Posted on 10/27/2017 8:31:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In an effort to ensure that this blog devoted to America’s foremost fair-and-balanced news network is itself fair and balanced, I have been trying to leaven my criticisms of Fox News with praise for those programs and personalities I actually enjoy. Nothing is all bad, after all, not even Fox News, and the network even airs some shows that might reasonably be described as good. One of those shows is The Five, the rowdy early-evening talk show that somehow manages to be consistently entertaining despite the involvement of Jesse Watters.
The Five airs at 5 p.m. and features a five-person panel which, on some nights, will discuss as many as five different topics. I do not know how the show got its name, but I guess it doesn’t matter. I am a little bit surprised at how much I enjoy The Five. The show is a pretty standard Fox talker: regurgitating the same stories, insights, and conclusions seen elsewhere on the network. If Fox & Friends hits a story hard in the morning, you can bet The Five will discuss it in the early evening and that it will ultimately land in the same maddening place the morning mouthbreathers did. But whereas discussions on Fox & Friends tend towards the insipid and enraging, The Five’s treatment of the same topic will be lively and engaging. Though it’s easy to predict where the show is going, it’s fun to watch its hosts find their way to the destination....
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I never said she was against Trump you idiot. Learn how to read. Now, go do your homework, Monica has been CFR for years. Good grief.
I wish they had One Less Thing. The closing segment (which block is that, Dana?) is insipid. When Steve Jobs said “one more thing,” you knew something big was coming. When The Five says it, you know it is shameless self-promotion or cute animal videos.
Jesse Watters looks like Bill O’Reilly.
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