{"id":1259,"date":"2009-05-04T14:43:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T21:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2009-05-04T14:43:16","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T21:43:16","slug":"top-10-crazy-political-commentators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1259","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Crazy Political Commentators"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to AskMen.com, the Top 10 Crazy Political Commentators<\/a> are:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Bill O’Reilly<\/li>\n
  2. Keith Olbermann<\/li>\n
  3. Ann Coulter<\/li>\n
  4. Michael Savage<\/li>\n
  5. Rush Limbaugh<\/li>\n
  6. Sean Hannity<\/li>\n
  7. Chris Matthews<\/li>\n
  8. Geraldo Rivera<\/li>\n
  9. Dennis Miller<\/li>\n
  10. Glenn Beck<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Somehow I missed this list when it was published back in February. On the surface it doesn’t seem particularly groundbreaking. After all, the personalities enumerated are mostly deserving, although the order could inspire much debate.<\/p>\n

    The funny thing about this list is that AskMen is owned by Fox Interactive, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. So it’s interesting to note that five of the top 10 crazies, including number one, are actually employees of Fox News. Three more (Coulter, Savage, and Limbaugh) are Fox-aligned right-wingers. That’s eight out of ten Foxies, with the remaining two from MSNBC.<\/p>\n

    What we have here is one Fox affiliate acknowledging that another Fox affiliate is dominated by pundits who are patently insane. Will the editors of AskMen be punished for this eruption of honesty? Will they be admonished for insulting their corporate cousins? Of course not. This is exactly what Fox intended when they hired these lunatics. They were pursuing a programming strategy that leaned heavily on exploiting madness for its entertainment value. They were convinced that nothing excited the American viewing public as much as a live, on-air, mental train wreck.<\/p>\n

    Well, they are sure getting their money’s worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    According to AskMen.com, the Top 10 Crazy Political Commentators are: Bill O’Reilly Keith Olbermann Ann Coulter Michael Savage Rush Limbaugh Sean Hannity Chris Matthews Geraldo Rivera Dennis Miller Glenn Beck Somehow I missed this list when it was published back in February. On the surface it doesn’t seem particularly groundbreaking. After all, the personalities enumerated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[546,26,33,23,22],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-askmen","tag-bill-oreilly","tag-fox-news","tag-keith-olbermann","tag-msnbc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-kj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":541,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=541","url_meta":{"origin":1259,"position":0},"title":"CNN’s Parade Of GOP Pundits: Laura Ingraham Edition","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/1\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"In its quest to out-fox Fox News, CNN is handing over its 8:00 pm time slot to conservative shill, Laura Ingraham for a week. Ingraham is the diva that deemed that artists should \"Shut Up and Sing\" (unless, of course, you're Ronald Reagan or Fred Thompson). It was only a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1348,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1348","url_meta":{"origin":1259,"position":1},"title":"GE And FOX Agree To Censor Their News Divisions","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/1\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In a report in the New York Times, the corporate parents of NBC and Fox News were brought together at a summit for CEO's in an attempt to settle a long-simmering feud. Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, and Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp, sat down to try to work\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Big Media"","block_context":{"text":"Big Media","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1356,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1356","url_meta":{"origin":1259,"position":2},"title":"GE And News Corp: The Saga Continues","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/8\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"As previously reported, executives at GE and News Corp have been attempting to broker a deal that would end the bickering between the networks and, mostly, Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly. I continue to maintain that it would be a violation of journalistic ethics for the execs to interfere with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Big Media"","block_context":{"text":"Big Media","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":917,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=917","url_meta":{"origin":1259,"position":3},"title":"Fox News On O’Reilly vs Olbermann: If You Stop, We’ll Stop","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/19\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Howard Kurtz has a revealing backgrounder on the battle between Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann. O'Reilly, who has a superstitious aversion to saying Olbermann's name, has directed his attacks at NBC, calling its chairman, Jeffrey Immelt, \"a \"despicable human being.\" He even blames Immelt for the deaths of American soldiers\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":940,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=940","url_meta":{"origin":1259,"position":4},"title":"Media Is Changing. Get used To It!","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/7\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The National Conference on Media Reform is presently underway in Minneapolis, MN. If you are fortunate enough to attend you will encounter an inspiring array of media professionals, critics, activists, and others who recognize both the threat and the potential of the modern media infrastructure. If you cannot attend, stay\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":936,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=936","url_meta":{"origin":1259,"position":5},"title":"The Rise Up Of Countdown","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/3\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Another month, another dismal performance by Fox News who, once again, wins the trophy for \"Slowest Growing Cable News Network.\" The redundancy of this news compels me to search for some other ratings story so as not to bore myself. Fortunately, I've found a couple. For most of the past\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}