Worst Newscaster Ever

[RBS]

Give it a shot, will you?

[moneyp]

These guys aren't "newscasters" are they?

[lynn]

Ann Coulter isn't a newscaster. She's a groupie.

[RBS]

Ay caramba! You know what I mean!

[Gordon B]

Originally Posted by RBS

Ay caramba! You know what I mean!

What are they?

If you wanted a poll of worst conservatives, why not call it that? Why is Tim McCarver in the list? Why is Rush not in the list?

[RBS]

Originally Posted by Gordon B

What are they?

If you wanted a poll of worst conservatives, why not call it that? Why is Tim McCarver in the list? Why is Rush not in the list?

Damn! I forgot about that clown!

Tim McCarver? Did you ever hear him announce a game? Augh!

Perhaps I should have named the list Worst Conservative Commentators and Worst Baseball Announcer.

[rollhead]

I voted for Bill O'Reilly. He is tied with one of the other creeps on your list.

[sonic1]

Come on, when is Monte going to show up and say "dan rather"?

[Dr Dave]

All those choices suck!

...and when I think about it, just about all of them suck anyway. Goddam Jim Lehrer and his polite softball questions! Gwen Ifill is okay. Judy Woodruff is okay. Ray Suarez is okay. Wolf Blitzer, somebody should throw him down a well.

If the Fox network were to disappear tomorrow, I'd consider it a blow for democracy.

I haven't watched any broadcast network in years, except when its NCAA and NBA time.

[graypencil]

As someone already noted, NONE of these are "newscasters" ..they are all variations
on the right-wing -bloviating -offensive -loudmouth screedmongers.

Having said that, it's a photofinish between the Loufameister and the anorexic blond
harridan ..

I picked Coulter ( but with O'Reilley and his loufa right up there near her skinny butt )

[burning dog]

Bill O'Reilly was a master leg-spinner.

[Surfer]

Joe Morgan.

Overheard this past Sunday on Sunday Night Baseball,

"hitting into a lot of double plays is the sign of a good team, because you are constantly putting people on base. Turning a lot of them means you have a bad team, because you are putting alot of runners on base."

I don't pay any attention to extremist spin masters. Power to the people, man. NPR usually has some fairly balanced discussions.

[GoodSpeak]

Sean Hannity...Ann Coulter...newscasters....?


NONE of the above are newscasters except for Brit Hume.



At least he pretends to do the job.

[shrugs]

Originally Posted by Surfer

Joe Morgan.

Overheard this past Sunday on Sunday Night Baseball,

"hitting into a lot of double plays is the sign of a good team, because you are constantly putting people on base. Turning a lot of them means you have a bad team, because you are putting alot of runners on base."

I'll take him over Berman any day of the week.

[lynn]

Now here is a newscaster, forced out. I think this administration better watch their backs. I think Rather has an ax to grind and I don't blame him. I think that he was set up and he got caught in his own net. That had all the tell tale signs of a dirty trick to me.

Dan Rather's leaving:
Bitter to the end

Longtime anchor lashes out with harsh words

By Diego Vasquez
Jun 21, 2006


Dan Rather will be remembered as the White House correspondent who gloried most in the fall of President Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal, and also as the man who himself stayed too long, leaving CBS only after the very last shove out the door.

Rather left CBS yesterday, after nearly a half-century, and his parting words were not sweet, nor were those of the network, each seeming to wish the other only ill in so many words. In the often-brutal television industry firings are hardly uncommon. What is uncommon is such open rancor when the personality is one of Rather's rank.

It all points to several things, and one is how anxious the networks, CBS in particular, are to revamp their news operations. Rather was not just at odds with CBS under new news boss Sean McManus. He was, and has been for some time, at odds with the entire direction of TV news reporting away from the patriarchal tradition, symbolized most by Walter Cronkite, Rather's predecessor, toward a cozier, if less invasive, form of news reading.

Rather was a political animal, and in that a throwback to an era of activist journalism, when the good stories seemed always to land some powerful someone in jail--or headed toward impeachment. It's an era the networks most want to forget.

