap, where if you voice a concern over anything Iraq -------- you are a un American person.

[Karenca]

78. Hey, welcome!

:hi: :hi: :hi:

[gordianot]

12. My list.

Matt Lauer - I cannot stand his covert smug partisan stance. Of my three the most covert and insidious.

Tweety - Must we say more.

Tim Russert - Who is promoted as one who can ask tough questions, and almost never delivers. A true corporate media whore.

Guess I despise NBC.

[Neil Lisst]

18. all 3 of those want too much to be LIKED by those they interview

[BlooInBloo]

13. Friedman, Kristol, Novak.

[Neil Lisst]

15. then Fred Barnes must be in your on deck circle!!

[BlooInBloo]

22. LOL - hadn't thought that far, but you're prolly right!

[Neil Lisst]

28. I know my rightwing Fox scumbags!!

Beltway Boys, my ass!

Bushway Boys.

[BlooInBloo]

32. I actually don't watch fox - with Kristol I was thinking Meet The Press...

lol - as long as he gets mentioned tho - it's all good!

[Neil Lisst]

53. I have to watch THE FOXES and Bush. I MUST know all they do!

as painful as it is to watch

[BlooInBloo]

33. Ooops. Forgot the 'why' part....

Two words: evil, stupid.

[Christa]

17. I never ever watch Faux not fair and unbalanced

however, that Mr Know All Dan Abrahams, Rita Cosby (and her voice does not help), Joe Scarborough :hurts:

[Neil Lisst]

20. Dan Abrams = Greta wannabe.

Cosby's voice sends me on a mad scramble to change channels.

[Chi-Town Exile]

21. Katie Couric, Kyra Phillips and Paula Zahn

Brainless newsmodels that couldn't have an original thought in their bubbleheads if their lives depended on it.

I expect Right-Wing Hackery from Fox, but I can't stand it on all the other "liberal" media outlets.

[Neil Lisst]

26. Paula Zahn has disappointed because she gets more plain vanilla

all the time

you're right, they're TV stars, not newspeople

[Chi-Town Exile]

27. Can't take credit for the term "news models."

Stole that from the Goddess of Radio Randi Rhodes! LOL

[Neil Lisst]

30. Sometimes when I see a news model on Fox News I think ...

"I wonder if she's about to ask me if I want a table dance?"

[Chi-Town Exile]

34. Oh Never! Not on the family values channel! LOL eom

[Neil Lisst]

35. did you see the spring break footage they showed ...

... while talking about a serial killer?

The Daily Show covered it.

[Chi-Town Exile]

42. No, I didn't see that. Nothing they do amazes me.

Did you see the fake captions for Faux that Maher did on Real Time? They would be funny if they weren't true! LOL

[Neil Lisst]

49. Not recently, but I have seen those he runs.

I love the way they run those while interviewing some Dem .. you'll see this below the person:

BUSH: DEMS UNDERCUT TROOPS, COUNTRY ...

[xultar]

24. O'Riley, Hannity, Tweety, Colmes, Grace, Rita Cosby, Sosobad & Daryn

Kyra Phillips, Creepy Crawley, Zahn, Couric, Fucker Carlson, and who is that guy with the big long head and the 3-d mole on FAUX I hate his fucking GUTS. Oh and i hate the the Blonde guy on FAUX to that Gibson guy what a fundieTARD. Kristol who shouldn't be cuz he is PNAC... he has an agenda why the fuck is he on TeeV as a news type.

I just couldn't stop typing folks!

[Chi-Town Exile]

29. Great job! You're list is fantastic.

That Gibson guy on Faux gives me the creeps! He is a creep so it makes sense ...

[Neil Lisst]

31. I call him InSeannity

I call him InSeannity, cause he's friggin crazy.

[mandyky]

36. I have more than 3

#1 - I NEVER watch FOX unless they sponsor a debate during elctions or something, and CSpan doesn't cover it.

#2 Bill O'Liely and other bullies - editing out and cutting mikes is bad. Lou Dobbs can be a bully esp in on thisimmigration flap.

