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Fox News' The Five Just Announced a Major, Permanent Departure: Juan Williams Says Goodbye.
Red State ^ | 05/26/2021 | Bonchie

Posted on 05/26/2021 8:21:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind


Fox News’ The Five just lost a major personality. Juan Williams, who was one of the longest-serving hosts on the show, having been there seven years, will be leaving the show immediately.

Williams announced his departure from the show today, noting that it would be his last show.

Here was his comment per Deadline.

“This is my last day hosting The Five,” Williams said on the show. “Covid taught me a lot of lessons. As the show goes back to the New York studio, I will be staying in D.C. I will be working for Fox out of Washington. My work as a Fox News political analyst will continue.”

But if you think this is a sign that Fox News is waking up to the needs of its viewers, that’s apparently not the motivation here. Williams is leaving due to the fact that the show is returning to the studio in New York. That would require him to go back to commuting from Washington D.C. to the Fox News headquarters. His mention of COVID is odd, as such a commute wouldn’t put him at risk for the disease given he’s been vaccinated so I’d suppose Williams’ age has more to do with this than anything.

He will still be doing political analysis on the network, something I’m not a fan of. After all, he’s the author of hits like why didn’t the cop just shoot in the air and those teens who murdered the Uber Eats driver were just out for a joy ride.

Williams is a lot like Geraldo Rivera in that I simply don’t see the point. Neither offer thoughtful analysis, both clearly being past their prime. They also represent viewpoints that are toxic to the vast majority of the viewership of Fox News. It’d be one thing if they were liberals with a quick wit and a great ability to debate, but they aren’t. I don’t see the value-add. With that said, Williams at least seems like a genuinely nice guy.

As to The Five’s future plans, they’ll be looking for another left-winger to stick in the seat. I suppose that makes Fox News unique compared to MSNBC and CNN, both networks that wouldn’t be caught dead giving a conservative a permanent spot on a major show.

Regardless, I expect The Five to keep dominating in their time slot.



TOPICS: Politics; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: departure; fauxnews; foxnews; juanwilliams; searchandfind; thefive; wellbye
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t worry, FOX has that Harf idiot on speed dial.


21 posted on 05/26/2021 8:53:51 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It will be interesting to see how “woke” Fox is. His replacement should be a good indication of that.


22 posted on 05/26/2021 8:54:13 PM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: SeekAndFind

And The World Yawns


23 posted on 05/26/2021 8:54:24 PM PDT by Regulator (It's Fraud, Jim)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

I hope he can enjoy his retirement, settle down, and finally find his long-lost brain.

Never Happen!!!


24 posted on 05/26/2021 8:56:17 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: SeekAndFind

I sure hope whomever Fox gets will be as easy to flummox as Juan “the token” was/is.

Token African American-check
Token Liberal-check
Token Idiot-check
Token Punching Bag for Greg and Jessie-double check.

He will be hard to replace.

Can we exhume Alan Colmes and put him in “black face”?

Another useful idiot for Fox News.


25 posted on 05/26/2021 8:57:08 PM PDT by ImpBill ("America - Where are you now?" The Uni-Party rulz!!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

His job is done.
Helping to infiltrate and destroy Faux News.


27 posted on 05/26/2021 9:01:07 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: SeekAndFind

"I just watch NewsMax"


28 posted on 05/26/2021 9:03:41 PM PDT by The Duke (Search for 'Sydney Ducks' and understand what is needed.)
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To: TakebackGOP

#10. Partially agree with you about “he used to be ok..”

I suspect he got caught up in the “black president” thing and never left. That caused him to fail to observe (for many reasons) the obvious truth of films, photos, documented news articles, etc. that not only challenged his weakly-fact based viewpoints, but would have forced him to confront the fact that the Left attacked him once for telling the truth and the Right came to him defense.

As Marlon Brandon once said “I could have been a contender”. Now he will be just a fading memory.

No Donna Brazile. No brainless Marie Harf. We have her clone Jen Psaki (aka Jen Sack of Shit) in the White House instead of the “Loony Bin”.

No Kashich. He’s as wacko a leftist rat as you can find outside of an insane asylum. Don’t let his enthusiasm for destroying American fool you. He’s not on our side.


29 posted on 05/26/2021 9:04:39 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: DeFault User
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30 posted on 05/26/2021 9:11:44 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (‘’’)
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31 posted on 05/26/2021 9:12:27 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (‘’’)
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To: All


The machinery is there at Fox so they can take out the Conservative candidate in the Presidential debate via Megyn Kelly and now Chris Wallace.

Everything supports Wallace scalping the Conservative candidate.


32 posted on 05/26/2021 9:14:54 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (‘’’)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Williams at least seems like a genuinely nice guy.”

There is no such thing as a ‘nice’ left-winger! They are ALL weasels!


33 posted on 05/26/2021 9:21:00 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Peanut Butter doesn't offset shootings, killings, drugs, riots, and lootings and burnings by BLM.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The loser was useless. Always stressed out and interrupting brilliant hosts like Gutfield and Waters. Hopefully the Five can get someone normal, like Steven Crowder.


34 posted on 05/26/2021 9:26:34 PM PDT by Falconspeed (A"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: SeekAndFind

My eyes are welling up with tears... NOT! Thankfully, I cut the cord on fox news after the farce election. They don’t get a penny from me. But... in the nature of this news... let me just hope that this scumbag gets everything he’s got coming to him. Other than that... I just want to wish him a short road to hell. That’s about the best regards I can give him.


35 posted on 05/26/2021 9:26:47 PM PDT by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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To: tennmountainman

I said “good riddance” when I quit paying fox news after the stolen election. Haven’t seen a single second since. I don’t miss it!


36 posted on 05/26/2021 9:29:54 PM PDT by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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To: xp38

Or Big Bird. 😏


37 posted on 05/26/2021 9:31:21 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Source ??


38 posted on 05/26/2021 9:33:21 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
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To: FreedomForce

the answer is... how much money(revenue) have they lost over their participation in the stolen election. My bet is that they are so arrogant that they just don’t care. They could care less about “viewers”, they are “socialists” who go around scraping up their money by using government to confiscate it for them. It is a FACT that they made a conscious decision to STOP providing me an alternative to abc, nbc, cbs, cnn, new york times, washington post, newsweek...


39 posted on 05/26/2021 9:45:10 PM PDT by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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To: crz

NO! I despise Kasich more than Juan, and that says a lot. Please, no Brazille either.


40 posted on 05/26/2021 9:45:55 PM PDT by WWG1WWA (Beware the fury of a patient man. -John Dryden )
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