Rather than issuing a joint statement, which is standard form, CBS and Rather issued separate statements. CBS's ran to four pages, and while praising Rather, was cool to chilly in its tone. Rather's ran to several sentences. It was openly hostile toward his longtime employer:

"I leave CBS News with tremendous memories. But I leave now most of all with the desire to once again do regular, meaningful reporting. My departure before the term of my contract represents CBS' final acknowledgment, after a protracted struggle, that they had not lived up to their obligation to allow me to do substantive work there."

Rather's anger is not hard to understand. He resented his new bosses, for sure, but he also did not want to go gently, as Cronkite did, into an office with nothing to do and no stories to report. He did not want to fade away, and one senses he had already grown weary of the tributes that had begun to flow when it was known for sure that his days were numbered.

Rather, unlike Cronkite and NBC’s Tom Brokaw, remained at heart a reporter through his years as an anchor. That was his natural role, as he proved so well covering the Nixon White House decades ago, and the notion of simply fading stirred the worst sort of fears in him. Rather talks about returning to reporting, and at 73 it would seem he still has years to go yet.


Media Life Magazine

[Coda]

Rather is a loser. Good riddance.

[graypencil]

Originally Posted by Coda

Rather is a loser. Good riddance.

Whether you liked Rather or not, a summarial dismissal like that above says far more about the person who wrote it than Rather.

It also reinforces many of the things that are wrong with our society today by using free speech to diss someone with nothing offered to back up the claim.

Whats your frequency, Coda?

[shrugs]

I'll take O'Reilly over Cavuto any day of the week.

[Coda]

I agree completely Greypencil. Too bad you're not very consistent. Where were you on the Casper Weinberger DEATH?

Posted by G. Giant regarding the deceased Casper Weinberger:

Whaddya know? There really is a ghost named Caspar.

Good riddance, I say.

Posted by Rollhead:

Originally Posted by Gentle Giant
Good riddance, I say.


ditto

Al in NY:

In cases like these, rather than engage in the judgement of the newly deceased, I usually go by the dictum that if you can't say anything nice about somebody, better to say nothing at all.

I have nothing at all to say about Caspar Weinberger's death.

Pete C:

Nothing wrong with celebrating the death of a bastard as far as I'm concerned. A stubbed toe I could have ignored.

Patricia (edited):

Anyone who has ever delivered a eulogy knows that even the most reprehensible jerk, when in a casket in his spiffiest suit, attains a perfection of character and inevitably is said to have been loved by everyone. In short, when we are suddenly perfectly wonderful, unfortunately we are dead.

RIP Mr Weinberger.

Gary S.:

Geez. Shocked and dismayed. Another war criminal dies before anyone had a chance to try him.

and another:

I can't say anything nice about him because there's nothing nice to say about a man who steeped his career in blood and lies.

[Slurpy]

Originally Posted by Coda

Rather is a loser. Good riddance.

Damn straight! You tell em, Cody!! I've been fixin to tell y'all, enough of these liberal yankee pansies aidin and abettin the enemy with their hatred of our country and our freedom! Maybe they'll be more fair and balanced now like our God fearin patriots at FoxNews.

Good riddance and Amen!

[Brian Olewnick]

Coda, one difference might be that, possibly aside from someone named Kenneth, Rather was never directly responsible for the deaths of innocent people.

To be sure, I think Rather's a tool, but there are degrees of toolitude.

[Coda]

and my response wasn't over the top. And I didn't stick it to a dead man like the others did.

I'd like to see court transcripts or something that shows Cap was directly responsible for deaths otherwise I'll just assume that it's the other posters with higher degrees of toolitude.

[Brian Olewnick]

OK, I guess no innocents died during Weinberger-promoted and planned actions in Nicaragua, Grenada and Libya, among others.

Look, I could care less about Rather and didn't mind at all your shot at him. For my money, he's a pompous, egotistical ass. But there are worse people in the world, far worse.

[Coda]

Agreed.

[Slurpy]

Fixed.

Originally Posted by Coda

Agreed....just look to the left.