#3 The female sirens, nice on the eyes for the males but either their voices, styles or biases keeps me from watching or gritting my teeth if I do - Paula Zahn (rarely watch), Rita Cosby (never watch, even her commercials bother me - her voice sounds like she needs to clear her throat or blow her nose), Kyra Phillips (lewd fawning makes me grit my teeth - the idiot about creams her jeans when talking to military people), Nancy Grace (never watch, her style is a cross between Bill OLiely and Rita Cosby, plus I think she makes it near impossible for people to get a fair trial), Daryn Kagan just makes me shake my head (WTF does she see in Rushbo????!!!).

#4 Mike Allen and Chris Mathews bug me when they do the GOP love fest and act like pupies begging to be petted as they lob softballs to the GOP.

I rarely watch network news - Brian Williams saying Rush was a turnoff, the morning shows cover too much fluff, and 1/2 is way to short to cover news. I still watch 60 Minutes occassionally. Since CNN has become less biased than MSNBC, I have started watching CNN again during the day, instead of MSNBC.

/rant LOL

[saltpoint]

37. Kate O'Beirne (sp?), NPR's Barbara Bradley Haggarty, & nearly anyone on

FOX.

Unfortunately, there are SEVERAL runners-up who are close contenders and at any given moment deserve heightened scorn and contempt.

The Indianapolis STAR and the Cincinnati ENQUIRER are included in a long list of dailies that trumpet the virtues of Reagan/Bush/Bush etc.

O'Beirne is stingy-spirited in vehemently refusing to acknowledge conservatives' considerable shortcomings.

Haggarty is a double-agent. Her reports cool-browed and lend the pretense of balanced insight but her Christian bias is coursing through every word that comes out of her mouth. NPR should never have hired her; absent that, they should sack her immediately.

And my disdain for FOX is predictable. A den of thieves and GOP mouthpieces.

[otohara]

38. Kate O'Bitch

gawd that woman is icky. Her new book is about the "evils" of working moms, yet at the same time - she herself is a working mom.

[saltpoint]

40. A very good point. GOP folks are often like that. Phyllis Schlaffly

has a gay son or nephew -- some relative or other -- and goes around the country bashing lesbians and gays.

Party loyalosts are one thing and Hitlerian sig-heil sycophants are another.

Shame on these hyper-conservative shills.

[Catchawave]

41. Monica Crowley, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity

For reasons that they were the first 3 that came to mind immediately because I will not watch, listen or read (articles,books, etc) them. In fact, typing their names was painful :rofl:

[Neil Lisst]

54. I used to hate Monica Crowley, but her time with Ron, Jr. made me

... feel less hostile towards her. She's still a winger shill, but I saw a glimmer of goodness there, in spite of it.

[Catchawave]

73. I never saw that glimmer of goodness.....

And I tried for Ron Jr's sake on that MSNBC nooner show. I don't "hate" hate her, just annoyed by her face on my television, so I change the channel. She does still pop up now and then on the newsie channels shilling for her Saturday Radio gig in some/where/whatever markets. And no, I don't hold her Nixon background against her. I'm glad he had such loyalty in his final years.

Maybe it's her whininess :shrug: Hey, I'm for Girl Power :hi:

[Obamarama]

44. Matt Lauer (yawn), Darin Kagyn (puke), Hannity (puke again)

Matt is such a weenie. Kagyn used to sleep with Limbaugh, and as Forest Gump says, "That's all I have to say 'bout that." Hannity is just plain annoying as hell.

[kiki]

45. Here's a joke:

Q: Why does Tucker Carlson wear a spotted bow tie?

A: Because he's a fucking asshole.

[Neil Lisst]

52. laugh out loud funny!! do not miss this, folks!! ^^^^^^^

[Sequoia]

46. The bubble headed beach blonde comes on at five

She can tell you 'bout a plane crash
With a gleam in her eye
People love it when you die
Give us dirty laundry

Oingo Boingo

[Neil Lisst]

51. That was Don Henley, 1982, Dirty Laundry

GET THE WIDOW ON THE SET!
WE NEED DIRTY LAUNDRY!

kick em when they're UP
kick em when they're DOWN

[Sequoia]

58. Dang....I knew I was wrong.

But Oingo would do something like that, quirky band that they were. Living in Santa Monica at the time, we knew who that bubble headed blonde was.

