Posted on 04/20/2017 3:01:22 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
The prime time program shuffle resulting from the Bill O'Reilly departure from Fox News Channel is seriously flawed, and will fail quickly with a massive loss of viewers of "The Five".....now slated for the 9:00PM time slot. The show is boring, with only one member of "The Five" worth her salt {KG), and, it is not Dana Perino, who is terrible. The three males are losers with little substance. Bob Beckel and Juan Williams are not dummies...but 100% empty suits!!!
The winning line up would be:
- Martha McCallum at 7:00PM - Tucker Carlson at 8:00PM - Jesse Watters at 9:00PM - Sean Hannity at 10:00PM
A winning combination, IMHO!!!
My $00.02:
6PM: Bret
7PM; Watters
8PM: Carlson
9PM: Hannity
10PM: Miller
How well is that going to work?
I noticed that threads started at certain times of the day get missed and while I vaguely remember the show (being close to you in age) I don’t know if a majority of Freepers would respond to something that is reasonable as opposed to “The Five” being on at 9 being debatable.
For those who would like to watch a few programs...
http://www.hoover.org/library-archives/collections/firing-line
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/firinglinevideos
Discussed here on FR about the show being available on Amazon Prime in 2012:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2924981/posts
“I’m a 19 year Freeper, so maybe at age 65 I am over the hill. If a show like “The Five”
can generate so much discussion, and a show like Firing Line none at all, it is a minuscule
indicator of the coarsening of the culture, even among those I would think would not be susceptible.”
Yes, The Five is fluff and banal and, yes, Firing Line was weighty and intellectual. And, yes, the audience is much different today.
who in all likelihood did nothing more than express interest in women
In a neo-Victorian society such as we have today, when wishing a woman, “Good morning,” is sexual assault, what you suggest O’Reilly might have done is no exoneration. The object of the male’s attention gets to decide whether he is criminally liable or not. SNL did some great sketches on this.
Every once in a while I’ll post an article and start a thread that doesn’t get many responses. But I don’t act like a cry baby about it and scold fellow Freepers.
Perino is subbing right now for the deposed O’Reilly. Her news delivery is so wooden one might think she is actually a puppet or a robot. She has no, nada, personality as a talk show anchor.
And frankly, with the posts you've made to this and other such threads, one wonders just WHY you are on FR; you are a "squish", at best.
No, they tried giving him a show, then a recurring slot on the Five that was his own, and it doesn’t work. He’s not as funny as he thinks he is.
Likely. And then Fox will scramble.
Caning O’Reilly was a dangerously stupid idea.
Maybe they need a one-on-one debate show, like the old “Hannity and Colmes”.
Pretty much right on. Perino with her little Bushbotism killed any interest I had in the Five. Guttfeld used to have moments, but like so many, he started to think he was profoundly funny. I actually felt sorry for Juan Williams once when Greggie took a very personal dig at him. Beckel is a drunken joke. Bolling’s philosophy is ok, but he just is boring to me.
Kim is probably the best of the group.
Going forward I'd watch The The McLaughlin Group and Cross Fire
And occasionally I watch The Five . Don't judge me. Just accept that I like opinion shows.
Larry Elder would be great.
Shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations
Italian -“dalle stalle alle stelle alle stalle” (“from stalls to stars to stalls”)
Spanish “quien no lo tiene, lo hance; y quien lo tiene, lo deshance” (“who doesn’t have it, does it, and who has it, misuses it”).
Perino is physically attractive woman with a totally uninteresting personality and political vision and analytical skills that are bested by even mediocre high school debaters. She even believed passionately that the “Arab Spring” was a great thing instead of the bloody horror it was designed to become and became. I turn the former BOR show off whenever I see that nitwit trying to run it.
Please don’t complain about Jasper—he’s the only worthwhile or interesting thing about Perino.
The 5 is weak anyway. Bolibg was the only solid I’ve. Gutfiekd is a self-declared joke, Parino is intellectually weak (remember Jeopardy), Watters is a comedian. Beckle and Williams are empty suits. This is going to be a disaster for them. They should have brought Cavuto over.
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