[Neil Lisst]

60. I remember Oingo Bongo, too. One hit is all I remember, though.

and I can't remember which one that one was. I used to keep a tv on MTV at all times back in those days, just to watch the future.

I can remember people asking me in the early 80s "why are you watching that?!" I used to tell them "take a good look, cuz in the year 2000 more Americans will get their news from MTV than from CBS."

[martymar64]

62. You're not talking 'bout Bree are you?

I was always a Hal Fishman fan! Also props to Bob Tur, the flying Newsman!

[Sequoia]

63. Oh yes....Channel 5 KTLA. The best down there.

Sniff.

[long_green]

56. Hume, Gibson, and any female anchor so good looking that I

automatically don't believe what she is saying.

[leftchick]

59. Tony Harris, Darin Kagan on CNN

because they are both morons and Katie Couric because she is Katie Couric and she has no business being in the news business.

[Chiyo-chichi]

61. I have four...

Rita is particularly annoying when she is on the Hardball panel and pretending to be an expert on politics. Though I reach for the remote as quickly as possible after Olbermann, I have noticed that occasionally Rita's voice is not very raspy, leading me to believe that she is just mainly faking that throaty voice thing.

[windy252]

64. Daryn Kagan, Sean Hannity, and Judy Woodruff

Hannity just has an annoying voice and a head so large that it's distracting and I could never stand Kagan when I found she dated Limbaugh. I also didn't like the way Judy Woodruff would "subtly" insert Republican talking points into a newscast. Then again, I can't stand Bill Schneider's smile. There's something about it that just really irritates me.

[Neil Lisst]

71. tell me Judy Woodruff didn't look like the cryptkeeper with a makeover

[Jigarotta]

66. Zahn, Blitzer and Rush

Paula:
She seems to have lost her 'edge' lately of making me go crazy when I Hear... Her... Bullshit. Gack, that stuttering, pause, emphasis thing she does... During the Democrat Convention - how she moaned and rolled her eyes at anything Democratic and how she licked up creamy smiles for the repuglicans - lots of stuff flew off my coffeetable and at the tv in those days.

Blitzer:
whiney little hysterical asswipe (I call Leslie Lesterical) is getting even worse. He had a spot on a few months ago - a self promo thing. Decked out in khakhi's, long camera shots of him outdoors somewheres, big sky, nice colour/composition, and the background tune was Against the Wind, Bob Seger. How romantic, the 'journalist' going against the wind, against the status quo, risking himself for the sake of the free press, so noble. VOMIT! Our house still laughs at him for that to this day - see his brillo pad mug on tv and someone just has to say 'Against the Wind' and we all howl.

Rush:
Haven't seen or heard in in ages but his stinky breath still lingers. What a pyscho sack of shit poured in a bad suit.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

72. Newsgirls who have voices like a cross between Shirley Temple and a duck.

[msgadget]

75. Rita Cosby, Wolf Blitzer, Bill Mahr

I don't watch enough to have a list. I see about 1 minute of Rita before I quickly turn from KO and I catch Blitzer every now and then by accident. Bill Mahr annoys me A LOT these days, lots of one-liners and snarky remarks, leaves out inconvenient facts if they ruin the joke, often panelists don't get a chance to engage each other.

[Jack Rabbit]

76. No names, just types

1. The fashion model who has no visible journalistic credentials, but makes good eye candy.

2. The loud sportscaster.

3. Anybody who can't hide his bias, whatever it is (exceptions made for those who aren't supposed to hide their bias).

[Geek_Girl]

77. O'Reillly, Hume and Carlson

O'Reilly is probably the worst though. I still can't figure out why people watch him.

[Karenca]

79. I have to add Soledad

She's interviewing Cynthia McKinney at this moment,
I'm going to throw something at my TV.:evilfrown: